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From: Peter <occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:05:16 +0000
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 Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

>On 2/15/2024 3:13 AM, Peter wrote:
>> Graet to see you Don after all these years - 2006!!
>
>Hey there, Mr "Pool"  :>

Haha hello :)

The pump packed up; turned out that the 25uF (400V AC) starting cap
degraded to 15uF.

>I trust all is well, remodel long completed, kids now grown
>(which of them was first to make you "Gramps"?  and wasn't your
>youngest looking for his pilot's license?), thus PBfH having
>less of an impact on your life, etc.

Divorced the witch in 1999, then the next one (2003-2023) sadly ended
in 2023. 

Youngest has a PPL (UK and FAA) and flies, both mine and his RV6.
Chases females on Tinder and Hinge, like everybody else :)

>> I had a customer many years ago who did write a ton of code in hex. To
>> enable modifications they had a bit of space after each function, so
>> edits to a function did not need shifting everything after it :)
>
>But what was their *reason* for this?  I had an employer (*had* been
>an engineer and deluded himself into thinking he could still *do*
>engineering) who was stuck in the past -- as if the tools and
>techniques he had used were still relavent, even a few years later!

Stupidity - assemblers have always been around.

>When it took hours to assemble, link, burn images, it made sense to
>have mechanisms to support minor tweeks to the code (overwriting
>instructions with NOPs and filling in a "0xFF" postamble with new
>code).  But, nowadays, make world on even large projects is just
>a coffee break -- and, you can dump your code into RAM to watch
>it run (assuming you have to run on a target and not in a
>simulator).
>
>[Nowadays, I netboot images just for the savings that one step
>makes possible!]

Indeed.