Oddly enough, Erlang which was designed by/for the telephone companies is now powering Discord via Elixir which sits ontop of the original erlang BEAM runtime/vm. (View Post)

My first paying gig in IT was writing M68000 assembly code. Happy days. I still remember how pleased with myself I was shaving a few clock cycles off a loop by replacing `clr.w d0` with `moveq.w #0,d… (View Post)

And - as I remember - was the background to one of my favourite poems : https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43825/darkness-56d222aeeee1b "Darkness - By Lord Byron (George Gordon) I had a drea… (View Post)

I hadn't heard of that. I'll have to find a copy. While I was doing a lazy scouting about for it came across this - which is... quite something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frmwacJFtzk … (View Post)

His relatively small part in one of my favourite films showed what he could do with just a node or tap of a finger : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation He didn't even get a credit. B… (View Post)