Gross

It’s not really the classic knapsack problem since really only the supply points matter.

I really, really want to do this when I retire.

That happens too damn often

Even weirder is finding some really good code that you apparently wrote years ago. What the hell happened to that guy?

I liked The Man Show, but I was also a stupid teenager.

I don’t recall finding any encryption on the NES.

I seem to recall using the true and false literals C++ in the late '90s … looks like they were in the C++98 standard, but it’s not clear which pre-standard compilers might have supported them.

Also, plenty of embedded systems don’t use the C standard library.

Cutting yourself at some arbitrary point on time makes no sense. I simply don’t play games I’m not interested in, and play ones that I am. I’m looking forward to Civ VII while playing NES games.

You overestimate the speed at which I read

That’s why I said “modern.” You know exactly what’s happening on a MOS 6502, for example, but when your top-of-the-line ARM SoC starts throwing bus faults because a CRC function returned a value that looked like a pointer to restricted SRAM …

Akshully, there are more levels below the machine code, with the mind-boggling complexity of modern CPUs and SoCs - but that doesn’t diminish the value of understanding it.

No

reads article

No

That I can install far less software on legacy devices because everything new is ridiculously bloated?

It’s a gigabyte of every customer’s drive space.

That is when you cast the team into the fire

Why put in a little effort when we can just waste a gigabyte of your hard drive instead?

I have similar feelings about how every website is now a JavaScript application.

Because money.

My point is that cowboying changes into prod is bad practice.

Right? What does OC think dev is?