Lion ponderings

  Some nifty stills from Dr Mix's Fairlight video. Hard to believe how many of our 80's memories came from those 1970's era LEDs that barely lit up, dusty cards, mountains of discrete RAM chips, wrapping wire, gigantic 1970's capacitors, 8" floppies. Australian engineers have a beast work ethic. They make impossibly expensive hardware viable by working for dirt wages. Helas, a light pen on a monochrome monitor was a total failure. They tried to work around it by drawing a random dot pattern where it thought the pen was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNniKVcTnzk     -------------------------------------------------------------------------   Eraser finally ended up on the hard drive, after decades of pummeling by the airplane scene on gootube.  Was surprised to find Doyer St once again, of outerscope II fame.  It was definitely campy, tacky stuff.  Team 90's was in attendance.  Felt serious deja vu again, but definitely never saw the whole th...

Pondering the only weekend heat wave of the year, some BARFABLE union city routes came to mind.   House grand tour could be done in 10 miles.  The missing piece is a why.   Out & back to bay would be 16.5 miles.     A gravel section reduces it to 15.5.  Out & back by way of house would get it over 16.   Bay + house + grand tour would be 18.5 miles.  Minimum house out & back on gravel would be 8 miles.  The forecast is the low 90's. Another 11 are required to get to Dublin.  Younger lion could go 30 miles in a day.  Old lion is maxing out at 20.   Berk marina out & back would be 10 miles.  Ocean out & back in the city is 12 miles.  That forecast is the high 80's.  Berk softworks through the hood is 10 miles.  Might as well BARF it in & go to the marina from downtown Berk, as young lion once did.      Settled on a 20 miler & both posterior tibialises complet...

 The answer is yes.  Personal projects lacking enough money for an AI plan are still being developed the old fashioned way.  Lions aren't sure how much longer the manual tools are going to continue working.  GDB is manely an aberration in a world where static analysis has replaced runtime analysis.  Higher level languages are famously being phased out in favor of prose.  Like embedded systems 40 years ago, it's once again really expensive to access the tools that get jobs.  If you only have access to the tools at a day job, you can't take any breaks from working.  The mane barrier to having a free operating system was once developing a free compiler.  Now it's developing a free language model. So is software still free if it requires a paid language model to analyze it or work on it at all?   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------   When it rains, it pours in debug land.  N...

1st saw really crusty bits of Legend in syndication. The HD copy was less crusty but still quite grainy.       Peter Pan Cruise was pretty terrifying. As dystopian as it got. Reminiscent of What dreams may come. 18 year old Ferris Bueller hottie in her biggest role.    As the playhead ground along, the 7 dwarves, the bratty kids, & the unemployed actors guild showed up.  The trademark legend bathrobe went on.  It was supposed to be a hero's journey.    The slime started piling up.      Yet lions kept it at 1x because of horrendous audio & it was a visually intriguing bit of lost Tom Cruise lore.       The british pixie was a hottie lost to bad lighting.  She was actually 25.    They got more flesh in the climax scene.   She was supposed to be weak or something.     The villain's lair was quite the set. All practical in those days.   The heroine bared more for P...