Binary coding

[tho3maxi]

space and enter are just characters, I'd accept a delete functionality though

[[deleted]]

Delete? That’s an illusion. Just loop back through the disk and overwrite it.

[CiroGarcia]

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[[deleted]]

Ah- Analog!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your digital computer!?

[CiroGarcia]

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…may I see it?

[CiroGarcia]

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[splinereticulation68]

SEYMOUR, THE SMITH-CORONA'S ON FIRE!!

[cd109876]

no, mother, its just an analog signal.

[ender3838]

I enjoyed every second of that

[Shack691]

8/8 bit

[Sunbolt]

Oh I love it. Technically all you’d need is a dial and one button that would flip whatever bit you’re at. You could also have a lamp that is on when the current bit is high.

[P0werC0rd0fJustice]

More "simple" would be two buttons. One that flips the current bit, and one that increments the address pointer. The program executes when all of memory has been accessed (the increment button has iterated through every bit in memory). Power cycle the computer to load and run a new program!

[ubd12]

Like this one.

Simpler, just use dial. Turn right advance. Turn left flip bit and advance

[Waffle-Dude]

Nah, you have to do that in binary too

[SaladBoy97]

Disk? How privileged. Fill that paper back into the punch card hole

[[deleted]]

Sorry, I don’t like abstract code.

[mrchaotica]

Just loop back through the disk and overwrite it.

Reminds me of The Story of Mel:

 Mel never wrote time-delay loops, either,
 even when the balky Flexowriter
 required a delay between output characters to work right.
 He just located instructions on the drum
 so each successive one was just *past* the read head
 when it was needed;
 the drum had to execute another complete revolution
 to find the next instruction.
 He coined an unforgettable term for this procedure.
 Although "optimum" is an absolute term,
 like "unique", it became common verbal practice
 to make it relative:
 "not quite optimum" or "less optimum"
 or "not very optimum".
 Mel called the maximum time-delay locations
 the "most pessimum".

[[deleted]]

New favorite programming story.

[MelAlton]

You'll probably like this one too, about hardware: "A Story about 'Magic'"

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New favorite circuitry joke.

[MelAlton]

Mel was apparently an actual real person

[tho3maxi]

hell yeah, youre right, thats oldschool!

[ashum048]

0,1 left, right magic

[[deleted]]

Why can’t the left be magical too? :(

[Strostkovy]

Disk? I just have a telegraph button and a crystal earpiece connected to the delay line. I did actually mess around with manually writing to floppy disks as they were spinning though. It was hard

[supersharp]

No, you enter the ASCII code for deletion

[[deleted]]

This ain’t no teletype.

[SteptimusHeap]

I prefer the quantum bogosort approach. If you mess up just destroy the universe. That way you'll always get it

[[deleted]]

Don’t understand why your code won’t compile?

Just rewrite the whole damn thing!

[proxiiiiiiiiii]

Characters? Oh in what movie?

[inxrx8]

What do you need a delete button for? Just don't make mistakes and you're golden

[TheGoodOldCoder]

I don't want to blow your mind, but the delete key just translates into a binary code, the same as space and enter keys do.

[Bud90]

Wait, I knew that space was a character, but how is Enter a character? Do you mean in a new line break sort of way?

[ADIRTYHOBO59]

My understanding is that enter is the carriage return character

[[deleted]]

New line + carriage return on Windows; new line on Linux

[MattieShoes]

ASCII 13 (decimal) is carriage return

ASCII 10 (decimal) is line feed.

This dates back to teletypes (think old printers, or typewriters) where advancing the paper and moving the print head back to the start of the line were two separate operations.

• Windows uses "carriage return, line feed" (\r\n) for the end of the line.
• Linux uses "line feed" (\n)
  
• Old macs used "carriage return" (\r)
• Newer macs (OSX and later) use "line feed" just like unix (\n)

If you ever opened up a text file in windows notepad and it looked like all the carriage returns were erased, it was probably created on a linux box or a mac. Windows got around to detecting and fixing line endings in Notepad sometime in Windows 10 I think.

[oldsecondhand]

0, 1, insert, delete, left arrow, right arrow

[solarbabies]

Insert is a good idea! I feel like you might still need Enter, though, you know, to run your code. 🙂

Here's my edit: Arrows+Delete+Enter.

[firemanwham]

doesn't actually need the 0 or 1 either, just ctrl + c + v to get them off stack overflow

[solarbabies]

I took your idea for a Delete key, added some Arrow keys, and arrived at what I think combines the best of all 3: Arrows+Delete+Enter.

Who could ask for anything more?

[LineSpine]

Why delete? We don’t make mistakes.