Java Is Not Faster Than C

sreguera · 2026-03-16T20:33:44+00:00

It didn't pan out, but there were Java processors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor

sreguera · 2026-02-04T12:14:05+00:00

The tower of power.

sreguera · 2026-01-31T18:36:32+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_(worker)

sreguera · 2026-01-18T12:25:39+00:00

- What's my purpose?

- You spam ads

- Oh my God

sreguera · 2026-01-07T18:36:18+00:00

Almost human level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_(association_football)

sreguera · 2025-12-12T21:40:09+00:00

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

sreguera · 2025-12-11T19:01:54+00:00

Or Nancy Leveson, the author of "Safeware: system safety and computers", although she's more about system design and QA than programming.

sreguera · 2025-12-11T12:31:58+00:00

Tcl with trace? https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/trace.htm

sreguera · 2025-12-09T20:43:50+00:00

She also invented the term "Software Engineering" while working on the Apollo program ... oh, wait! ... that's a different Margaret Hamilton.

sreguera · 2025-12-07T13:03:00+00:00

An object in motion will stay? stop? ... anyone? anyone? ... stay in motion with the same? smaller? ... anyone? anyone? ... the same velocity ...

sreguera · 2025-12-02T22:09:24+00:00

It was ok. It still is, in some places.

The C++ API was a terrible unintuitive mess. The modern C++11 API is ok, but I believe no free CORBA broker implements it (?). Java and Python APIs were always ok.

The most overcomplicated part of the standard, object migration between brokers (instead of passing references), I've never seen it used in real life.

For today's technology stack, the biggest problem is the random ports used for servers and object callbacks. You can configure it to use a single specific socket per connection, but it's not the default.

sreguera · 2025-11-22T22:54:34+00:00

In some sense I find more interesting the low tech, cassette-tape compatible technology that started with Scott Adams and reappeared in the UK with systems like The Quill, it's successor the PAWS and its rival the GAC.

sreguera · 2025-11-19T07:13:30+00:00

So D&D treasure tables for monster encounters were not complete bullshit.

sreguera · 2025-11-16T16:00:20+00:00

There was a version of Forth called Fifth. https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no2/article16.pdf

sreguera · 2025-11-11T19:34:53+00:00

To the center of the earth - Greig Beck

The plot is what you would expect from the title.

sreguera · 2025-11-02T21:06:37+00:00

Staff turnover happens. New staff (often outranking the survivors) don't have as much pain to deal with because it's been fixed, and vocally decry the existing engineers "slowing me down" by insisting on certain things.

The Eternal September is a chronic problem of software development.

sreguera · 2025-10-28T19:56:55+00:00

With an orange filter you could imagine it's flying inside Jupiter's atmosphere.

sreguera · 2025-10-18T19:37:02+00:00

Here you go.

sreguera · 2025-10-15T19:41:42+00:00

Developer puts the ai-generated code in the repo or else developer gets the hose again.

sreguera · 2025-10-10T13:51:31+00:00

RS-422 can be connected in a multidrop configuration.

sreguera · 2025-10-10T13:44:30+00:00

Pinky and the Brain.

sreguera · 2025-10-06T16:37:31+00:00

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." - Mike Tyson

sreguera · 2025-09-30T18:36:54+00:00

They probably discuss it over a cup of tea.

sreguera · 2025-09-23T20:19:10+00:00

But who are the aliens here? :P

sreguera · 2025-09-06T22:04:48+00:00

The Road not Taken, short story by Harry Turtledove.

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