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@Moss @davetroy @ahermitforhire personally i prefer marksmanship over mob power but hey that's style

@lritter @Moss @davetroy @ahermitforhire
6.5 Creedmoor or .30-06? Asking for friends.

@stevewfolds @Moss @davetroy @ahermitforhire i uhm i only play hitman on my computer.

@lritter @Moss @davetroy @ahermitforhire
Started shooting as a kid about ‘58. 20,000 rounds later, hearing aids. I decided that memories were better than dreams in ‘96. Took PS2 games into real life, Grand Turismo led to racing driving schools in ‘99 & kart track mgr. KillZone3 led to competition shooting in ‘11 & a range officer. Novice level participation in many activities increases my understanding. Currently learning guitar.

@stevewfolds @Moss @davetroy @ahermitforhire when i was 8 years old i got a computer and was happy for the first time. i extended my computering, which quickly expanded to more computering, followed by even more computering, and now, 36 years later, everything's computer

@lritter @Moss @davetroy @ahermitforhire
My first computer exposure was TTYs in the math department’s basement running Basic in ‘67. Hobby kit radios & amplifier electronics set me up for a desktop kit in ‘80 age 32. Last job was on computers in the basement of another math department in ‘03.

@stevewfolds it's been a while then! been playing with an Amiga 500 first; then a 286, with GW-BASIC on it. then came Doom (modding), for which i got a 386. My household had an Atari ST with Cubase on it and a Korg M1 that i noodled with. then came Quake (modding), for which i got a 486. I started tracking music on PC. then found the demoscene. got a Pentium. learned Pascal, C/C++, Python; in '03 first job as a coder. '13 my wife and I started our own indie game project and it's still going

@stevewfolds now i'm building compilers. i'm wading knee deep through turing tarpits.

@lritter YACC & LEX

@stevewfolds hehe. one can get so lost in that part alone. so i started from a lisp, and then gradually added more convenience to get rid of most of the parentheses, and modernize the syntax a little. i haven't made any big changes in that area in 8 years which is a good sign.

@lritter Worked for a lisp programmer who dismissed everything else as “trivial”. :)

@zakalwe @lritter
Worked part time ‘91-‘13 typesetting mathematics papers at UofU. Shoulder surfed the director of Scientific Computing who would reformat vast bibliographic data files with a few lines of awk & sed. I fixed his bookshelves w/carpentry skills & had lunch w/him a few times.

@stevewfolds@mastodon.world @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place I learned sed/awk/yacc in college in the compiler design course sequence that was the lead-in to the operating systems design sequence.

@stevewfolds nice. my mum did her first bookkeeping in BASIC on a Sharp that looked not unlike this one. but i think it had all the letters.

@lritter Carpentry work for architects who were beginning to use computers were impressed that I knew more. It led to a cold call on a Friday telling me to show up for work Monday. Construction job costing accounting in Basic on Z80s, ‘84-5. The software mashed Basic’s floating point math into 64 KB. Some of the 100+ customers were pissed that they couldn’t exceed $9,999.99 in bonuses each quarter.

@stevewfolds that was a good bookkeeping computer. it had limits!

@Iguanadelmar @Moss

Like to use this article for explaining why this kind of thing is shitty:
https://north-shore.info/2024/10/04/not-liking-someone-doesnt-mean-theyre-a-cop-on-bad-jacketing/