Notices by Stewart C. Russell (scruss@mastodon.social)

@fribbledom A hardware engineer with production server access?

@fribbledom heh. I played it on an NCR Decision Mate V.

My first was the 1979 PETSCII dungeon crawler "Dungeon" - https://archive.org/details/dungeon40

@fribbledom memories of "Ladder" on CP/M, a Donkey Kong clone using only ASCII and CP/M's rudimentary terminal support

@fribbledom "Now we have n+1 documentation standards!"

Pet peeve: a package whose only documentation is available under `--help` (and not `-h`, for maximal annoyance should only output "please use `--help`") and then dumps pages of too-wide text to the terminal via stderr so you can't immediately pipe it to less

@fribbledom The SGML Orthodox Church will always welcome you back to the fold after you admit that you've strayed ...

@fribbledom it's in COBOL, innit?

@fribbledom don't forget: if you're doing anything numerical or data-sciencey in Python, there's a shit-tonne of old FORTRAN under the hood doing the real work

@fribbledom yup. I mean, just watch Nicolas Godin shred the bass on this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GALJl6Y16w&t=2849s

@fribbledom I can't even get components to join on to traces in KiCad

@fribbledom apart from the fully-working boring Brother laser printer and the slightly blocked Epson inkjet, I've got fully working:

* OKI ML320 Turbo 9-pin dot matrix

* NEC Spinwriter (a painfully slow and loud daisywheelish thing from the early 1980s)

* HP and Roland pen plotters

* Epson thermal receipt printers