It’s f’in neato. I’ll be looking into it.

I knew about the relict popularion of mammoths that was still around. Wasn’t aware of the tigers. Can you please tell me more?

I often code directly on the machine control, including single blocking a running program and adding a line while the program is paused.

Editor on older CNC machines usually doesn’t even do lowercase and often has limited alphabet keys. Think '80s green or amber screen.

A machinist’s coding workflow can be real fucky. I go from CAM which is like a highly complex visual programming IDE to notepad. If I’m being fancy I use notepad++ for syntax highlights and diff’ing.

Not who you were responding to.

I’ve given up. I don’t have it in me anymore to keep trying. Never was able to get anyone back to reality after they went deep into it. Friends and family. It’s a terrible damn problem. Basically a big chunk of society needs to be deprogrammed and I haven’t seen anything that will do the trick.

Not that I’m in any way disparaging your efforts. Good luck and god speed. Maybe you’ll find some sort of magic that will flip the switch. You’d be a motherfucking hero, no irony.

I mean, twenty gigs was more than anyone would ever be able to use.

Captain!

This sailor probably enjoyed your hospitality back in the day.

Thank you much!

G Code is basically a geometric scripting languge and isn’t Turing complete in basic implementations. Every manufacturer pretty much also has their own dialect that is Turing complete.

Gcode with control commands and variables is called, no shit, Macro G Code. It’s Turing complete. That form of variable names is normal and is inherited from hardware registers/banks and TTL.

It’s not unusual for a save dialog to be labelled Punch as it has a direct lineage from punch tape.

Kind of like assembly and a graphing calculator had an abortion together.

Might think about taking a break for a while. I have to, sometimes. Do some camping and mostly unplug. Anything real big goes down and you’ll hear about it.

Marathon, not a sprint. Fuck em, we’re harder. Country boy can survive.

This is actually wisdom. I use a 4x fudge factor.

beat me to it.

Did some searching, apparently it can be variable in taste due to sea urchin diet, freshness, and preparation. There are commercially prepared pastes that aren’t very palatable.

The urchin I had was really expensive and was a special that was rarely available. This sushi place had very good stuff, you could also order freshly grated wasabi from imported Japanese roots (I totally recommend).

Probably similar to canned crab vs fresh crab. Stuff in the can is terrible and I don’t know how people eat it.

Strange. I’ve only been able to have it once. I found it to be buttery, with a mild taste, about as fishy as salmon. I really enjoyed it.

fsck

Dexter Russell carbon steel knives. Some of the patterns are 200 years old. Cheap compared to the high end stuff but they’re easy to keep screaming sharp and work great.

Stainless knives are good for pocket knives that are exposed to sweat, work knives that are in corrosive environments, serrated steak knives that go in the dishwasher. Anything else, pretty much, carbon is king.

Huh. Haven’t ran across that expression before. Halloween was always queer, I thought. (Dress up and be whoever you want to be, etc.) Halloween and happy fireworks day are my favorite holidays.

Is Gay Christmas like Friendsgiving?

Alfonso Ribeiro will always be FADDER!

SPEAK UP, WE CAN’T HEAR YOU.

BBS -> Slashdot -> Reddit -> Lemmy -> ???

They all have their time. I’ll see some of y’all on whatever is next. It branches, I didn’t do digg.

Woah. That’s seriously old school. We had a C64 and then a DOS clone.

What do you program?

As late as 2018, I know of punch tape CNC still running production using rs-232 to optical out in the tape head.

So other than clit-mouse, what’s the actual name of the nubbin thingy?