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That was a 4.5 hour drive for Dr McIlroy... quite a hike, but worth it.

Thank you Steve! Really enjoying this tutorial. No questions so far.

Steve wrote this in a very approachable style. It is the first time I really understood what 'jj' is about. I'm actually kind of excited to start using this tool with my git repos.

I noticed this a while back when I was trying to read cloudflare's own blog. Periodically they would block my newsreader. I ended up just dropping their feed.

I am glad to see other people calling out the problem. Hopefully, a solution will emerge.

Thanks for making this happen. I gave up on trying to find this book years ago. It is so good to see this finally available.

No mention of 37 signals? Maybe the aliens are trying to test our math skills?

0xD5 was the old BCD instruction: AAD

No mention of the Raspberry Pi use of the processor core is a bit strange given the comprehensive analysis.

Agreed. I use this all the time.

Funny - top stories right now are Sveltekit 1.0 and htmx. At their heart, each is fundamentally going in a different direction. I wonder how many people are upvoting both.

Came here to say the same thing. When I first saw the protobuf zigzag encoding, I saw the same pattern. At first, I thought I must be wrong because they aren't describing it this way. Nope, it really is that simple.

In earlier computer systems (pre 1980s), this kind of variety was more common. In my career, I have only been exposed to twos-complement or float formats. I would bet that this is true for many other engineers as well.

I'm glad the protobuf folks used it. I'm also glad Dr. Lemire wrote an article about it. It is another clever trick to have in the toolbox.

Also because it is not a nop on x86-64

Can you tell us more about this system? ECC on an 8086 was rare.

Hey Chuck - been trying to email you. You have a bad link to your VAX stuff on your main web site.

Which chapter in Gems III has this? I couldn’t find it.

Ah - forgot about this. Thx for posting this. These little languages really keep the system footprint tiny compared to OpenSSL.

I think they are still alive, and I think the project is interesting.

They never did ship their little turtle fpga board.

Also, it seems like it just didn’t catch fire like the RISC-V project has.

When EmberJS was young, one of the early contributors tried to make statecharts first class in the framework.