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Mike Hankey wrote: thunk
That word always triggers flashbacks to my MS-DOS days, when my product ran under the DOS4GW[^] DOS extender. Thunks from protected to real mode and then back again were A Bad Thing because you could drop interrupts during the mode change. To alleviate some of this problem you implemented bimodal interrupt handling, where you installed interrupt handlers for devices both in real mode and protected mode code. If you were especially <GollumVoice>tricksy</GollumVoice> you had one source file that you compiled using Microsoft C for real mode, and Watcom C for protected mode.
Good times.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Those were indeed good times.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I wasn't quite old enough to use Watcom back in that era, but I hae a similar reaction when seeing the word thunk.
Came from the time I wrote a class library to wrap Windows objects with. Pulling a pointer to the class instance from the long value associated with a window.
Looking back at the source code now would probably add even more silver to my hair. 
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I have always been geek-proud over that time, mainly because I had two connections to the original DOOM. As I mentioned in my earlier post, I was using the same DOS extender DOS4GW as they used in the game. I also discovered much later that DOOM used a hidden-surface removal algorithm using binary space partitioning[^] that I implemented in 1982 as an undergraduate independent study project.enhzflep wrote: Looking back at the source code now would probably add even more silver to my hair
At least you still have yours. I identify as follicly-challenged  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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did you make the edit ?
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Ha ha ha. Nope... promise. (evil grin)
Jeremy Falcon
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Rust and Zig
Now there's a cartoon I would read!
Sounds like two hippies in Northern California
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
modified 4-Sep-24 5:58am.
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Well, that note feels like "Mostly Harmless".
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I've often cussed out the idiot that did something stupid only to use Git blame and find out that I'm the idiot 
Hogan
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kmoorevs wrote: Sure I have version control,
I worked with a DBA and I wanted to look at the DDL. So I asked him where to find the code in "version control". He then asked "what is version control". A short conversation later I found out he did all of his work solely on the production database.
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I have two I see on the regular. One is 3 and the other is 6.
The 3 year old wound up with some sort of delay in developing his speech - he understands everything. Just can't respond fully, and gets frustrated. He talks like he's in his early twos, but his vocabulary is much bigger in terms of what he understands.
My sister is a bit concerned, but I told her that something similar happened to me - hell I was reading before I could put together a reasonable sounding sentence - in order. She wouldn't know as she is 14 years my junior and we weren't raised together - I was adopted out at 2.
Anyway - oh man, the terrible threes are something else. He really doesn't like wearing pants! I mean, I've had those days too, but I can't recall needing to be in timeout over it.
The 6 year old is now a first grader. That's a rough age IMO, because it's all toilet jokes. At least my hubby got him into Captain Underpants stories. That will distract him.
hours of play dough flinging and making "slime" later and here we are. I thank the FSM my hubby is so good with kids, because I barely know what to do with myself around them at that age. I'm little-kid-stupid. I was a weird kid myself and didn't relate to most other kids even back when I was one.
I can't wait until they're teenagers. Teenagers I can handle and relate to pretty readily. I worked at a shelter for homeless teens for awhile. Couldn't afford to keep doing it, but I figured out that teenagers are my sweet spot, as far as kids go. I understand them. They're kids, but they're not mercurial. Basically anyone 15-25 - boys at least - I put in that same rough age category. Aspiring adults.
And no, a 22 year old guy isn't an adult. Have you ever dated one? That's why I stuck with older guys when I was younger.
Anyway, regarding nephews. Y'all should get yourselves some. They're fun to spoil and jack up on sugar. 
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https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
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honey the codewitch wrote: Anyway, regarding nephews. Y'all should get yourselves some. They're fun to spoil and jack up on sugar. 
And then you can give them back to your sister. 
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But of course. That's the best thing about other people's children. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm convinced teachers do this to parents at the end of each school semester with their in-classroom parties.
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With a brand new extremely noisy toy.
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I was thinking drum set, but that works too.
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I've been told that you can tell people really hate you when they buy your kids a drum kit for their birthdays.
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Kids those ages can be a barrel of fun - if one has the energy to keep up with them.
I used to be very close to one of my nephews. He was very miffed when I brought my fiancé to meet the family - suddenly I wasn't paying as much attention to him...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I think that's part of it - is they have so much energy, and I struggle to stay awake after a meal, for example. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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In my case I was the nephew. My mom's only brother only married in his mid-30s.
But then as a teenaged boy I had a bit of a crush on her, so I didn't mind her so much.
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