The suggestion that you could go from little endian to big endian by reading about multics and shitposts about turbo assembler means you’re either some kind of degenerate libertine IRIX wizard who still uses bogimps to talk about speed in relation to MIPS or the human manifestation of exclusive XOR or as the Cartesians say “what would happen if I didn’t NOT ?!”

I mean the main and ultimate penultimate usecase for C it’s impetus for existing is writing UNIX and why the man pages got the details for stuff like sys.h and w/e else with the system calls in it so wen the kernel is online one can put in the address of where uname is in the asm code instead of the whole pleb #include <uname.h>

People make it seem like a bunch of kids working at Bell Labs at a time when a sheet of blotter paper the size of a movie poster but made of LSD costed $40 omggggg

Like the reason why in 2025 the operating system called MacOS is still mostly objective-c code from 1985 and the reason why for the duration of your career you’ve had to type NSObject repeatedly, on a Macintosh is the truth about computer science is that for the most part people are stupid, lazy, lack any kind of imagination, original thinking, or anything that resembles passion for digital computers (ie let’s use C for everything full well knowing anything without an AT&T copyright in the header is out of band)

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I hate to spoil the party but you can skip all the non-sense and run the jvm inside the erlang abstract machine, use the FFIs, and do the galaxy brain stuff with the scaling, fault tolerance, and lightweight processes!

A stroke that should have killed me suddenly. While being in the worst shape of my life, on the ground with severe vertigo, projectile vomiting, and in the worst physical pain I’d ever been in, the horror really started when I closed my eyes to die and some how woke up…

I had no idea about life saving medicine or what happens when you’re close to death and it’s their job to save your life on a different kind of time where they tell you what is going to be done to you… It’s really a treat being told that you’re getting a spinal tap in the same 5 minute window that you get the spinal tap…

Alert(“Hi I’m a kernel panic crashing this party on behalf of the Self programming language by way of not having a type system, a String not really being a string, and was expecting a long long unsigned int instead of an Integer”);

Omg we could re-write it in dart-lang too in /usr/src/experimental/top-secret/.hide-this-from-the-ai/linux-kernel-dart-7.0.0-SNAPSHOT

They’re waiting on ChatGPT15 and it’s ability to re-write the GNU/Linux kernel in Python3 and PHP5, commit to master branch, and finally rid the wider POSIX community of “Digitial Equipment Corp. refugees/VAX apologists who poison the minds of the youth by mentioning pointers, time sharing, endianess, word size, registers, and worst of all that while Multics may seem obtuse to the uninitiated, the way it handles memory is actually galaxybrain.”

TL;DR - Seymour Cray tried to do for super computing what Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad did for men who were honorable not only in front of the wife and family but ultimately GOD.