Re: Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability

 Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

On 3/12/2024 6:05 AM, Peter wrote:

I trust all is well, remodel long completed, kids now grown
(which of them was first to make you "Gramps"?  and wasn't your
youngest looking for his pilot's license?), thus PBfH having
less of an impact on your life, etc.

 
Divorced the witch in 1999,

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Yes.  But, IIRC, there was still a lot of "interaction" as a
result of the boys.  Now that they are grown, presumably that
is less of an issue, limiting the intensity of any such interactions?

Not dealt with her for ~10 years, and never will :)

then the next one (2003-2023) sadly ended in 2023.

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(sigh)  Sorry to hear that.  I recall you had high hopes and,
hopefully, some of those were realized.
>
"One can't get divorced TWICE; the first takes HALF of everything,
the second would take the OTHER half!"

Hahaha. It's actually a power series: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16.
According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1/2_%E2%88%92_1/4_%2B_1/8_%E2%88%92_1/16_%2B_%E2%8B%AF
it converges to 1/3 so you will always eat afterwards ;)

Youngest has a PPL (UK and FAA) and flies, both mine and his RV6.

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But, is his interest purely recreational?  Or, might he pursue
that "commercially"?

I think Tinder has curtailed commercial ambitions ;)

I've been tempted to try reimplementing some early designs just to
see how quickly the development would proceed AND how much faster
the code would execute... big change from a ~700KHz i4004 to an
800MHz quad-core (costing a tenth as much!).  It would be
depressing to discover that a man-year effort can be reduced to
a long weekend!  :<

My last design is 100x faster than anything done before, and the CPU
costs about $7.

But the software takes as long - because 90% of the functionality is
now connectivity! MbedTLS etc. There is even an HTTP server (simple: I
wrote it myself) for config.