Lex, honestly...you have emerged from your seemingly weird, obscure, uncomfortable self (which I always felt I could relate to) and blossomed into this loose, entertaining, funny, outgoing self! (New you or Highly edited?) And...The commercials are hilarious...very personable and you represent the product well. I suddenly want Raycon ear buds and a new bed...keep expanding your horizons, working out beyond belief, exceeding expectations and being a great inspiration (especially for me). Much luv

I think you would love an interview with Alan Kay if you ever get the chance.

David Deutsch!

the commercial was actually quite hilarious

65 degrees is scorching hot, not sure you want your bed at that temperature given that the body is usually around 37 degrees. You are not seriously using 'fahrenheit' a unit of measurement that is only used in three countries in the entire world for a video uploaded to a global platform?

Definitely, I believe Lex would love to have Linus Torvalds as his guest.

Nope

@@caballerosalas how come?

Would rather see Richard Stallman

Should not be invited in my opinion because of his uncivilized behavior.

Lex is a wonderful person! I really hope he gets any support he needs to keep these fascinating interviews going.

STEM

@Jazz Feline I doubt that's written by a human. It's a badly written bot (or one of the worst cases of schizophrenia I've seen in a while.)

@@joey199412 It's a human. There are videos on his channel with similar content.

He's the same. 👍

This is always the case. The really good people (world class) do not know arrogance. They answer every question. I have experienced this so often in my life.

Yeah. Had an awkward implementation question emailed to his bell labs acct and replied the next day. Old school. Cares about the user of his tools.

C and C++ are brilliant systems and software engineering languages. Have you experimented with other languages such as the lisp family.

@@Art-is-craftAt Uni I did BASIC, Cobol, PL/1, Algol, Lisp, APL, IBM assembler, PDP 8 assembler, 6808, 6809 assembler. WHen I started work I moved to C and nver looked back. Its paid for my life really. Thanks to Peter Madams for teaching me C.

By robots, obviously.

that's the point

Hahaha I was thinking the same thing

He was always the total package, just short a temperature app-controlled mattress.

Did we just witness the birth of a new pick-up line? 😁

In stuff that's current. Not knowing what 'FORTRAN' stands for...

I used AWK a couple weeks ago

Unix command line tools and c language.. evergreen

AWK: small and beautiful

Are you Lorinda from kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qslkhbJ0r7_GnWQ.html ?

Same. I have a signed copy...a treasured possession. My daughter just studied C at Purdue and I pulled out the book and showed her the signature. 🤯

@@mtiller I’m at Purdue right now for cybersecurity! Small world 😅

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MS-DOS was no worse than the machine it was running on. When the IBM PC was introduced, memory was USD $3500 per megabyte (inflation adjusted to 2020) from the cheapest source recorded (this was not server-grade memory). Nobody had even heard of gigabytes. ¶ This is why the IBM PC wouldn't even accept 1 MB of primary RAM. The price of consumer DRAM began to plummet after the introduction of the IBM PC and it was only about 1/3 as much a year later, especially of memory expansion boards that went beyond the amount of memory you could address normally. For extended or expanded memory, you had to set commands to IO ports to switch different banks of expansion memory into addressable space; this was slow and broke your pointers. Later on, people would buy 3 MB of memory and devote the whole thing to disk caching (the hard drives were also brutally slow) and not even try to use this memory for applications. ¶ You couldn't reasonably time share (or multitask) at this price of memory unless a professional group of people bought a minicomputer collectively. Everyone who criticized the PC was used to a professional system from work or academia. ¶ I'm presently sitting in front of a FreeBSD machine with 16 GB that punted my entire desktop yesterday because it ran out of swap space. The only two programs I was running of any significance were Firefox and Thunderbird. I use FreeBSD because I like ZFS. I've never even tried to run ZFS in a system with less than 8 GB. A decent computing facility with 8 GB of memory back in 1984 would have cost USD $85 million for the memory alone (after you triple the price from consumer memory to server memory). ZFS uses 8 GB on my desktop system basically as a glorified disk cache (more for integrity reasons than anything). ¶ The more things change, the more they stay the same. ¶ Check out the memory price history at jcmit.net (note that they are not inflation adjusted). ¶ In any case, my memory woes should be short lived. I'm awaiting 64 GB of ECC memory I purchased used from Houston for USD $2/GB. Then I can swap the 16 GB of memory I presently have in my NAS box into my desktop system (they are both IBM Thinkstations). It will be just like the first time I upgraded from 256 KiB to 640 KiB on the IBM PC. Like xmas morning all over again. I can hardly wait. ¶ [*] But wait I shall have to do, because the memory went from Houston via USPS to the Pitney Bowes collection center in Erlanger, Kentucky where it sat for a week. I'm pretty sure it's now sitting on some railway siding, after taking a CP freight train from Chicago to Minneapolis to Fargo to Moose Jaw. Canadian Pacific still owns a big chunk of the rail system down there, called the Soo line. And then another long leg from Moose Jaw to Vancouver. Rail is about 1/3 of the price per ton-mile over long-haul trucking. And then a fairy to the island. 3500 miles. What did they charge me to shepherd my 0.78 lb package the effective distance from Lisbon, Portugal to Tbilisi, Georgia? USD $15. ¶ Back in the 1200s, Marco Polo travelled 5600 miles in this general direction, but it took him 3.5 years-about the same length of time it took the IBM PC to compile a large C program if you didn't install a disk cache.

@@afterthesmash I can't believe you managed to bring that back to DOS.

It was a knock-off of CPM which was aimed at running on the very earliest microprocessor hardware that was even more constrained than the DEC PDP minicomputer that UNIX was birthed on

Yeah the MS - Dirty Operating System is pretty bad

It's the mark of a man whose done his best work and worked along side other better and more talented people. In particular, he seems to circle back to Ken Thompson a lot. Ken sounds like he was a genius who was way ahead of his time. I bet he spent a lot of time being frustrated by having to interact with morons who would never be able to comprehend the ideas in his head. Most of us can't comprehend his ideas after they left his head.

@@darylallen2485 Thompson is still alive btw

@@darylallen2485 , lol, Thompson is just a geek who likes to play computer games. He is a very talented programmer indeed, with great structured code, but he is not a genius. Most of the ideas he used in Unix came from other people's research.

@@solderbuff I get what you're saying. Sure, there were probably smarter and more knowledgeable people in the field of computing and academia. The Wright brothers were high school drop outs. They invented flight while academia theorized and hypothesize the notion. I'm sure many contemporaries of the Wright brothers were smarter and produced some contributing research. At the end of the day, two highschool drop outs were first to build a flying craft. In my mind, Ken Thompson is a genius like that. Maybe there were some people of his day who were better at theorizing and researching. Ken got his hands dirty and made things to impact the real world. I think it's a kind of genius that gets downplayed by academics. I consider him a genius and an inspiration.

@@darylallen2485 , yeah, I agree here. Thompson is closer to Wright brothers. While others were building great castles out of sand (Multics), Thompson built a steady brick barn that is Unix. Thompson and the others at Bell Labs struggled to keep it as simple as possible. And even though many at the time thought that Unix is inferior to other operating systems, the simplicity of Unix (and C) is exactly what allowed it to become so widely adapted. There is this ingenuity of simplicity.

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Teacher…, What does it mean to be Afraid, and Live in FEAR.?.?.? You are contemplating why People like Trump, and The Pope, and all the other [world leaders] #QANON /_\ CONTINUE the Lies of Fake Space, the Space Race that never happened “except” these 5G Vaccine EUGENICS that was done to our TEMPORARY Carnal {Corporeal Body} +=+ Temple Avatars where once we were all one people, and there was none of the Fighting, and Attacking, and saying: I AM BETTER then you cause my Iris is still BLUE while yours have been ruined brown??? WE first must “move beyond” [{**}] the ORDER of these OLD WINE SKINS, and talk to our selves as NEW WINE SKINS being our Inner Voices and our “Inner thoughts” that come from The Symbiots [{*}] of The Construct we are all Born into at CONCEPTION……..., not the day our Flesh, and Blood, and Bones comes out of the Wombman… We must “know” we are in A Bio - Binary System where ZERO ONE become the foundation blocks of THE GREAT WORK…….., and we must see that many do not want to OWN what they have done……., so they can be REDEEMED “when they die” / * \ too this Celestial Sphere Home World known as PURGATORY cause [they think} they got an out…..., or a Scrape Goat….., or a LOOP HOLE for These {10 Commandments] that make so much more sense in our FLAT EARTH Reality where Mother is the DOME OF THE ROCK…., and OUR Father is these hallowed ground we come from…, and return to.., and once you can see this “Book of Books” the Biblical known as The Holy Bible., then the Commandment RESPECT your Mother and Father that {your days} /-\ may go well in this life means: Take care of the Sky, and the Seas, and the Lands... Do not fill them with Destruction, and Damnation where WAR IS MURDER is all you will every know!!! Does the Fox say: Come hunt me, and kill me, or the Lion, the Tiger, the Giraffe to the “Polar Bear” say: COME HUNT ME HUMAN, so you can put my skins on “your floors” and my Moose and Dear Heads on the WALLS of Insanity that you walk??? I do not think any of you would want to be Hunted by the U.S. UNITED NATION World Police, and then have them Skin you, and Cut [your head] off like in that Scream and Shout Britney and Mr. Smith Video!!! Then why must you people HUNT Animals for SPORT.?.?.? It is not wrong to “feed” your people and yourself……., but when you Hunt an animal, you are also hunting the SOLIDS in them, the Symbiots in them, and the SPIRITS in them as all life matters……, and all life is SPIRIT… Now, you might “appreciate” why Fur Coats made of the Bashed in heads of Baby Seals is something only EVIL SPIRITS aka Anti-Christ People would do….., for they seek Fame, and Fortune, and Glory, so they want to do WAR IS MURDER when War is against the RULE OF LAW…., but just give (a little mind) some ink on paper, and they will write books that WE THE PEOPLE have the right to Hunt you “into extinction” cause The U.N. Says: This FLAG is allowed to Hunt, and Rape, and Murder all of [these people] under that flag, and you would do well not to FEAR such people, but {pity them} in their sickness of mind, soul, and actions… Remember these PEOPLE whom hunt for SPORT and not food are The Racka, and of Pak-Toe will have nothing to do with The Cursed, The Forsaken, and The Dammed for their JUDGMENT “is evident” in THE WAYS they have lived their lives, and how they Worship S.A.T.A.N. aka WAR IS MURDER….. You see we want to go HOME when we die, not repeat the Curse of Things like them “Bones Buckets” that hang from Dead Trees…. The Book of EXODICE!!!

@Weghweh Hwewehwhe euh... Ken Thompson ?

Here's to that, brother! The name just screams "I gotta watch this!".

Fuck yeah!

I did the opposite: learned C first (back in high school or college, to program my graphing calculator), then assembly (z/Architecture). The insight about how memory is allocated and mapped you get from C was invaluable to understand how things can be implemented at the machine level. I'm still amazed at how that language strikes what's probably as close as you can get to the optimal balance between abstraction (practical expressivity, clarity, portability) and close mapping to a stored-program computer architecture (theoretical expressivity, efficiency). In addition to that, plain C (without awkward extension) is a very elegant language, IMHO (nothing to add, nothing to remove as attributed to Saint-Exupery, plus rien à ajouter, [...] plus rien à retrancher). As I've already sidetracked, I might as well add that I even took the habit to comment operations and control structures in my assembly programs using C, like that (real code snippet, comments have been translated to English): * nbEntrees => R7 : Numbre of entries read. * ptrTable => R9 : Pointer to entries' table. NB 2022: I should have added that sizeof(struct entry) is 20 bytes in that comment for later. * do { LOOP1 EQU * * Read record in buffer (R1 -> buffer) NB 2022: GET is probably a built-in assembly macro from what I remember... GET FICHIN * Copy 20 bytes from read buffer to ptrTable MVC 0(20,R9),0(R1) * ptrTable++; //NB 2022: Yeah, LA is for LOAD ADDRESS but was wildly used for simple integer arithmetic and perfect for pointer stuff like that. LA R9,20(0,R9) * nbEntrees++; LA R7,1(0,R7) * } while(true) /* ON_EOF handle branch to ENDB1 when * last record is reached. */ B LOOP1

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