Human folly for 02026-09-11

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• Sigcol04 (web.archive.org):

  #PDF of Henry #Baker’s COMFY-65 #COMFY #paper from his own site, much better than the CACM scan.

• (dwheeler.com):

  “David A. Wheeler’s #6502 Language Implementation Approaches” including #COMFY. #retrocomputing #toread

• Dev reaction to AI blog posts (writethatblog.substack.com):

  people really don’t like reading #AI prose on blogs; 71% try to avoid the author in the future and 78% stop reading immediately when they realize it’s #slop. #toread

• CF elements (greenarraychips.com):

  elements of #colorForth. #Forth

• Absurd adventure and amygdalectomy (astralcodexten.com):

  Daniel Böttger got an amygdalectomy as part of a craniotomy to remove his astrocytoma, and thinks that many people would benefit from amygdalectomy because their lives are ruled by fear and anxiety. #medicine

• (sevensecularsermons.org):

  Daniel Böttger’s Seven Secular Sermons

• AVR GCC (gcc.gnu.org):

  #AVR #ISA calling conventions for GCC: R2–R17, R28, and R29 are “call-saved”, plus implicitly R1, which has to always be kept 0.

• Why async Rust (without.boats):

  the #history of the #async #Rust disaster