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Did a quick attempt at mapping a vintage IBM 3270 font from FontForge to 8x16 bitmap to FPGA. Result is highly broken - see misaligned characters baselines, etc. And yet delightfully full of surprises. I think I I am going to keep it unchanged as a tribute to Nature’s many mysteries.

Imagine if Flaubert or Proust, instead of spending endless nights polishing and rephrasing their sentences so they ended up reading exactly •right•, had had access to some LLM that would have done the job for them from a list of bullet points… how much •more• they could have produced and •sold•!!!

It’s about time unreliable amateurs - worst kind being these idiots who end their life just when they start gaining traction - give way to pros!!!

IT reaching the point where seasoned pilots keep flying the plane yet meanwhile are looking for the safest place to ditch the thing. Oh and they’ve sent co-pilot inventory parachutes.

Meanwhile on this ground next to our houses they’re building a large apartment complex and there are ppl walking around with lasers and giant paper diagrams and thy seem to be investing a lot of efforts doing things •right•.

I find myself looking at them through our window, wondering…

I •do• miss thinking hard.

https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard

Ok, so even though the physical and virtual addresses of a 64-bits Raspberry Pi are 64-bits each, the •bus• address is 32-bits because that’s all the DMA controller can handle somehow and what was I supposed to do over the weekend again? Rest? Ahahahaha.