The 'b' in 'blog' stands for 'web'. If you're gonna throw that away, Marcus Aurelius' "Medititations" or Abu Ali ibn al-Banna's diary is probably going to take the title.
Technical founder in the VR/AR space here. Not in a rush so have discounted YC in the past, still may be worth a short chat. Use the "Apply" link on the RFS page?
Not so black and white, but I still thing the Sex Pistols GSTQ is a great song (also Anti-Nowhere Leagues 's "So F*king What!", much more FTW). Never a fan of the Diana bandwagon either.
Yet, likewise to me the Queen always earned the respect shown her. Colouring the establishment by the actions of some is just too black and white thinking for me.
Great song (albeit sort-of not written by them, fits the band perfectly though). Lucky enough to see NMA live a couple of times pre-lockdown, no option but to settle for the live stream for the 40th anniversary.
Body Rocket: Brighton, UK. Multiple positions, remote mostly ok depending on the position but you'll need to work onsite at times.
We're a start-up focused on aerodynamics, and specifically (for now) on cycling. About to move from research to production, what we do is measure drag force on the cyclist in real time via embedded loadcells/aero sensors and far too many on-bike ARM processors (some running linux, some bare-metal).
Positions available are embedded engineer (nrf5x, C, lightweight DSP, linux too), data analyst/database leader and mechanical engineer (solidworks). As a small company (getting on for 10 full-time staff), we're less formal than most. If any of the positions sound interesting, happy to discuss informally.
Pretty much my first on-site service job: the company I was working for made motion-control systems for animation, controlled by a PDP-11. The customer was an animation studio, so dead in the water without the system working. Problem was it wasn't booting, so I had to go on site, open the side of the cabinet and reposition the goose-neck lamp used as the light source for the paper-tape reader. Problem solved, happy customer.
The LSI-11 and 11/23 jumped to 173000 at startup, so (re)booting them was just hit halt on the front panel and then enter '173000G' in ODT (the built-in octal debugger). If necessary, it would only take a minute or two to type in a bootstrap somewhere in RAM and execute (my boss at the time could do that faster across the toggle keys on the front panel of his larger PDP-11 than I could type it in).
I coded several bootstraps for PDP-11/23's, managed to get 4 different devices (DX,DY 8" disks, MX 5.25" and MZ 3.5" disks) complete with CLI into 256 words (2x256 byte OTP ROMs). Careful coding time, since one had to send the listing off to someone who could burn the ROMs and post them back.
> my boss at the time could do that faster across the toggle keys on the front panel of his larger PDP-11 than I could type it in
This is exactly what I waned to hear after watching the video of toggling posted below. I thought to myself there must have been people who could have done that in two seconds, but then I kind of doubted it because I didn't know how much rebooting was really done.
Yeah, I had an LSI-11/23 when I was a student, with dual 8 inch drives and a Fujitsu drive (not an Eagle, it was 160Mb if I remember). This was all cobbled together equipment, but lots of fun trying to get it to work.
My bootstrap code loaded the first block from a floppy which had the boot code on it. The result was much easier to type, and I ended up with that boot code as a script so my much more powerful Amiga I was using as a terminal emulator could replay the boot code to start the machine.
