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My formerly active duty Marine Corps, pessimistic self considered that to be a very possible reality. I thought about what I would do if I were him and I immediately went to the 'well shit, how do I make this[1] into a story that paints myself in a better light'.

[1] - this being going UA/deserting

Oh man! I was thinking about the whole legal language should be something of a formal language a little less than a year ago. I'm glad someone is doing something along those lines.

When I was in the military, I reread the book that convinced me to pick the Marine Corps, Starship Troopers. When I reread it after having been active for a couple years, I realized how off it was from my experience[0] and thought it odd to be the book that made me make the earlier decision.

I actually finished the reading in the field and since I didn't bring another book, I flipped back to the first chapter.

[0] - Or what I thought my experience would be. Granted, it is future-y and I realized that I wouldn't have cool exoskeleton armor but, being that Heinlein was a Navy man, there are some things that never change no matter what time period people serve in and Starship Troopers is colored by that.

As an embedded engineer, you and parent have put into words something that I've known but haven't been able to articulate.

I think I encountered the sentiment (on HN) before that because CPU and memory speeds have become so far out of whack and that increasing CPU speeds have power limits that engineers will start having to worry about optimization more and more. I suppose the difference is that before, we didn't have the boat-loads of memory that we have now (in a system).

In other words, yay for LLVM IR!

> Squirrel is written in C++. Wren is pure C99.

Awesome. My primary interest in Lua and Squirrel was to embed a scripting language in a C environment on a microcontroller. This is perfectly doable (and has been done before) but Lua is particularly attractive because it is written in ANSI C.

I think it is interesting how similar embedded systems devs and game devs view their code with an eye towards performance and size. It is nice because embedded systems typically don't use newer languages and the developers tend to never move away from C as the language of choice (sometimes it seems like everyone is stuck in the 80s or 90s).

I'm wondering how munificent feels about Squirrel[1]. It seems like Wren is looking to fill the same niche that Squirrel fits. So I guess my question is, how are they different, or, how is Wren better?

[1] - http://squirrel-lang.org/

Well, close to being post-1.0. I think it is Rust 1.0 (alpha) in January (the 9th) then (beta) 6 weeks later.

Incidentally, it was this comment thread that led me to find this[1] for the same reason you list. The lack of collapsible threads has bugged me for a bit and I have been considering doing my own bookmarklet for a while but never got around to it.

[1] - https://github.com/akirk/hackernews-collapsible-threads

My wife, a surgical technician, hasn't done surgeries like this before but has mentioned how for other procedures (on the face, perhaps) that they fold back the skin and then 'flop it back on'. It is crazy when she talks about stuff she's seen/helped do.

I like to picture surgery to be very similar to working on a car, except the pipes, wires, manifolds, etc are made of organic stuff.

This is what I did. I bought a Brother monochrome laser printer (HD-53??) back in 2012 for use printing out college junk. If memory serves, I was on the starter cartridge for a year or so, In fact, I may still be on the starter cartridge. I can't even remember if I bought a new cartridge.

The total cost has only been about $150 or $200.

Oh, if only more of my fellow countrymen could get a worldly experience before they settle down. Many people in my hometown hardly go but an hour or two away except on a vacation.

I remember how I had a culture class before my first deployment to Iraq (USMC, 2007). I, being someone who has always been interested in other cultures, really liked it. I'm not sure my fellow Marines took to it so quickly but after we came back I think they were better people for it (the class and the deployment).

I think your reference to our American Prudish-ness is likely spot on too.

Granted.

I suppose my point is that ARM is going towards the same inbetween-ism that x86 has moved to.

Since ARM11 (ARMv6), cores have been running on Thumb 2 (16-bit instructions) and only jumping into regular 32-bit instructions when necessary. Before that there was the Thumb instruction set which according to [0] was introduced in 1994.

This makes ARM (especially ARMv7 and newer) a mixed setup like x86.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb

I always wondered why I can't stand the sound of people eating with an open mouth ('smacking their lips') or a dog licking themselves/chewing on a rawhide. For some reason, closed mouth eating and a dog biting themselves are tolerable. Our dogs are either very good at being dead silent or they do it all at night (and it sometimes wakes me up). I can also relate in how it isn't bothersome if it is amongst a sea of sounds, though I think a group of people eating would bother me quite a bit...

I suppose I have a name for this now...

The STM32F429 Discovery board [1] has 2MB of Flash and 256KB of internal RAM. It also looks like it has 64 Mb of SDRAM which might be what your looking for. We have an engineer where I work who is trying to get mRuby up and running on one. It has tons of memory for a Cortex-M part/board

[1] - http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/PF259...

Perhaps you should make one? I've seen comments across HN that go into more embedded-y stuff, i.e. people remarking on ARM based systems, etc. I'm also an embedded guy and browse HN quite often.

Ferrets are used in scientific study? I didn't know that. As a ferret owner: :-(

Bamboo, we need to start using bamboo.