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I have no degree. I think I got good at doing it because I learned to code back in the 1980s when most PCs were spec'd like the little MCUs I work on today.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Wow, you're autodidact. I was surprised you knew how to use a logic analyzer. You're really a smart guy!
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Thanks. I learn what I need to know. I have a knack for tinkering.
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You'd be surprised as how many regulars of the Lounge are brilliant people, and autodidacts. That's why I have been visiting this site for 20 years, the concentration of knowledge is amazing (plus I could make illusion so far even if I cannot distinguish an Arduino from a washing machine, so they did not kick me out).
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honey the codewitch wrote: I learned to code back in the 1980s when most PCs were spec'd like the little MCUs I work on today
This is so true. I am glad I had the chance to live this as well.
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Same. I think because of it, the challenge of working in a constrained environment is neither overwhelming or off-putting. In fact, I find it enjoyable, maybe because I grew up with it. Something about it is almost comforting.
Give me an ESP32's 300kB of usable RAM any day and I'll feel spoiled.  . I remember when I had to work with 64kB so no big.
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That's impressive. Too bad I don't have a 1080 lcd display for an IoT MCU, or one that could push that many pixels.
I doubt that thing *runs* in 4kB though. I'm sure it uses runtime decompression to get those textures, or to generate the computation tables needed to render those textures, and it would have to cache some of that to get any kind of frame rate.
But yeah, impressive.
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Of course, it definitively uses decompression, but still impressive. Plus the music is also rendered. There are is so much maths and cleverness in this...
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The top 5 books I've read and enjoyed the most are:
1. Making Money - Terry Pratchett
2. Pattern Recognition - william Gibson
3. I Robot - Isaac Asimov (The Original, not the one frorm the stupid movie.)
4. Monster - A. Lee Martinez
5. Friday - Robert Heinlein
Honarable Mention: Any Terry Pratchett "Disc World" book, Ringworld - Larry Niven
What are your favorite books?
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Can't order them, they are all too good...
Anything by Thorne Smith, particularly "Night Life of the Gods" and "the Stray Lamb". (Most of which I have in first edition and reading editions)
The Count of Monte Cristo (read at least 8 times)
The Jerry Boyd Nikki and Bob series (Kindle only I think) totally mindless and ridiculously inaccurate but funnier than a three legged alligator
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine - via Walt Kelly)
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stoneyowl2 wrote: The Count of Monte Cristo
I liked the movie version with Jim Cavziel so much I read the unabridged version of the novel - all 1500 pages worth. Whew.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The Wolf Hall trilogy, and anything else by Hilary Mantel, especially A Place of Greater Safety
The Cruel Sea
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Pickwick Papers, and anything else by Dickens
Red Sky at Sunrise by Laurie Lee
... and many others too numerous to mention.
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All Quiet on the Western Front + 1
a lovely book
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein
Oath Of Fealty and Footfall, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Chanur Saga, The Faded Sun trilogy, and the Foreigner Sequence, C. J. Cherryh
The Bolo series, Keith Laumer, and follow-on books by a number of authors
I have reached a stage with each of these that I have to exert a lot of self-control on how often I re-read them.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Bah you really are old school - nothing new to read here.
The OP is just fishing for new authors to read, thankfully there were a few new ones in the other posts. You would probably like my library, every one of the above is in there.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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The OP asked for our favorites, not what we were reading currently. I just finished reading the Remembrance of Earth's Past[^] trilogy by Liu Cixin[^]. I'm also a fan of N.K. Jemisin and John Scalzi, an almost neighbor of mine (he lives about 50 miles south of me).
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For that matter, Cherryh has a new novel in the Foreigner Sequence coming out in the not-too-distant future.
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Add the Expanse series to that list, and the Belgarion / Mallorean series as well. Oh, and the "Ender" books.
Then ... Douglas Adams deserves to be there, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", "The Devil Drives" by Fawn M Brody,
And ... oh gawd: Niven, Pournelle, Philip K Dick, ... without whom ...
heck I can't pick my favourite 100 books, much less order them into a sequence and say "these are the best five", or "ten", or "twenty"! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oh bugger - more: Forward, Laumer, Hawking, Norm Abram, Brin, ... the list just gets bigger every time I try to think of it ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Here are a couple off the top of my head;
Hawaii - James A. Mitchner
The Last days of Pompeii
I have I Robot coming at xmas.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Hopefully it is the one feom the 50's not the one from the movie..
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Yeah me too. Xmas present from my son, I didn't specify edition. Probably should of!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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"I shall wear midnight" - Pratchett.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Agree, there are far too many, but a few more worthwhile:
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, American Gods, Stardust, Coraline
KJ Parker - Engineer's Trilogy
Garth Nix - The Old Kingdom (Sabiral, Lorial, Clariel, etc)
Jasper Fforde - The Thursday Next series
Ben Elton - Two Brothers and Time and Time Again are both brilliant, but so are most of his books
Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose, The Island of the Day Before, Foucault's Pendulum
Luke Rhienhart - The Dice Man
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