I'm not talking just woodshop stuff; he is actually doing math and calculations for little things that he's building. He is an engineer by blood that happened to make a career out of it.
Using your last few years to exercise your brain and ward off cognitive decline might be the best way to ensure those last few years are fulfilling and not just marking time before the end.
Working on Colorforth might be the greatest meaning in his life.
He does not think working on Colorforth is worth it anymore, so it could actually be detrimental to do so.
It's hard to imagine an extremely niche software tool to be the greatest meaning in someone's life.
My Dad is like this. I'm like this. My son is like this.
Unless we're busy, pushing ourselves to build something, fix something or just outside doing something we don't feel the reward.
My Dad told his motto, "A rolling rock gathers no moss - until it finally stops rolling." He told me that in his 50's - he's in his 80's still out in the garage refinishing old furniture and giving it away. The drive the man has just never burns out.
That's completely up to him, and if that's what he wants to do, then that's the best use. No one can say what is best for anyone else.
When you go down the rabbit hole in Forth, it is easy to pop back out.
s" rabbithole" .s" forth" .s" into" .s" deep" .s" too" .s" go" .s" not" .s" must" . $ gforth
Gforth 0.7.3, Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Gforth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `license'
Type `bye' to exit
s" rabbithole" .s" forth" .s" into" .s" deep" .s" too" .s" go" .s" not" .s" must" .
:1: Undefined word
s" rabbithole" >>>.s"<<< forth" .s" into" .s" deep" .s" too" .s" go" .s" not" .s" must" .
Backtrace:
$7F53D6EF5A68 throw
$7F53D6F0BDB0 no.extensions
$7F53D6EF5D28 interpreter-notfound1 ::
: ws s" rabbithole " s" forth " s" into " s" deep " s" too " s" go " s" not " compiled
s" must " 8 0 do type loop ; ok
ws must not go too deep into forth rabbithole okKnow quite a few elderly men, were moving mountains until retirement, then at one age they wanted to simply step back and relax. It was a cognitive downhill from there on. Also there is something strange about men sitting at home doing nothing. For some reasons families start hating as little as a sentence from them. You have to sit quiet for most of your life. Which honestly speaking is nothing short of a punishment, because you are actually expected to behave like furniture, or at best like a vegetable.
Even other wise I do see men who retired early not having all that a great time sitting at home and doing nothing.
Without a purpose, you won't enjoy living life much.
" Updated 2002 September Philosophy
My attitude about software is that it expresses ideas that cannot be owned. Attempting to assert ownership is undesirable and impossible.
So, although colorForth is infinitely valuable, I place it in the Public Domain to make it freely available to anyone for any purpose. There is plenty of money to be made by porting code, programming applications and teaching.
I am having a fine time using colorForth. I won't spend much time promoting it. This site is my attempt to gauge the market. I will rigidly control the version I use."
But when you go to the downloads you see this:
"Download You can download colorForth thanks to UltraTechnology.
Downloads are still available. But note that COLOR.COM can only run under DOS - not Windows. As you can see above, it's 9 years old and I no longer know how to run it. The current version is available at GreenArrays
COLOR.COM Jul31
boot.asm, floppy source
gen.asm, generic graphics source
color.asm, kernel source
Or maybe that's well and truly gone and we're just fated to another dark age. I'm reminded of the Smarter Scrubber documentary that found that basically the whole supply chain was gone and it was impossible to make something useful in America.
Using semiconductor process nodes? 45-65nm. That was around the point that Moore's Law broke down. At that point, you could do most of the functionality that we depend upon computers for (eg. GUIs, 3D rendering, networking, basic machine-learning, some speech recognition and text synthesis). It also roughly corresponds to ↑7 or ↑8 on your scale, so it's self-consistent.
Conceptually? I'd like to have multiple checkpoints, so that if the ecosystem gets borked you can roll back further.
When you operate a system, there is no problem that can arise that will make you powerless. Sure, you can have a hardware failure that hopelessly breaks your system, but at least you'll be able to identify that failure and know for sure that there is no software solution or workaround. That's control.
If an update breaks your software in a way that is obscure enough to break only your software, then nobody else will fix your problem, and the system as a whole is too complex for you to dive in, making you powerless.
Microsoft: not even once.
From the website; Optimizations for windowed games improves gaming on your PC by using a new presentation model for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 games that appear in a window or in a borderless window.
When these optimizations are used, games that originally use the legacy blt-model presentation can use the newer flip-model presentation instead (if the game is compatible). This results in lower frame latency and lets you use other newer gaming features; for example, Auto HDR, and variable refresh rate (for displays that support it).
It is checked by default. Hope it helps.
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actionfromafar•2mo ago
(Especially now that .NET Framework was donated to Wine...)
Figs•2mo ago
Do you mean Mono, or did I miss something?
actionfromafar•2mo ago
I mixed that up to mean that .NET Framework proper was released as open source, but that's unfortunately not the case.
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bitwize•2mo ago
If so, it seems as if Windows is undergoing a Waylandization. "Yeah, we went ahead and removed those because they're legacy. Modern rendering pipelines don't work that way anymore." I don't WANT a rendering pipeline! I want a surface, and to make calls to scribble on it! That's it!
eternityforest•2mo ago
mwcampbell•2mo ago
Very unlikely. Far too many applications depend on those things. It's more likely that they accidentally changed something subtle that happened to break colorForth.
hulitu•2mo ago
The Wayland idea looks very similar to a Microsoft brain extract: "trust us, it will be the best when it is ready", "your program doesn't work ? update to latest version", "we have updates: we disabled some things which worked before".
bitwize•2mo ago
But for decades, Microsoft has been willing to support and work on the ancient tech that got it where it is today. The GNOME/FD.o paradigm is like Mao's continuous revolution. Out with the old and in with the new, forever and always, on an ongoing basis. Microsoft is now changing to this model. I suspect it's for similar pragmatic reasons: it's difficult to recruit young and relatively inexperienced programmers if you're just going to put them to work fixing up code bases from the 90s (written in—brotha, eugh!—C and C++). Since we can't get anybody to maintain that old code, it will become a liability in the future, so we're better off throwing it out and telling our users to cope.
JSR_FDED•2mo ago