matt sarnoff @txsector

Lost in the Disco Pinball Dimension. Catdad to @sandwiches_cat/@beans_kitty/@eggs_cat (and human dad too!) Lead firmware engineer @glowforge. He/him msarnoff.org Pacific Northwest Joined June 2008

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matt sarnoff @txsector

2 years ago

I’m still around! But I’m now msarnoff in blue butterfly world and extinct elephant relative land.

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

Shiny round objects are irresistible to toddlers… Me: What’s in this box? My 2yr old son: Ball bearings. Me: Which one do you want? Him: EIGHT OF THEM!!!

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

Yeah theres the whole mastadon thing but i really dont have much of a desire to have a public social media presence anymore

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Just found out my sister and my best friend are having their weddings on the same day (no they are not getting married to each other) and i have no idea what to do so im just gonna get real drunk and post garbage on this dying platform

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

spoky

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

Me: what did you dream about last night? Toddler: cats… Me: awww Toddler: …in space! Me: !!!! ! !

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

Just tried to pinch-to-zoom on a printed photograph. How is your day going

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

My son who has barely been on this earth for two years just said “the geese on the bus go poop poop poop” and he is now on the short list for greatest human of all time

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Daniel Bogdanoff @DanielBogdanoff

4 years ago

What is happening on Reddit

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

@tristanseifert I’ve only used clang for x86_64 work, haven’t used it for embedded yet. I agree that it’s better than gcc in every way, will definitely have to consider it for future work

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

Renamed an embedded C file from .c to .cpp. Program crashed upon receiving an interrupt. Who can guess why?

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

That being said, I hate C++ with the fiery burning passion of a thousand suns. I would much rather write Rust macros than dealing with bonkers template metaprogramming

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

I previously was wary of C++ on microcontrollers because it bloated the binary with useless overhead, but it looks like GCC 11 is much better, and I’ve actually seen a *reduction* in code size switching from GCC 9 C to GCC 11 C++.

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

My two-year-old literally asks for this video by name. He says “turn on Stephen Bahr cat’s eye marbles!” @StephenBahrRU youtu.be/tdsHJfKPQ8A

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

My AirPods 2 arrived today and I have the perfect song to test them out with

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

@mattsiegel Update: production run of Baby Pac-Man was 7000 units, which is pretty successful. 1982 was the start of a dark age for pinball—by that point, video games were much more profitable

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matt sarnoff @txsector

4 years ago

@mattsiegel There were several attempts to combine pinball with a video game around 1982-1983. Gottlieb’s “Caveman” was another one. I don’t think they were very successful.