Good morning ~plasmon, welcome to The Midnight!

~bartender? Coffee with cream an sugar --- its too early in the morning for experiments. Thanks!

Physics. Yes. I have spent a good part of my lifetime with that. I did venture into the realm of astrophysics. Symbiotic double stars, äh, white dwarfs accreting hydrogen-rich material from their companion red giant or similar. The dwarf grows a skin of "degenerated" matter, and at some point nuclear fusion can set in an produce a giant surface explosion. One of these objects, T Cor Bor, is expected to trigger soonish. So yes, even in astronomy your favorite comes in quite easily :)

However, I have changed fields towards computing, working at the blurry line which separates hardware (like wires, components, and controllers), enhanced with funny things like FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays; which are configurable hardware, if you will), and pure software (starting at obscure boot loaders, loading a not so obscure boot loader, loading and starting an operating systems kernel and it's associated user land).

Wherever you go, have the appropriate amount of fun!

Cheers!

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~inquiry wrote:

> However, I have changed fields towards computing, working
> at the blurry line which separates hardware (like wires,
> components, and controllers), enhanced with funny things
> like FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays; which are
> configurable hardware, if you will), and pure software
> (starting at obscure boot loaders, loading a not so obscure
> boot loader, loading and starting an operating systems
> kernel and it's associated user land).

Huh. Kind of reminds me of a biological body, and then an increasingly complex idea of a self that starts with the thought "I", and somehow becomes (not unlike html..) a huge mess requiring priests, therapists, alcohol, war, etc. to maybe sorta kinda not really manage... so that said "I" is essentially a boot loader of all the rest sometimes a-bit-too-honestly-for-most referred to as "mental illness"... :-)

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This replaces the original reply content because said content didn't post correctly and now seemingly cannot be deleted by https://midnight.pub/replies/8208/remove, which annoyingly leads to seeing this:

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It would be nice to know what characters in my original need escaping so the post-by-script method doesn't lead to this.