Fiddlin’ around can’t break anybody else of course. Go appropriately wild…but if you break it you bought it :-)
A play system or ‘pip’ instance running the Simulator driver is the way to do so safely. No PDP8 assembly language nor punch cards for a FortranIV program required…. On Friday, February 27, 2026 at 4:56:53 PM UTC-8 DR wrote: > Vince, > > I've read some of your observations and you are absolutely right. > Disk/SSD is cheap. The processors are very snappy and barely get warm. > No Cray needed to keep things running smoothly. > > I grew up at a time when some of my classmates were working with > space-hardened hardware and exceptionally limited memory requiring very > careful design analysis of the project and storage, and cpu energy was > allocated carefully. Weather Satellite stuff. And those who got the > jobs to work on those U of Wis projects were the cream of the crop at > squeezing performance and space out of what they were given. The > bragging rights for having served on those projects was what drove many > of them. The rest of us went on to other jobs. > > > That being said, a leopard has a hard time changing its spots. I still > re-use plastic bags and anti-static material, just an old habit that I > feel happier doing. > > I have no ability to tweak the database as some of those here are doing, > but am interested in the basic science of doing so. > > > There was a fellow by the name of Steve Gibson who did almost everything > in assembler, even doing some Windows API stuff just to show it could be > done. A few minutes with the Windows toolkit got months of his work > done. He just did it for fun. > > > The development team keeping WeeWx fun and interesting and decide the > future are not burdened with hacking every compound word. You guys just > make new things happen and keep the stuff we use working incredibly > well, to which I say thank you very much. I'd rather you do that than > try to please a small handful who want a few kilobytes smaller database. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/45849294-8f08-4ab9-9673-690ab1d7bfbdn%40googlegroups.com.
