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Comment · 17 hours ago
Technically, the receivers need not use 50 years old tech. I am saying that not to be annoying but because I wonder how much that matters.
Comment · 1 day ago
I don't mind that as much. Scratching an itch with AI is fine, but if you want to publish it to the world I sort of expect some effort to show why you did that and why I should care.
Comment · 1 day ago
Readme is AI. :/
Comment · 3 days ago
It doesn't work. GStreamer removed it because models recognize it as prompt injection.
Comment · 3 days ago
The review (design for assembly) is done by hand.
Comment · 4 days ago
No wait - Manhattan only has N-S lines (well, Manhattan is tilted, so more precisely, only has "Avenue-parallel" lines). There are no E-W ("Street-parallel") lines because it is too narrow.
Comment · 4 days ago
Pratt parsing, in its simplest form, is essentially an optimized recursive descent that uses lookahead to skip levels. Which as you say ends up being clearer too.
Comment · 5 days ago
I think Manhattan is kinda special because the lines are mostly parallel, there aren't as many east-west lines.
Comment · 11 days ago
I interpreted that as gravity causing things from the two galaxies to mix up, after which normal matter can interact electromagnetically (in more head on collisions than usual) but dark matter won't.
Comment · 13 days ago
https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html

They definitely were used back in the day, now the x87 isn't used much at all.

Comment · 13 days ago
How do FSTSW AX and similar instructions write to AX?
Comment · 13 days ago
Have you already covered how the decoding of instructions is shared with the 8086?
Comment · 17 days ago
Finger positions are learnt through muscle memory, not reading the sheet, and isomorphic notation would not help for all instruments anyway. Guitar, mostly and that's why you have tabs. Trumpet, only for certain pairs of notes (G-C, C-F, F-Bb are played very differently). Saxophone, mostly no. Clarinet, hell no it's a mess of an instrument.
Comment · 17 days ago
The difference I can think of is the ability to play with priority (unlike style="" which has fixed priority), but I'm not sure if that's an advantage or a disadvantage. :)
Comment · 17 days ago
The piano keyboard optimizes the keys for either reachability (white keys are wider) or feeling (black keys are narrow but have edges and can be pressed from the side). The Janko keyboard optimizes for neither, all keys are equal. It has all the disadvantages of the guitar with almost none of the advantages (the range for one hand is smaller than the guitar's, and there's no bending/sliding/vibrato)

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