quincunx
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't think you can follow the path originally trodden (competing on asmone 68K/hw with your fellow local coders, exchanging snippets of hw reg info and source) however there's a terrific short series of videos on youtube you might consider:
https://www.youtube.com/@WeijuWu
Wei-ju Wu lays out how to code directly on the hardware in an accessible manner and, importantly, from C, instead of 68K, with lots of examples. Then, if (or rather: when) you have to, you can always step down a level into 68K assembly to get better performance.
Comment · 3 years ago
I have a few of these rules
Interesting, can you share some other such rules?
Comment · 3 years ago
"No, that's SMP" - is perhaps too resolute a definition. I'd say SMP is across processes, SMT is within a process, which would put the distinction in software, not hardware architecture.
Definitions are more grey, muddy and dependent on context; in that line of thought, I feel the parent you're responding to is accurate enough to not warrant criticism or even downvotes.
Comment · 3 years ago
For some (myself) the right shift key is the main shift key; so doing away with it would be terrible. Typically holding it down with the right pinky while typing full speed ahead, as well as single movement stroke patterns for <>{}?"+_ and so on, so heavy on all caps C snake case type use (if that makes sense.)
Comment · 4 years ago
What a great link.
At the time of writing, Goal Conversions:
- Visit/blog 12800
- Signup 8
I knew anecdotally that HN doesn't convert but, oof, that's rough..
Comment · 4 years ago
The colorful stripes are more likely the decompression routine hammering dff180 (the background color) as a "busy signal" for the user. The Amiga has "chip RAM", which on many unexpanded machines is also the only type of RAM; there are no pre-reserved regions in chip ram; everything (code,data,framebuffers) can be anywhere the programmer wants.
I think OP is (probably?) referring to 8-bit C64 era technology, where framebuffers/video ram are at a fixed location in memory?
Comment · 4 years ago
ok, interesting. I just checked, as of right now I still very much get the message "Unsupported Browser - In order to provide the best experience we require you use a different browser." So I'm not sure where our configurations differ.
Firefox 95.0.2 64-bit fwiw.
Comment · 4 years ago
I also use Firefox as my daily, but more and more software seems incompatible with it.
For instance, AWS EC2 Global View insists I switch away from Firefox, that's just one example, but there are more.
Anyone know why? I've always viewed Firefox as the de-facto standard, why the recent breakage? Why is it deemed acceptable, by AWS of all orgs?
Comment · 4 years ago
| keep in mind that picking Java over Cobol for banking software in 90s retrospectively turned out to be the right choice
Is the Java written in the 90's still the same Java written today? I feel the mentioned Lindy effect equally applies to dialect. C++ today is radically different to C++ from the 90's. I'd venture COBOL from the 90's is likely quite similar to COBOL today.
Comment · 4 years ago
Can you elaborate a bit on "resisting"?
Been a while since I read it, but iirc one of his examples is of fellow captives telling themselves they'll be free before the new year, then the new year comes, still not free, and those would be the first ones to go (your "giving up").
But the alternative I never took as "resisting" - but "purpose." Frankl's own purpose being the study of people under such extreme conditions, but his point (again, iirc) being that having that indefinite, daily, purpose is what keeps people alive and brings meaning.
Now, granted, it's been a while since I read it, but can you provide some color to this notion of "resisting" ? It'd be interesting if you took something completely different away from it (or if I remember it incorrectly and should be corrected.)
Comment · 4 years ago
The tech is pretty, not sure it works as a demonstration of gameplay though.
For some reason this strongly reminds me of The typing of the Dead. A "Typing of the Matrix" would fit the theme quite nicely!
If the variation of color are indicative of a similar variation in density, why is there so much turbulence in Jupiter, why are the upper layers not more consistent? Tidal motion? Anyone know?