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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Like rewriting everything as a web app?
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
An utter bitch to type compared to a short string of garbage, though, and typing a URL manually (friend gives you a URL over the phone or in person) is the only case I can think of where the URL itself matters.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
You're wrong on both counts. B is still to the left of A on N64 controllers, and the PlayStation launched a year before the N64 in America.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
As I said in another comment, almost every Megadrive game I've played lets you use both A and C for accept in menus, so you could use whichever orientation you were more comfortable with. I think anyone who started with Nintendo consol
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>SNES had the familiar ABXY, but mirrored with AX on the right. Those of us that grew up with Nintendo consoles would say that B on the left of A is the natural order of things ;) >Meaning, one console used the bottom button for yes a
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I wanted to make something like this a few years, really cool to see someone actually go out there and do it. This design seems to be framebuffer-based, a straightforward hardware acceleration of the method you would use for software 2D ren
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Trade items for keys/purchase keys with Steam Wallet funds, sell keys via Paypal for slightly under the "legit" price, ???, profit. (for the uninformed, keys are basically virtual lottery tickets in TF2 and DotA2 whose "
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>HTML5 may not be so evolved, but at least it works on my Android in both Chrome and Firefox, it works on my MacBook, it works on my Ubuntu Linux, it works on my Windows Phone that I keep around as a paper holder and it works on my iPad.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I think you're looking for phoenix: http://byuu.org/programming/phoenix/ An example application using it, with the GTK backend: https://i.imgur.com/pW2Jl9q.png and the Qt backend: https:&#x2
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
OTOH you can cache the decoded microops (IIRC modern Intel chips do this, while modern AMD and the original Pentium cached instruction boundaries), and in thumb mode ARM is also variable length.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
This is really cool. My one gripe is that it uses the crummy Atari 2600 version of the Space Invaders sound effects, when the analog-synthesized arcade soundtrack is the one that everyone remembers. https://www.youtube.com/w
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Does the go linker attempt any dead code elimination across libraries? Static linking is handy for distributing binaries but 8 megabytes does seem a bit excessive for a relatively simple program. Then again, it isn't so out of place no
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
No, x32 is still long mode (64-bit), it's just an ABI that restricts all memory allocations to 4 gigabytes of address space so that 4-byte pointers can safely be used instead of 8-byte ones. You can get a similar effect by manually mma
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Oh DanBC, your comments never disappoint.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
It's funnier if you say Anno Domini.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Came here to post this.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>This falls under both "hardware access" I don't really agree with that, unless you want to call any use of a CPU "hardware access," but ok. I also don't consider it to be like accessing architecture specifi
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I have a cable internet connection and know the difference between a modem and a router. You'll have to take my word for it that every time I change my router's MAC address, my public IP does as well.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>The only thing that you can do with assembly and that you can't really do with higher level language like C is accessing processor specific registers/instruction sets (e.g. SSE). And this is typically done using inline assembl
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
If you have a dynamic IP address (most people do), getting a new IP is as simple as changing a byte in your router's MAC address.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Wifi is very convenient, but adds latency, drops more packets than a CAT5 cable will, is (theoretically speaking) easier to eavesdrop upon, and degrades much more quickly than wired connections do when the number of clients is high. That&#x
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I don't think "limited scope" is a phrase that accurately describes Dwarf Fortress at all.
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Understanding Intel Instruction Sizes(swansontec.com)
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I think you're too quick to dismiss the value of older texts. I first "got" assembly language from reading the infamous 6502.txt, which was probably somewhere between 10 and 20 years old at that point, and written about a tot
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Seconding Yume Nikki. Wikipedia has a better summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yume_Nikki
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
No 6502?
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Public choice theory seems interesting, I guess I have something else to read about tomorrow. I probably agree with your comment about unions, but that's a much broader statement than I was shooting for. I specifically think that the
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Even "public" prisons devour tax dollars to pay prison staff (who are unionized in some states with lobbies that fight for stricter laws and law enforcement and thus more prisoners to guard...), construction workers, suppliers of
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
If you really want to optimize data cache usage, use a bitvector and (either through compiler intrinsics or inline assembly) your CPU's bit-scanning instructions. This can reduce the storage requirement to 1 bit per object and skip up
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Does Reddit not have [spoiler] tags?

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