FullyFunctional

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1. 61.▲
   by FullyFunctional 3y ago

   I have working hardware from every decade, oldest is from 1982, but my daily driver and what I'm typing on now is a 2019 iMac 5K and Apple still doesn't have anything all-in-one to replace it. My keyboard is from 2002 (the USB ve
2. 62.▲
   by FullyFunctional 3y ago

   [citation needed] Do you have anything concrete to support "nowhere near where they are for x86 or M1"? I literally eyeball RISC-V code all day long for a living and it's not like there a massive performance lost to the comp
3. 63.▲
   by FullyFunctional 3y ago

   Sure. Any suggestions? (I don’t need much, just kbd input and pixel graphics out)
4. 64.▲
   by FullyFunctional 3y ago

   Also the GPU doesn't have a free driver [currently]
5. 65.▲
   by FullyFunctional 3y ago

   Completely false. This is compared to native versions on all platforms. Supposedly TH1520 gets a small uplift when compiled for its proprietary extensions, but I haven't seen a compiler using this and it would have no bearing on appli
6. 66.▲
   by FullyFunctional 3y ago

   I wrote extension, not layout. I succeed finally with Ukelele thanks.
7. 67.▲
   by FullyFunctional 3y ago

   Does this mean that it would have been better to base hello-rust-sdl2-wasm on wasm32-unknown-unknown target (assuming this is possible)? EDIT: trying to answer this myself got me down this rathole: https://users.rust-lang.org&#x
8. 68.▲
   by FullyFunctional 3y ago

   "hipness/hype" is a pretty rude assumption. There are lots of people enthusiastic about the language for the simple reason that they like it better than the alternatives and it solves real problems. It might not be for ever
9. 69.▲
   by FullyFunctional 3y ago

   Having reluctantly hacked up an emulator in Javascript, it was always very fragile. I'm very motivated to reimplement it in Rust and your framework looks like it has almost everything I need. The only thing missing is persistent stat
10. 70.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    Thanks, good suggestion -- I usually try to avoid extensions as much as possible for many reasons (incl. that Apple actually discourages it), but I'll look into it.
11. 71.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    The TI-99/4A was atrocious on many level, but the reason for the abysmal performance is well documented on Wikipedia -- the architecture was inherited from TI-990 which assume fast 16-bit memory and TMS9900 had neither.
12. 72.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    Which modifier+space produces U+202F? Alt+Space produce No-Break Space (NBSP) U+00A0 which is different and lacks the appropriate narrowness. EDIT: I tried alt+space, alt-shift+space, alt-ctrl+space, alt-shift-control+space, shift+space.
13. 73.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    I like this story as it goes a long way to explain why the 6502 is the way it is. Having grown up with both Z80 and 6502 essentially in parallel, I'll be the contrarian who never liked either, but will admit that it would have been ha
14. 74.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    Oh neat! I didn't know it could do this. I use U+202F (Narrow No-break Space) all the time to separate numbers from their unit (as in "20 kg" which I'm sure won't display correctly here), but I haven't found a
15. 75.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    Thanks for the paper. > it'd be hard to build a competitive super-scalar chip (really for any ISA) without some verious[sic] serious investment "Hundreds of millions of dollars" cf. Mark Horowitz's Micro 35 keynote (
16. 76.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    The OP asked about a WASM-cpu. It assume he meant that literally thus without preprocessing. Once you allow preprocessing there's no limited to what you can do and in fact you can do something really efficient (margin is too narrow t
17. 77.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    I've certainly thought about it :) If you can write an interpreter, then you can implement it in hardware. Whether it will be _efficient_ compared to using another ISA is a different matter. Of the top of my head: the unbounded block
18. 78.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    As Motley Fools [1] like to point out, the most you can loose is 100% whereas the upside is unbounded. This means that even if all but one investment turns completely to dust, if that one is outstanding it makes up for it all. We are actua
19. 79.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    Even better if the speed would ramp up and down smoothly. I have missed this since I used smooth scrolling CP/M computers in the '80es.
20. 80.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    I've been on a physical iPhone keyboard quest since I got my first (4S). I have a pile of BT keyboards and one keyboard case. Still looking for something I would actually use. Indeed, my primary use case is for SSH (via Terminus).
21. 81.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    Ah, sorry I misunderstood and I think we agree nearly completely. However, while I'm a fan of LFP, especially for UPSes, for cars it's a delicate balance of lower energy density vs longevity. What I can say is the the Li-Ion in
22. 82.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    1. Yes, the only relevant point 2. is only an issue for people who don't actually own an EV. With Tesla's charging network (which is getting adopted by _nearly_ all EV manufacturers), _nearly_ everyone will have no range issue at
23. 83.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    My 2014 Model S battery has lost less than 10% of the original range. Why would I replace the battery?
24. 84.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    Seems like a hit piece. The same old BS FUD as always. The EV sales are slower than expected and can be explained by only one simple fact: cost. However, battery prices (the dominant cost) has been falling steadily and will keep falling.
25. 85.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    Apple very nearly catered. Nobody would be quoting Job had that happened (NeXT was dying too which is why Apple could buy it). There is a crazy amount of survivor bias here.
26. 86.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    Contractors are easier to hire and much easier to fire than permanent employees. I've had both good and absolutely terrible experience with QoR of contractors, but IMO the biggest problem is the loss of institutional knowledge when th
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    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    The same thing happened to our Tesla Model X a few years back. Tesla even wanted us to pay $200 flat fee to fix the problem they created and that we couldn’t opt out off. I may have used impolite language until they waived that. And that
28. 88.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    I was very regretful that my first (Nascom 2) didn’t leverage interrupts more. I hated that loading/saving to tape were simultaneously insanely slow and blocking operations. The slowness would have been easier to stomach if I could d
29. 89.▲
    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    Thanks, that gave a good impression of SymbOS which is boggling my mind a bit.
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    by FullyFunctional 3y ago

    Undeniably true; so much of computing hardware (and software) looks archaic and bizarre because it's the process of a long chain of backwards compatible changes (don't get me started on ATAPI). But that aside, like dusted I too wo