Gracana

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901.
by Gracana 10y ago
I loved Marathon. The atmosphere was amazing and the story/setting is wildly intricate and intertwined. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
902.
by Gracana 10y ago
> preventing users from writing programs that suck up all the CPU cycles is really tricky I like the low level programming / virtual machine approach for this reason. You can provide the player with a machine that is severely limite
903.
by Gracana 10y ago
Normally the CPU clock runs continuously and every cycle the program counter increments (or gets changed by a branch instruction of some kind.) If you want to stop the CPU, you have to gate the clock somehow. Maybe a timer that you could co
904.
by Gracana 10y ago
Huh, interesting. In Virginia we have problems with resident Canada geese. They eat everything, shit on everything, and taste terrible. http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/problems/canada-geese/
905.
by Gracana 10y ago
This looks very cool. When I was a kid I spent many an afternoon programming robots in RoboWar, which used a simple stack machine processor with a bunch of special instructions and registers for doing robot-y things. I think I enjoyed that
906.
by Gracana 10y ago
It sounds like you already realize this is a good move for everyone else, it just sucks for you.
907.
by Gracana 10y ago
Like how google apps tell you to use the keyboard every time you try to copy/paste with your mouse? I hate that so much!
908.
by Gracana 10y ago
There's no incentive for that profit to be passed on as reduced rates for the tenants.
909.
by Gracana 10y ago
Maybe admitting to not reading the whole article, making a glib comment, and asking for someone else to do your thinking for you just wasn't received well.
910.
by Gracana 10y ago
There is exactly that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font
911.
by Gracana 10y ago
Or if anybody else posts anything about you on such a site.
912.
by Gracana 10y ago
And here I expected a disease.
913.
by Gracana 10y ago
> Another trick is leave a simple tasks or error (syntax error) in the last place you were working the previous day/night. You'll jump right back in and get up and in production mode the next day, easy task to knock out and get
914.
by Gracana 10y ago
Is there ever a reason to honor that setting?
915.
by Gracana 10y ago
Oh, that's a nicer one than the others I found. I see that sort of thing as being useful in situations where the PC is required anyway, like a lot of automated lab setups. You need the PC for data acquisition and analysis, and it'
916.
by Gracana 10y ago
Wow, I would love it if things worked that way in the US. Even without the "automatic system," that's pretty awesome.
917.
by Gracana 10y ago
Yep. I have just one car, and I don't want to rent a car every time I need to drive longer than half the day. And I certainly don't want to turn a long trip into a day-long or days-long trip because I need to stop and recharge my
918.
by Gracana 10y ago
I don't know if there's anything inherent in their design that makes them particularly safe, but they're marketed and used as children-carriers, so safety is one of their most important features.
919.
by Gracana 11y ago
Huh, so what's a good and featureful GPIO firmware? I did some searching, but it's a little hard to search for.
920.
by Gracana 11y ago
Well, that rings true for a lot of my experience with NI, but my recommendation was based on writing a linux driver for one of the NI digital IO cards in a university class. I figured if we could do it in that class, maybe they're not
921.
by Gracana 11y ago
Those statements are all still largely true, they haven't been "cycled through." There are a lot of good things happening in the world of electric cars, but right now, for most people, they're too expensive and they requ
922.
by Gracana 11y ago
The ability to poke at hardware from the command prompt and easy integration of text or graphical user interface. The difference is between "my computer has a port" and "this external device has a port."
923.
by Gracana 11y ago
An arduino is not interactive the way a personal computer is.
924.
by Gracana 11y ago
National Instruments make some nice little IO cards that can provide GPIO and analog functions. Also worth checking out are MCC's USB data acquisition devices, which have open source drivers and provide digital IO and high speed differ
925.
by Gracana 11y ago
There's still a niche for interactive hackable systems that's not really filled.
926.
by Gracana 11y ago
"Many people," not "literally everyone, especially HN user 'morgante.'" I'm certainly in the "fuck all ads forever" camp. There are just way too many downsides to downloading/seeing/pla
927.
by Gracana 11y ago
I'm experiencing a great low-level bug right now. Last week Google released an update that breaks SSL in chrome, google now, and the search bar. Apparently this phone has a buggy neon unit and their latest update broke the check that w
928.
by Gracana 11y ago
Too bad the internet archive can't take care of this, like the way they do with data-hoarding startups that shut down.
929.
by Gracana 11y ago
> People downvote when they disagree. And of course they do, because the implementation encourages it. Downvoting has no consequence, it allows people to express disagreement with zero effort, and they even get a chance to hide posts the
930.
by Gracana 11y ago
Re-balling is possible for hobbyists, but it's an extra tricky step that you'd need to do. Why bother when you can buy a nice ARM SoC?

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