GrumpyYoungMan

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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
There is another Battlezone game which is a reimagined/updated version of the coin-op game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(2016_video_game) . It was a decent bit of fun and notably had VR headset suppor
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
Well, better late than never; I'll be looking forward to picking up one of these. Chording on the UHK 60 v2 was a minor but constant irritation since I had to move between regular keyboards and the UHK frequently. Not a fan of the int
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
Rather obscure but there there's also Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising which comes in second only to Battlezone 98 as my favorite in the first person RTS genre. Tom Baker voices the narration, which is a nice little bonus.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
Which can make business sense if you take into account both the probability of the project failing to deliver a competitive product (always high no matter how slick the pitch deck is) and the probability that it gets no traction in the mark
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
The display, RAM, and other peripherals are consuming power too. Short of running continuous high CPU loads, which most people don't do on laptops, changes in CPU efficiency have less apparent effect on battery life because it's
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
And Neal Stephenson acknowledged it was obsolete in 2004: " I embraced OS X as soon as it was available and have never looked back. So a lot of 'In the beginning was the command line' is now obsolete. I keep meaning to update
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
Sure, I'd be fine with that but that's going to have knock-on effects on developers because they're the ones writing the code and therefore the vulnerabilities / bugs. Software engineering would turn into something like
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
Sure but what does "rewarding security", as the author suggests, in a way that is genuinely meaningful look like? The direct metric would a low number of security holes or bugs in the product but then you run straight into the pr
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
Ouch, now that really stings to wake up to. Eva aside, Nadia, Gunbuster, FLCL all stand out among the great anime of the '90s-'00s. Even lesser known series, like KareKano, which Anno had a hand in, really have a vivaciousness t
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
Don't forget Samsung's fabs in South Korea. Wikipedia maintains a list of semiconductor fabs worldwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat... .
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by GrumpyYoungMan 3y ago
I'd suggest "The Mechanical Universe", which was an excellent series of video lectures developed at Caltech in the that covers undergraduate physics. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h
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by GrumpyYoungMan 3y ago
Rapid reading and comprehension¹ and exposure to a breadth of vocabulary and ideas is the professional equivalent of having superpowers. So many developers have crappy writing skills and weak reading comprehension and have to struggle hard
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by GrumpyYoungMan 3y ago
Solid article. The one quibble I have is IMO that there should be mention that, when the choice is made to use an untried technology, it needs to be acknowledged and communicated that this carries some level of risk and an increased chance
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by GrumpyYoungMan 3y ago
Don't commercially available software controlled USB hubs exist already? The Yepkit YKUSH 3 came to mind immediately ( https://www.yepkit.com/product/300110/YKUSH3 ) and is the only device I've seen that
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by GrumpyYoungMan 3y ago
Sad news indeed. Descent, Freeespace 1+2, Red Faction, and the Saint's Row games are all fond memories of mine.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 3y ago
Oh, I don't think it's quite that grim. When development teams can no longer easily spend their way out of their inefficient code, being able to write high performance code becomes a competitive advantage. I'd even go so fa
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
I'd say digital logic and computer architecture teaches pretty immediate lessons about tackling concurrency? Every gate and transistor is operating in parallel and it's up to the engineer to arrange things so that race conditions
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
Probably the Ross Sparcplug, a full-fledged Sparcstation 20 compatible that fit into a full height 5.25" bay: https://computers.popcorn.cx/ross/sparcplug/
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
Probably my favorite book on software testing would be " Lessons Learned In Software Testing ", which is more a discussion about the people and process aspects of software testing instead of specific techniques. If you're in
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
Much like reverse engineering, it's easier to come up with an explanation when you have someone else's working solution to examine than it is to come up with a working solution from scratch on your own. So that doesn't reall
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
> " ...this is information that you're going to need if you actually want to go into the field... " That has never, ever stopped anyone motivated to cheat. Even here on highly-educated HN, you get posters with open disdai
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
Straight up assembly language, preferably Motorola MC680x0 or some other contemporary that was meant to be coded by hand; it's the only way, man! Plus students will gain some appreciation for how microprocessors actually work. In the
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
Linux beer: Displaced the various flavors of UNIX beer by being free (as in beer) and is extremely popular where that's important, i.e. everywhere. Tasted a bit manky in its earliest brewings but eventually got tasty enough to displac
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
Kind of depressing to contrast that with today where there are just three deeply entrenched operating systems (phone and embedded OSes don't count since the end-user has no meaningful access to them). We, or at least I, naively though
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
Depends on what you mean by "good OS". Architecturally, it was a descendant of VMS and its kernel was considered well engineered for its time. It had a ton of bugs and security issues but so did all the pre-2.0 Linux kernels&#x2
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
Try googling for "wi-fi relay".
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
K&R (" The C Programming Language ") still stands out, at least to me, for its clarity and conciseness. I have yet to see a programming language manual that equals it.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
It's kind of been done: Urban Assault, Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising, and, to a lesser extent, Battlezone I and II.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
Along those lines, a biography video for Admiral Lee by a naval history enthusiast really manages to capture what an impressive and capable person he was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58lfaMFUQc0
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4y ago
Contrary to some sibling posts, datapath width isn't really the limiting factor for comprehension IMO; everything is "wider" but not more difficult to understand. For example, undergraduate computer engineering students coul

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