TapamN

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by TapamN 5y ago
I just tried it out, but it doesn't work the way I hoped it would. I was hoping for some kind of SIGSTOP equivalent on any JavaScript when the tab doesn't have focus (without unloading anything). Instead, it basically closes the t
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by TapamN 5y ago
>when was the last time you used the right shift key? I generally use the shift key closest to the key I'm typing. For keys near the center, I favor the right shift key. The keyboard would absolutely be the show stopper for me, if I
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by TapamN 5y ago
Regular LCD displays last a long time, but OLED displays definitely wear out. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/oled-lifespan/
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by TapamN 5y ago
It's bad on desktop, too. If I hit page down, it scrolls the size of the frame, and not my screen. The frame is taller than my screen, so page down scrolls more than a screen full. I would have to use arrow keys or the mouse wheel to r
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by TapamN 5y ago
That's true. I did think about mentioning this possibility, but decided not to. Another good example of predicting RNG, after a large amount of gameplay, for a non-turn-based game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hs451
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by TapamN 5y ago
Does it need to pass them? A stronger algorithm wouldn't hurt, but it's not being used for cryptography or scientific simulations. It's just for games. With the goal of having sharable seeds, the smaller space could be consid
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by TapamN 5y ago
Workaround: View -> Page Style -> No Style
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by TapamN 6y ago
That's actually been done. It's called StrongForth. http://www.arestlessmind.org/2009/02/03/intro.html
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by TapamN 6y ago
That's not too unusual for IOCCC entries. Of the top of my head, there's a flight simulator shaped like an airplane, and an addition routine shaped like a full-adder. A more subtle touch is that the #defines spell out NOUGHTs AnD
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by TapamN 6y ago
This used to be a feature of Firefox. You could get a pop-up asking if you wanted to allow, allow for session, or disallow cookies from a domain the first time it tried to create a cookie. This was removed for some reason.
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by TapamN 7y ago
The Gemini might be better for dedicated programming. It's cheaper, and the Cosmo Communicator has terrible stand-by battery life (although usage doesn't significantly affect life). You would miss out on the light-up keyboard, tho
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by TapamN 7y ago
You would still have to read the entire JPEG in though, wouldn't you? I'm not an expert on JPEG, but I think that if you want the macro blocks at the bottom of the image, you still need to un-Huffman the all the blocks before it t
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by TapamN 7y ago
If you have time and space to pre-generate thumbnails, it's probably not a significant win, but I think it could work well for displaying local thumbnails of JPEGs, like from a camera. If you're browsing a directory of hundreds of
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by TapamN 7y ago
One thing that's interesting about this memory map is how much is crammed into the first 8KB of the SNES's 128 KB main RAM, while the rest is mainly used to store large blocks of uncompressed data. This is probably a remnant of ho
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by TapamN 7y ago
Not really. Here's what an 70's/80's PC and OS had to do to print a single character in response to user input (simpified): Poll the keyboard matrix for a key press. Convert the key press coordinate to ASCII. Read the lo
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by TapamN 8y ago
Well, not many DC emulators will run my code anymore, and eventually none will. :P On the DC, I used to use serial port with a USB adapter that manages 384k baud, but upgraded to a BBA several years ago. I really, really, don't like th
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by TapamN 8y ago
I do Dreamcast homebrew ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uZP9iOQc6E ) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlFu-y1LDbs ) and I've thought about trying Saturn homebrew, but getting code to run on a Saturn ha
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by TapamN 8y ago
I remember playing with LOGO (MicroWorlds, specifically) in 2nd or 3rd grade, and I was given code that would draw a n-sided polygon. I got the idea to draw polygons with weird numbers of sides (like a 0-sized polygon, or a polygon with a n
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by TapamN 8y ago
It's pretty much trivial to reverse a hash when there are only 2^32 possible inputs.
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by TapamN 9y ago
Terrain height just changes the Y position when where you draw. Draw order is still the same. The formula for tile map space to screen space is: scrx = mapy 16 - mapx 16; scry = mapx 8 + mapy 8 - GetSurfaceHeight(mapx,mapy)*12; IIRC, this
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by TapamN 9y ago
I'm also actually working on an unreleased to-be-open-source SimCity 2000 clone in C++ (which I am planning to call 21st Century Micropolis, after the existing, official open-source SimCity Classic release called Micropolis), so I&#x27
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by TapamN 9y ago
To compile to the same bit pattern binary, you'd need the same optimization settings (easy) with the same compiler (harder). Intel can just give the source, but you can't trust Intel to just give you the same compiler they used, b
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by TapamN 10y ago
The page doesn't make it clear, but the watch doesn't run BASIC, the keyboard does. The watch just works as a screen. On it's own, the watch just has some basic databank (with 2K of RAM) and timekeeping features. It supposedl
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by TapamN 10y ago
These have been made (with the trackpoint replaced with a touchscreen + stylus), although you don't see them much nowadays. A examples would be the NEC MobilePro 900 (on the not-far-from-full-sized-keyboard end of the scale) and HP Jor
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by TapamN 11y ago
Even the Sega Master System used that technique.
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by TapamN 11y ago
No, he asks why digital downloads of Cloud-free products are more expensive, and specifically not boxed copies. Here's a transcript of the first half of the video. Hopefully, I have not made any errors in the transcription. I have trie
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by TapamN 11y ago
Compilers did use the shifter. I don't know if this is exactly what he was referring to, but one oddity with the SH4's dynamic shift instruction is that it only shifts to the left (there are also a limited number of shift-by-small