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by ajxs 4y ago
There are very real use cases where integer types with specific fixed widths are necessary, on account of very real constraints. A serial interface for instance, which is a very common peripheral outside of PCs, often sends information out
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by ajxs 4y ago
It's not that I don't think there's a valid case for this kind of arithmetic, it's just that the compiler doesn't really know what you're trying to accomplish, and in what context the result will be used. All
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by ajxs 4y ago
Most of the work I do in systems programming languages is bare-metal code where semantics for representing and manipulating data at the bit-level are required. I need to have very explicit control over the shape of the data in memory. For s
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by ajxs 4y ago
> "Isn't it obvious that the output type should be float?" To you that might be obvious. The compiler can't infer what your intentions were from your code. > "So why not just cast the int to a float and mult
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by ajxs 4y ago
The impact of Dave Smith's body of work stretches far outside the field of synthesiser engineering. His contributions have gone on to shape the entire history of modern music. Rest In Peace!
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by ajxs 4y ago
> Can you add two more rings and some example sites? It's difficult to evaluate if there is no content to use. I really should have done this. To be honest I didn't really intend to 'launch' it today. I just saw a thr
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by ajxs 4y ago
Thank you for the great suggestion! I'll take that on board and add something to the FAQ.
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by ajxs 4y ago
I recently completed work on a small hobby project to support the small-web revival. It's a webring hosting platform. Unfortunately I haven't really had the time available to promote it. I don't expect it to really gather too
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by ajxs 4y ago
I loved this game! Looking back, I'm surprised that I had the patience as an eight year old to master this game's control scheme. This definitely applies to other contemporary so-called 'sims', like Mechwarrior.
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by ajxs 5y ago
I played Quake 3/Live competitively for a number of years. Keeping track of multiple item timers in your head is absolutely something that can be improved with practice. Naturally some people are just going to be better at it than othe
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by ajxs 5y ago
Very cool! This is really great work! It's awesome that there's been so many synthesiser related topics on Hacker News lately. I did a similar project myself to disassemble, and fully annotate the firmware for the Yamaha DX7: htt
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by ajxs 5y ago
> You’d think that the tools got better but… honestly? Not really... Really? Aren't debugging interfaces light years ahead of where they were in the 80s? Yamaha's entire DX/SY line predate JTAG. There was no GDB back when
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by ajxs 5y ago
I appreciate your obvious experience in this area, however synthesisers with more features, and more complicated user interfaces than the OP-1 have existed longer than I've been alive. I know this is not from a small company, but take
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by ajxs 5y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! I'm also an Australian, and my mind is similarly blown. I grew up in Sydney, and whenever I would fly into Melbourne it was always a point of interest to compare the aerial view of Sydney's sprawling
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by ajxs 5y ago
I figured it might be a little imprudent to explicitly mention what I'm getting away with, and with whom. Especially in a public forum where many of this company's employees may very well see it. I'd be shocked if they took a
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by ajxs 5y ago
> "I've few years ago hear, US gov't created app..." At least at one point they had satellites deployed for this purpose. The phenomena they used to determine whether a detonation had taken place was the characteristi
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by ajxs 5y ago
For what it's worth, I've been able to use a prepaid card with <WELL-KNOWN LARGE CLOUD PROVIDER> for a while now without any problems. Maybe they're not all created equal.
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by ajxs 5y ago
How do you figure Rust handles this better than Ada? Ada's runtime has always been configurable. You can customise the runtime library fairly easily to strip out things that don't suit your target platform. Most compilers even shi
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by ajxs 5y ago
> "The interface to the Ada runtime system is so opaque that it is impossible to model or predict its performance, making it effectively useless for real-time systems." This comment didn't age well. If you've ever bee
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by ajxs 5y ago
I just read through your "Why We Don't Do Daily Stand-Ups at Supercede" article. This is exactly the thing I needed to read today. Thanks for sharing your work!
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by ajxs 5y ago
https://ajxs.me I use this site to write about my various technical interests, and hobby projects. Lately this has been reverse engineering vintage synthesisers. I've really been enjoying technical writing, and improving my
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by ajxs 5y ago
In France it is: https://framagit.org/openfisca/calculette-impots-m-source-co... The source code is actually available, written in a language called 'M'. It's been discussed a few times here on HN before
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by ajxs 5y ago
> ...the contemporary default level of trust around tech companies and data privacy is just very low... It's not just that the level of trust is very low. I shouldn't need to place any trust in the developers of my terminal a
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They have so much in common. They're far more similar than they are different. Both are procedural, object-oriented, loosely-typed. Their syntaxes are both loosely-derived from C. The similarities go on.
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I've never worked in Aerospace. The best corporate workplace I've ever worked in (in terms of development culture) had a role that was somewhat akin to a developer's advocate . I can't recall its actual name now though.
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This is really amazing work from AdaCore, as usual!
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I was speaking very generally. I think that my concerns regarding the regulation of individual privacy in the digital realm, and my concerns about the regulation of the major players in 'surveillance capitalism' is shared by many.
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> DNA sequencing is eventually going to be so cheap and ubiquitous that it will happen to everyone anyway. This same argument be made to justify any erosion of personal privacy. With the level of technical sophistication western society
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by ajxs 5y ago
I've always been extremely pessimistic regarding the slow erosion of rights in a digital world that's increasingly controlled by players too big to regulate. Yet why am I always so shocked when things like this happen? If you aske
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by ajxs 5y ago
I recall reading the developers of (the ultimately aborted) 'Fallout Online' remarking that Ultima Online's player mechanics were pretty close to what they'd expect from the reality of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. I can

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