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by anyfoo 1y ago
And I don't think there's an excuse not to. I work on giant projects with tons of people, that still manage to use -Werror. Yeah, some warnings are turned off, but not as many as you'd think, and usually for good reasons, whi
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by anyfoo 1y ago
curl is one of those projects that's probably meant to be ultra-portable, though, working across an incredibly wide range of platforms, some probably with comparably ancient compilers. I don't actually know any details so I don&#x
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Yeah, that was replied to the wrong comment.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Oops, replied to the wrong comment. This is the one I meant to reply to, which is talking about the impulse train, which is not a function: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741539
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by anyfoo 1y ago
That’s right, it’s a distribution. And that fact has me, a non-mathematician, personally caused some huge headaches, because I thought I could treat it just like a function… Yeah, turns out really weird things happen if you try to do so wit
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by anyfoo 1y ago
It’s not a notable world record, but it’s still a world record, if we’re being pedantic. And math is pedantic.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Since this is math, I feel pedantic. It may not be a notable world record, but it’s still a world record. There are infinitely many non-notable world record categories. I currently hold the one for saying the word “fbejsixbenebxhsh” the mos
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Yeah, I was confused, too. That’s how world records work.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Yep! For those reasons, it was more or less the "default" target for assembly programs without special requirements. So much so that even as a child I knew "SYS49152" ($C000 in decimal) by heart.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Some interesting stuff in there, I didn't know that DOOM used a variation of it called "Mode Y". (Even though I must have read about it at some point...)
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Why are you glad that it is obsolete? 6502 assembly is severely limited, having only one general purpose register, i.e. the accumulator, and two index registers (but some fun addressing modes), but apart from some quirks, it’s relatively st
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Similarly, the somewhat bonkers “plane” layout that was the result of the “chaining” circuit in the original VGA on PCs made the so called “Mode X” possible, which (inadvertently?) enabled fast animation, critical for games like DOOM.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
800/3.5k, a giant amount indeed!
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by anyfoo 1y ago
When programming assembly, it was common to just indiscriminately use all RAM, not matter what the kernal[1]/basic used it for. When programming basic, it was common to use memory regions that were meant for something else for yourself
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Yeah. I rarely, if ever, buy electronics components on Amazon. It's almost exclusively Mouser for me. It has the added advantage that I can export the order lists as XML, to keep a little bit of an inventory. I think every electronics
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by anyfoo 1y ago
I buy single components (usually two or three, to have spares for soldering etc.) that cost a few cents on Mouser all the time?
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Either way, I struggle to find a likely definition of "drinks" where 8 per week does not seem excessive. Like even if "half a pint of beer" is the definition (unlikely), that means drinking 4 pints of beer per week , th
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Hmm. One thing I have noticed, and something that I discuss with my wife relatively frequently (she notices it as well), is that when I engage with "new" people in something like a professional context, the initial contact indeed
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by anyfoo 1y ago
That may or may not be the case, but either way it's still valid to criticize that approach, in favor of a more nuanced and potentially more effective one. Like, maybe that's the show the creators wanted to make. I'm not cert
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by anyfoo 1y ago
While I don't fully agree with the article, I really like this sketch about "Black Mirror in medieval times": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1aSqZ23ydk It does show rather well (and rather funnily) how it c
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by anyfoo 1y ago
I don't feel my social circle is like that. I mean, you're right that there are plenty of people as you describe, but I like to think that I surround myself with people for which that does not match (not always successfully when I
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by anyfoo 2y ago
The part was marked as a timer IC.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
No offense, but... when I was reading your story, I was somehow at least assuming that the marking on the part was somewhat unreadable or something... After getting befuddling answers, would it not have been natural to check the base assump
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by anyfoo 2y ago
These projects are not done to solve “real problems”, they are done as educational engineering challenges and playgrounds. Of course a modern microcontroller does everything and much much more, but it is also extremely opaque, and even the
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Is that a serious question? Because you can slap a 6502 on a breadboard, make your own busses with wires, and understand every single aspect of it, hardware and software. Ben Eater also had a video series about designing and making his own
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by anyfoo 2y ago
There were plenty, I have a small collection of them! Most of them, including HES’s “64 FORTH”, are heavily fig-forth based. The thing I really like about 64 FORTH is the SOURCE word, which shows you the source code (at least the portion of
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by anyfoo 2y ago
It’s a fun activity, and if you still solve “real problems” on a 6502, then it’s because you really want to anyway. That being said, Forth is great for “exploratory programming” of hardware. I rarely, but still sometimes bootstrap Forth for
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by anyfoo 2y ago
He's not only still around, he still writes awesome books. But yeah, I too was reading without noticing, until I came to the sentence "None of the Scalzis are particularly religious", and thought "wait, Scalzi like John
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I have. It's not even closed to the kinetic scrolling experience of native Terminal.app. It simultaneously scrolls one whole line at a time (instead of using pixel granularity), and ignores the terminal app's scroll bar indicator,
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by anyfoo 2y ago
That is a far, far cry from using kinetic scrolling. In fact, using a mouse wheel is a very far experience away from that. I basically cannot use "normal" mouses with scroll wheel anymore for that reason, I couldn't get anyth

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