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by buescher 3y ago
There were a few things written in Forth for the Atari 8-bits, most notably RAMbrandt and Omnitrend's Universe. I don't recall any action games in Forth.
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by buescher 3y ago
Retro-wise, the MSX platform is extremely similar and would have a bigger audience. The popular home computers of the era would also fit your criteria - why the Coleco?
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by buescher 3y ago
Understand from Scitools has nice graph generators, including a dependency graph generator that might be what you are looking for. Not free and not hobbyist-cheap, but relatively inexpensive as commercial static analysis tools go.
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by buescher 3y ago
I don't know if it's a solid grasp of abstract class inclusion so much as the concrete difference between "let's play (with a toy)" and "go get this specific toy (which will prompt play)" but yes, it'
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by buescher 3y ago
What do bodybuilders do to minimize muscle loss when cutting?
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by buescher 3y ago
Here's some Edmund application material - scroll down for the archive of old Edmund Scientific literature. I think "Graphical Ray Tracing" is what you are looking for. All About Telescopes also has lots of information on ba
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by buescher 3y ago
For hobbyists: The old Edmund Scientific books if you can find them. They didn’t bother with isbn numbers so now that they no longer sell them it’s not easy. Wildly out of date in some ways but good basic explanations of geometric optics
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by buescher 3y ago
You're not entirely wrong, and thanks for pointing this out, but polling is also frequently used to mean "busy-wait loops" - you can look for it if you doubt me. I didn't really want to get into that conversation. The o
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by buescher 3y ago
You can tell the age of an embedded programmer by whether they consider sampling an input to be "polling" (which to me implies blocking, but that's another discussion) and then look for silver bullets for interrupt storms.
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by buescher 3y ago
I noticed Aldi here in the US carried an inexpensive knockoff late in their specials aisle last year.
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by buescher 3y ago
My guess would be they're using green light, measuring phase with a 16-bit DAC, and implicitly fibbing about their signal-to-noise ratio. That's baked in to "up to".
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by buescher 3y ago
How would you implement the same functionality?
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by buescher 3y ago
Haier has rebranded the top-of-the-line as "Café". My Café range has absolutely no GE branding on it. The most charitable interpretation I have for that is that they are looking to the future (2056) when their right to use the G
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by buescher 3y ago
>7. Likewise when you realize how array-based languages handle any dimension array. Deserves to be ranked higher, especially for the "blub" programmer. With specific examples. I not-so-recently saw an implentation of euler
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by buescher 3y ago
The typography is oddly contemporary - I'd love to hear a good take on why.
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by buescher 3y ago
I don't know why World Wide Telescope doesn't get more love: https://worldwidetelescope.org/download/
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by buescher 3y ago
There's probably somebody out there using it as a line encoding. It would be interesting to know.
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by buescher 3y ago
Fortran would have been a great programming language for embedded if the real-time extensions of the seventies had caught on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Real-Time_Fortran
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by buescher 3y ago
Typically, binary representations of trinary numbers use a trit that is two bits. So you have four states: -1,0,+1, and uh, something else, which is usually a guard bit of some kind or a NaN. Please, please, don't ask me why I know t
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by buescher 3y ago
Incidentally, the faucet problem is neat! You can solve it with high-school level physics and analytical geometry ("pre-calculus").
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by buescher 3y ago
That's actually pretty good. Their data ( https://youtu.be/AjYyjQKW-pU?t=198 ) is consistent with my experience: +/- 6 dB or more depending on who is holding the remote and how they hold it. Range checks are not
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by buescher 3y ago
The first issue of BYTE magazine I ever had featured Steve Ciarcia’s home brew 8086 motherboard on the cover. I think he eventually published mods for that one that brought it into some semblance of pc compatibility, though.
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by buescher 3y ago
How else are you going to drive there from Santa Monica?
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by buescher 3y ago
Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens are ridiculously good for their price, and if you leave one out on your desk and someone comes along and damages the nib trying to write with it, you just throw the whole thing away. On top of that I
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by buescher 3y ago
They were even better when they were first released, in the eighties if I remember correctly. I think they miss the top lists because they've been superseded by fancier Uni-ball pens.
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by buescher 3y ago
In the nineties, there was one of the Yamaha machines in the window of a music store I used to walk by. What a pretty computer. Many of the Japanese MSX machines hit a real "cyberdeck" nerve in retrospect but I remember it looki
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by buescher 3y ago
The Colecovision, which is similar, came out a year earlier. The Z80 (1976) and the TI graphics chip (1979) were old news by that point. I could almost imagine an MSX standard a year earlier, with a fast Z80 (i.e. the 8 MHz Z80H, 1982) an
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by buescher 3y ago
Oh I stopped paying much attention to games after DOOM so it would be tough. But from the up-to-1983 era, Star Raiders and M.U.L.E. would be all-time greats, not necessarily equalled since.
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by buescher 3y ago
Nothing new, really - from 1989: http://www.carvermead.caltech.edu/documents/Neural_Network_A... Synaptics and Foveon turned out OK.
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by buescher 3y ago
The CNC machines are still useful for testing RF designs. You can iterate a PCB antenna design more quickly with one than you can by sending out. And they're a low-commitment (i.e. no purchase order) way to make small jigs and adapte

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