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by byuu 12y ago
> Thank you for actually understanding the difference. I am glad someone gets it. I've seen the difference first-hand many times growing up, perhaps more so than most having attended private schools for a while. I have nothing but r
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by byuu 12y ago
Before I laud SAP's efforts to hire those with autism, I'd like to hear what their compensation model is like. I understand that, based on the extent of the disability they are willing to accept, that they will incur increased man
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by byuu 12y ago
I'm not defending the name choice; but to be fair, nearly all of the major languages have put zero consideration into their name SEO: Java competes with coffee, Ruby with the gemstone, Python with the snake, C# with the musical note, a
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by byuu 12y ago
Yep! He's a really nice guy.
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by byuu 12y ago
So the history there ... Star Ocean was a 48mbit (6MiB) game, which was tied with Tales of Phantasia for the largest game ever officially released. But Star Ocean took things further than ToP, by using the SDD1 to allow DMA to transparently
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by byuu 12y ago
No, that translation was completed before I started on my emulator. Star Ocean has the SDD1 for graphics decompression and memory mapping, but I wouldn't say it was technically more difficult to translate than other SNES RPGs.
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by byuu 12y ago
Well, having a game under emulation gives you more control over what you can do, certainly. You now control the software and hardware. But I think most people also don't want to make enhancements that only work on a single emulator.
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by byuu 12y ago
> I did some research and this seems to be an original idea. Why hasn’t anyone tired this before? I've done it. Making the emulator, debugger, and hooks to extend games is the easy part. The really hard part is getting people to the
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by byuu 12y ago
I suppose similarly related to this, when I was keeping track of synchronization between two cooperative simulation threads running at different frequencies, I had a 64-bit signed integer: chip A would add chip_B_frequency * chip_A_cycles_e
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by byuu 12y ago
His article on CFLs ( http://www.richsoil.com/CFL-fluorescent-light-bulbs.jsp ) is very cringe-worthy as well. As part of his argument, he references a report he heard of claiming that kids gained 20 IQ points by switching ba
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by byuu 12y ago
B is probably a legal issue. If they give you any additional information outside of their canned, lawyer-approved responses, you may be able to use that in a legal claim against them.
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by byuu 12y ago
Yep, this is also the case with some gaming systems; eg the SNES CPU's ALU, and also its Sony APU (SPC700). Division by zero continues on instead of crashing. They usually return 0 for the quotient, and ~0 ("-1") for the rema
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by byuu 12y ago
It entirely depends on the application's role. If it's used in a video game with no save slots, where a crash is just going to lose lots of progress, I'd rather attempt to keep going even if there's an error, but only in
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by byuu 12y ago
I greatly dislike the language myself, but to be fair, it does allow the case where even a notice will terminate execution; and then to special-case functions that can safely fail with an @ prefix. Most people just turn all of that off with
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by byuu 12y ago
Very nice! Thank you very much for that info! I know I had to go through my HOA to determine where I could place my Dish TV receiver and that it had requirements that it be under a certain size. Good to know it doesn't extend to OTA si
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by byuu 12y ago
> any company that can "use" "free" data from the air and resell it much cheaper than, say, the $150 cable bill, is going to be successful. OTA broadcasts are free for everyone. You do not have to pay $150 a month to
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by byuu 12y ago
Absolutely. There are lots of us that live in areas with little if no content easily obtainable over-the-air, and our HOAs forbid larger antennas. I am sure NYC and SF get a much better selection of OTA channels. I would love the opportunit
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by byuu 12y ago
If you like Game of Thrones, do not watch the South Park - Black Friday trilogy. There's a .... rendition of the opening song, where they add in some lyrics to the song. It becomes almost impossible to listen to the original song a
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by byuu 12y ago
Sure, it's part of a header library I use in all of my projects. Download the "higan v094 (source)" link on this page: http://byuu.org/higan/ And find the relevant code inside the nall/ subfolder. N
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by byuu 12y ago
I posted this below to ux, but I'll repeat it here so you see it. Sorry, but I was unable to find which ones were at issue. I wrote this code in 2005 - 2006, and have forgotten the relevant details by this point. The info on how I did
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by byuu 12y ago
Please understand that I wrote this code around late 2005, early 2006. Unfortunately the discussion thread where I talked about this initially (on the ZSNES forums) has been deleted, or is for some reason not showing up in Google search res
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by byuu 12y ago
It was a mostly manual process. I was trying to understand why four rules (one for each output pixel) were needed inside every case statement. So I wrote a parser for the original source file that turned each output pixel rule into an integ
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by byuu 12y ago
> Unfortunately, the reference code is more than 12.000 lines of unrolled C code. This code is basically duplicated without a thought in every single project. Not by me. Overly bulky code is one of my pet peeves[1]. Here is my implementa
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by byuu 12y ago
In that case, I should have clarified "look nice, and native." I think most Qt applications do look nice on OS X. Nice alone just isn't good enough, though. They want consistency with their other applications.
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by byuu 12y ago
The web works for many classes of application, but it definitely does not work at all if you need raw CPU performance. And it never will with the likes of dynamic languages like Javascript. You're never going to see Dolphin, the Wii em
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by byuu 12y ago
> I keep hearing this kind of defeatism about cross-platform GUI items and it rubs me the wrong way. To be fair, I do it anyway. My applications run on Windows, OS X, Linux and BSD. I even have a 'stub' GUI so that many can run
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by byuu 12y ago
I wrote a cross-platform library that is the thinnest possible layer around Cocoa, and creates the actual Cocoa controls directly. They are truly 100% native widgets. And yet, it's exactly like you say. It has nothing to do with the ba
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by byuu 12y ago
Yes, because I am paying Verizon to connect me to Netflix. If Netflix's traffic is so high, it's because lots of people want to pay Verizon to connect them to Netflix. If Netflix is so expensive, Verizon would need to raise their
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by byuu 12y ago
I would be quite happy with the demise of interlaced display modes as well. But I'm not so hopeful that we won't see a "4Ki" resolution for cable/satellite UHD channels in the future. All of the channels I get are 1
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by byuu 12y ago
Interesting info on the cinema resolutions, wasn't aware of that, thanks. As for hard drives, it's unfortunately not even 1000GiB. It's 1,000,000,000,000 bytes; or 931.32GiB. Of course usually it's actually a bit higher

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