david-given

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by david-given 8y ago
Now, there's a name I haven't heard in a long time... Back before 2000 I did a tonne of stuff with GEOS; wrote a couple of terrible programming languages, some not-so-terrible games, a bunch of hacking, and even managed to write a
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by david-given 8y ago
...so I wrote this self-hosting compiler for the 6502 and Z80: http://cowlark.com/cowgol/ I say self-hosting, but on a 64kB BBC Micro second processor with floppy disk it takes about seven minutes to compile Hello Worl
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by david-given 8y ago
I wrote a self-hosting (if you're very patient) compiler for the 6502 and Z80 a while back. Both are a bit of a shock if you're used to true 16 bit arch architectures. I did a couple of writeups on the problems of doing basic arit
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by david-given 8y ago
I have an eee 701 --- there are graphic driver problems but it works find in safe mode. (I think there's something weird about the eee's smaller-than-normal screen.) Incidentally, I recall the early eees (like mine) having a fault
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by david-given 8y ago
It's a very lightweight single-user OS with an excellent GUI and a Posix command-line environment (i.e. bash, make, gcc etc). It's not a server OS, and it's not particularly secure, so it's not a particularly good choice
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by david-given 8y ago
It's true about videos, but this was never intended as a technical resource. Instead I wanted to show how working on one of these machines felt . I showed this video to some work-mates, mostly younger than I am, and some of the questi
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by david-given 8y ago
The practice version did, but name collisions got too confusing (W and H is fine for width and height, but then I wanted horizontal and vertical velocity...). I thought it was clearer to give up completely and use the notepad instead. And y
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by david-given 8y ago
Author here. Thanks for the kind words. It was fun to do, and I just wish I could have touched on stuff like FAST vs SLOW, more about the weird display system, etc... but TBH FAST doesn't really get on well with modern monitors and vid
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GitHub Windows Edition: User Style Transforming GitHub into Windows 9x(github.com)
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by david-given 8y ago
Hello, author here. Naturally I get my fifteen minutes of internet fame while I'm on holiday on the pilgrimage paths in Japan, so this is going to be pretty short, but yeah, there are some mistakes in the article (`cpx #0xff`... bah);
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by david-given 9y ago
I kept finding it wanted to clip the right hand edge of the puzzle off the right hand side of the browser window. I tend to use square browsers --- am I weird? And left-dragging to pan wasn't an entirely happy experience; partly becaus
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by david-given 9y ago
> Some people even like to speed-read, racing through text faster than they can recall the pronunciation of the words. That's totally normal! I don't think I know anybody who doesn't read faster than they can talk. I agr
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by david-given 9y ago
The UK did actually have a big programme for planting forests; the Forestry Commission: https://www.forestry.gov.uk/ Unfortunately, they are (at least in Scotland, which is the bit I know about) mostly just tree farms, grow
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by david-given 9y ago
...plus, if you're careful, you get to use the wood for things. Obviously you can't burn it, but sequestered carbon remains just as sequestered if you build buildings out of it than if you left it in the forest --- frequently bett
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by david-given 9y ago
Thanks, I missed that (I have to say I never even bothered looking; I've seen this kind of website before). It's pretty sparse on information. I managed to find that: - they use lithium ion batteries. - they use LEAPTech style eng
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by david-given 9y ago
I dunno. Remember it's got wings, which means once it shifts into forward flight mode, the engines are used solely for propulsion and not for lift, which is vastly more efficient. Playing with the numbers here: http://web.mi
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Aquafaba(aquafaba.com)
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by david-given 9y ago
Years ago (on Mull), I saw someone selling drying tents: basically, a large tent with open ends and clotheslines inside. The shape apparently draws air through the tent. They said that even on cold, wet days, clothes dried quickly because o
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by david-given 9y ago
Is this a particularly US-centric thing? Because over here in Europeland, I don't think I have ever , like, ever seen a use of bro-speak that wasn't intentionally self-parodic. But people do seem to react strongly against it, s
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by david-given 9y ago
I run Debian in a chroot on my Asus Flip via Crouton. It works brilliantly. Chrome manages the hardware, power management, networking, etc; and then I can pull up a terminal and it's a full Debian system. There is X integration, but I
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by david-given 9y ago
Ha ha --- I should have thought to search for that! It seems to be a bit light on advice in places. e.g. the section on comparison operators lightly mentions the difference between == and === but doesn't say anything about when they sh
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by david-given 9y ago
Hmm. From Minix 1.7: $ du -sh * 144K bin 64K etc 0 fd0 0 fd1 108K minix 0 mnt 0 root 0 tmp 22M usr $ du -sh usr/* 24K usr/ast 3.9M usr/bin 124K usr/doc 0 usr
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by david-given 9y ago
Do you have any pointers to the recommended Right Way to do modern PHP? I'd be interested to explore it; I have a number of places where I want to add tiny bits of interactivity to otherwise static web pages, and this totally seems to
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by david-given 9y ago
That looks really cool (although the free fall scenes are faked, sadly) --- do you know if it's getting an international release with English subtitles?
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by david-given 9y ago
I'm amazed it's not better known. (Of course, the USA had to send an emergency repair crew to their own Skylab station when a bit fell off during launch...) Re station-to-station transfers: Mir and Salyut 7 both had the same orbit
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by david-given 9y ago
Hm. At an optimistic 5kB per second (via something like the protocol used on 56kb modems), and given a single side of vinyl can be pushed to about 30 minutes, that gives you ~10MB per side. Have you thought about VHS instead? You can fit ab
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by david-given 9y ago
I can't comment on the effect, other than that it looks really weird and I'd really appreciate a plain-English explanation, but Dzhanibekov is also famous for being part of the repair crew that flew to the defunct Salyut 7 space s
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by david-given 9y ago
I probably wouldn't want to do automatic striping of arrays of structures, because it'd only make sense in some circumstances, but it'd be trivial to add logic to the code generator to use indexed addressing modes --- you&#x2
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by david-given 9y ago
I've never hacked assembly on an AVR, but I have on the MSP430, and it's a really elegant architecture to work on; expressive enough to let you get stuff done without hurling your development board at the wall, but constrained eno
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by david-given 9y ago
...one of the items on my Very Long List Of Potential Projects is a self-hosted compiler for a proper modern type-safe C-like language for the 6502. I was planning to target the BBC Micro, as it's the only 6502 8-bit I've found wi

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