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by ddingus 2y ago
They did. But things slip, machines fail, etc.. it is quite insidious.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Did you read what I shared? Yes, that would be better than a free for all. Of course. The guy I lost had unique physiology that meant he was unable to use a substance most can with far fewer worries. We have that data point now, and I hope
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by ddingus 2y ago
Thanks for that PSA. And here's to your lost friend! I have a lost one too, but due to a different cause. He took hard drugs he was dealing to pay off a house after a legislative decision basically eliminated his well paying job. We
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yup. And more things are SI units every day. I use them most of time now. We are getting there slowly.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Seriously. Back in the 90's a lot of movie production was being done on the SGI IRIX computers. Jurassic Park themed ones even. Really spiffy machines with both an excellent GUI and terminal. Cheap WIN NT boxes with nVidia GPUs on th
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by ddingus 2y ago
Truth, but! The middle hellish experience being described here is not a bad thing. Fact is, Ubuntu used as autopilot is pretty great! It is way better than it used to be. Mere mortals can jump on a computer and often get the few things th
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by ddingus 2y ago
I like this write up. It is timely too.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Started working for me too.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Indeed! Well, yes. Thank you. I am interested and frankly identify with others who would literally pry back the cloak of reality itself to see what lies beyond, or inside. Sometimes I feel like it is crazy. Here we are, each of us taking
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Ask HN: Twostopbits.com OK?
1 points by ddingus 2y ago|2 comments
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by ddingus 2y ago
Lol, I feel that! On my 2600 game Ooze! I would drop item Y values into the audio registers as a poor man's way of making some cool sounds of enemy advancing. Same for the player missile. As it travels, some variation of its Y value
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by ddingus 2y ago
Seriously great use of monochrome bitmap graphics. These are my favorite old computer games. I really like frame locked, often using sprite system, type games. Atari VCS comes to mind, as do many other systems that have sprites and some m
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by ddingus 2y ago
$DEADFACEBEEF AT&T fan here, due to both Moto 6809 and MOS 6502 roots It literally took years for me to see "0x" like I do the dollar sign "$" for hex and percent for binary. "%"
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by ddingus 2y ago
You win! I got a kick out of your writing.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Well you improved my own lacking understanding, and with exemplary form. It is rare to see others share what you did. Thanks again.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Ahhh, thanks for that. microLED was my first hope, until the AMOLED tech seemed to fill the gap for the smaller, high DPI, display use case at least. Nice to see the rapid dev going on. Are there differences between OLED sources? I'
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by ddingus 2y ago
I have an HD plasma and it is fantastic. It is the very best living room display I have owned. Like the CRT, it has glowing phosphors in a tube. Unlike the CRT, it is pixel addressable, where the CRT is basically not addressable, or maybe
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by ddingus 2y ago
Definitely! The better ones have really high resolution, which compliments this dither technique perfectly.
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by ddingus 2y ago
When I saw the third thumb, one use case stood right out: Holding cell phones! I bet you can picture it too. That third thumb and fingers capture the phone leaving your standard thumb to input text with ease.
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by ddingus 2y ago
And when one does so, remain ethical, should that discussion get ugly, holding to those ethics does a world of good when it comes down to others having to trust your intent was as just and true as you could manage. That means a lot.
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by ddingus 2y ago
The "entire universe" or "future of humans" type arguments are essentially psychopathy. I am not calling you a psychopath either. I do very strongly urge you to cast that kind of thinking aside. Fact is, in many cases w
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yes, you are right. I am confusing that with some other system. Sadly, I do not currently have a Coco 3. The details fade with lack of use... I do recall, I used 2 pages, 16Kb RAM for my projects. Page one, run main code and page in subr
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by ddingus 2y ago
It's in the CoCo 3 and worked pretty well! Basically, it can page a couple of megabytes (maybe 4 I can't remember off hand) into and out of the 16 bit address space as 2, 4, 8Kb pages. The really nice thing is how well the 6809 ca
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yeah, but it is a lot harder to show product potential. Someone, somewhere will leak rev e of a certain dataset, or I will start disassembling their win demo...
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by ddingus 2y ago
Same. This coming shift in computing looks to be ugly and closed to a higher degree. Makes me want to support anything like this.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Still, once their display partner is ramped up, lower margin is still margin. Get it out there through Waveshare or someone similar. I have purchased and made use of several raw displays from them. All, but the big e-ink one have been gre
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by ddingus 2y ago
Fantastic! I am definitely going to follow you and team with great interest! These ideas are SO needed right now.
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by ddingus 2y ago
THANK YOU! There is so much hardware out there people could be hacking on, improving, repressing all wasted due to difficulty loading new code. A coworker was given a SONY e-ink device. We quite like it, but the included firmware is limite
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by ddingus 2y ago
Thank you! This is a high value effort!
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by ddingus 2y ago
I looked it over and frankly, I could not do better, or maybe even as good. Nice work!

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