ddingus

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by ddingus 1y ago
Nah, it is just one of many wonders found in mother natures kitchen. Like all things, moderation is in your best life. It makes far more sense than huffing gas. It makes the most sense a couple maybe few times a year. The worst thing to do
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by ddingus 1y ago
#BAM! Indeed, tip of the hat to you. I want that on a t-shirt
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by ddingus 1y ago
I'm glad you like it. I've used that term for years because I don't know what to call a chip like the 6809. It certainly can punch well above its weight class, at least when compared with 6502 z80 and some others. I really ca
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by ddingus 1y ago
Ok, will have to be this evening. Check back for some data.
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by ddingus 1y ago
Is that true for all displays you have used? Purple is harder when I use the AMOLED cinema and photo options on my phone. I want to try this on a CRT, Plasma, LCD. I have all these. Be right back!
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by ddingus 1y ago
That level is hard! I find myself sweeping my eyes over the grid, looking away, then back a few times before I can see it. App said I was in the 5 percent. Lol, the 4 color vision people must rule the roost! Us standard RGB types can thr
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by ddingus 1y ago
I tried using various settings on my Samsung phone and they had a serious impact! Adaptive = level 32 AMOLED Photo = level 16 Basic = level 39, maybe 38, can't remember now.
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by ddingus 1y ago
It seems to me your ability to discriminate has been impacted. I have always pictured it working this way: In the Cochlea, we have all the fine hair like sensors. The spread of them determines our range of frequencies, and this declines wi
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by ddingus 1y ago
Interesting! I did not know that.
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by ddingus 1y ago
A while back, I watched a YT video of someone making a large electret. Reading this makes me really want to make one for myself. An electret is an item that presents a permanent static charge. It is like a permanent magnet. Has an enduri
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by ddingus 1y ago
Indeed. One really great thing about the X Window System was how it made sharing important resources easy and effective. Say one has expensive simulation software of some kind. One could hop onto the machine it is licensed to, remote the
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by ddingus 1y ago
Would you call the 6809 a 16 bit device?
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by ddingus 1y ago
Well, the 6809 was basically the same in these respects. Internal registers are 16 bit, with the accumulator (A) being provisioned as two 8 bit registers (A, B) as needed. Index X, Y, Stack, User Stack, PC, are all 16 bit registers. The Hi
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by ddingus 1y ago
I too lament people trying to kill the X Window System off. There is a fork now. Maybe they won't succeed! That software is powerful and it makes things possible that should be possible but so often aren't! My favorite X window a
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by ddingus 1y ago
>>I saw the future. I thought that was how things was supposed to work. I have never experienced such a smooth and well running system ever since Me too. Seeing the future was one of the more common sentiments expressed by people run
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by ddingus 1y ago
Sure would be a compelling machine.
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by ddingus 1y ago
You should boot them and if nothing else, idle them so the circuits do not degrade too much. Sitting with no power is bad for SGI computers.
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by ddingus 1y ago
Maybe it looks a lot like Apple M1. The O2 tech would have been the best candidate for a laptop. It would have been a media pro machine, MIDI, video capture in and video out, in addition to the monitor. Network,serial, scsi all on a dock f
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by ddingus 1y ago
Yeah it was. And back then, running IRIX, I was more than a bit crazy and wild. It was such a fun OS! SGI as mentioned up thread, put a ton of thought into it. Once a person reached a solid mastery, amazing things could be done, sans reb
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by ddingus 1y ago
Yes it was. And through about IRIX 6.5.12 the Online Books were amazing! Run a workstation on one extreme, deliver multiple displays and or multiple users, each with their own keyboard and mouse on another, and also scale up to 2048 CPUs r
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by ddingus 1y ago
Max Impact was the first workstation I used that delivered solid model rotation at 60Fps. I remember literally feeling that smooth movement and how it made a significant difference in assembly and some interactive surfacing / sketchi
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by ddingus 1y ago
It is RS232. Try 9600 baud, N, 8, 1 It should start streaming events in ASCII the moment you do anything with the buttons. The joystick ran at that bitrate, which I thought slow but it wasn't. A full SGI setup, ONYX Reality Engine wit
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by ddingus 1y ago
My earlier comment was a mess! I like the idea of this piece. My trouble with it boils down to getting concurrent and parallel wrong, or mangled somewhat. Concurrent happens when multiple tasks are happening together. This can be task swi
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by ddingus 1y ago
I agree with you and thought I was clear on that. In fact, there is no effective difference between a very fast single thread, sequential compute CPU and a multiprocessor, or multi-core CPU.
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by ddingus 1y ago
Yes, SIMD is a form of parallel computing. But that is not the only form. A shader is one, and the difference is lots of instructions and lots of data. It is just the same instructions executing in all the instances. Concurrent would be
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by ddingus 1y ago
I do not see these definitions as quite right: >Asynchrony: the possibility for tasks to run out of order and still be correct. I like this. Great addition and yes it was missing. >Concurrency: the ability of a system to progress mul
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by ddingus 1y ago
"enshittification writ large." Good grief! We are actually going to have a shit list now: Hertz, Hyatt are the first two entries in this historic development..
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by ddingus 1y ago
I just completed the work and have to agree with you. My timing is poor. Should have taken that "sit alone" part more seriously. I have an intense need to do just that! I can give myself some time. Unlikely to be enough.
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by ddingus 1y ago
I love substack because it empowers writers to say what they want, and I would argue, need to say. I much prefer real exchanges, great, ugly and every kind in between, to sanitized expression Don't get me wrong. We often need the mode
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by ddingus 1y ago
I had similar reactions, only it all happened while I was in grade school! Oh yes! The bright projectiles really add to the game impact. And on some cabinets, the lines were not perfectly straight. It looked for all the world like the pho

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