flohofwoe

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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
The article is neither about Germany nor about the US.
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
In the end, you could do memory load/stores with around 1 byte per microsecond on most home computers, no matter if 6502 or Z80. The Z80 did less work per clock, but was usually clocked 2..4x higher than 6502 based systems, which made
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Nitpicking, but since the M5 includes cache and GPU a more realistic comparision would probably be to count all transistors in an entire 8-bit home computer system against a modern integrated GCPU (e.g. from googling around a C64 might have
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
"Simple" is really not a word I would associate with the Z80 ;) The ISA is quite messy because of the backward compatibility requirement with the Intel 8080 (e.g. the Z80 had to fill undocumented gaps in the 8080 opcode encoding m
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
> But making a custom version of, say structs is just a weird design. This I don't understand? Zig structs are pretty much the same as in any other language, except that the declaration can be more flexible by building the struct ty
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
LLMs are actually pretty good at finding potential memory corruption issues in unsafe langauges upfront, to a point where I wonder if it even still makes sense using Rust with its slow compile-edit-test loop in a fully automated code genera
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Well, compared to what? Zig is much nicer to read than Rust or C++, about the same as Typescript, but not as nice as modern C. But that's just my opinion. Such questions usually come down to "how familiar am I with this programmin
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
There's a Carrier Command 2 now, I didn't get too far yet into the game, but it seems to be a nice mix of retro vs modernization: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1489630/Carrier_Command_2...
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
I like how each city district can be systematically dismantled, you usually start 'raiding' the police- and drone-stations, which decreases surveillance and increases reaction time for reinforcements in later mission in the same d
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
I think the consensus is that Europe was home computer land, while the US and Japan were game console land. Especially the Amiga and Atari ST were much bigger in Europe than the US (mainly in Germany and the UK, and for Atari ST also Fran
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
> it came out on Steam as an early release but never quite made playability IMHO Satellite Reign has been released as a full game, playable from start to finish and it's really excellent (no idea tbh why the Steam reviews are stuc
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
It's like cancer growth though, not the 'good' kind of growth ;) E.g. I doubt that the number of Github users has doubled in that month too. Github should probably introduce daily commit- and merge-limits that slow down exces
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Hopefully forever tbh until a proper alternative to XWayland arrives: XWayland is essentially the missing mid-level "Wayland client library" which fills the feature gaps caused by missing extensions of the underlying Wayland imple
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Indeed, picking C doesn't make sense when you actually want to write C++ code in C ;)
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
> why would a C++ successor language use `fn main()` instead of using C/C++ style `int main()` Apparently easier and faster parsing. Most modern language have arrived at the `fn bla(arg: ArgType): ResultType` form and I don't t
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
No, it's C :) And for me that's not even a hot take anymore, I switched back to C (specifically C99 and later) around 2017 after nearly 20 years of C++ as my main language, and I don't miss C++ the slightest. The hardest part
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Easier to monetize though ;)
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Ok yes, the 70s were less terrible (only because of Funk and Disco) ;)
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
I suspect it was rather the combination of cost (around $1000 1990's dollars), weight (>500g) and battery time (apparently only 30 minutes) which was the problem. > and it looks a bit underwhelming in general ...only from today&#
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Wow, this ad is the living proof that the 1990s were just as terrible as any decade that came before or after - we just tend to forget the really horrible stuff (like showcased here, IBM desparately trying to be hip).
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
...and all of that can be done much simpler and faster with regular for-loops and if-statements. The additional database complexity only pays off when you need to do that over millions of items with complex filtering rules or dependencies.
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
The problem with using database blobs for load/save is that you usually need a full database client in the application. SQlite advertises that use case, but it is complete overkill. You never need to run any sort of complex SQL query o
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
No that would be an early 1990s file format ;) 1999 is exactly right for the start of the XML hype, everything had to be XML, it would single handedly solve the software crisis (after OOP failed to do that) because everything would be abl
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
You're thinking too small! It's all about building entire apps autonomously from 10 lines of a blurry "do what I mean" spec /s
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
I think we're way past this point tbh, software development is just the latest area that's being "bullshittified" ;) (also let's be honest, building yet another CRUD app - eg what 99% of software devs actually do, i
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
Shitting out lots of code faster was already possible before (just hire more interns who do it for free heh) the question is at what quality and is more code in less time really the biggest problem in professional software development that
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
But that's obviously exactly what the employer expects, I don't see the problem tbh ;)
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
The US didn't have a (successful) private aerospace company in the 1970s either (AFAIK). The whole thing was simply too early to be a realistic business. It's not that the private sector gave up entirely though (e.g. see https:&#
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
> nobody uses the old definition because it's no longer WW2 These are Cold War terms (post WW2). And for the Cold War era it makes sense to use the original meaning. IMHO the term "3rd world country" shouldn't be used
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by flohofwoe 2mo ago
It's quite literally the "western definition" of Third World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World Do you think the Soviets would have called the US aligned countries " First World"? ;) T

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