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40 Years of Paula – The Amiga Sound Chip(sonicstate.com)
6 points by guru_meditation 1y ago|1 comments
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by guru_meditation 1y ago
For the uninitiated, the Paula chip is the mother of all trackers [1][2]. Decades since, way too many talented people obsessed over whether F-3 is 22168 Hz, 20864 Hz or something else. [3][4][5] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by guru_meditation 6y ago
Poster here: the first thoroughly researched documentary I've been able to find on this and it came out just a few months ago. Acquired all of 90 views on YouTube. Vice had a good article (posted on HN years ago) that did some good res
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Max Headroom Signal Hijacking (2020) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by guru_meditation 6y ago|1 comments
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by guru_meditation 6y ago
Linux/GRUB protip: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="video=efifb fbcon=rotate_all:1 quiet" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="video=efifb fbcon=rotate_all:1 quiet splash noautomount" GRUB_GFXMODE=1200x1920x32 ( see here: https:/&#
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by guru_meditation 6y ago
Trying not to spam, but extremely satisfied with GPD Pocket 2, which I purchased recently. Old enough to have used the very first laptops on the market, was looking for a Libretto-like machine, settled with this. What drove me to GPD Pocket
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by guru_meditation 6y ago
Writing this from a GPD Pocket 2 (see my reply above): The key size is very similar to a standard laptop for most keys. The key travel is longer than that of a 13" MacBook Pro, and I guarantee it because I use both daily. 60+ WPM after
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by guru_meditation 6y ago
A recent convert to GPD Pocket 2. Decades of programming experience from kernel hacking to 3d engines and distributed systems. After a few days reached 60-80 wpm (depending on the typing test). A drop of ca. 20 wpm from my 13" MacBook
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by guru_meditation 8y ago
Moved white queen in front of black (computer) king under the cover of the white knight. Computer went ahead and captured my queen using its king. Was tempted to capture the king with my knight, closed browser window instead :)
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by guru_meditation 8y ago
November 15, 2018 publication: Discovery of volatile biomarkers of Parkinsons disease from sebum https://doi.org/10.1101/469726 (free full-text PDF link on site) From the abstract: We have serendipitously identified a
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by guru_meditation 8y ago
I would say that in this particular domain going from: WinForms -> ASP .NET MVC and then Backbone -> AngularJS -> React (including participating in React development) gave you the kind of exposure and experience you needed for Redu
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by guru_meditation 8y ago
IMHO, teams using a certain stack have agency to see that stack win the hearts and minds of other developers. Additionally, the opinions of popular leads, managers etc on what should be used will count more. Winning their mindshare will win
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by guru_meditation 8y ago
If you are not working on Browser frontend, you will also enjoy the API stability. Here's an older verison of the same guide by the same author, more than 2 decades ago: https://web.archive.org/web/19970812031954&#
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by guru_meditation 8y ago
I wish we had more historical overviews like this. The number of new developers has been outstripping the number of old developers in most environments and this has been happening for at least the last 15 years. Thus, we come back to Richar
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by guru_meditation 11y ago
Ha! :) Sorry, meant to write "rhn is still out there", but I dropped I replied to hastily and by the time I figured it out it was too late to edit my post..
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by guru_meditation 11y ago
I consider Andy Hertzfeld's site a very accurate reference as well as a patchwork of authentic fascinating stories that just draws you in. However, Ron Nicholson (rhn) is on the Mac case signatures, he also did major work on Apple &#x2
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by guru_meditation 11y ago
I just realized I can't find the original code on this guy's website but I have the extracted Amiga disk image from a public domain disk circulated at the time... so, here's the annotated 1987 K&R C code on pastebin for c
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by guru_meditation 11y ago
Correct, just like with the Commodore 64, the CPU clock actually differed based on the graphics hardware output, which was back in the day adjusted for the household CRT TV sets. The master clock crystal oscillator on the motherboard was se
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by guru_meditation 11y ago
Yes, this ran on an 1987 Amiga 500 with the Commodore A501[1] 512K RAM expansion. This means: * 1MB RAM * 256K ROM * 7.16 MHz (yes, that's 0.007 GHz :)) Motorola 68000 plus a whole lot of custom chips [2] There were differen
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by guru_meditation 11y ago
The hardware owes it all to Jay Miner and Ron Nicholson (rhn). Jay Miner passed a long time away from a long term kidney condition and is still out there doing lots of stuff: http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/photo-cv.html
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by guru_meditation 11y ago
9 Fingers "making of" video, where the Spaceballs dudes videotaped their highschool friends for the dance shots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgriMuXZ3QY I think Jannicke, the state of the art girl dated Paul (
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by guru_meditation 11y ago
For some context, this was the first raytracer that ran on any personal computer. Some more context here: http://home.comcast.net/~erniew/juggler.html and a bit more here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?
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A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer(home.comcast.net)
102 points by guru_meditation 11y ago|33 comments
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1000%: Antibyte posts the commented code of his 1998 democompo winner(github.com)
1 points by guru_meditation 12y ago|0 comments
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
The talk was both profoundly touching, informative and surprisingly cheerfully optimistic. He really did convince me that MIT and Harvard are some of the best places to be at if you have cancer in terms of resources. A highlight from that t
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
Quoting from the course front page: Students with extensive software engineering experience (systems software, parallel programming or computer graphics) are strongly encouraged to apply. Almost makes me want to go back to grad school. Lo
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
I heartily recommend the notebooks published in this course as excellent applied reference material to estimation and optimization. I love it how code and coursework are intermingled, reminiscing me of Knuth's Literate Programming [1
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
Huge thumbs up for making the effort to share a simulated environment. Having these kinds of "toy" environments can result in more research into some interesting problems. Over the course of years I taught or helped teach several
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by guru_meditation 12y ago
Just bought the book. This is a front-end tech lead for Yahoo writing a book about a new language revision, and this is when I buy in and really start paying attention. I've been reading some interesting ES6 materials, but the absolute
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Manux – A free Linux-compatible OS designed to withstand attacks in userspace(manux.info)
114 points by guru_meditation 12y ago|32 comments

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