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by hcs 8y ago
I guess I'm mostly thinking of using threads?
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by hcs 8y ago
Haven't written a JIT/dynamic recompiler myself, but here's how I've thought of it: When two devices are communicating over a port, only operations writing to the port matter. If something is spinning waiting on a signal
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by hcs 8y ago
Also char not specified in the language as signed or unsigned...
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by hcs 8y ago
I feel like he was right about it being worse, but didn't realize there would be so much more of it.
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by hcs 8y ago
I don't think you have the right point, even with an infinite write-only output tape, you'd still need infinite states to output pi. How can your machine know how far along it is otherwise?
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by hcs 8y ago
I watched the video but I didn't notice any argument against the practice, unless I synthesize "one should always feel bad about participating in consumerism", is that it?
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by hcs 8y ago
He also made an original game with ThinkFun: Code Master, which does some fun stuff with state machines: https://www.thinkfun.com/products/code-master/
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by hcs 8y ago
I wonder if this is the article you're thinking of: https://web.archive.org/web/20100221131225/http://www.thinkf... (The text of the article is only visible at the very bottom of the page for some r
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by hcs 8y ago
Photos of the decoding in question: https://dbcooper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/DBC-Letter-5... https://dbcooper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DBC-Letter-6... De
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by hcs 8y ago
Does the book actually have any details about the code? I haven't found anything online that looks even slightly convincing.
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by hcs 8y ago
Isn't this article precisely about using the infrastructure for crypto mining for more practical computing?
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by hcs 8y ago
Amusingly in the context of this article, the current Pantheon has an inscription from the previous temple on that site, built probably 100 years earlier.
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by hcs 8y ago
- Oscar Wilde
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by hcs 8y ago
I think there is meant to be only one "manager" per object (thus, handle) type.
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by hcs 8y ago
I do tend to err on the side of inclusivity, but I don't think it becomes meaningless to say that anything can be art. Is there anything physical that can't be made as sculpture? There is engineering and craft in most art to rea
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by hcs 8y ago
I completely agree about the performance art aspect of games, but I disagree that this means the game design itself is not art. Play within the ruleset is made possible by the deliberate constraints proposed by the designer, who (if skilled
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by hcs 8y ago
Stupid question: how is this better than crouton?
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by hcs 8y ago
Wasn't there a famous study about the kind of dreams people had after eating different kinds of cheese?
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List of dreams(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by hcs 8y ago|4 comments
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by hcs 8y ago
Well... PlayStation has CD-XA, which is kind of the other leg of the Sony/Philips/Nintendo triangle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM#XA "It was intended as a bridge between CD-ROM and CD-i (Green Bo
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Computing with Text-Graphic Forms (1980)(pgc.com)
2 points by hcs 8y ago|0 comments
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by hcs 8y ago
Here it is on a 5th gen iPad with iOS 10.3.3: https://youtu.be/5gqbL_fhy0U Works fine with Reader View, though.
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by hcs 8y ago
This program was by Warren Robinett, of Adventure fame; both were released in 1979. He later went on to write Rocky's Boots for the Apple II, a rather more successful educational game involving logic gates.
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by hcs 9y ago
The paper he draws the examples from has links to videos of most of the visually interesting examples.
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by hcs 9y ago
A few years ago Rutgers had labs with machines named after breakfast cereals, soups, and pasta: https://web.archive.org/web/20081228003151/http://www.cs.rut... Also iirc there was a set of servers named
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by hcs 9y ago
> // I actually don't understand why the line below compiles. > // Since `head` was moved into the box, I'm not sure why I can mutate it. > head.next = Some(Box::new(next)); I'm fairly new to Rust
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by hcs 9y ago
A bunch of little JavaScript+Canvas prototype games on the way to a game about programming I still haven't conceived fully: http://gashlin.net/games/ (top five items on that list were this year).
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by hcs 9y ago
You can find a link at the bottom of this article: http://www.filfre.net/2011/11/the-prisoner-part-2/
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by hcs 9y ago
Oh, surprised to see my old post up here! The closest to a game I ever got with this was dwim: http://hcs64.github.io/dwim-game (keyboard controls) It has the basic idea of figuring out what the symbols mean, but I took the
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Show HN: A puzzle with varying rules(gashlin.net)
2 points by hcs 9y ago|0 comments

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