ianhanschen

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by ianhanschen 3mo ago
bubble-ass headline
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by ianhanschen 5y ago
Wikipedia English also appears to be down.
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by ianhanschen 5y ago
Please read his books.
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by ianhanschen 5y ago
"Workspace is written from scratch. Some WindowMaker code is a part of Workspace (as well as configuration defaults) to provide window management functions. The code is tightly coupled with Workspace to provide seamless intergation. Co
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by ianhanschen 5y ago
Can you call it Itanic if it was around for more than a decade because of how well it sold and how many supercomputers chose to use it? I am familiar with the pain of Itanium, and I understand how hard it was to work with. I've kernel
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by ianhanschen 5y ago
The amount of effort put into this rebuttal is why I try hard to avoid reading the comments here.
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by ianhanschen 5y ago
I use operating system memory paging as an analogy for this: you paged it back in.
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by ianhanschen 5y ago
Really surprised the article didn't mention the practice of money laundering.
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by ianhanschen 5y ago
Barely mentioned, and the author makes us all die inside when they say "Too bad it was written for a whole different architecture and compiler so there is really no easy way for me to find out what it did."
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by ianhanschen 5y ago
Why not make a blog post instead of an emoji-laden Twitter thread?
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by ianhanschen 5y ago
Guess I'm done reading the verge. I've watched many, many Starlink reviews out of curiosity and this is the only one so tinged by the author's mood. It's clearly written as a kind of hit-piece. While other reviewers ment
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
It's a window that mostly uses an edit control, but, having code in Notepad, it's not just a wrapper around the edit control. Could you write Notepad in a day or two? Perhaps. But it's deceiving to say that it's just a w
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
I think he's talking about motor control - how the left hemisphere is responsible for controlling the right side of the body and vice versa.
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
aha, thanks!
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
That is what I am referring to :)
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
I'm upvoting your comment but can you clarify on left brain/right brain? I thought split-brain/callosal syndrome showed us that a lot of our ideas about left brain right brain functional divide were true. Edit for clarificati
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
Never expected the retained vs immediate mode debate to pop up in this way, but neat.
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
Before coming to Microsoft, I wrote my own EngAlphaBlend() accelerator driver in 2003 or so. I knew a lot about how things worked from disassembly but after coming to MS in 2004 I quickly destroyed a lot of my own assumptions. Mess? no. Com
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
On Linux you have two X servers instances, with 2 window managers, and 2 consoles. Each X server is working with a different display, so naturally the content ends up on the right display. On Windows you have just one console, one window ma
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
Windows can be made to behave like i3, with a lot of work. I've done a few different things over the years, but I never got into i3 so I haven't made my personal WM software work like that. It's a bit of a curiosity nowadays,
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
Looks cool. If you want to get rid of your hook DLLs and the need for the x86ipc child process, you can use SetWinEventHook() with EVENT_OBJECT_CREATE / EVENT_OBJECT_DESTROY as min/max event values and WINEVENT_OUTOFCONTEXT to get
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
Because this is not the site for the project. This is the site for a Mac 68k version of the project, where they keep taking the author's code and translating the comments to English and really not much else so far. When the author rele
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
This lets you connect a raspberry pi as a SCSI device. The Pi does emulation of the SCSI interface by bit-banging the GPIO, and exposes virtual drives that are mounted images from the Linux FS on the pi.
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
It's useful for every retro collector.
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
This is cool, but I am not really sure what they are doing for this 68k Mac project on top of what the original coder has already done when he created this for the X68000. If you look at the code, they translated his comments from Japanese
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
Not a fan of miners disturbing GPU availability and pricing but this is a bad move. It’s not an engineering move, it’s a marketing move, and I’m sure the first attempt at doing this will come down to something just as shallow like a PCI PID
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
Great read. I wonder if the make -j modification wasn’t scaling things across all cores because it was using the physical core count (number of cores) versus the logical core count (number of core threads). Or perhaps the code wasn’t modifi
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
Good idea - you’re welcome to submit a pull request.
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
No, people all over the demo scene did. All I have done is to collect them and share the collection so they are not lost to time.
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by ianhanschen 6y ago
They are from other machines like Atari and Amiga so they were in formats like LBM/IFF.

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