jason_s

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by jason_s 1y ago
California's Central Valley would like a cautionary word....
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by jason_s 1y ago
Fifty years ago today, on September 16, 1975, MOS Technology exhibited the 6502 at WESCON, making samples available: > Here the story takes one of those legendary turns. Steve Wozniak had been designing the Apple I around the Motorola 68
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by jason_s 1y ago
OMG, flashback to Windows 95's "My Documents". I agree with the article's "It's a trick question" paragraph --- avoid using either.
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Development of the MOS Technology 6502: A Historical Perspective (2022)(embeddedrelated.com)
74 points by jason_s 1y ago|9 comments
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by jason_s 1y ago
Happy birthday, 6502!
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by jason_s 3y ago
file modtime-based dependencies is enough to kill any interest in make I might have had. When I update my working copy from version control to an earlier version to look at how things used to work, but the modtime is later, make does the wr
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by jason_s 3y ago
> The alternative is to scan the sources using a custom parser, which is slower and more fragile. More fragile, yes, but I dispute the "slower" aspect. waf does this very well. In C you don't need to parse the entire prog
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by jason_s 3y ago
Neat! I like the syntax from what I've read so far. I'm aware of Rust and Zig and Nim and wish I had more time to try these out and see what's going on. Alternatives to C/C++, especially in the embedded systems space, ha
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by jason_s 4y ago
How come github.blog doesn't have the "GitHub, Inc." organization as part of its certificate, the way github.com does? $ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect github.blog:443 CONNECTED(00000006) depth=2 C = US, O = Int
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by jason_s 4y ago
As God is my witness, I'll never \makeatletter again!
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by jason_s 4y ago
Wow! I remember reading the Penrose tiles article (1977 Scientific American, Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematical-game... ) in the mid-80s, where if I r
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by jason_s 4y ago
https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1453.php -- I wrote up a piece on the 6502 development in 1974-1975.
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by jason_s 4y ago
Bill Mensch and Albert Charpentier have had discussions posted on YouTube about the 6502 and VIC-II chips, respectively.
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by jason_s 4y ago
"MOS" like "moss" as in "Mostek"; MOS Technology pronounced their initials individually.
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by jason_s 4y ago
Check out Bill Mensch's Oral history or one of his presentations on YouTube about the 6502; I think he mentions the Olivetti project that he and Rod Orgill worked on.
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by jason_s 4y ago
and yet they're out of print :-( (well, at least #1 and #2)
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by jason_s 4y ago
ponders environmental impact of cat videos
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by jason_s 4y ago
Dammit I was going to post this, but you beat me to it!
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by jason_s 5y ago
That doesn't sound too much worse than some HR in industry... OT: could I ask you some questions about another thread (semiconductor fabs), privately? My twitter contact info is in my profile.
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by jason_s 5y ago
or you throw away R1 and connect R2 between C and OUT.
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by jason_s 5y ago
TIL gopher still exists
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Ask HN: IC Designers/Architects: Why did you choose your process node?
3 points by jason_s 5y ago|0 comments
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by jason_s 5y ago
I lost interest at "The most common algorithms used for PRNGs are linear congruential generators."
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by jason_s 5y ago
Sweet! I know where a triangle manhole cover is; if I'm lucky I may have a picture of it squirreled away somewhere, to submit. https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/local-news/2012/07/28/c...
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Template Rendering Failure at %Company%(imgur.com)
2 points by jason_s 6y ago|0 comments
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by jason_s 7y ago
no, because like real-world refugees, we are left to flee Atlassian without an obvious place to relocate.
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by jason_s 7y ago
...and because Atlassian let Bitbucket's Hg support wither and die.
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by jason_s 8y ago
looks like Trotter lost... https://law.justia.com/cases/idaho/supreme-court-civil/2012/... https://www.housingwire.com/articles/idaho-supreme-court-dec...
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by jason_s 8y ago
GEB is just as technically deep as TAOCP.
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by jason_s 8y ago
<quote>…well, it would have been, but for some reason I kept struggling to get through it. I thought highly of it, but my secret shame was that my admiration for the book was based mostly on the first two hundred or so pages. It took

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