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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
This reminds me about an interesting distributed project, which was trying to create redundant circuits to compute various arithmetic operators.
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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
Thanks for the advice! I wanted to buy a Zojirushi, but teflon is a big no-no for me. What are the options for a rice cooker without teflon/aluminum?
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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
I also recommend https://www.semanticscholar.org/ because you can easily retrieve some of the PDFs.
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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
In fact, the numbers game is a copy of Countdown, which is itself a copy of "Le Compte est Bon", a french TV game started in 1965.
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by jcmeyrignac 4y ago
My hardest bug ever was also hardware related. Back in 1998, I was working on a game called "Trucks". When playing with the network, I noticed that the game was sometimes desynchronized. To understand the problem, I had to save to
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by jcmeyrignac 4y ago
I'm in France in a city called Vichy, and there are several "Orangers des Osages". With my wife, we were surprised by the quantity of fruits lying under these trees, and wondered if there was any kind of usage for them. Appar
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by jcmeyrignac 4y ago
In Paris, there are 3 big second-hand books: Gibert, Boulinier and Book Off. All of them suffered quite a lot these last years.
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by jcmeyrignac 4y ago
My grand-father was gassed in Verdun (WW I). All his children had pulmonary problems. Some of his grand-children also have similar problems.
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by jcmeyrignac 4y ago
Two mirrors: https://web.archive.org/web/20220825104003/https://simplegha... https://archive.ph/UPKwc
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by jcmeyrignac 5y ago
Here is my trick, which is a way to balance your diet. Each of your meals should contain 1/3 of cereals, 1/3 of proteins and 1/3 of vegetables. Try to avoid sugar and red meat, and you'll lose weight without effort.
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by jcmeyrignac 5y ago
"Recette de tarte aux poireaux" gives: Recette de tarte aux poireaux et pommes de terre Tarte aux poireaux et pommes de terre – Ingrédients de la recette : 1 pâte brisée, 500 g de poireaux, 2 pommes de terre moyennes, 3 oeufs, 150
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by jcmeyrignac 5y ago
Some researchers try to rebuild the original rules from these old games, using AI: https://ludii.games About Senet, a few rules have been suggested: https://ludii.games/details.php?keyword=Senet
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by jcmeyrignac 6y ago
I used this trick in a sorting pancakes contest. Flipping a list of pancakes required only one XOR, whatever the size. Very nice trick.
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by jcmeyrignac 6y ago
I met my first wife thanks to the Minitel. I met my second wife thanks to the Internet.
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by jcmeyrignac 6y ago
Here is their paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.05372
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by jcmeyrignac 7y ago
Another trick is to put the replay routine in zero-page, so you can easily increment the pointer. It saves one cycle.
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by jcmeyrignac 7y ago
I just read your source code a bit, and there are a lot of things wrong. First, you should ALWAYS clear the carry when using ADC or set the carry when using SBC For example: .increase: adc #1 sta POSITION_MENU I have no idea if you
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by jcmeyrignac 7y ago
LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) is one of the clients of the company where I work. LVMH fights hard against counterfeits. Amazon is so bad at handling counterfeits that LVMH decided to never give even one penny to Amazon, so you cannot f
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by jcmeyrignac 7y ago
Well, the code is not perfectly optimized: https://github.com/option8/8BITCOIN/blob/master/HASH.s For example: CLC ROL A can be replaced by ASL A
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by jcmeyrignac 7y ago
I believe the amount of water used for lawns is an order of magnitude smaller than the water used for fracking. The water for fracking is definitely lost, while the water we use even for bathing is recycled infinitely.
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by jcmeyrignac 7y ago
Another one: DEC (dec de) INC z_E BNE IncDE_Done INC z_D IncDE_Done: Should be: LDA z_E BNE DecDE DEC z_D DecDe: DEC z_E
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by jcmeyrignac 7y ago
There is a typo in the chapter "Important commands that don't exist!". NEG is described as: EOR #255 (XOR/Flip bits) SEC (Clear carry) ADD #1 (add 1) Of course, it's: EOR #255 (XOR/Flip bits)
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by jcmeyrignac 8y ago
A few years ago, I practiced meditation to help me accept some difficult times. At the same moment, I discovered Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj, they describe something similar to what you said. Very helpful ! I strongly recommend
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by jcmeyrignac 8y ago
This is not really new. One of my friends built a DAWG into a PNG. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_acyclic_finite_s... The DAWG contained all french words, in a convenient small picture.
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by jcmeyrignac 8y ago
You are completely right, I missed this carry. Thanks !
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by jcmeyrignac 8y ago
I believe it's possible. This story reminded me about Lenovo's drivers automatic installation: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas... And yes, I had the problem with my Leno
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by jcmeyrignac 8y ago
I read the source code, and here are 2 improvements: 1) in get_block, we can replace "dec count" with "cpy count" It should save one or 2 cycles, if I'm not mistaken 2) get_countdown can be rewritten as follows:
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by jcmeyrignac 8y ago
Another link: https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/09/20/te...
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by jcmeyrignac 8y ago
Yes, I had a similar manual (I'm french too). The problem is that the manual contained only the set of instructions, without any explanation. My Aha! was understanding how it worked. I did write a couple of games on Oric/Atmos, bu
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by jcmeyrignac 8y ago
I'll share my own experience, since I started computer programming in 1982 (on a 6502 based computer called Oric-1), then worked in the game industry for 18 years. What I remember from these early times: 1) we had only one television a

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