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by masswerk 1y ago
Well, a fingerprinting dream… Meaning, no way, just for the security aspect.
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by masswerk 1y ago
Very much so, with the small difference that the VCS features the `WSYNC` strobe to sync the CPU with the start of the scan-line, but here we don't have even this. (Having said that, for something more complex, like an animated game di
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by masswerk 1y ago
> And the Scandinavians had an "unfair" advantage :-) > the Cold War, which loomed as background noise A peculiar state between mid-term doom and business as usual, anyway. Thank you for contributing a relevant framing t
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Character Bitmap Graphics on the Pet 2001(masswerk.at)
17 points by masswerk 1y ago|5 comments
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by masswerk 1y ago
Ah, yes, like a breeze of fresh air!
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by masswerk 1y ago
-stand is what is (to something) or what has been established (about something). E.g., Bestand – the totality of what has been established about something, or what is available, etc. So Gegenstand is what has been established as real-
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by masswerk 1y ago
BTW, this also kind of works in English: we notice objects around us, because they object to our intentions, just for their inert nature. It's their resistance (German: Widerstand ), which brings them to our attention. (Objects are
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by masswerk 1y ago
The problem being, if this is listed among other details and links regarding the Bostonian Dave Batty, there's a clear and unambiguous context established. So it is wrong. The versions with "Dave Barry, the humorist and Pulitze
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by masswerk 1y ago
Danke schön! :-)
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The REM-Arkable Misadventures of List (Commodore BASIC)(masswerk.at)
4 points by masswerk 1y ago|0 comments
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by masswerk 1y ago
Small update: I did a write-up on LIST and its mishaps (covering the PET to the C64 – so, no BASIC 7, etc.) https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2025/the-remarkable-misadv...
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The REM-arkable Misadventures of List (Commodore BASIC)(masswerk.at)
12 points by masswerk 1y ago|2 comments
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by masswerk 1y ago
It also happens on the PET, before BASIC 4.0. I had a cursory look at it: there's no check for REM, of any kind, but there's, of course, a check for quoted strings. For any tokens, an offset count is calculated by subtracting 0x7F
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by masswerk 1y ago
The problem being that the LIST routine should handle a comment like a string (which is how it is parsed and stored: a comment is essentially an unquoted string extending to the end of the line), but doesn't bail out of keyword expan
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by masswerk 1y ago
Yes, variable names are 2 bytes, in their stored memory location in RAM. As these must be 7-bit ASCII bytes, the sign-bits and their distribution over these two bytes is used to encode the type. And all simple variables take 7 bytes of memo
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Go, PET, Let Hen - Curious adventures in (Commodore) BASIC tokenizing(masswerk.at)
23 points by masswerk 1y ago|10 comments
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by masswerk 1y ago
I guessed so. (Which is why I brought up the behavior on that other OS.)
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by masswerk 1y ago
Can't wait for consuming content in its original form becoming a violation of the ToS! :-) (I can see a bright future where smart TVs come with mandatory, non-optional instant translation… and maybe, if we were allowed to dream, with r
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by masswerk 1y ago
Interesting: On MacOS, with the option "Check for updates but let you choose to install them" chosen in the Firefox preferences, the experience is exactly that, update in the background without further notifications. That is, I ge
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by masswerk 1y ago
Ah, well, the content has to fit localized ads! That's it! (You don't want that distracting break in languages between revenue earning productions and embedding media fluff. I guess, in this context, the plug-in is as evil as ad-b
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by masswerk 1y ago
> How is there not at least an option… Haven't we learned in the last 15 years or so that options are bad for users? ;-) Moreover, watching videos in a foreign language with subtitles in that same language used to be a popular tool
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by masswerk 1y ago
In Northanger Abbey we get an explicit reference to one of those books, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, which started the entire Gothic novel craze. Comparing the two is quite informative: Where Radcliffe describes the basic
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by masswerk 1y ago
PS: As a literary stunt and challenge, the question, how can we do an entertaining and involving novel with an entirely inert heroine and protagonist? , isn't that dissimilar from Umberto Eco's chosen challenge, how can we do a
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by masswerk 1y ago
It's probably the best thing after the well-meaning social execution of Jane Fairfax, Emma's foil, by Emma's father for the exceptionally dangerous luck of having wet socks.
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by masswerk 1y ago
It may be important to note that all of Austen's novels are set up and kept going by an essential flaw in the hero characters. And Fanny Price is the ultimate anti-hero: indeed, she is hardly a heroine, she doesn't act, at all, sh
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by masswerk 1y ago
> Do we as a society want to wade into the morass of telling people what kinds of activities they can use energy for? This really applies to any application which consumes high percentages of the resources available. (Compare, data cente
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by masswerk 1y ago
On relevance: I've never seen an ad on YT that would make me buy a product. I guess, this is now a matter of principle. Moreover, it's now also a matter of fending off GenAI content (AKA slop) for the sake of sanity. So, I'm
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by masswerk 1y ago
Well, as this is about Ireland, EU regulations state that a drone operator may control just a single drone at a time. (So, no simultaneous control.) *) UAS.STS-01.040 Responsibilities of the remote pilot: "(d) shall operate only one u
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by masswerk 1y ago
Ars Technica had an article on this on 2 May: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/screwworms-are-coming...
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by masswerk 1y ago
Ad Gould: The phrasing at around 2:40, where he has this voice stepping into the previously dominant legato voices, is tremendous!

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