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by samlittlewood 10y ago
From 'Masters of Doom' - he used to make and DM D&D campaigns.
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John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying(facebook.com)
505 points by samlittlewood 10y ago|316 comments
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Yup - it happened - I remember several games that just used trig. via lookup tables. (Esp. If they were mostly Z only rotation - cf. battlezone). Also, many games rasterized convex polygons, so gradient per scanline was a thing. In those d
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
did you mean Leviathan Wakes?
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Saw/heard this in London - very well told story.
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RISC-V at Scale: GRVI Phalanx Joins the Kilocore Club(fpga.org)
4 points by samlittlewood 10y ago|0 comments
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Fun fact - Sketchup has always used Ruby as it's extension language.
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Think 'ARM' - RISC-V is an instruction set with similar extensions (MMU, 32/64, FP, vector, compressed etc.) There a range of implementations - from micro up to superscalar out of order. AFIK, the two implementations here are
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Mill Computing in 2017(us7.campaign-archive2.com)
6 points by samlittlewood 10y ago|0 comments
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
I occasionally use these two: * What would we do if there was an order of magnitude less time to solve the problem? * What would we do if there was an order of magnitude more time to solve the problem? This can flush out 'we would just
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Also, look at Matt's write up of how this works: http://xania.org/201609/how-compiler-explorer-runs-on-amazon as a pragmatic example (incl. all tools & configs) of how to build an auto scaling & deploying
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Presentation that includes size and performance figures: http://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Wed1200-2016-01-... Summary: smaller and faster than PicoRV32 & Z-scale, slower but smaller than N
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AVR back end has been merged into LLVM(lists.llvm.org)
2 points by samlittlewood 10y ago|0 comments
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
One possible source of tasks for this process is the bug backlog from open source projects.
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Looks like it is Allwinner R16 SoC - Quad A7 + MAli 400. https://www.pcper.com/news/Systems/NES-Classic-PCB-Pictured-... Wow - but I can see that it will be cheap.
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
For friends and family of newborns: Hold the advice unless it is asked for (and don't be offended if it is then ignored) Looking after the baby may not be what the new parents would prefer you to do. Offer to do chores - laundry, shopp
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Best advice we had was 'keep a diary/log' - started seeing the larger patterns that our fried brains were missing day to day.
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Is there a licence issue preventing the use of http://www.cocotron.org/ , an existing Cocoa for Windows/Linux?
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The Government IT Self-Harm Playbook(medium.com)
3 points by samlittlewood 10y ago|0 comments
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Worth it for: "My father accompanied a friend to pick up his newly purchased Lotus Mk VI, and remembers seeing [Chapman] spreadeagled over the bonnet of a prototype Mk VIII covered in little bits of wool, being driven up and down the r
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The Lotus Sevens: The Real Most Hackable Car(hackaday.com)
2 points by samlittlewood 10y ago|1 comments
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
ARC had been split out into Argonaut Technology Ltd. long before Argonaut Software hit the buffers. The success of the SuperFX chip opened doors for future work, but nothing from the SuperFX was carried over - it was 16 bit, with a compact
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Also worth mentioning Bruce Artwick's Flight Simulator - 1982 on PC, 1979 !! (albeit vector only) on AppleII.
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
I'm using direct drive brushless motors for a side project: There are a slew of low Kv motors sold for camera stabilisation gimbals, eg: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S... One of these
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Intel acquires Movidius – low power vision/learning chipmaker(irishtimes.com)
2 points by samlittlewood 10y ago|0 comments
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
This is a good repo of arduino based code to talk to many of the nordic based toy quads - it converts the PPM signal from an RC transmitter: https://github.com/goebish/nrf24_multipro Many of these little quads use the
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
A good read about Michael Abrash's experience of this: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w... (And interesting history about Valve)
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
My older son has been engaged with this - mainly DoTA2, CS:GO and H1Z1. He has had a fairly limited budget of real cash in (a few 10s of pounds) - and has taken (and lost) significantly more than that in game through tournament prizes, trad
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by samlittlewood 10y ago
Interested to see that the download contains 3 distinct GCC cross toolchains: x86, ARC, and ARM. Um, Wow!
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by samlittlewood 11y ago
Maybe the budget should be energy rather than time?

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