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by sehugg 8y ago
I usually sleep with a white noise app running, and I can always hear when the cat is crawling around nearby. (Free app idea, Sonic Cat Detector -- you're welcome :) )
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by sehugg 8y ago
Yes https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/13/massive-meta-study-confi...
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by sehugg 8y ago
And had to be convinced not to unilaterally pull out of South Korea, and not to back the Saudis' blockade of Qatar that was assisted by his son-in-law, and that the North Korean missiles he saw on Fox News were from an earlier video, a
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by sehugg 8y ago
Meanwhile, we're building tactical nukes again, and signaling that we're willing to use them (and that somehow we can avoid further escalation): https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2018/07/24/t
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by sehugg 8y ago
Arcade games could also more readily use ROM, so tile and sprite data could just flow in parallel to the rendering subsystem -- without worrying about sharing with the CPU or refresh cycles.
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by sehugg 8y ago
I remember on my Apple ][ playing Wizardry, written in UCSD Pascal: https://www.filfre.net/2012/03/making-wizardry/ Pretty sure there were a few text adventures written with it too. The non-flashing cursor an
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by sehugg 8y ago
I note that the existing JSMESS emulator supports C64; for what reasons was VICE chosen?
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by sehugg 8y ago
Nothing beats my dependency manager, which I'll just call DrGonzo: var exports = {}; function require(modname) { if (modname == 'jquery') return $; else if (modname.startsWith('.')) return exports;
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by sehugg 8y ago
Propublica: After Budget Cuts, the IRS’ Work Against Tax Cheats Is Facing “Collapse” https://www.propublica.org/article/after-budget-cuts-the-irs...
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by sehugg 8y ago
There used to be a relevant X screensaver ... ah, here's a port of it to JS: https://rtoal.github.io/galaxies/galaxies.html
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by sehugg 8y ago
We still don't fully understand all of the various quantum mechanical hacks that biology uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology
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by sehugg 8y ago
I could grep the heck out of some log files on that.
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by sehugg 8y ago
"The answer ... is no. We are therefore going anyway." -- Kirk, Star Trek III
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by sehugg 8y ago
You might want to contact Jason Scott at the Internet Archive, especially if some of those are copy-protected: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5180
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by sehugg 8y ago
The ZX80/81 used Don Lancaster's "Cheap Video and Lying To the Machine" method of graphics output: http://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/KimKlone/BrideOfSon%20... Essentially, the CPU executes
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by sehugg 8y ago
Some good technical info here: https://problemkaputt.de/zxdocs.htm
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by sehugg 8y ago
Nice writeup, thanks. I'd been thinking of playing with Go/WASM for http://8bitworkshop.com someday. For now, JS is plenty fast enough for 1-3 MHz 8-bit emulators. BTW, I've never had performance problems with HTM
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by sehugg 8y ago
Something I didn't know is that the US Library of Congress considers SQLite databases to be long-term storage formats, on par with CSV and JSON: https://www.sqlite.org/locrsf.html
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by sehugg 8y ago
I've been looking for a system that lets me track replication of online/offline data, as well as a search tool + format obsolescence report on files. I once started writing such a thing using Python + SQLite. It's kind of tri
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by sehugg 8y ago
Yes, unfortunately. "Reveal Codes" FTW :)
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by sehugg 8y ago
I was just thinking about DOS apps, specifically how nice it was when keyboard shortcuts pertinent to your current mode were helpfully displayed at the bottom of the screen.
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by sehugg 8y ago
You could even make a chess program in 392 bytes: http://nanochess.org/chess6.html
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by sehugg 8y ago
Sounds like my old Atari 400, except it did have Esc.
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by sehugg 8y ago
How about we just work fewer/flexible hours, and spend our spare time on secular pursuits if we so choose?
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by sehugg 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're implying. Because there's not a visible security presence, the Alamogordo Daily News is making this up? After law enforcement gets what they need, there's no reason to patrol the property.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Breitbart openly advocates for the destruction of the press, which they call the "Democrat-media complex". Hard to deal in good faith under those circumstances.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Or like CPU clock speeds, which have never correlated directly with performance across families, even when comparing something as old as the 6502 vs. Z80.
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by sehugg 8y ago
"In the past, it’s been safer to leave them there." The facility in question never went through Hugo, so let's hope there are responsible adults with a more thought-out rationale for the shelter in place decision.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Lest the headline imply otherwise, Orwell was a proponent of democratic socialism: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, a
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by sehugg 8y ago
Revised revised headline: A year later, we do not have a full accounting of the impact of the data breach, but this weird blog quotes a fraud prevention company saying they saw big increases in online fraud rates: https://www.pay

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