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by sehugg 8y ago
Huh. I never knew that they weren't tape loops, but tape segments. You can see the mechanism here at about 4:45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=ByD8gH7kYxs
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by sehugg 8y ago
Local papers in cities like NYC and Baltimore are also shuttering, so this is more about local journalism than it is about small towns.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Reading further: "In order to simplify an explanation, we restrict our analysis to synchronous circuits — that is, circuits in which all registers tick with the same clock" Sounds like the author is advocating for designs that do
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by sehugg 8y ago
The Shuttle program used quaternions, although the ISS apparently uses a definition that is easier to read by sight: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-ivJED8...
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by sehugg 8y ago
I've never been able to get a good LaTeX -> epub pipeline working. There are too many issues with things like tables and splitting code listings across pages -- epubs are just optimized for fiction. I find it's better just to s
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by sehugg 8y ago
If you visit the Big Bend area and see the Rio Grande border area, you’ll see the insanity of the idea. There’s a river and steep banks on both sides. There’s also a symbiosis where Mexicans cross to sell trinkets (many bearing the words “n
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by sehugg 8y ago
To test a MS-DOS database program I was writing, I replaced the WaitForKey routine with GetRandom. It was fun to watch! And I think it was a fuzzer.
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by sehugg 8y ago
We use CodeMirror for our 8-bit retrodev IDE, and have been pretty happy with it: http://8bitworkshop.com/v3.1.0/?=&file=examples%2Fbrickgame&... We haven't even scratched the surface with customization be
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by sehugg 8y ago
If you want to see some of the wacky things devs did with NES nametables and scroll registers, check out the Rad Racer pseudo-3D implementation: http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=8588
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by sehugg 8y ago
It'd be tricky to use a compression scheme with a history window, since these interpreters also used a virtual memory scheme for static data with page sizes of around 1 KB.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Finally, visitors from Betelgeuse no longer have to rely on a human interpreter.
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by sehugg 8y ago
"Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact!" -- Homer Simpson, "Homerpalooza"
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by sehugg 8y ago
I still have my 2012 MBP with the nearly-dead battery, but for daily work I'm just using a $200 Samsung Chromebook 3 with Termux. Yes, I can't run everything, and it's quite slow, but as a result I end up spotting performance
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by sehugg 8y ago
Not the first time he's done something like this: https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/bogus_new_york_post_story...
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by sehugg 8y ago
Good thing too, since it's in just about everything: https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
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by sehugg 8y ago
I guess the SEC prefers companies to make formal filings instead of tweets followed by FAQs to avoid this kind of confusion and subsequent litigation.
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by sehugg 8y ago
I'm not an MBA, but I think it's way too early to attribute motivation to this incident.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Windows CE has a 32-bit uptime counter (GetTickCount()) that wraps after ~49 days, but on startup it sets the value so that it wraps around in three minutes, increasing the likelihood that overflow bugs will be sussed out during development
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by sehugg 8y ago
Nintendo has gone one step further, and comes very close to making the dangerous argument that emulators are illegal (based on a generous interpretation of https://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp -- though IANAL) Of
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by sehugg 8y ago
Those who haven't experienced it directly might underestimate how effective the right has been at tying anti-environment beliefs to political identity, even among people who are highly educated in the sciences and should know better.
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by sehugg 8y ago
The Gameboy has a (mostly) Z80-compatible CPU, used in all sorts of embedded applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z80#Embedded_systems_and...
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by sehugg 8y ago
Notable article from BYTE May 1977: "The Apple-II System Description" by Stephen Wozniak ( http://ethw.org/w/images/0/03/The-Apple-II-by-Stephen-Woznia... )
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by sehugg 8y ago
The hardware Pyxel simulates seems closest to the Williams arcade games -- Defender, Robotron, Joust, etc. These games had a single 256 x 304 pixel frame buffer, 4 bits per pixel (16 color palette). A hardware bit blitter performed fast blo
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by sehugg 8y ago
Those who do not remember IRC are doomed to repeat it
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by sehugg 8y ago
If you have the means, it's helpful to have redundant bank accounts, especially for travelers, as this ratchet seems to only tighten. There's a couple sailing the world that had some snafus that required a flight back to the U.S.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Fast-forward to the next year, where he's created Z80 and ZX Spectrum models in Verilog: http://baltazarstudios.com/z80-cpu/ I find it interesting that he used transparent latches at first, then after experiencing
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by sehugg 8y ago
I'll always remember it as F-19 Stealth Fighter :) (Microprose issued a patch shortly after release to correct the name, 3D model, and a "realistic" mode to conform to actual payload specs)
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by sehugg 8y ago
In DC -- A Wider Circle.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Amazon’s book monopsony is valuable, but it also comes at significant reputational cost Does it really? Except maybe from defunct book publishers and ebook publishers that get on the wrong side of KDP's inscrutable approval process.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Yes, the hassle of storing and moving (or disposing) often exceeds its value. I had a good experience donating my old furniture to a charity that supplies impoverished or recently-homeless people.

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