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by sehugg 8y ago
Here's my version targeted for the original 8080 hardware, in C: http://8bitworkshop.com/v2.1.1/?platform=mw8080bw&file=game2...
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Computer Space and the Dawn of the Arcade Video Game (2012)(pcworld.com)
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It's really the most elegant way to transport 4 D batteries and a 9 volt across the living room floor.
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by sehugg 8y ago
This is close to happening in Cape Town: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-drought/cape-town...
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by sehugg 8y ago
There are plenty of C-to-HDL languages ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8988629/can-you-program-... ) and there's some interesting tidbits about them in this SO link.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Yep, I longed to be the only 8-year-old in town that could have a robot fetch them a beer. (even though I'd never had one)
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From The Next Platform ( https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/24/a-peek-inside-that-i... ): The initial workload that Intel is targeting is putting Open Virtual Switch, the open source virtual switch, on the F
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by sehugg 8y ago
Inform 7 thoroughly explored this space: http://inform7.com/
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by sehugg 8y ago
Many of them are still fanless: https://chromebookdb.com/search.php?fanless My Samsung Chromebook 3 gets a touch warm but never uncomfortably so like my 2012 Retina MacBook, which lets you really feel it when your code is i
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by sehugg 8y ago
FWIW, Apollo astronauts used "over" and "out" independently (never in conjunction) which is still the protocol for maritime radio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedure_word
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by sehugg 8y ago
Definitely to the west ... those winds are killer: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id...
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by sehugg 8y ago
A delivery date for CADE 2, the IRS’ subsequent modernization effort, has slipped several years even as contractors working on the project have earned as much as $290 million. They call them "Beltway Bandits" for a reason.
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by sehugg 8y ago
Row #3, column #11 is the sound of Lex Luthor's flying propeller backpack in Superman.
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by sehugg 9y ago
In case it wasn't clear, people who don't have a Facebook account can't read the post.
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by sehugg 9y ago
Sounds like the same problems as the dockless bike shares. I saw one of those parked next to a Goodwill collection box, probably by a befuddled or malicious resident.
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by sehugg 9y ago
One of my Kindle books was rejected for unspecified reasons. I’ll have to check to see if a plagiarist got there first. FWIW I’ve moved recent ebooks to Gumroad PDF downloads.
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by sehugg 9y ago
It might be nice to have a standalone Z80 compiler for Modula-2 (or TP, for that matter) for retro game programming. Of course, you're going to have to emulate this compiler since it's also written in Z80 machine code...
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by sehugg 9y ago
I used the pumice-thingie for years, until it turned black. That and an old butterknife to scrape off the chunkier bits.
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by sehugg 9y ago
Here are the criteria: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/quality-of-... Among the measures used to evaluate states' natural environments are drinking water quality, air quality and total
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by sehugg 9y ago
This reminded me of the book "Longitude", a tale of truly epic clock-making: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book)
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by sehugg 9y ago
The unfortunate thing is that Putin has signaled that he's willing to use tactical nukes in a regional conflict, and the U.S. is signaling back that they're willing to do the same. A tac nuke detonated anywhere would be a globally
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by sehugg 9y ago
Not the first time he's been accused: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-icahn-insider-trading-...
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by sehugg 9y ago
There's a bunch: https://screenrant.com/movies-changed-for-china/
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by sehugg 9y ago
Was it AutoCAD? https://www.flickr.com/photos/btl/1601785146
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by sehugg 9y ago
Yep, even Applesoft BASIC had a simple compacting GC for strings.
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by sehugg 9y ago
I think they're talking about an implied decimal point, i.e. fixed point math.
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by sehugg 9y ago
More information and example output here: http://www.mikekohn.net/micro/java_grinder.php Note that it's just a subset of the bytecode spec (no GC, objects, virtual methods) but might be a nice way to get up to spe
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by sehugg 9y ago
Here's a trial strategy consultant on some of the factors behind East Texas as a venue for jury trials, seen through the lens of mock jurors: http://www.thejuryexpert.com/2010/03/east-texas-jurors-and-p...
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Though no one has done it yet, Alan Kay is convinced a modest Spacewar could be built cheap: “You can do motion with a couple of integrators. Heathkit has this l6-integrator analogue computer you can build as a kit for 700 bucks or somethi
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by sehugg 9y ago
I rely heavily on a decent JS performance baseline for http://8bitworkshop.com/ , and I also rely on asm.js / WASM. But I need different things from them. For JS, I need consistency and stability, because I'm dynam

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