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by sehugg 7y ago
I vaguely recall making an alternate string class in the 90s that did this, also precomputing hashCode() in the constructor.
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by sehugg 7y ago
Bing has been using soft-core processors for search, 240 threads per FPGA: https://www.enterpriseai.news/2014/09/03/microsoft-using-fpg...
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by sehugg 7y ago
I didn't know yosys did formal verification now: http://zipcpu.com/blog/2017/10/19/formal-intro.html Cool.
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by sehugg 7y ago
Lots of TV shows before 1970 weren't renewed or had copyright notice errors, making them PD -- many of them on archive.org: https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_TV_series_with_episode...
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by sehugg 7y ago
Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 3,294 genres by Spotify as of 2019-07-29. The calibration is fu
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by sehugg 7y ago
Not the worst, but probably not the best either: https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/coconut-oil
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by sehugg 7y ago
If you are interested in anarchic sailors check out Moxie Marlinspike's "Hold Fast" documentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8105879
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by sehugg 7y ago
The alewife invasion and mediation is an interesting fish tale: https://fishingbooker.com/blog/history-of-fishing-on-the-gre...
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by sehugg 7y ago
Yeah, I don’t get it. You could just compare the ROMs directly. I can XOR any arbitrary secret message with a long enough key.
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by sehugg 7y ago
Woz quotes Breakout as the motivation for his Apple ][ design, i.e. "I'm going to design a computer that can play Breakout."
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by sehugg 7y ago
I found this WWW page with the Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_vortex It's a boundary below which specific feedback mechanisms accelerate extinction, fragmentation of populations being one conditi
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by sehugg 7y ago
Not just lack of A/C, but social isolation. Most who died lived alone, just as in the 2018 Quebec heat wave that killed 74.
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by sehugg 7y ago
The Anthology series is also a really good example of using archive material effectively. For example, you can see how songs like Strawberry Fields Forever and Day in the Life evolved over multiple sessions.
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by sehugg 7y ago
The dominant C compiler (CC65) has a separate stack for parameters and local variables, and keeps SP as a pointer in zero-page. This is a nice general approach that allows for deep stacks, recursion, and lots of locals, but isn't very
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by sehugg 7y ago
The Register reported the Perceptics breach on May 23: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/23/perceptics_hacked_l...
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by sehugg 7y ago
The only IDE I see is TTimo from id using Anjunta: http://anjuta.org/
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by sehugg 7y ago
A weird thing about some early discrete arcade games is that they generated 3x5 pixel digits without a ROM. They used a 7448 seven-segment decoder -- you know, like those cool LCD/LED clock radios. A BCD counter drives the 7448, then i
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by sehugg 7y ago
In the past 200 years alone, ocean water has become 30 percent more acidic—faster than any known change in ocean chemistry in the last 50 million years. https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/ocean-acidifi
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China Bans the Intercept and Other News Sites in “Censorship Black Friday”(theintercept.com)
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by sehugg 7y ago
There are a couple of other neat tricks, like drawing invaders in the pixel color of their array index, so that a complicated collision detection routine is not neccessary.
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by sehugg 7y ago
Dispute Over Russian Testing Divides U.S. Nuclear Experts (2001) - https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/world/dispute-over-russia... It's well-known that John Bolton hates arms treaties, see this 200
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by sehugg 7y ago
Is this just about Github Enterprise Server? If so, the article doesn't really make that clear, and it seems like a red herring. AFAIK Microsoft does not currently restrict access to Github.com to any country, and they even make a cens
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by sehugg 7y ago
Ah, thanks -- I must have missed that issue! :)
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by sehugg 7y ago
WWVB (the NIST atomic clock signal) encodes at 1 bit per second, it would be easy to hook a receiver up to the cassette port and decode this -- I'd guess someone even tried this back in the day. Though you have to wait 60 seconds for a
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by sehugg 7y ago
"How China buys the silence of the world’s human rights critics": https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21... Even in the 90s, when this was a prominent issue in American mi
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by sehugg 7y ago
Yeah, with just a XOR checksum this would be pretty dangerous even for reads. Of course, in those days you could probably sell someone a $50 FIFO buffer to work around the disk controller problems :)
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by sehugg 7y ago
I mean -- timestamp your files in ProDOS? Control your sweet X10 home automation setup? Clock your employees in and out? Run your BBS?
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by sehugg 7y ago
Nope. You can't even write a busy loop that syncs with the frame rate because the ][ lacks a VSYNC flag. Some modern demos manage to read the beam position, though -- they look at values on the bus left over by the video circuitry when
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by sehugg 7y ago
Paper here (not sure if this is the one cited by the article, but sounds like it): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22271-3
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by sehugg 7y ago
Thanks for the nightmares I'll be having tonight about URLs with commas.

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