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by tom_ 3y ago
The Atari ST came with a 6x6 font, including spacing: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/876150/atari_st_6 - 5x5 means no compromises required for upper case letters, which are all readable, and punct
752.
by tom_ 3y ago
There are other editors?!
753.
by tom_ 3y ago
I think that's "Standard C"? Pure C surely just means you're only using C. As in, no C++ or Objective C or whatnot. Nothing wrong with calling out to POSIX functions, at least nothing not already obvious.
754.
by tom_ 3y ago
But for the price of the Cray, even without adjusting for inflation, you could buy a useful number of chairs. And just think of the electricity cost savings!
755.
by tom_ 3y ago
"You" would be ambiguous anyway, and might imply that you are addressing more than one, contravening the first commandment.
756.
by tom_ 3y ago
Interesting, thanks. I've always found the manufacturers' figures to be optimistic, but the real figures do seem to have improved over time. Perhaps not the case with trucks.
757.
by tom_ 3y ago
"Reduce fuel efficiency by 50%"? Did that really happen? I have driven a number of diesel cars over the last 20 years and the power-to-displacement ratio and fuel economy have improved somewhat over that period.
758.
by tom_ 3y ago
Looks like it might be doing the bcd by hand. See, e.g., L93C7 (and following code) in the disassembly here: https://github.com/CelestialAmber/TetrisNESDisasm
759.
by tom_ 3y ago
there's a disassembly here, it looks like: https://github.com/CelestialAmber/TetrisNESDisasm
760.
by tom_ 3y ago
It seems this might not be the case for American English, but "song and dance" is only ever dismissive in British English. The implication is that the complaints are a needless distraction, due to the relative insignificance of th
761.
by tom_ 3y ago
This is probably only suitable for write-once PC media as the timing would be quite tight for reliably modifying individual sectors in place.
762.
by tom_ 3y ago
"Even just a hint" doesn't deserve to be squirreled away in a mere paranthetical. It's what distinguishes some bullshit (the article's suggestion, whereby the allocator carefully checks that you supplied the right v
763.
by tom_ 3y ago
Good point, APETROVIC. (it's a bit surprising how very few HN users avail themselves of the opportunity of capital letters in their display names...)
764.
by tom_ 3y ago
You can leave a row or two free for the descenders, and it doesn't look too objectionable. An 8x8 grid is plenty for a useful character set. Some examples: https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typogra
765.
by tom_ 3y ago
Indeed, this section is a bit obvious, but it needs saying because some people struggle to figure this out.
766.
by tom_ 3y ago
Pointers correctly round-trip through unrelated pointer types, provided the alignment for both types is compatible. At least one bit does look a bit questionable: lfs_mlist is treated as the common initial sequence of lfs_dir and lfs_file,
767.
by tom_ 3y ago
If you use this stuff a lot, it is totally going to suck. Some thing has changed, that may or may not have a good technical reason, that means that after years of the program training you into behaving one way (and it's not like this i
768.
by tom_ 3y ago
And what were those certain qualities? We aren't mind-readers.
769.
by tom_ 3y ago
The Geekbench results for my phone (3 year old iPhone 12 Mini) do suggest it might actually be better than my 15" 2014 Macbook Pro, which at the time was about the fanciest you could get. Just 6 years of progress! I imagine the latest
770.
by tom_ 3y ago
I've never worked with anybody else that uses it, so my uses have settled on things that don't require much interaction with other workflows: taking my own notes in org-mode, and general text editing/viewing (config files, ba
771.
by tom_ 3y ago
I'm surprised the gcc and clang people have never noticed that uint8_t is an integer type, and therefore does not need to be a character type.
772.
by tom_ 3y ago
The N53 is notably one of bmw's less reliable engines. Everything that goes wrong with it is tedious to debug and ends up hugely expensive to fix because you always end up needing to replace several pricey injectors. Then it breaks aga
773.
by tom_ 3y ago
But the parsed value was 144. It's less than 256! It fits! Indeed, all 3 conditions for returning true were satisfied. Just goes to show the value of accurate documentation: (Always safest to trust the docs. The code could easily be wr
774.
by tom_ 3y ago
The name lookup routine is "Find name in catalogue" here: https://archive.org/details/BBCMicroCompendium/page/314/mode... There's no obvious length check. I guess the actual limit will be
775.
by tom_ 3y ago
400 is not an 8-bit integer! This function appears to be for parsing integers you know in advance will fit into 8 bits, rather than arbitrary input.
776.
by tom_ 3y ago
And besides, it was more like $5/£1 in the late 19th century: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tables_of_historical_exchang...
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by tom_ 3y ago
It's saved me loads of time when it comes to wayward strings and comments. I can take it or leave it for most of the other stuff. (Being able to immediately see what's a macro in C/C++/etc. can also be useful.)
778.
by tom_ 3y ago
I assume whoever typed it in just missed a word.
779.
by tom_ 3y ago
Yes, but those are common to all versions, not manufacturer-specific.
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by tom_ 3y ago
All the CMOS variants have it, regardless of manufacturer. The manufacturer-specific instructions are: - RMB/SMB/BBR/BBS - Rockwell/later WDC only - WAI/STP - later WDC only

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