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by tom_ 4y ago
Then they are one of the exceptions?
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by tom_ 4y ago
I was almost with you, because much as I love the 6502, it is kind of weird by modern "standards". But then: the Apple II? Like, wtf man. C'mon. The Apple II is shit . Is it just because you like that sweet double density di
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by tom_ 4y ago
2008 was probably not the best time to ask that question - and it's probably not the best time to ask it now either. (Unless you want a negative, doom-laden answer, in which case you got lucky both times!)
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by tom_ 4y ago
The cars I've driven in the UK have varied. The only ones I remember for certain are Nissan Micra (indicators on the right) and BMW 3 series (indicators on the left), and the others have varied. My fingers only seem to know which is wh
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by tom_ 4y ago
Suppose the author wasn't Probably One Of Those People, and didn't apparently have some kind of axe to grind about whatever bee in their bonnet buzzes about, constantly tickling their lips? Then they'd phrase it more like you
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by tom_ 4y ago
Good to see symmetrical meta keys! Modern keyboard designers, take note.
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by tom_ 4y ago
Words aeem to be always 16 bits for the x86 and derivatives - see the data types section of the software developer manual.
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by tom_ 4y ago
This apparently isn't universally true; the manual for my rear wheel drive car says to lift it by the front wheels, put it in neutral, and leave the rear wheels on the ground. The automatic version does have to be set to a specific gea
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by tom_ 4y ago
Hidden lines were removed though only on a per model basis. EDIT: But you don't have to believe me! You can visit https://bbc.godbolt.org/ and see BBC Micro Elite running in an emulator. Do a Shift+F12 at the BBC Micro
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by tom_ 4y ago
This sort of thing happens all the time, and on average no global pandemic comes of it. What are the odds this will be the same?
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by tom_ 4y ago
printf_p is pretty neat, thanks for the pointer. But I would bet that you will still find at least one %d gets turned into a %s. I like printf format strings, but as a way of handling localizable strings I don't think they are the best
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by tom_ 4y ago
I've never seen locale-dependent format strings work well. The translators will change the formatting codes, and you can't change the order of the formatted arguments. You are much better off with some other mechanism for this.
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by tom_ 4y ago
The enum idea is interesting. I've previously used an extern with a conditional size of either 1 (valid) or -1 (invalid). This requires no additional boilerplate, and is #define-able into a static assert when built with a recent enough
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by tom_ 4y ago
"format not a string literal" is one warning I always upgrade to an error. Dear reader: you should do this, too!
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by tom_ 4y ago
Presumably this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_sex_roles
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by tom_ 4y ago
Another way of looking at it: if you don't want fread to overwrite N-1 bytes, don't tell it it can overwrite N-1 bytes! (Also, check the return value...)
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by tom_ 4y ago
I hope you remind your children not to believe everything they see on social media.
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by tom_ 4y ago
Even though God does not exist, let us suppose for one moment that he did: you would be doing his work.
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by tom_ 4y ago
This doesn't match up with my experience. The "tickets please" acts as a warning to phone-ticket users that they need to get the QR code visible. Could depend on when you travel I suppose.
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by tom_ 4y ago
The 68000 has the ABCD instruction: http://68k.hax.com/ABCD (and SBCD, and NBCD) The ABCD -(An),-(An) form is presumably for big-endian multi-byte BCD values, as the X flag participates.
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by tom_ 4y ago
I've found Meld pretty good for free, but I only use it for hobby stuff so I've never needed to try out the 3-way aspect. But for side-by-side folder and file diffs I've found it decent enough relative to Araxis. And, like Ar
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by tom_ 4y ago
Previously on HN, possibly not unrelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25115916
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by tom_ 4y ago
dear imgui is versatile in that it can be used in the sorts of programs that haven't traditionally been well served by existing desktop GUI libraries. (It also has a very convenient API that means you can cobble these GUIs together muc
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by tom_ 4y ago
Step 4, roids
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by tom_ 4y ago
Perforce is still popular with games developers. It scales pretty well, even if you have tons of stuff in your depot, and since all the state is on the server the disk space cost locally is just the data. As you say, you can just put every
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by tom_ 4y ago
Running his personal blog. I'm sure he's a lovely guy and that, and everybody likes him, and his writings are interesting, and so on - but it usually takes a bit more than this before 50,000 visitors per day stops being meaningful
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by tom_ 4y ago
No idea whether it meets your personal complexity bar, but 2600 Centipede seemingly doesn't contain a single JSR or RTS: https://github.com/DNSDEBRO/Disassemblies/blob/master/Atari2...
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by tom_ 4y ago
The sprites can be replicated by adjusting NUSIZn for the player of interest: https://archive.org/details/Atari_2600_TIA_Technical_Manual/... Looks like the tree branches could be two copies on the left, then two
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by tom_ 4y ago
The author sounds like they are using macOS, where the F keys aren't used much.
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by tom_ 4y ago
I can't believe the guy was literally called Copper Man.

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