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by unwind 2y ago
Nice post! Also, not everyone knows that even the much-maligned old C does this. It's a huge red flag/cringe when someone breaks out memcpy() just to copy a struct value (or return it, obviously).
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by unwind 2y ago
Great read, thanks! One minor meta point if the author is (still) around: there is something strange with the styling of the hexadecimal literals in the code. Instead of having the prefix "0x", they look like "0×" even t
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by unwind 2y ago
I agree, but am amazed that you didn't include on-board flash, too. I definitely miss that in the feature set (but have barely used the RP2040 so perhaps I'm just shouting at the clouds).
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by unwind 2y ago
Great list, thanks! For original models, often with advanced and beautiful moving parts, JK Brickworks [1] is great, too. 1: https://www.youtube.com/@JKBrickworks
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by unwind 2y ago
Just to save folks a whole click or two, it's $750 which does seem ... steep but I'm not into retro computing (yet, a part of my brain feels like adding). I've heard it mentioned on Youtube ("8-bit guy", I think) bu
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by unwind 2y ago
Meta: the abbreviated form of "simulator" in the title should not be all caps, that makes it look like it is about cell phone tech.
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by unwind 2y ago
Uh that should have been s/needed/ended/, right? Typo alert! :)
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Microchip's new 5-core 64-bit RISC-V PIC64GX(hackster.io)
4 points by unwind 2y ago|2 comments
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by unwind 2y ago
This is a bit of a pet peeve with anonymous Internet writing, but: are we supposed to know when you were at university? Do you know when I was? Why not state something like the number of decades or whatever? And yeah, a void * is how you ex
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by unwind 2y ago
In case it's not known to everyone, the title is an obvious nod to "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" [1], a 1960s US sci-fi story by Harlan Ellison. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_an
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by unwind 2y ago
Why, though? Is there some kind of requirement that only fully trained carpenters can build fences?
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by unwind 2y ago
Fun! Here in Sweden, it's a bit difficult with the Häagen-Dazs premium ice cream brand, since they have some kind of phony-Scandinavian spelling that doesn't actually match any proper word (the vowel sequence Ä-A is really really
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by unwind 2y ago
That is already mentioned, in the fifth paragraph of the posted Wikipedia page (reference 8).
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by unwind 2y ago
Uh that is literally the link that is posted, that this thread is about.
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by unwind 2y ago
That is because the power indicator LED also serves as an indicator of the audio low-pass filter. Rather quirky, yes.
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by unwind 2y ago
I didn't read the domain, and was first a bit upset that the OP apparently flew to visit a store[1], but then realized that it's Mr Geerling (I don't follow him) so I guess it's more of a work thing, at least. 1: Yes I
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by unwind 2y ago
I would argue that one good point of the article is to illustrate to its readers just what it means, that compilers assume code to be free of undefined behavior. The resulting "reasoning" can be counter-intuitive, and seeing what
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by unwind 2y ago
Cool board! Would any of the "retro" game/home computer firmwares fit in that FPGA? I find comparing capacity hard for stuff like that.
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XCB: An XML-backed replacement for Xlib(xcb.freedesktop.org)
4 points by unwind 2y ago|0 comments
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by unwind 2y ago
Meta: I would have appreciated a "jwz:" source in the title. I didn't know he was on there, nor that he still posts about tech.
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by unwind 2y ago
Uh, very interesting although more images of the membrane in question and how the maneuver is executed would of course have been good to have. Also, there was very little support for the claim in the title, that the invention of the techniq
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by unwind 2y ago
Thanks that was a useful clarification/update. Fun to see that the board did gain more chips compared to the image in the posted article, that it gained the ability for "in the field" firmware updates without JTAG hardware, a
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by unwind 2y ago
That is 0.995 yards which might be relevant.
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by unwind 2y ago
The parent comment means "plating" as in the art/activity of arranging food on a plate [1]. Not, I presume, the manufacturing process of coating something with a thin layer of metal. 1: https://www.cozymeal.com&#x2
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by unwind 2y ago
Wow, yeah, they have even trickled down to AliExpress already [1]! Hadn't seen that, thanks for the tip! Pricing for the one linked (cheapest when I sorted my search results, but magic happens when you sort by price on AE so take with
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by unwind 2y ago
I noticed the post was tagged with 'gamedev' which might be relevant, STL used to be hard to optimize due to it doing lots of heap allocations. It has been a while since I was in gamedev so perhaps not true anymore but sometimes t
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by unwind 2y ago
Some dedicated players with soldering irons may have hooked up a simple pedal switch across the gun's "cover" switch. Omg how I loved Time Crisis and arcades in general. Sigh.
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by unwind 2y ago
Meta: title is weirdly truncated "te" should be "terminal".
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by unwind 2y ago
To me (as a non-believer) this is like a fascinating combination of the Ship of Theseus [1] and a little homeopathy [2], but with fire ! Wow, very interesting, thanks for sharing. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_
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by unwind 2y ago
Interesting because keyboards and programming are core interests of mine (shocking, on HN). I am skeptical about two of the main claims/conclusions, though: - I don't think enabling caps lock makes the comma and period keys produc

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