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by unwind 3y ago
Interesting. As a very minor point, calling free(NULL) is well-defined and safe so there is no need for the if-statement in memory_close(). This is very clearly stated in the manual page [1] for instance: If ptr is a null pointer, no actio
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by unwind 3y ago
The maker in question (Simone Giertz [1]) has a rather ... complicated relationship with making sensible engineering choices in order to get things to work. Making things that are interesting and kind of almost work is almost her signature.
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by unwind 3y ago
Nah, 1,383/5,000th football fields (US) should be pretty clear to most people.
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by unwind 3y ago
No idea if it's relevant but the name means "claws" in Swedish. Seems to fit with the hand posture during use, maybe.
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by unwind 3y ago
I think the OP lives in an apartment, where that kind of invasive mod is not possible.
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by unwind 3y ago
Omg that is like a thesis on thesis production, instead. Wildly impressive, and great job with the actual screenshots for comparing output. Thanks.
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by unwind 3y ago
Perhaps I should write a bot for this: DTCO = Design-Technology Co-Optimization [1], PPA = Power, Performance, Area [2] and IFS = Intel Foundry Services [3]. [1]: https://www.tsmc.com/english/news-events/blog-artic
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by unwind 3y ago
I was wondering whether there was an FPGA onboard for emulation, but I couldn't find any mention in the tech specs [1]. I do think there's a typo since there seem to be two models but they are labelled exactly the same as far as I
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by unwind 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, of course. I think your story would have been even more relatable for some readers (definitely myself) if you had mentioned roughly what year, and which country or at least part of the world you grew up in. I have no ide
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by unwind 3y ago
This was very good-looking, and a good write-up! I don't know the author's background in (practical) electronics work, but as an embedded developer and long-time hobbyist: obviously there are solutions for de-soldering things that
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by unwind 3y ago
Very cool. I'm have only a remote armchair-kind interest in this kind of device, but they always seem like a fun platform to develop (I'm an embedded software developer). The product page doesn't seem to say, but I found this
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by unwind 3y ago
The term is also used in cars, the wall separating the engine compartment from the passenger cabin. The wiki [1] says: The name originates from steam-powered vehicles, where the firewall separated the driver from the fire heating the boile
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by unwind 3y ago
Not being into web development at all, how can you see "traffic patterns" for a domain you do not own or control?
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by unwind 3y ago
Just to add some clarification, I think what you mean is that one alternative way is to split implementations apart where necessary, and have separate translation units for various targets. That can lead to a cleaner implementation without
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by unwind 3y ago
Yeah, I came to post that too, since I found some of the motivation for the badges dubious, and expected to be able to drill down to see the comments that awarded various badges.
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by unwind 3y ago
Yeah, that was posted 24 hours ago [1] so this is probably the result of someone researching the topic. Really cool image on the wiki, so dramatic. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35871108
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by unwind 3y ago
As a Firefox user, I also got this. It would be nicer if it could just give the warning and then disable trying to run the shaders, but still let me explore and possibly learn something.
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by unwind 3y ago
I was going to post that quote too, it was really fun (and kind of jarring in a good way) to see someone use "the Internet" and really not [1] be another marketing/management/whatever person who just doesn't know
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by unwind 3y ago
As someone growing up writing assembler on the M68k-based Amiga, reading about the rtd instruction was mildly shocking. Learning it was 68010 and later calmed me down, phew. Edit: spelling.
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by unwind 3y ago
Yes, I agree especially for code intended to teach something else it's not a good idea to include GCCisms. I didn't find any section about compilation set-up (compiler, warning levels, flags etc) at all in the OP, but didn't
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by unwind 3y ago
This seems serious, and a very nice introduction/primer on how databases work under the hood, thanks for sharing! One minor nitpick after glancing quickly at the code: there's pointer arithmetic with 'void *' pointers [1
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by unwind 3y ago
There is nothing "dynamic" about what I suggested. There is a real, concrete, static and compile-time known type at all times. In this case it would be long. I fail to see the huge risk you're implying by operating upon a lon
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by unwind 3y ago
Well, the obvious (?) reason is to type less, and also reduce the risk of doing the wrong thing and using a type that is (subtly) wrong and having values converted which can lead to precision loss. Also it can (in my opinion, brains seems t
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by unwind 3y ago
Very nice write-up, as someone feeling somewhat left behind by the Zig train it's always nice to get a refreshed feeling for the language. I had to go look up "std.mem.indexOfSclar" in the source [1] since my, admittedly rath
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by unwind 3y ago
Now that is a tshirt design I would get behind. Or into, I guess.
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by unwind 3y ago
What a tease! This [1]? [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/f9avca/i_ate_bre...
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by unwind 4y ago
Yeah, the language and ideas are so cool they're nearly a whoosh for my old brain. But I will never understand why anyone would go out of their way to present a programming language while obscuring how you actually type it. I had to co
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by unwind 4y ago
Wow it's so small!! Only 12.4 km wide, that's miniscule! Earth's moon is like 3,400 km. No wonder they call it a "moonlet".
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by unwind 4y ago
Very cool, that's clearly a quite capable controller! The AUD$20 is for the full dev board, the bare chip seems to be around US$3 [1]. I've never hand-soldered anything in LQFP-100, sounds exciting! [1]: https://www.lcs
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by unwind 4y ago
Cool! I think you had an unfortunate typo: [...] will now help [...] That should read "will not help", right? Else I'm even more confused than normal.

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