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by unwind 4y ago
In what context was that used, if you can elaborate?
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by unwind 4y ago
Here [1] is an article about the 30th anniversary of the game (from two years ago), very detailed and interesting but unfortunately it doesn't say anything about his later career. :( [1]: https://shmuplations.com/galaga
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by unwind 4y ago
Very impressive! It's weird for projects like this, that you become constrained by the modern hardware being "too good". The display, a fairly generic 320x240 LCD driven by the ILI9341 controller, is 16 or 18 bits per pixel.
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by unwind 4y ago
This bit: It took the researchers 14 days to excavate the find and bring it back in separate enormous blocks to the museum. There, senior preparation technician Mark Mitchell was tasked with separating the fossil from the stone. This was n
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by unwind 4y ago
Also it seems to be from 2015, which makes it almost more strange to post (especially without tagging the year). Perhaps it is just being ackowledged as a time-less epic classic, I don't know.
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by unwind 4y ago
Sure, many people like that style, I don't. But no, I don't think there are any downsides, but there is this notion that things should look like what they are, which is popular in C. With parens, I would suggest spaces to make it
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by unwind 4y ago
Something like this: [1]? Not sure if those are in fact not clear acrylic, or just grimed up. [1]: https://whereandwander.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Vintag...
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by unwind 4y ago
As a nit, Arm does not make chips. There are no semiconductors you can buy that contain Arm processors and are manufactured by Arm. They strictly do business around licensing their various intellectual properties (i.e. designs for process
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by unwind 4y ago
Very cool! This example I think needs editing: memset(f->buf, rgb, f->width*f->height*sizeoof(uint32_t)); it's described as a way to "fill the complete framebuffer with a solid colour", but 'rgb' i
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by unwind 4y ago
Uh, this is bit weird topic for me to "well actually", but you're not correct about where snus goes [1]. It goes between the upper lip and gum, you don't inhale it. That would be "snuff" in English. Source: am
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by unwind 4y ago
Glad to help! Oops I guess that proves that I'm the cheap one. :)
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by unwind 4y ago
Meta: I think this title would benefit from an "Ethereum:" prefix, or something. As written, it's not at all clear what the context and topic are, unless you're supposed to recognize that from the domain name (I did not,
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by unwind 4y ago
Meta: this is a guest post by "qntm", i.e. not by Charles Stross whose site it is on.
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by unwind 4y ago
Here, POCUS = point of care ultrasound.
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by unwind 4y ago
That was fantastic. As far as I can tell it's an original idea which in this area is rather cool by itself. I guess I'm curious how much worse the heater-shorted-into-grounding-plane performs as compared to a classic full groundin
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by unwind 4y ago
Wow this is really cool! Seems to use flash and some ram for the kernel, and run userspace code from ram. But iiih it's K&R C: long strtol(nptr, endptr, base) const char *nptr; char **endptr; register in
797.
by unwind 4y ago
When I was the most active on Stack Overflow, the recommended link for a description of the XY problem was [1]. This was (is?) commonly used in a comment to tell a poster that their question seems dubious, and might not get high-quality ans
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by unwind 4y ago
Very cool and informative article, I was at least happy to see it here. There is a small typo, in the first whole-program assembler output (before the "Coroutines" header): jmp target is a copy-paste from the macro defini
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by unwind 4y ago
That is when you're supposed to reach for your Bus Pirate [1], aarr matey. It's a USB-connected Swiss army knife of embedded electronics access-enabling fun. Really really recommended for anyone who has ever had a similar need. It
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by unwind 4y ago
At a previous employer, there was a basically full-time team member (contractor like me, but long-term presence so it didn't matter much) working with configuration management. It was basically his job to keep the development environme
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by unwind 4y ago
Very nice, and I liked the detailed description of implementation choices. A bunch of which I personally wouldn't agree with (of course) but that's programming for you. :) As a minor detail, even as a long time computer user of th
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by unwind 4y ago
AMD support? No? :)
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by unwind 4y ago
In my experience typical microcontrollers in that price range do not have dedicated graphics-drawing hardware, and often not even any video output hardware. Sure you can perhaps use the much faster CPU core to do both drawing and output i
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by unwind 4y ago
Aah of course. Didn't read that far. Thanks.
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by unwind 4y ago
It's really scary and I struggle to understand what is wrong with just const size_t SIZEOFUINT64 = sizeof (uint64_t);
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by unwind 4y ago
The article says that multiple wheels can be stacked in the same installation, to increase capacity.
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by unwind 4y ago
Here, HGV is probably "heavy goods vehicle" [1]. TIL etc. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_goods_vehicle
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by unwind 4y ago
Aha, thanks, that's even more confusing! :) Also interesting (from a sibling comment) to learn that it's regional; I guess I'm suffering from some kind of confirmation bias; whenever US folks who do not call pizzas pies write
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by unwind 4y ago
US English speakers consider pizza to be a kind of pie, yes. It"s quite confusing for the rest of us (or at least to me) but that's how they talk. :)
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by unwind 4y ago
Meta: I think "RF" or "wireless" in the title would be warranted, this seems to be very much focused on radio communications. Obviously there's a lot of digital signalling going on in wires as well, so the distincti

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