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by unwind 10mo ago
I think it's worth pointing out that "in operation" here means it's running Doom. Which I was not expected, and somewhat blown away (heh) by. Very very cool.
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by unwind 10mo ago
I don't database, but I like to think I have some kind of intuition for storage space requirements, and this article was very confusing. Ignoring the indexes and just focusing on the main table sizes reported, we have: - String ("
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by unwind 10mo ago
Not in C no, since arithmetic on a pointer is implicitly scaled by the size of the value being pointed at (this statement is kind of breaking the abstraction ... oh well).
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by unwind 10mo ago
TIL the term "throw-up", thanks! It's weirding me out that Wikipedia's page features graffiti of the word ... SPLEEN to illustrate [1]. Wut. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw_up_(graffiti)
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by unwind 10mo ago
This is cool and great and all, but isn't it a bit ... stretched to motivate this by the fact that the nozzle is biodegradable? I mean for a printing nozzle with an inner diameter of 20 µm, how much material would be wasted if it was m
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by unwind 10mo ago
This: If you've ever wondered why your music quality drops dramatically when you answer a call on your Bluetooth® headset, you've experienced one of A2DP's key limitations firsthand. Made me feel old ... how are people list
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by unwind 11mo ago
It loaded fine for me, but that slash before the unit was a bit smelly. :| Just a tiny edit, but it's a rather core part of their message so they should probably notice and format it correctly before publishing.
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by unwind 11mo ago
The article argues that modern C++ has type-checked string formatting, so it does not argue for (unchecked) `printf()`, right?
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by unwind 11mo ago
According to Wikipedia, the writing was (mostly?) by Brian Reynolds [1]. There's an interview [2] which is linked to by the Wikipedia page about the game [3]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reynolds_(game
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by unwind 11mo ago
Tip: the next time you need to name a function, don't use "a stupid word that doesn't say much about anything". That's not how you're supposed to name stuff in programming. :)
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by unwind 11mo ago
This looked nice and simple, appreciated! A couple of minor C points: - The code seems to completely lack use of `static` for things that should be local to the implementation, such as `META_SIZE`, `find_free_block()` and others. - The head
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by unwind 11mo ago
Me too, but that particular picture was confusing. Shouldn't the board be with the human, 120 ft from the wifi access point being connected to? Now it looks as if the human screams at the board from 120 ft away, or something. Other tha
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by unwind 11mo ago
Neat! It's great when old hardware can be made better and given new features (and extending the life-span) by semi-simple means like this. It's also amazing to see how often a 3D printer pops up in these projects, nowadays. This p
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by unwind 11mo ago
By the way the rest of the (actual) saying that is the title for the Swedish book is "Only Bad Clothes". In Swedish it rhymes [1] which of course increases its power. I know it from when I was a kid 40+ years ago, and I think both
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by unwind 11mo ago
Somewhere I have a "RUN GCC" sticker from the Free Software Foundation that I was given by Daniel Stenberg (author of curl) at some meetup here in Stockholm. That would actually be kind of cool, I always end up not being able to m
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by unwind 11mo ago
Meta: this is kind of a repost, not even a month since last time [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580559
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by unwind 11mo ago
Repost, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849342 .
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by unwind 11mo ago
Huh. I thought the article was vague on what exactly these extensions permit, so I'd thought I'd look up the GNU documentation. Surprisingly, it [1] was rather vague too! The only concrete example is: Accept some non-standard con
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by unwind 11mo ago
I believe the reasoning for the "Intel style" ("op dst, src") is that it reads more like "dst = src" which is how it's written in higher-level languages.
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by unwind 11mo ago
Nobody posted [1] yet, it feels like it's needed. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
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by unwind 11mo ago
For people not used to reading MC8k assembly [1], it's helpful to point out the basic fact that the syntax is in general opcode source, destination which is the other way around from most contemporary ISA:s. So a line like
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by unwind 11mo ago
My understanding is T for text-based [1], the term is used about e.g. DOS programs too where the text interface is not historically called a terminal. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface
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by unwind 1y ago
That showcase application (other than Zed) looks awesome, but the very fancy-looking home page [1] fails to have a one-liner explanation of, uh, what the application does . Please consider fixing. [1]: https://longbridge.com&#x2
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by unwind 1y ago
If you have (young) kids, having active/plentiful wasps nearby might just not work. Wasps can be scary, especially to children who have been stung before, and they are super-impractical around kids eating/snacking, too. "Clos
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by unwind 1y ago
Cool! I've not had enough coffee to deeply understand this, some parts seem like magic and I'm not sure if the hashing is sufficient. Anyway, I am eminently nerd-snipable when it comes to reviewing C code, so here are a few commen
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by unwind 1y ago
Yeah, I realized that once I finished writing my comment, that it might be about communicating with the UI since UI toolkits are usually not thread-safe enough. Thanks.
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by unwind 1y ago
Oh: I was surprised/saddened that the article mentioned Cake's bankruptcy, so I had to check and it seems the company/assets and a lot of staff was acquired by Norwegian company Brages [1] so it kind of still exists, at least
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by unwind 1y ago
As a complete audio outsider, my observations are: 1. Great news! VSTs seem to fill an important role in the audio-processing software world, and having them more open must be a good thing. 2. From the things they mention, the SDK seems wa
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by unwind 1y ago
That science.org article at least manages to show an image of the ship, the OP covered the only (!) image with the headline, and then every time in the article when you thought an image was coming, it was ads. Anyway, I know absolutely no
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by unwind 1y ago
Agree, it was kind of comical that a web page complaining about text rendering performance uses some kind of design that a) only has relevant content on ~half the screen and b) causes me to have to wait every time I move the scroll wheel.

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