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by unwind 4y ago
This was a fantastic walk-through of the making of intro, including great descriptions of some Amiga tech and features, plus: quite the cute little intro! Reminded me a lot of some of the quick-shot productions me and my friends used to do
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by unwind 4y ago
Agreed, thanks for posting so I didn't have to. Feels like a one-man show/passion project, which I enjoy.
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by unwind 4y ago
No, in this context (a qsort() comparison callback) I'm talking about using casts to access the values to compare. Here's how I would have written it, without memcpy(): static int cmp_double(const void *va, const void *vb)
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by unwind 4y ago
Historically high employment rates == historically low unemployment rates, right?
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by unwind 4y ago
I extend the award of most confusing expression to you, for "0-100 mph metric". I know that "a metric" is not the same as "the metric (system)", but I really had to stop all neurons and think a little. Also,
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by unwind 4y ago
Casting should be safe as far as I know, the point of void pointers is the ability to point at any kind of data. Not sure about the platform question, I tried building it for a Cortex-M3 (32-bit "small" ARM) but that still doesn&#
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by unwind 4y ago
Very interesting! Cool that the C library holds its own, heh. One very minor quibble is that the C function contains the "counter++;" statement to increment the benchmarking counter, but the corresponding C++ function does not. Mi
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by unwind 4y ago
Thanks, that was fantastic. I played it in the 90s but was never much into sports either. I knew it was widely respected, and it was great to learn more.
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by unwind 4y ago
Yeah, that part: The Lorraine chipset was also very powerful. It took advantage of blitters, chips that allowed information to bypass the CPU completely. Thanks in part to the blitters on the mainboard, the machine was capable of displayin
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by unwind 4y ago
Well yeah, but there is a difference between teaching the mechanics of a language, and teaching how to write safe, correct and secure code in that language. Perhaps that mindset is part of what made C survive for so long and in such diverse
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by unwind 4y ago
I would think that the amount of RAM used by the lambda-monster (100+ GB to compile single-page C files) would make a practical application like that rather unpractical, for the time being.
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by unwind 4y ago
I learnt it a few years before that, and I remember how reading K&R once I got it felt like having someone turn UP the lights, open the blinds, wash the windows and basically TURN UP THE SUN compared to things I read before. So much cla
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Popinjay(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by unwind 4y ago|0 comments
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by unwind 4y ago
Sure, much cynic, but isn't the entire point of the article that using objective data (satellite imagery) it clearly looks as if politicians/leaders/whatever in less free countries lie more ? That was my takeaway at least, a
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by unwind 4y ago
Hm yeah but I probably dropped a hyphen, I meant preparation. Sorry for upping the confusion. :)
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by unwind 4y ago
Super interesting, but another case where I feel the value of the article would have like doubled if they had included images. "Here is what lox looks like, and here is smoked salmon" would have helped. Not being Jewish, or even A
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by unwind 4y ago
That's a new word to me, "overindex". Had to Google it, and that was kind of fun. It seems to be from economics, but nowadays a bit of a Microsoft term, maybe? Here's Raymond Chen in 2017 explaining it [1]: To over-inde
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by unwind 4y ago
That was in reference to her video about how to pronounce "experiment" [1], right? [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxeoVUtu_A
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by unwind 4y ago
That is truly a piece of modern techno art, appreciated by a choice few (that'd be us). Thanks for reminding me. Also, pro tip to people who haven't seen it: the "best" answer is not at the top, so remember to scroll dow
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by unwind 4y ago
Wow, that's a really ... neat platform [1]! Amazing work by Fabien of course, but being him that is kind of expected at this point I guess. Heh. The platform was active during 1988-1995 in the arcades. Some of the most famous games mig
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by unwind 4y ago
Did you mean O(n)? It seems hard to sort n items without at least touching all of them once, which would make the time complexity linear (O(n)) instead of constant (O(1)). Or are you talking about storage needs? Then it sounds very hard to
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by unwind 4y ago
Wow, I can understand why that feels wasteful. But ... it boggles my mind how someone can change their wallpaper in my mind) 435 times in roughly 3 years. That's a new image every (365 * 3) / 435 = ~2.5 days, all year around. Mayb
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by unwind 4y ago
Are you me? Jeebz how much I waited for and longed for that machine (I have the wooden box, signed by EvilDragon [1] themselves), and then kind of forgot it in a wardrobe. It's weird, that tendency. :/ Edit: Camelized EvilDragon a
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A powder that solidifies used cooking oil for easy disposal(fryaway.co)
1 points by unwind 4y ago|2 comments
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by unwind 4y ago
Thanks! These kinds of details are just awesome to learn, what a great community! Also: am a dad, and there seems to be something wrong with my eyes.
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by unwind 4y ago
TIL that a hard, curved surface designed to reflect sound towards an audience (and thus typically placed at the back of an actual stage where musicians can play) is called a (band)shell [1]. Thanks! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by unwind 4y ago
Meta: a bit unfortunate editing in the title, "OS" stands for "operating systems", not "open source" as you would expect. Suggested quick fix: make it "OS:s" if it fits. Edit: closed qoute.
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by unwind 4y ago
This sounds like an awesome tool, and the "hacker spirit" of it really speaks to me. It's really fitting to have a supremely technical and focused tool like this be described with things like "pretty C expressions"
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by unwind 4y ago
This seems like a great book, and getting a good review from Bunnie certainly helps build (my) interest. I originally heard about this some weeks ago, and kind of dismissed it as probably being "too light" on the actual learning p
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by unwind 4y ago
Yeah, I actually had heard about that but it didn't show up in my first search. Thanks!

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