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   by zellyn 3y ago

   Same here. As someone who went through every available golden-age SciFi book in any library near me as a kid, I think the modern crop of diversity in Science Fiction is a welcome relief. It's not all good, naturally, and it's hard
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   “Too much plodding coziness” — I mean, you're not wrong! The coziness (and the literal plodding) are kinda the point.
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   Yep. Same chip: 6502. I'm guessing the nearest thing to this is probably cc65: https://cc65.github.io/
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   > After extensive optimizations it turns out, that the interpreted code is not significantly smaller than the native code in most scenarios (although there are cases where the difference is significant). Does that mean that the whole thi
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   Agreed. It's also just beautiful.
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   I've ported the GPU code that OpenEmulator uses to WebGL. You can view a demo here: https://zellyn.com/apple2shader/ (source is on github). I also ported it to Javascript, in an Observable notebook, with some atte
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   If you're interested in Apple II emulators, the #emulators channel on the Apple2Infinitum Slack is a great place to ask questions or chat. Invites available here: http://apple2.gs:3000/
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   Do you get the same 100 dumb fish?
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcKTf9SVh4g&t=204s
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I came here to ask this. The output was impressive to the point of magic… until they showed whole grids full of fire hydrants and teddy bear training data.
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Is there a system where a single thread writes (ala David Crawshaw's “One Process Programming -- https://crawshaw.io/blog/one-process-programming-notes ), and then changes are replicated out quickly and efficiently
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    ChatGPT excels at producing `jq` incantations; I can actually use `jq` now…
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    This might be helpful… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpG8rgI7Hec I find it a little weird that these comments always come up on hackernews… if you type "wozmon" in your URL bar and hit enter to search, pretty mu
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Writing your own (even not great) emulator also helps a lot for building quick, convenient change/build/test cycles…
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    After years of owning services at work, I started writing runbooks for my house (and our holiday place). This looks a lot more organized and polished, but I can also highly recommend a Google Drive folder consisting of a main Google Doc, an
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    touché
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    NextLevel as a superlative, or https://www.nextlevelapparel.com/ ?
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    For some reason the Google Fiber T-shirt that Google gave out in Atlanta is almost indestructible. I've worn mine routinely for years, and still see other people wearing them sometimes. Not sure exactly what the secret was, but boy wou
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I expect this to drop off the hacker news front page with the usual phenomenal speed that Drew's articles seem to, which is sad. The post is well-reasoned, and damning. While I love Free (“as in Freedom”) software and the global collec
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    There's definitely a period of history where noticing WHATWG on a URL made me breathe a sigh of relief that the content might actually be useful and understandable. These days, W3C stuff seems perfectly fine (except for their standard
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    For the cost of just two or three thousand cups of coffee a month, you could easily afford all the subscription services you want that compare themselves to the price of coffee!
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I'm so glad to see all of your comments here. I've been fascinated by your setup ever since hearing about it on the Oxide and Friends podcast. The part that I'm most curious about is the part where you weave together auto-gen
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Would you have guessed that attaching springs to your feet would make you run faster? I certainly would not have guessed that.
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    A succinct explanation of how durable coroutines are different (in practice) from Temporal would be useful.
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    In my high school in South Africa, we were made to take accounting for a time. The entirety of what I remember of the experience can be summed up thusly: A. Equity = Assets - Liabilities B. Test time! Here's something we've never
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    If you follow the links, I think https://willcrichton.net/nota/ makes a compelling argument for the benefits of Nota at least in the niche of its intended use-case: making programming language academic papers more unde
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I predict WASM is going to thrive and spread as a generic way of running complex plugins safely inside another piece of software.
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    no
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Right? So weird.
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    For some reason, a perfectly cromulent comment [1] on this thread was commented upon as being “bot-like” and then flagged to death. It linked to a scan of the Marion Richardson “Teacher's Book” hosted on the internet archive [2]. The a