Scuds

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by Scuds 1y ago
Oh yes, apple hardware continues to improve and M4 pro still the single threaded champion of anything under 300 w. FWIW - last stage where the binary is produced takes the longest and is single threaded and that's the largest differenc
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by Scuds 1y ago
I have a mac m4 pro and it's 2 minutes to compile all of Deno, which is my go-to for bigass rust projects. ``` > cargo clean && time cargo build cargo build 713.80s user 91.57s system 706% cpu 1:53.97 total > cargo clean
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by Scuds 1y ago
I figured that articles like folklore are like an amusing movie file (say someone chopping a skin of a watermelon) that's repeatedly being passed around reddit.
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by Scuds 1y ago
management could have decided on a process change. Simple as that. I get the sentiment though, "He blew management's mind so much they made an exception for him". But, Folklore.org is a bit less onanistic than ESR's jarg
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by Scuds 1y ago
This being Lisa that's -2000 lines in 68k assembler. That's about as verbose as any real PL can ever get. For what it's worth, here's quicksort in 5 lines of haskell https://stackoverflow.com/questions&#x
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by Scuds 1y ago
"Seems like a waste of effort" in a vacuum yes, but 1 - GNU utilities is ancient crufty #IFDEF'd C that's been in maintenance mode for decades. You want code to handle quirks of Tru64 and Ultrix? You got it. 2 - Waving
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by Scuds 1y ago
you're just an end user, you don't have to maintain the suite. In OSS every hour of volunteer time is precious Manna from heaven, flavored with unicorn tears. So any way to remove Toil and introduce automation is gold. Rust's
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by Scuds 1y ago
there's a reason why people remember kent state.
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by Scuds 1y ago
there were crematoriums falling apart because of constant use. Morgues overflowing with coffins. Three of my direct coworkers died from covid. One guy didn't get his sense of taste back for a year. People just gasping to death in their
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by Scuds 1y ago
jesus, when's 4chan going to turn up here?
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by Scuds 2y ago
I'm kind of surprised that after all these years TF2 and Source are still separate entities. Like, is there any TF2-only code in Source that only runs if TF2 is the current mod?
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by Scuds 2y ago
I thought Monolith worked on doom95.
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by Scuds 2y ago
"3. your green field project growing into legacy project." You do all this upfront design about how it's going to work and then "Oh god there's so many splinters and sharp corners, it's only getting worse and e
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by Scuds 2y ago
that's one ep that sticks out in my mind - hardware hacking to dump a 2600 cartridge and build homebrew development hardware and then reverse engineering to figure out what's what. Also the subtle flex of making the Donkey Kong g
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by Scuds 2y ago
Digital archive means you won't have to, unless you want to see some yellowing paper.
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by Scuds 2y ago
There are two versions of Ultima 1, the original has BASIC is basic with assembly and there is a remake in pure assembly. You can definitely tell the improvements the asm version brings with the overworld scrolling faster and the first pers
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by Scuds 2y ago
I wonder what an equivalent "BSD from scratch" is like? Linux was assembled from a collection of parts while BSD is (reputably) a lot more 'designed from the ground up' Even a modern system like Fuchsia - what's th
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by Scuds 3y ago
Tell that to Q-anon or anyone whose sense of self-worth is derived from being able to see 'The Truth'.
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by Scuds 4y ago
They built a Go store into their office in Bellevue,WA - it's got the freezers and shelves but it hasn't opened. They built a Four Star store into their HQ in Seattle, and they closed it a year later. There's several Amazon B
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by Scuds 4y ago
I think my time is better spent improving my build and deployment environments instead of something like customizing my text editor. More of my work is in tying command line utilities together Maybe I don’t know what hardcore emacs use is
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by Scuds 4y ago
lol the busses don't go through Laurelhurst. why not? Oh, people who ride the bus don't live there.
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by Scuds 4y ago
I interviewed with them prior to the SAP acquisition back in 2017. "We're looking for someone with experience with ASP and database performance improvements." "You mean, ASP.net - not old school VB6 derived, interpreted
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by Scuds 4y ago
My local library(US) had a few of these and I'd copied some BASIC programs them onto my Apple //c and didn't know why they didn't work all the time, specifically $CHR or anything involving peek and poke. 8 year old
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by Scuds 4y ago
UGH! All this infrastructure and all this work into a software platform and it's something that will be obsoleted in a few years by off the shelf GPUs built on an standard development environment backed by industry That's the prob
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by Scuds 5y ago
I hear ya. I was in bed for a two days after having my appendix removed and for a few days just walking felt like I was climbing stairs.
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by Scuds 5y ago
go lil' electron beam, go! 9000 cycles/s / 1.79 MHz = 0.5% of realtime. The only time you ever see rendering a line at a time is single stepping through an emulator. I wonder if this is how FPGA developers working in VHDL&#
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by Scuds 5y ago
> In my opinion, debuggers are under-appreciated and under-invested tools in a programmer's arsenal. Oh yeah - microsoft's time travelling debugger is under appreciated, even with their quality tooling. But, it's on the w
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by Scuds 5y ago
not sure what this is ordering
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by Scuds 5y ago
So what? Though he's an philosophical founder, the FSF has stagnated under his leadership over the decades. It's like you're more in love with the Idea of the FSF than the FSF as it stands today, reflexively self-protecting i
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by Scuds 5y ago
If you look at Sega or Namco hardware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sega_arcade_system_boa... the 2000's and on is just console hardware with upclocked CPU/GPUs and more RAM, or outright x86 + Nvidia

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