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by Two9A 2mo ago
Yep, it's astoundingly inefficient. I've been meaning to pull the code back into working memory and do the things I mention in Future Considerations, but it took long enough just to do this write-up; could be years before I get ar
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by Two9A 2mo ago
Hey, thanks for checking this out. I wanted smooth motion to keep close to the JS piece that inspired this; it seemed like it should be eminently possible to get smooth motion, after all. And yeah, I was reminded of Bresenham's algorit
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by Two9A 2mo ago
Over the years I've written a bunch of things in the orbit of retrocomputing, the largest of which was an incremental game based on a C64 emulator. Somehow I've never written anything substantial for the C64 itself; this post docu
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Pong Wars on the Commodore 64(imrannazar.com)
14 points by Two9A 2mo ago|10 comments
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by Two9A 5mo ago
Arabic is on the Semitic branch of the hypothesised proto-Indo-European language, which has dual number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number) So you'd expect to see languages from western Europe
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Why was the Commodore 64 disk drive so slow?(imrannazar.com)
4 points by Two9A 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Two9A 7mo ago
It's worse than that even: there are delays after every _bit_ transferred, due to various design decisions that were made along the way, which is why the C64's disk drive is slower than the previous computer (the VIC-20), which is
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by Two9A 8mo ago
https://imrannazar.com - Sporadic blog posts on web development and retrocomputing
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by Two9A 9mo ago
If nothing else, you can put up a static page on the basics of Boglehead-ish finances; a copy of The Flowchart from /r/personalfinance would be a great low-effort stop-gap.
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by Two9A 10mo ago
Mm, I still recall the time my Windows 98 installation corrupted its registry somehow. The only fix was to reinstall, and the machine had no floppy or CD drive... getting Windows back on there was a task.
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by Two9A 11mo ago
> They're larger and heavier for the same capacity, but the lower price makes up for it So yes, the battery will be heavier because sodium's heavier, but it's so much cheaper that you can afford the extra footprint.
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by Two9A 1y ago
Reminds me of a ROM-hack for Zelda: Ocarina of Time from a few years ago, that was presented in the release video as using unused assets and storyline from the game itself, when it was actually almost entirely new material. A great technica
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by Two9A 1y ago
I'm reminded of an MVC microframework I put together many years back in PHP: https://github.com/Two9A/BirSaat Having pulled down a copy just now, the framework itself is 526 lines of PHP, and the sample site (a ne
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De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes(imrannazar.com)
105 points by Two9A 1y ago|135 comments
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by Two9A 1y ago
I also see a Login Via GitHub, but there could certainly be scope to allow local accounts here.
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Potatoqualitee/EOL-dr: End-of-life Disaster Response(github.com)
2 points by Two9A 2y ago|1 comments
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by Two9A 2y ago
Quoting from the README: Our VDI guy, Andy, was one of my favorites. He was grumpy, always tucked his shirt in, kept his desk Type A clean and was just so principled. ...I always thought he'd be there and was devastated when I found ou
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by Two9A 2y ago
I believe it's a reference to the look of a failed LiPo battery: it puffs up and looks like a pillow, but if you puncture it fire spews forth. Reddit first came up with the phrase "spicy pillow" to describe that combination.
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by Two9A 2y ago
Many of these types of games are daily, so I'd expect it's a different angle tomorrow. (Thanks for the hint.)
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by Two9A 2y ago
Sounds somewhat familiar. I worked at a place that replaced a basic LAMP stack with microservices written in Perl and MongoDB as a backing store, for the sole purpose of raising complexity. And left Mongo on the default settings for the tim
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by Two9A 3y ago
And I've been using vim exclusively for north of fifteen years with Tab replacement, never had a problem with the editor getting confused about what happens with spaces when I hit Tab. Some detail about the corner cases you've run
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by Two9A 3y ago
"CBE" refers to Commander of the most excellent order of the British Empire [0] which is a title conferred by the monarch on those deemed to have performed especially well in the service of the nation. So you can see how its value
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by Two9A 3y ago
Many years ago, I wrote up a post on doing this kind of thing in plain DOS .com files: https://imrannazar.com/articles/x86-printable-opcodes It's good to see the principle can be expanded to EXEs, I'll have t
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by Two9A 3y ago
I should write that down; -Z would've been really useful when my SSH server was falling over in a heap and I was left scrolling through strace to work out what happened. I wrote that experience up last week, for what it's worth:
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by Two9A 3y ago
I always enjoy reading stories of yak-shaving adventures whenever they come up, so when I ran into my own back in November, I thought it might be fun to write up as a post. This adventure starts with a small email problem, balloons into a D
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The Curious Case of Debian 12 and the SSH Failure(imrannazar.com)
7 points by Two9A 3y ago|3 comments
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by Two9A 3y ago
Oh goodness, this is the kind of thing I've been trying to find for years now: some method of making a computer from scratch, as in from raw materials. Will have to look into your progress, thanks.
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by Two9A 3y ago
These kinds of articles are always fun: essentially playing golf with the size of an executable or some other file format. To plug my own entry in the genre, back in 2006 a few members of the Nintendo DS emulation scene tried to put togethe
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Seven Snippets of Modern CSS I Used to Rebuild My Blog(imrannazar.com)
2 points by Two9A 3y ago|0 comments
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by Two9A 3y ago
Quick note: your article links to webbu.app but the link text is "webu.app"; that was awfully confusing. Might be worth a pass through to proof-read; I saw another couple of typos, but the page is now throwing a Wordpress database

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