ahefner

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by ahefner 10d ago
Computers haven't presented an accurate model of how computers actually work for decades. Compare the surface ISA of anything mainstream since the mid 90s versus all of the superscalar and out-of-order execution happening under the hoo
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by ahefner 18d ago
Do you really need a central directory? The tar and cpio file formats basically append files serially with a small header preceeding each one, and for most use cases this is sufficient.
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by ahefner 1mo ago
3 MB is still pretty big... try a rewrite in C.
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by ahefner 2mo ago
Seems to be a tradition rooted in the original Maniac Mansion. In Thimbleweed Park the multiple characters became tedious due to having to walk multiple people all over and pass items between them, though I enjoyed being able to see the wor
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by ahefner 5mo ago
But how much time per week does an SWE actually spend writing code?
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by ahefner 7mo ago
Every government is an attacker.
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by ahefner 7mo ago
This was really frustrating me. YT started recommending this channel and I could recognize the voice as an AI impersonation but had no way to know if it was at least reading something really written by Feynman. Eventually I concluded it was
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by ahefner 8mo ago
I think you're not technically wrong, but you're defining NAT differently than the majority of people you're arguing with (those who assume NAT also implies a firewall blocking inbound connections), and the remaining minority
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by ahefner 8mo ago
It's there in the name - "Rust graphics community" as opposed to simply "the graphics community". Language fetishization above the end goal - or, rather, the language fetish is the real goal.
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by ahefner 9mo ago
Apple is already sending spam notifications for stupid bullshit like that F1 movie.
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by ahefner 9mo ago
If gRPC overhead is critical to your system, you've probably already lost the plot on performance in your overall architecture. You make a fair point about smart pointers, and median "modern C++" practices with STL data struc
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by ahefner 1y ago
He definitely made games . Chris Crawford was one of the first known names in game design, a few years ahead of contemporaries like Sid Meier whom I expect you'd still recognize. Crawford seemed to alternate between computer war gam
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by ahefner 1y ago
The 8x16 font from the Atari ST's hi-res mode is pretty slick if you like something bold and a little futuristic. https://github.com/ntwk/atarist-font (or rip it directly from the ROM)
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Caves of Golorp, a Roguelike Game in Prolog(ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
2 points by ahefner 1y ago|0 comments
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by ahefner 1y ago
Not ideal, but MS-DOS seems to me like the most practical universal software platform. DOSBOX isn't going anywhere.
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by ahefner 2y ago
There's still a few Common Lisp features the mainstream would benefit from ripping off. Relevant here is the condition system. Conditions and restarts are still foreign enough that it's hard to explain to people why the "debu
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by ahefner 2y ago
Today by, way of your screenshot, I discover Asm-Pro. Just got into Amiga recently (by way of receiving one from my uncle's closet..) and have been meaning to backfill my shameful lack of 68k asm knowledge. Thanks!
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by ahefner 2y ago
Probably true, but it still stings that this dubious piece of software (speaking as a former iTerm2 user still holding a grudge) had been spraying my passwords and random terminal activity all over the internet in the form of unencrypted DN
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by ahefner 2y ago
Oh, I don't know - in my (admittedly limited and very individual / company-specific) experience, the senior management was hard to relate to from the perspective of us rank and file, but clearly had the Sword of Damocles over thei
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by ahefner 2y ago
From my perspective (for me, personally), the closing of Google Reader killed blogs. That's when I largely stopped reading them. Other readers seemed not worth the trouble, for various reasons. Was this before or after the onslaught of
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by ahefner 2y ago
But that's like half of computing.. every new tool the world inflicts on you, configured in Jojo's Awesome Configuration Language, with some arbitrary made up grammar punctuated by Tourette outbursts of special character line-nois
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by ahefner 2y ago
Salmonella as a Service!
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by ahefner 2y ago
SDL1 had no high-level graphics system - you either got a raw framebuffer, or an OpenGL context.
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by ahefner 2y ago
There's some irony in this for me personally. My most recent major "I quit Apple" rage moment was trying to get Flameshot (which I use routinely on Linux) working on my Macbook, so I could more easily take screenshots, just t
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by ahefner 2y ago
China, supposedly.
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by ahefner 2y ago
Curious writing an article about how setf works and not mentioning 'defsetf', only setf methods. I suspect the gentleman's mental model of setf remains slightly wrong.
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by ahefner 2y ago
Not Neo Geo, but I was fascinated with Galaga a while ago and alternated between using MAME on Linux and MiSTer, and it definitely felt better on MiSTer. No stutters in frame rate, felt slightly more responsive, probably a little less laten
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by ahefner 2y ago
New employee ramp-up or keep-busy exercise?
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by ahefner 2y ago
Gopher had been irrelevant for half a decade by 2002.
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by ahefner 2y ago
On the NES (or other 6502 machines), use assembly. That CPU just isn't a good target for C - pointers are awkward, you can't really do stack frames, and the addressing modes don't even support 'structs' very well. F

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