andrewf

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by andrewf 16d ago
I've a retrocomputing project which has been gathering dust since before I used an LLM. The idea is to render an isometric view with Quake-style lightmaps; if scrolling is slow enough I only need to render a small slice of the screen e
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by andrewf 16d ago
I knew very little of this. I know about the Inns of Court, but I didn't know this was such an Inn; I know what a chancery court is (Delaware has them!) but similarly not that it applied in this case. I've no idea what Michaelmas
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by andrewf 2mo ago
It strikes me as like setting up an IDE. People have preferences, switching is possible, but there are advantages to saying "we are a Visual Studio + Resharper shop" or "everyone uses IntelliJ to work on this project".
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by andrewf 3mo ago
It's a brand gTLD, like .microsoft and .google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#Brand...
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by andrewf 3mo ago
https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/z386/#testing gets into this sort of thing a bit more.
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by andrewf 3mo ago
The Quark core lives on as a control processor inside Intel CPUs - https://pbx.sh/intelme_talk.pdf
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by andrewf 4mo ago
Browser behavior like mixed content warnings (and a clear slide towards discouraging all non-HTTPS traffic) was the impetus for us at Twitch to TLS all our video in the mid-2010s. Mixed content delivery on a website would, I think, also fal
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by andrewf 4mo ago
The author's answer as of 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28586767 EDIT: I recall reading that the Netflix client can continuously select between multiple content caches. I'm guessing they do this becau
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by andrewf 4mo ago
I wonder if anyone ever tried to make the Clipper 5 pre-processor spit out Delphi..
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by andrewf 4mo ago
> Bizarrely, to protect dBase, there was no compatible Turbo C++ objects integration in dBase (you could import OBJ files from Microsoft C++). There was no way to natively use dBase from Turbo C++ or TurboPascal. I'm guessing dBas
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by andrewf 4mo ago
I find the constant use of punchy style tiring. Sometimes a "punch in the face" is useful. Makes you re-evaluate things. Being punched in the face all day, every day, is just tiring.
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by andrewf 4mo ago
OS/2 1.0 and the first edition of the CUA were both released in December 1987 according to Wikipedia; Raymond's story isn't dated but could've happened before this. (If I had to make a wild guess, I could imagine this re
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by andrewf 5mo ago
I don't think hardware page size has to match database page size. It would if Postgres was mmap'ing it. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-prese... says the database page size is 8KB
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by andrewf 5mo ago
Some keyboard enthusiasts obtain lighter keypresses by adding weight to the underside of the keys.
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by andrewf 5mo ago
Then you'll love https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpc.14309 "Six paediatric health-care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head."
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by andrewf 5mo ago
1. Potential donors get upset that they can't make directed donations to specifically support Firefox or Thunderbird rather than the whole kit-and-kaboodle 2. Separate entity spun up to focus on Thunderbird only. Now you can support Th
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by andrewf 6mo ago
AIX is still ppc64be. That and s390x are the only big-endian CPUs I can think of which aren't end-of-life, which I think is going to be an increasing maintenance burden over time for IBM alone.
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by andrewf 6mo ago
They may not be confident in its reliability over the fall gamut of cheap consumer drives.
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by andrewf 6mo ago
Did he write down everything he learned? That way the next person only needs to cover the intervening time period. Conceivably LLMs might be good at answering questions from an unorganized mass of timestamped documents/tickets/cha
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by andrewf 6mo ago
https://github.com/arobenko/embxx_on_rpi/blob/master/src/asm... Their stuff isn't running on top of Linux on the Pi.
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by andrewf 7mo ago
I worked for a company that published a PalmOS app. Palmgear.com was a very important distribution channel, but so was our own website, I forget the exact ratios.
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by andrewf 8mo ago
You could do "network shares" as in mount the filesystem from Linux and export over Samba/NFS/etc; it would probably also be possible to export the drive as an iSCSI device and mount HFS(+) filesystems directly from the
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by andrewf 8mo ago
> I assume we are using a lot more energy What I've learned from visiting my own parents is, you can alleviate the energy concern, if you (1) get solar panels and (2) ban your spouse from running the dishwasher at night :P
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by andrewf 8mo ago
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20130108-00/?p=56... Sounds like this is about making .OBJs that fit in the conventions set by Win32 and the Microsoft linker. If you were using Microsoft's LINK.EXE
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by andrewf 9mo ago
Swap the parameters around for C++ and similar langs where `assert(a, b)` evaluates the same as `(void) a; assert(b)`.
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by andrewf 9mo ago
True
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by andrewf 9mo ago
https://j00ru.vexillium.org/syscalls/nt/64/ (One example: hit "Show" on the table header for Win11, then use the form at the top of the page to highlight syscall 8c)
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by andrewf 9mo ago
Starting with FreeBSD might be easier than starting with Debian then removing all the GNUisms. But perhaps not as much Type II fun.
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by andrewf 9mo ago
Try something like: ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -c:v h264 -c:a aac out.mp4 To re-encode the content into H.264+AAC, rather than simply "muxing" the encoded bitstreams from the MP4 container into a new MOV container.
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by andrewf 9mo ago
I'm on a media engineering team and agree that applying the tech to a new use case often involves people with deep expertise spending a lot of time in the code. I'd guess there are fewer media/codec engineers around today tha

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