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by exsf0859 9mo ago
That particular code is idiomatic to anyone who worked with 2D bitmap graphics in that era. pt == point, r == rect, h, v == horizontal, vertical, BSR(...,1) is a fast integer divide by 2, ORD4 promotes an expression to an unsigned 4 byte in
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by exsf0859 3y ago
Shpongle albums are split up into normal-sized tracks. Most CD players, media players, and streaming services support gapless playback of albums, at least for subscribers. When a Shpongle album is played with gapless playback enabled, it so
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by exsf0859 3y ago
Cool hack! Also interesting that the performance is no better, presumably due to the lack of cache. The first answer on this forum post has what is probably the correct explanation for why the 8088 was chosen: It was available, had a second
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by exsf0859 3y ago
Fun fact: The PowerMac G5 CPU cooling fan controllers have a failsafe mode: If the OS doesn't communicate with the fan controller, the fan controller assumes the worst: that the CPU is switched into the most power-hungry mode possible.
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by exsf0859 3y ago
I'll add that initial dev kits are typically released 18 months before the console launch, that means they are built using technology that is one generation behind the hardware that the actual console will use. In the old days before M
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by exsf0859 3y ago
Yeah, the poor guy didn't know anything about Xbox, just thought it was funny that Microsoft was receiving so many G5 Macs: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/microsoft-fires-employee-f...
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by exsf0859 3y ago
Google's Fuchsia OS uses a microkernel: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel
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by exsf0859 3y ago
There were tons of alternative hypertext systems before the world wide web. Major reasons WWW succeeded: 1) Open standard, no license required. (My understanding is that TB-L worked hard to make this happen.) 2) A forgiving text-based forma
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by exsf0859 3y ago
He's covered the decline of BBBY many times in his newsletter, explaining the financial details and shaking his head each time. His Monday April 24th, 2023 newsletter, titled "Bed Bath Moves Beyond", covers the situation once
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by exsf0859 3y ago
I doubt they'll go anywhere en masse. They'll probably just grudgingly use the official clients. Possibly with browser plugins to customize the UI.
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by exsf0859 3y ago
Reddit recently announced changes to their APIs pricing and features that will probably lead to the abandonment of most third-party Reddit clients. Users of those clients are upset. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp&#x
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by exsf0859 3y ago
Besides animation and games, Flash was also used for streaming video and video conferencing. iPhone customers were so desirable that, over time, the video streaming sites had to support Apple's video streaming format. They would have a
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by exsf0859 3y ago
I also felt Tim was tempting fate when he said "You can import directly from a self published URL. Of course it's the responsibility of the publisher to never change the semantics of that code in an incompatible way." I just
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by exsf0859 3y ago
Thanks for this link, very helpful in understanding the Verse language! Verse-as-a-scripting-language-for-a-game-engine is an interesting experiment. The million script writers who use it are not going to have any understanding of the funct
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by exsf0859 4y ago
In my opinion Draw Things is the best stable diffusion app currently available for macOS/iOS. It's free, it is available in the App Store, it manages downloading models and weights, it supports a wide selection of popular models a
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by exsf0859 4y ago
Interesting UI, and great that's it's open-sourced! M1 Mac owners should also check out the iPad version of Draw Things, which has a large number of features and is in very active development: https://apps.apple.com&#x2
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by exsf0859 4y ago
As an aside, this document was created with FrameMaker. That's why it's got such a fancy layout.
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by exsf0859 4y ago
That's shortsightedly frugal accounting. Developing a working Starship is worth a lot to SpaceX. They could go deeply into debt on the first six launches, and make it up later.
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by exsf0859 5y ago
Those quotes are entirely compatible with "not really". Chris is talking about the Sooner: https://www.androidcentral.com/look-back-google-sooner-first... . It was called Sooner because it was going to come to mark
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by exsf0859 5y ago
It's easy to write an app that displays arbitrary graphics at 1600 nits on the MacBook Pro. You just have to use the Metal API, an "extended" color space, and a Float colorPixelFormat. I'm not sure that this blog post au
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by exsf0859 5y ago
I think MS went open plan starting in '07 with the "The Commons" campus. Some parts like Bungie were open plan much earlier. (The Bungie team demanded it, they felt it improved collaboration.) But before that, regular MS engi
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by exsf0859 5y ago
Back in the day, I saw VCS game developers use two techniques: 1) they would start with a working kernel from an existing game, and incrementally modify it to create a new kernel for a new game. 2) they would code 2-dimensionally on large s
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by exsf0859 5y ago
AoC won't teach you anything about OOP. The problems are designed to be solved in Python with less than 100 lines of code, by taking advantage of Python's extensive library of data structures and algorithms.
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by exsf0859 5y ago
South Bay homelessness has adapted to car culture. A lot of South Bay homeless live in cars or campers permanently parked on city streets adjacent to parks, school fields, and/or business parks. I think most South Bay cities have a &qu
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by exsf0859 5y ago
Landley's blog is interesting, too. http://landley.net/notes.html He often describes the step-by-step development process for building the Toybox tools.
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by exsf0859 5y ago
A huge factor is that iPhone has a large, long-standing market share, with relatively few different OS and hardware versions. This means that everyone else has been able to test their Bluetooth implementations for interoperability with iPho
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by exsf0859 6y ago
Hurray for competition caused by Reliance Jio!
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by exsf0859 6y ago
Looks like it's been supported since October 2020: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/3/21500399/apple-tv-youtube...
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by exsf0859 6y ago
Pretty sure the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_704 was the first Lisp machine (as CAR, CDR come from register names on the 704...) But DEC did rule academic computing well into the 80s.
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by exsf0859 6y ago
Err, as an Atari 400/800 owner, I can assure you that they did in fact have an overscan problem. Atari BASIC even defaulted to not printing to the first 2 characters and last 2 characters of each line. Here's an example Atari BASI

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