gottebp

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by gottebp 1mo ago
I resurrected an ancient UIUC x86 ASM game, built with some friends in the summer of 2002 for ECE291. Claude Code drove most of the work. The first attempt was a full on x86asm->webasm transpiler which ran into some difficult stack issue
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by gottebp 7mo ago
Nostalgia and Claude Code makes some interesting hard things possible. Five of us wrote this as our ECE291 final project at UIUC in the summer of 2002. It's a Middle Earth space shooter in pure x86 assembly, fully software rendered. It
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UIUC 2002 – we wrote a space shooter in x86 asm. In 2026 Claude resurrected it(github.com)
3 points by gottebp 7mo ago|1 comments
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by gottebp 7mo ago
This started as a two-week final project for ECE 291 at UIUC in 2002. A space (or sky) shooter written entirely in x86 assembly. Hand tuned SSE memory ops, Mersenne Twister RNG, toroidal map physics, 10,000 particles at, all software-render
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Show HN: An x86 assembly game from 2002, ported to WebAssembly with Claude Code(particlefield.com)
6 points by gottebp 7mo ago|2 comments
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by gottebp 2y ago
Ah this is sad news. I came to know of him by way of UIUC's Engineering Open House. Back in 03' or 04' a rag tag group of us put together an "asymmetric capacitor" exhibit -- a sort of simple ion thruster. A kind he
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by gottebp 2y ago
Here is a personal anecdote that I cannot help but extrapolate on this sad day: Back in 2016 I made an impossible to get replacement part [0] for the Breville BCG800XL SmartGrinder and sold it through ShapeWays. It paid for all my coffee up
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by gottebp 2y ago
Every idea seems obvious to add to the OS in hindsight, yet we all lose. For a small shop these apps are their lifeblood and so they get constantly nourished. For a large corporation, this taking candy from babies moment constitutes a blurb
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by gottebp 3y ago
Radioactive Polonium-210 is the most potent carcinogen within tobacco, and it is not intrinsic to the plant. It is a result of past use of phosphate fertilizer [0]. [0] https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactivity-tobacco
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by gottebp 3y ago
I have occasionally wondered if they were fingerprinting users based on that mouse jitter. Most likely certain aspects of the mouse motion and timing would be unique.
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by gottebp 3y ago
I really wish there was a feature to lock the phone upon rapid movement, such as when a thief snatches the device while it is in use. It seems like an obvious mitigation to a common problem by way of the built in accelerometer.
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by gottebp 3y ago
Before it was called "local first" it was known as "subsidiarity". Seeing the principle applied to food, politics, software is exciting to me. "Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handle
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by gottebp 3y ago
Does the FDA not randomly sample and test for this sort of thing? Why does it take a university study to discover it?
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by gottebp 4y ago
Well, I do not. It is one of the most popular grinders on Amazon though. Many of us are already stuck with it!
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by gottebp 4y ago
Breville coffee grinders. The company does not sell parts, and so 3D printing was necessary to bridge the gap when mine broke a few years back. It ended up being one of the small victories over entropy for me, and I wrote it all up on iFixi
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by gottebp 4y ago
Breville coffee grinders fall into this category, and were impossible to get OEM internal parts for. When mine failed a few years back, I designed a 3D printed upgrade for the main wear-part in their BCG800XL SmartGrinder and it was not too
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by gottebp 4y ago
At the international level, it is debate-able. It depends on the goodwill nations have towards one another. At the individual and family level though, atomization is incredibly destructive to culture and community. Reliance on others is nee
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by gottebp 4y ago
We need a better way to reward the contributing artists making the diffusion models possible. Might we be able to come up with a royalty model, where the artist that made the original source content used in training the diffusion model, get
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by gottebp 4y ago
Incredible. Like a reverse Turing test: "Can the human tell if the virtual console the AI created is a real computer?"
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by gottebp 4y ago
When all elections are split 50%/50%, even the slightest bias in censorship could swing it to one side or the other.
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by gottebp 4y ago
The automotive firmware industry has had a strong preference historically for stable, old dependencies. With the advent of connected firmware, arises a strong force pushing in the other direction — towards frequent updates, built from lates
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by gottebp 4y ago
It is so realistic too. I know a Prior (similar to an Abbot) who speaks exactly like this at times.
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by gottebp 4y ago
“Defiant”…Interesting editorial choice for a woman insisting that her marriage was quite valid. Henry’s actions merely showed himself a serial adulterer. Defiant might describe him, but not Katherine. She was the victim here and Sir Thomas
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by gottebp 4y ago
After my grandfather got Parkinson’s disease circa 2005, I developed hand tremor cancelling software for the mouse [1]. It has gone through a lot of development since then; it is my best work as a developer. It suffers from the common flaw
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by gottebp 4y ago
G.K. Chesterton boiled this down pretty well: “The Special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it. It says, in mockery of old devotees, that they believed without knowing why they be
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by gottebp 5y ago
A whole house steam humidifier, if you live in cold climates. That feeling you have getting off a plane in a tropical zone, escaping the winter; you can bring that home. Sinus and allergy issues go down, mucus membranes stay healthy, and sk
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by gottebp 5y ago
You are assuming the very logic applied at the time of measurement was, is, and remains true. What if the laws of logic change every few minutes? Perhaps your are not aware of how low level we are talking. Epistemology relates to how we k
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by gottebp 5y ago
To even do a "test" you are assuming the truth of the axioms already. There is really no escape from epistemology. Axioms are simply accepted on faith, and everything is built on top of them.
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by gottebp 5y ago
More towards the latter portion of your writing. Science is a branch of philosophy after all. It has axioms such as: "The world is objective, orderly, and comprehensible." It assumes the existence of the laws of logic, and their
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by gottebp 5y ago
The axioms at the foundation of modern science are also accepted by faith. How do you prove an axiom? Follow the philosophical tree a little deeper and see if you can prove the foundation.

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