hermanhermitage

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by hermanhermitage 1y ago
That’s been my experience. Across the spectrum of languages I’ve found certain features such as dynamic memory, managed memory, memory safety, evaluation model, etc all have an impact on the transparency of understanding time and space char
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by hermanhermitage 2y ago
Thanks for posting this. Lambda zero looks wonderful. Is there any background information beyond the GitHub repo?
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by hermanhermitage 2y ago
Every time Walter posts it reminds me my dream language would simply be C with https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html and probably go lang style interfaces. Maybe a little less UB and some extensio
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by hermanhermitage 6y ago
I'm with you on this. I tried Defold for prototyping a game concept and was less than impressed. It got in the way in a framework sense, and didnt seem to provide much bang for buck (ie it consume more hours of my time learning its p
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by hermanhermitage 7y ago
Excellent, thank you for those references. I also recently picked up "Data-oriented design: software engineering for limited resources and short schedules" by Richard Fabian, which I've not had a chance to read properly but l
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by hermanhermitage 7y ago
Excellent, I'll check that out. As (at the risk of exposing my geriatric age) someone who did 3d engine and driver work back in the mid 90s to early 00s, I found the bitsquid blog really useful to warping my brain to the near era and
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by hermanhermitage 7y ago
Did you try with the speaker notes on? That gives a bit more detail.
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by hermanhermitage 7y ago
I recommend the old bitsquid blog as well - it gives a good snapshot of the thinking that goes into creating game engines these days. http://bitsquid.blogspot.com
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by hermanhermitage 7y ago
I'm not sure its preposterous. Based on what I've read she and her team focussed on teasing out abstraction and modularity features in CLU based on experience building previous large/medium scale software systems. It doesn&#
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by hermanhermitage 7y ago
Fascinating - thanks for sharing. Another request for dosage levels here.
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by hermanhermitage 7y ago
The native disk format was actually broken into sectors, see: http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Devices_Manual_guid... It read full tracks at a time, but you can see from the doc there were 11/22 secto
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by hermanhermitage 8y ago
For another CP/M take on 6502 see DOS/65 at http://www.z80.eu/dos65.html
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by hermanhermitage 9y ago
Nomenclature varies, but I'm guessing the author of comment is using 'union' as the sum analog of tuples (unnamed fields) and 'sum' as the sum analog of struct/records (ie named fields).
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by hermanhermitage 9y ago
"monoglot" might be a more accurate term, but "isomorphic" seems to have the mind share. "isomorphic" would seem to imply having the same structural composition - eg. big ball of mud on the front end and back e
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by hermanhermitage 9y ago
A 'Compensator' is an element that dynamically controls the payout typically based on the current 'hold'. The hold being the amount of money in the machine. If I recall 'Barcrest' has a range of patents coveri
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by hermanhermitage 9y ago
2) The employees are not gambling, so they are not exposed to the addictive product. 3) Incorrect. Standalone progressives and linked progressives adjust the payout based on the outcome of previous games. Either the jackpot is awarded and
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
Looks like this is it: https://github.com/ttaylorr/dotfiles/blob/work-gh/Makefile
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
What i would like is to be able to extend terminal protocols to allow client side dotfiles that could be loaded in preference to the host dotfiles. Limited to user prefs, Key bindings etc. Wouldnt solve everything but would address the basi
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
Love the design of the instruction set. It was a lot of fun reverse engineering it and mulling over the design space. Thanks.
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
Yes, the first computer keyboards I used had both shift lock and caps lock. If I miss anything, I would like it if shift + caps lock, behaved the same as shift lock.
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
I use it heavily in Asm,C,C++ for #define's, enums, etc where ALLCAPS or ALL_CAPS tends to be its own namespace for certain things.
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
In, "they give me the shivers", they is singular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
My recollection was that https://spacetimeresearch.com/ (ex ABS guys setting up a plum contract) did all the data processing of the raw data, providing a representative but anonymous set to ABS masses for reporting. The rea
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
Not sure how it's done these days, but many moons ago (round 1996 from memory) I worked for ABS on the census side of things. What your friend says was utterly correct at that point in time. Further more, you couldn't even dial up
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
I'm guessing to build from source, you would need to install SDL for development: sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
There's also https://github.com/puppeh/gcc-6502 and https://github.com/puppeh/gcc-6502-bits to get 6502 directly out of gcc.
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
Also, there are hardware blocks for JPEG and MPEG for best performance. See vcodec.h etc. But the VPU 2D SIMD is good for non supported codecs.
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
Those headers are as I recall all part of Broadcom's release at https://www.broadcom.com/support/videocore . The rest is a matter of looking at register traces and lot's of hard work on Kristina's part.
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
Not ARM, but there is http://www.lowrisc.org/ , not sure of its status.
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by hermanhermitage 10y ago
Context: This is a first step in allowing blob free development on the RaspberryPi.

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