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by leeter 15d ago
Examples include: * replacements for the C64 PLA, CIA, and potentially the SID * Glue logic for a bread board project where it would require a lot of 74 or 4k series logic * Translating TTL to VGA etc. These are things people have used FPGA
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by leeter 1mo ago
Good to know, thank you
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by leeter 1mo ago
Pretty sure 3DNow's instruction space has been repurposed too. There are a few like that, or worse extremely similar but ever so slightly different between vendors or even generations of the same vendor. I won't claim to be an exp
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by leeter 2mo ago
Possibly controversial opinion, but radio stopped being relevant to me personally when congress removed the ownership restrictions for a single market. It's only gotten worse from there IMO. Radio is about catering to a very specific,
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by leeter 2mo ago
Hug of death by all appearances, here's an archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20260710102120/https://www.loicm...
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Gor Nishanov (1971-2026)(herbsutter.com)
5 points by leeter 3mo ago|2 comments
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by leeter 3mo ago
Gor Nishanov, driver behind C++ coroutines has died
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by leeter 3mo ago
> Windows 3.1 had no memory protection at all All of the below is... IIRC Win16, even in protected mode, in general didn't unless you opted out of the shared VDM. This was to preserve compatibility with how non-protected mode code w
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by leeter 4mo ago
Did you enjoy your last meal and funeral? Either way glad you got better!
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by leeter 4mo ago
Maybe? It's a 400V architecture, and honestly that's my criticism... 400V seems low at this point. Particularly for something requiring an "Authorized Installer" I'd have expected 800V architecture, if not pushing h
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by leeter 6mo ago
This is why I've said for years: If you want to drive best practices and policy with companies you can only do it with liability. Particularly non-insurable and non-tax deductible liability. If a company can't offload civil or cri
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by leeter 7mo ago
When MS removed Solitaire and made it an app, that should have been the sign to move. When they introduced a mobile first UI onto a desktop OS... When they forced mandatory Microsoft accounts... When they started saving files that had no pl
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by leeter 7mo ago
Based on the info if you click into them, likely no. I would have expected them to be incidental materials from tunneling, but reading the description that's not the case.
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by leeter 7mo ago
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by leeter 8mo ago
I believe you're thinking of the x86 Hotpatching hook[1], which doesn't exist on x86-64[2] (in the same form, it uses a x86-64 safe one). [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=95..
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by leeter 8mo ago
Almost assuredly, given that 10.0 was released on 32bit PPC... and was built around Carbon, not Cocoa... yeah it's changed just a wee bit.
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by leeter 9mo ago
I think I said something about the stack efficiency. I was a kid that barely understood out of order execution. Register renaming and the rest was well beyond me. It was also a long time ago, so recollections are fuzzy. But, I do recall is
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by leeter 9mo ago
I remember failing an interview with the optimization team of a large fruit trademarked computer maker because I couldn't explain why the x87 stack was a bad design. TBF they were looking for someone with a masters, not someone just gr
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by leeter 10mo ago
I believe the Academy Awards and a few other things too also influence this. The rules to be eligible still very much favor legacy studios IIRC. But, with this that may change? Hard to say. I know that quite a few Netflix movies have had th
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by leeter 10mo ago
Honestly? I expected this to be talking about the MiSTer project FPGA core[1]. That has been tuned so it's capable of running the AREA5150 demo[2] which is an insane challenge (AFAIK the timings of the v20 break that demo). Not saying
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by leeter 11mo ago
I've said for years that any smart thermostat should have a bimetallic backup that controls maximum ranges and acts in the dumbest way possible. Just max temp and min temp for AC and heat. Nothing that should ever be hit... but there n
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by leeter 11mo ago
So there is a reason that in the C++ spec if a std::thread is still joinable when the destructor is called it calls std::terminate[1]. That reason being exactly this case. If the house is being torn down it's not safe to try to save th
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by leeter 11mo ago
I'm reminded of Raymond Chen's many many blogs[1][2][3](there are a lot more) on why TerminateThread is a bad idea. Not surprised at all the same is true elsewhere. I will say in my own code this is why I tend to prefer cancellabl
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by leeter 11mo ago
Why github didn't is beyond me. Even if something isn't merge clean doesn't mean linters shouldn't be run. I get not running deployments etc. but not even having the option is pain.
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by leeter 11mo ago
I don't disagree... but, there is a use case for orgs that don't allow forks. Some tools do their merging outside of github and thus allow for PRs that cannot be clean from a merge perspective. This won't trigger workflows th
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by leeter 1y ago
You are correct, I need to edit my post because they both boot up in unreal mode. The 32bit Segment limit is an unreal mode thing.
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by leeter 1y ago
> it was only very recently that your 64 core CPU stopped pretending to be an 8086 during initial boot Still Does[1]: >> After a RESET or INIT, the processor is operating in 16-bit real mode. Normally within real mode, the code-seg
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by leeter 1y ago
They would not, the term you're looking for is "Loading Gauge"[1]. The US freight loading gauge is one of the larger ones. That said there are other reasons a subway could end up being subject to Federal Railroad Administrati
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by leeter 1y ago
I remember having a prior boss of mine asked if the application the company I was working for made could use PDF as an input. His response was to laugh then say "No, there is no coming back from chaos." The article has only reinfo
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by leeter 1y ago
There are tricks. I've been through such an acquisition. The purchaser sets up a new "Philz Coffee Co LLC" then purchases assets and operations for the exact amount the preferred stock holders want. They then liquidate the ol

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