mjbrusso

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by mjbrusso 1y ago
Now I feel old. I know void from K&R C and iota from APL
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by mjbrusso 2y ago
A lot of the work being done here by the program code was done in dynamically linked libraries in the original game.
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by mjbrusso 2y ago
This is similar `Resume Next` in VB
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by mjbrusso 3y ago
Where do I find the implementation of int 0x16 and int 0x10?
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by mjbrusso 3y ago
The First Computers History and Architectures Edited by Raúl Rojas and Ulf Hashagen https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262681377/the-first-computers/
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Show HN: ZetaMerge – New add-on for merging Google Sheet data into Google Docs(workspace.google.com)
3 points by mjbrusso 4y ago|0 comments
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by mjbrusso 5y ago
Wouldn't it be better to put SQL statements in stored procedures rather than dynamically loaded text files?
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by mjbrusso 5y ago
I agree. 68k was one of the most orthogonal architectures ever.
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by mjbrusso 5y ago
However , to pass a constant I could use default parameter value.
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by mjbrusso 5y ago
In the `logNow` example, the date argument will be eager evaluated, not lazzy evaluated. Am I right? So what was supposed to be a real use case doesn't seem useful to me.
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by mjbrusso 5y ago
The equivalent in Visul Basic would be: On Error Goto line
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by mjbrusso 5y ago
A game with this UI and Voronoi diagram rules would be fun. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram
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by mjbrusso 5y ago
I would say the argument is lazy evaluated.
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by mjbrusso 5y ago
Wouldn't it be time to create a International Obfuscated Rust Code Contest (IORCC)?
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by mjbrusso 5y ago
What about distribute LLVM bitcode?
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by mjbrusso 6y ago
x96 has been used in context of x64 + x32 architectures
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by mjbrusso 6y ago
> I don’t have a link to back it up but I recall that yes, PICO-8 in fact uses the two least significant bits of each color channel, respectively. "The cart data is stored using a steganographic process. Each PICO-8 byte is stored a
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by mjbrusso 6y ago
C doesn't even have a standard filesystem library!
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by mjbrusso 6y ago
Many Basic implementations had this feature. The SAVE command saves a binary (tokenized) version of the source code. "SAVE file, A" saves in ASCII format.
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by mjbrusso 6y ago
> The registers of the 8086 still exist in modern x86 computers, although the registers are now 64 bits. But they are logical (architectural) registers and are mapped at run time to one of the physical registers.
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by mjbrusso 6y ago
They are not comparable with Pygame, but easier for beginners: https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.io https://github.com/mjbrusso/game2dboard Disclosure: I am the author of game2dboard
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by mjbrusso 6y ago
VS Code is the new browser. Are there any extension for open a URL in a tab? A browser in a app in a browser!
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by mjbrusso 6y ago
What about compile to LLVM bitcode?
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by mjbrusso 6y ago
HP-12C, been there since 1981
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by mjbrusso 6y ago
I use Kdenlive in Linux (also runs in MacOS).