mmaniac

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by mmaniac 4mo ago
Least harmful CoC
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by mmaniac 4mo ago
You can have as many as you like, but Safari will kill them when you're not looking.
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by mmaniac 5mo ago
The biggest problem with monads that I am aware of is that they don't compose: if m1 and m2 are monads, then you can't automatically derive a new monad m3 where m1 (m2 a) and m3 a are equivalent. Monad transformers are one solutio
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by mmaniac 1y ago
> You know what's the most interesting part of this whole article? The thing Rust is very famous for, memory safety, did not feature at all. I think that's the essential point, really... It'd be hard to argue that the rest
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by mmaniac 1y ago
The GBA SDK is pretty minimal in terms of library support. It's mostly functions for accessing save data plus wrappers around syscalls found in the bootrom. Those syscalls are some basic math functions, a few decompression algorithms,
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by mmaniac 1y ago
What's so bad about _Generic? I would not let the name distract you - it's equivalent to overloading, not "generics" (i.e. parametric polymorphism) In that capacity I think it's quite a lot more sane than C++. Havin
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by mmaniac 1y ago
Time to put my language lawyering cap on. C99 §6.7.2.1.13 > Within a structure object, the non-bit-field members and the units in which bit-fields reside have addresses that increase in the order in which they are declared. A pointer to
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by mmaniac 1y ago
Isn't struct layout in C implementation defined in general? C itself doesn't specify any ABI. A given platform simply uses one as a matter of convention.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Etrian Odyssey released in 2007 and was a fun throwback to this sort of experience. The concept for this game is that the Nintendo DS's touch screen can be used to draw a map and keep notes while dungeon crawling. It's funny to th
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Nothing new under the sun.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Those rights, like to bear arms and freely associate, only exist on paper. That they are in a state of nominal existence and practical abrogation serves to deradicalise and defuse resistance against the government, not encourage it.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
All my online friends are on Discord, but I don't like it. Family and IRL friends use WhatsApp.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I think the point is that Intel had such a lead in the Bulldozer era that for AMD to overtake them was a tremendous failure. I would not say that the first gen of Zen is was a clear winner over Skylake. It took a couple iterations before AM
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The first smartphone I owned was a ZTE Blade 13 years ago. As a budget phone, that definitely had compromised performance. It's been years and years since I ever felt like my phone's performance was holding back its usefulness to
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Ice Lake wasn't the first iteration of 10nm - that was the disastrous Cannon Lake in 2018.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I was approaching it from the perspective of "What would be useful to do on a Wii?" When you approach it from the perspective of "I want to play with Jazelle - what can I use?" it makes much more sense. Thanks. EDIT: Fol
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Array parameters are a lie and have always been evil. I'm only more convinced of that now.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
This seems roundabout. If Elon Musk objects to The Onion using InfoWars' X accounts, can't he just make up a reason to ban them after the sale goes through? It's not like X can't unilaterally and arbitrarily close accoun
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by mmaniac 2y ago
This seems very useless. I'm not sure Jazelle was ever used for anything, and I'm not sure why anyone would want to either - least of all on the Wii's IO processor. Still, this repo links to some other stuff I found interesti
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Intel just can't stop floundering. Alder Lake and Arrow Lake were talked up a lot, but Alder Lake only approximately caught up to AMD, and Arrow Lake is still well behind.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The most interesting part of this article for me is at the beginning. > Now imagine that calls could specify alternate return points, letting the callee decide the statement to return to: // Dreamed-up syntax fn f() {
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I'm not sure I've ever seen a bigger case of pissing in the wind than Asahi Linux. I respect the dedication but it takes a special kind of personality to not wash their hands of an affair like this.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Adding onto that, the roadmap to Intel's next generation isn't exactly clear. Arrow Lake Refresh would have seemingly bumped core counts healthily, but that's cancelled now. I don't believe that it's cancelled becau
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by mmaniac 2y ago
NDS and 3DS cartridges had a similar form factor but operated by a completely different protocol. I expect Switch 2 to do something like that, given that piracy-enabling cartridge emulators for the Switch 1 currently exist.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Modchips on newer Switches use fault injections (clock/voltage glitching) but there exist mitigations for those. The Xbox One is confirmed to use them. I encourage you to watch this video where Microsoft describes the security design o
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Would they still support autostereoscopic 3D, though? I'd kill to see a New 2DS XL with this mod, however...
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by mmaniac 2y ago
MIPS II got rid of the load delay slot, so any software relying on that wouldn't work. The PS2 EE also had a nasty bug which would cause some loops to terminate early. There's a decent chance any random MIPS code would satisfy thi
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The Game Boy Micro still contained a useable SM83 and GBC PPU on the SoC, but the cartridge is inaccessible. In theory you might be able to run a tiny payload from WRAM (32KB?) but it's pretty useless otherwise. https://gith
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I'd be very interested in how they define a book ban. If I can go to any book retailer in some jurisdiction and buy the book I want, it isn't banned.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
SSH is one of those swiss army knives which turns out to be much more useful than initially expected. The various port forwarding modes have bailed me out of a few tricky situations.

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