mnurzia

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by mnurzia 5mo ago
More details about the electronic bible (released in 1989): http://pnylab.com/products/bible/main.html Very interesting read and a neat product from a technical perspective. I'd like to know the specifics of
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by mnurzia 8mo ago
MAME is a really impressive piece of software. It emulates tens of thousands of machines and goes into painstaking detail to get things right. One of the coolest aspects of their codebase is the ASCII-art diagrams of arcade circuit boards[1
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by mnurzia 8mo ago
I think electrical/phone sockets were placed at that level because many telephones were designed to hang on the wall (docking onto and covering up the faceplate) for easy access. My childhood home had one that we used this way before w
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by mnurzia 8mo ago
This is really cool. What do you think the remaining ~1% is?
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by mnurzia 11mo ago
Do you have any links to these discussion posts? This sounds very interesting, and I'm intrigued to learn more about the hardware explanation for this phenomenon.
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by mnurzia 1y ago
Wow! I actually met Aead last week while he was printing parts for this project (we both work at the same place). Surreal to see it at the top of HN.
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by mnurzia 1y ago
Neat tool, I could see this being handy for debugging TUI tools. I noticed that it works with _escaped_ ESC characters ("\x1b", "\u001b", "\033") but it didn't recognize raw ESC characters that I had in my
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by mnurzia 1y ago
This was the neovim plugin that really caused me to stick with it. I've been using this plugin for over a year, after the (short) initial period of frustration with the delays I was able to start really flying with vim motions. Now I c
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by mnurzia 2y ago
There's a MIT license in both source files, but I added a copy of it to the project root for those that have this constraint. Thanks!
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Show HN: Non-backtracking, Unicode aware regular expression library in C89(github.com)
7 points by mnurzia 2y ago|3 comments
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by mnurzia 2y ago
This is super cool. Any insight into how this may have been designed? High-quality, compact hash functions are really useful in C.
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by mnurzia 2y ago
I ordered one of these posters a few years ago as a gift for my mom, who is a scientist. Large posters with lots of information to get lost in are always fun. This one does not disappoint!
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by mnurzia 2y ago
yep, I started using it when I was 5, so that tracks.
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by mnurzia 2y ago
paint.net is one of the only pieces of software that I miss from Windows. After having started with Tux Paint, I found paint.net extremely intuitive and easy to use (very nice for making goofy memes in middle/high school, and quick&#x2
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by mnurzia 3y ago
Have been renting in Boston for two years because I go to school here, I'm renting again next year. It's not uncommon in my zip code for rents to be raised $150-200/bedroom/month every year. The green line is 300ft from
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by mnurzia 3y ago
I've had this list bookmarked for years. Thanks for this!
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by mnurzia 3y ago
Not really. The very first computer I used growing up (~2005 dell inspiron) had one but I could barely use a keyboard at that point. Haven't had access to one since. Do you use one? If so, do you think getting a standalone keyboard wit
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by mnurzia 3y ago
I could actually see myself using this, if it is reasonably precise. A lot of the software that I use is GUI-only, and I really don't like taking my hands off of the keyboard to reach my mouse.
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by mnurzia 3y ago
A few implementations of true(1): coreutils: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreutils/coreutils/master... openbsd: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/true/true.c?rev=1.1 busy
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by mnurzia 3y ago
I'm curious, why does this situation require Western experts in particular?
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by mnurzia 3y ago
PatorJK's Text to Ascii Art Generator[1] is still in my opinion the easiest to use tool to preview Figlet-style fonts/text and has almost every font under the sun. Still seems very popular and is among the top search results. [1]
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by mnurzia 3y ago
Adam Ragusea is one of my favorite YouTubers. Viewers seem to have strong feelings about specific details and choices he makes in his videos/recipes, but in my experience, his content has been invaluable for developing a good cooking i
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by mnurzia 3y ago
Used to be pretty deep into the TI calculator hacking scene, I know that there were definitely programs/firmware images out there that allowed you to fake clearing the calculator's RAM and archive, as ridiculous as it sounds. But
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by mnurzia 3y ago
Admittedly, C89 has very little utility, especially among people my age. For example, my university progresses from Racket to Java to C++, and has a systems course that partially teaches C11. Although good for teaching, I don't think t
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by mnurzia 3y ago
I totally missed this, good point. Slightly unrelated, but just thought I should mention: the sokol libraries are awesome!
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by mnurzia 3y ago
Not really, my implementation isn't smart enough to guide compilers to the right solution. Trivial instructions, like xor, are of course recognized, but for example the 32x32 mul implementation isn't. Maybe compilers will be smart
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by mnurzia 3y ago
This is an excellent idea. One limitation of a testing library of mine, `mptest`, is its inability to sandbox tests. I may take this idea and develop a more robust (and potentially parallel) testing framework around it.
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by mnurzia 3y ago
It's more of a fun exercise, I guess. But I do have experience with at least one compiler that doesn't support C99: Zilog's ez80 C compiler. Back in the day I used to program my TI-84+ CE for fun[0], and the only C solution w
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by mnurzia 3y ago
Definitely. My motivation for writing this was to have a simple CPU for a virtual game console-like project. I decided to release it on its own, though.
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by mnurzia 3y ago
This is really cool, thanks for sharing! Something like this would be a great tool to distribute with my emulator.

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