nickynickell

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by nickynickell 1y ago
Coincidentally, I bought one of these recently and it was delivered this morning. Including the MultiPort II port replicator and floppy drive. Boots and runs fine (sans some unhappy memory locations and dead CMOS). Need to clone the disk so
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by nickynickell 7y ago
Many games already throw brass across the screen. To the extent that mirroring weapons or using lefty versions right handed is a thing. It "looks cool."
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by nickynickell 7y ago
> we figured out how to send messages to all computers (using Novell Zenworks or something) The Novell messaging utility[0] thing? For us that was disabled in the registry. Unfortunately that was an easy fix. "Fun" times were h
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by nickynickell 7y ago
They were joking, and you're being needlessly hostile. Plus you're wrong on multiple counts. Most of the counter examples are historic, but still. Yes, barrel is not a unit of rounds, but there are situations where it would be app
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by nickynickell 7y ago
In this context we're talking about death: giving more death to the enemy than they could give to you. Ultimately the meaning is the same as your rewording. Just a bit more grim.
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by nickynickell 7y ago
I'd wager they meant drum. Though superimposed loads are a thing too.
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by nickynickell 8y ago
Not a hard confirm, but I stood there marveling at the pneumatic ceiling fans in an Amish bakery once. Each one had a little oscillating engine and some plumbing for the compressed air.
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by nickynickell 8y ago
Why does it need to be relevant for more people? It looks as if you're treating it as a means to an end. I would say that it was more of an end in itself. Sure, something else might have been more impactful to a larger number of people
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by nickynickell 9y ago
To clarify, I was only talking about audio formats. Not automagically converting everything to run on the new engine. Doing that would kind of be missing the point. There is a similar project redoing New Vegas in Fallout 4 (F4NV - I'm
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by nickynickell 9y ago
Supposedly some file formats have changed between Fallout 3 and 4 so you'd need to convert said files as well. Not exactly an insurmountable technical hurdle. There is at least one other similar project that isn't shutting down. T
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by nickynickell 9y ago
Is that number attached or crawling? If attached, how many have you caught before they dug in? I live in the same area and that number would be really low. Stumble on some deer ticks and you'd be lucky if you only end up with 10x that
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by nickynickell 9y ago
The best 879 pages of urgent meaninglessness and near-constant déjà vu ever written. I found picking different starting points on later re-reads rather interesting. For anyone who hasn't read it, Dhalgren is circular, but there are a h
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by nickynickell 9y ago
Pretty slick for what I'm assuming is your first big project. Tangentially related: do you think your mentor might have been indirectly encouraging you by telling you it was impossible? I've been on both ends of that trick and hav
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by nickynickell 10y ago
That is beautifully well documented. Are you planning to extend it further or do any similar projects?
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by nickynickell 10y ago
Take it a step lower and do one in assembly and it is even more fun. I almost have enough code together to say that I'm doing one in RISC-V assembly. At this point I have already accidentally picked up a more intuitive understanding of
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by nickynickell 10y ago
So far everything is in Logisim[1], but I'm actually thinking of writing an emulator so I can debug programs quicker. I started a lisp interpreter in risc-v assembly, but testing my code at 3khz (the max logisim will run my design at)
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by nickynickell 10y ago
Actually designing an ISA is voodoo, but doing the mircrocode is fairly easy. On a tiny little 4-bit design with only a few control lines you can do it by hand. Past a certain point, though, it is essentially impossible to do manually witho
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by nickynickell 10y ago
I'm actually gearing up for a RISC-V processor in Fallout 4. All of the design work is done, but building it with the vanilla logic gates (introduced in the Contraptions DLC) actually isn't possible. Luckily I already had a mod wi
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by nickynickell 10y ago
Having done a bit of lisp spelunking myself, I would suggest that you dig into the source of the lisp your program ran under. Trying to figure out behavior from the surrounding context can be rather difficult when you're playing with a