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Show HN: Aex-GL – OpenGL ES 2.0 Implementation from Scratch(github.com)
1 points by quincunx 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Carburetta – C/C++ Fused Scanner and Parser Generator(carburetta.com)
5 points by quincunx 2y ago|0 comments
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by quincunx 2y ago
Why is Jupiter so colorful? If the variation of color are indicative of a similar variation in density, why is there so much turbulence in Jupiter, why are the upper layers not more consistent? Tidal motion? Anyone know?
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by quincunx 3y ago
I don't think you can follow the path originally trodden (competing on asmone 68K/hw with your fellow local coders, exchanging snippets of hw reg info and source) however there's a terrific short series of videos on youtube y
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by quincunx 3y ago
I have a few of these rules Interesting, can you share some other such rules?
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by quincunx 3y ago
"No, that's SMP" - is perhaps too resolute a definition. I'd say SMP is across processes, SMT is within a process, which would put the distinction in software, not hardware architecture. Definitions are more grey, muddy
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by quincunx 3y ago
For some (myself) the right shift key is the main shift key; so doing away with it would be terrible. Typically holding it down with the right pinky while typing full speed ahead, as well as single movement stroke patterns for <>{}?&q
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by quincunx 4y ago
What a great link. At the time of writing, Goal Conversions: - Visit/blog 12800 - Signup 8 I knew anecdotally that HN doesn't convert but, oof , that's rough..
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by quincunx 4y ago
The colorful stripes are more likely the decompression routine hammering dff180 (the background color) as a "busy signal" for the user. The Amiga has "chip RAM", which on many unexpanded machines is also the only type of
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by quincunx 5y ago
ok, interesting. I just checked, as of right now I still very much get the message "Unsupported Browser - In order to provide the best experience we require you use a different browser." So I'm not sure where our configuratio
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by quincunx 5y ago
I also use Firefox as my daily, but more and more software seems incompatible with it. For instance, AWS EC2 Global View insists I switch away from Firefox, that's just one example, but there are more. Anyone know why? I've always
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by quincunx 5y ago
| keep in mind that picking Java over Cobol for banking software in 90s retrospectively turned out to be the right choice Is the Java written in the 90's still the same Java written today? I feel the mentioned Lindy effect equally appl
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by quincunx 5y ago
Can you elaborate a bit on "resisting"? Been a while since I read it, but iirc one of his examples is of fellow captives telling themselves they'll be free before the new year, then the new year comes, still not free, and tho
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by quincunx 5y ago
The tech is pretty, not sure it works as a demonstration of gameplay though. For some reason this strongly reminds me of The typing of the Dead. A "Typing of the Matrix" would fit the theme quite nicely!
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by quincunx 5y ago
* Mythical Man Month (Experience) * Rapid Development (Profession) * Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (You're not alone, we all share this.) * The War of Art (At 9am, you are alone.) * Competitive Advantage (Porter, a personal choice
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by quincunx 5y ago
Link to Paolo Bonzini's "Is QEMU Too Complex" talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMQtog6KUlo
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by quincunx 5y ago
What is preposterous about it? You mean why I felt it was preposterous? Well allow me to demonstrate my naivety... I would have expected 50% to be "socialist Europe" type spending, and indeed, a bit of googling reveals France is
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by quincunx 5y ago
So I thought "gov't spending, majority of GDP" was preposterous, but then I looked at the graph at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni... Looks like it already blipped the 50% ma
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by quincunx 5y ago
It's not all marketing for the exact reason you state, it doesn't scale with the balance but is fixed. A flat-fee would be interesting for precisely the account holders with a large balance. There would be a bank-run-exodus of lar
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by quincunx 5y ago
For Elon Musk, Jim Keller or even Steve Jobs, their value isn't in manually doing the CAD / VHDL / Code, rather, it is being the Eye of Mordor on the critical path and understanding the solution top to bottom. No excuses, onl
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by quincunx 5y ago
Thanks. It's not that UTF-8 is not on the list, it's always been on the list, it's just not there yet. Hence I felt the need to stipulate the lack of it in the manual, because of its importance. If you're so inclined, ex
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by quincunx 5y ago
Thanks for studying this, your emphasis is noted - aside from this particular bullet from the "notable limitations," are there any other short-comings that you feel are deal breakers for you?
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by quincunx 5y ago
Hey, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate the insights. Carburetta is designed for developer productivity and hence "least surprise"; and so combines the classical distinction of scanner ("lex") and parser ("yac
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Show HN: Carburetta – C/C++ Fused Scanner and Parser Generator(carburetta.com)
3 points by quincunx 5y ago|6 comments
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by quincunx 6y ago
Looked up the significance of that date for Portugal: Freedom Day (25 April) is a national holiday, with state-sponsored and spontaneous commemorations of the civil liberties and political freedoms achieved after the revolution. It commemor
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by quincunx 6y ago
s/AMD/ARM ?
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by quincunx 6y ago
Please forgive me the pretentiousness of what I'm about to share, but this is so great: "You complain that in your part of the world there is a scant supply of books. But it is quality, rather than quantity, that matters; a limite
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by quincunx 7y ago
You'd use a single multi-bitplane interleaved fill-blit if the background surrounding it did not need to be preserved (eg. no mask requirements as per Flow - demos tend to do this for its speed). I'd imagine Another World creates
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by quincunx 7y ago
That's very kind, quincunx is fine, or no credit is fine too. Glad I could be of help.
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by quincunx 7y ago
To set the framebuffer to a single color, consider that there are actually up to 6 "framebuffers" (one for each bitplane.) Consequently, it is to either set all bits for a given bitplane to 1 or to set them all to 0. To control th

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