sehugg

5 ms·

1.
by sehugg 3d ago
I wrote a conversational insult generator in AppleSoft BASIC, inspired by a program called "Abuse" that I saw advertised in a magazine, and of course by Eliza.
2.
by sehugg 8d ago
I did a PWM demo on the Apple II using a format similar to the DPCM samples on the NES. Those samples have a pretty simple format: a 1 bit raises the amplitude, a 0 bit lowers it. So you're kinda approximating the waveform with a bunch
3.
by sehugg 12d ago
And also the hamster has two mouths
4.
by sehugg 15d ago
The CE40-HX1K iCEstick has inexplicably increased to $158 on the Lattice Store. Pretty spendy for 1280 LUTs. The Olimex Ltd. ICE40HX1K-EVB might be a good substitute at $21.
5.
by sehugg 27d ago
Compile this, GOTO breath!
6.
by sehugg 2mo ago
Are you planning to feed the info back into OSM?
7.
by sehugg 2mo ago
Windows 95 was hamstrung by DOS compatibility. If you installed OS/2, you could have butter-smooth mouse cursor movement even while formatting a floppy disk and running a DOS (or even Windows!) VM in another window. And if you had a XG
8.
by sehugg 2mo ago
The LM landing algorithm was also based on a polynomial, with "time-to-go" as the variable. Problems would occur if that variable went negative.
9.
by sehugg 2mo ago
Well except for Jungle King
10.
by sehugg 2mo ago
The programmable scanline-buffer-based rendering pipeline described in the PDF is worth a read for fans of such things.
11.
by sehugg 2mo ago
And relativity describes the orbit of the quick-moving planet Mercury which shares its name with the quick-flowing element. What a world.
12.
by sehugg 2mo ago
Also current place names. You can sometimes find a business on OSM that has correct metadata, but in many areas the majority are missing or stale (like, closed 10+ years ago.) Solving this is an "interesting" problem to say the le
13.
by sehugg 3mo ago
It's in the uncanny valley, that's for sure. I never had much luck with it because you have to memorize a ton of specific English phrase templates and remember how they are injected into the game logic, and you often have to escap
14.
by sehugg 3mo ago
The dual phase clocking is perhaps inspired by the 6502.
15.
by sehugg 3mo ago
FYI Berke Breathed (Bill's contemporary, occasional collaborator and pen-pal) is still posting new Bloom County comics on his Patreon.
16.
by sehugg 4mo ago
I tried to compile something and the Pi ran out of memory I think your beef is not with Meshtastic, but with the distro/compiler, and I am going to bet you're compiling C++ with clang.
17.
by sehugg 4mo ago
Hmmm, need a asm.js -> WASM transpiler maybe. (compiling legacy code with legacy versions of Emscripten is quite frustrating, almost as bad as updating your JS code to be compatible with accumulated changes in the Emscripten ABI)
18.
The Broken Basic Years(scruss.com)
3 points by sehugg 4mo ago|0 comments
19.
NERC Issues Level 3 Alert re: computational loads(nerc.com)
3 points by sehugg 4mo ago|0 comments
20.
by sehugg 5mo ago
I sometimes wonder what "Turbo Ada" would have looked like, but I think it would have probably looked like later versions of Borland Pascal. Things like generics and exceptions would have taken some of the "turbo" out of
21.
by sehugg 5mo ago
I'm guessing Apple had stopped putting board schematics and ROM listings in their reference manuals by the time the ACE came out, or perhaps soon afterwards.
22.
by sehugg 6mo ago
IIRC they also had the first native (100% Java) JDBC driver, so you could run from any platform and without weird JNI locking issues when using threads.
23.
by sehugg 6mo ago
I really prefer the 2D pixel graphics of the original Civ. But the middle game can be a slog due to micromanagement, e.g. loading units onto boats. I would love to see a few tweaks, fixing bugs like disappearing units, and a stronger AI tha
24.
by sehugg 6mo ago
I had one of those 133 MHz 486 chips, think it was AMD. Nice DOS gaming machine.
25.
by sehugg 6mo ago
That's hilarious. I've been following Mario since his work on libGDX and RoboVM. His blog post on pi is here: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/
26.
by sehugg 6mo ago
You can see some of these objects at Musée des Arts et Métiers: https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/musee/les-objets-inconfortab...
27.
by sehugg 6mo ago
It's not the wrong design; RISC-V is designed around extensions, and they left room in the instruction encoding for them. They don't have a 800-lb gorilla like Intel shoving the ISA down customers' throats (Canonical is the c
28.
by sehugg 6mo ago
From the docs, I couldn't tell if it had disassembled very much of the EXE. Looks like it extracted most of the assets, the presence of open-source modding tools for this game in training data likely helped a bit.
29.
by sehugg 7mo ago
Realize, though, that just grabbing a frame buffer is not a thing anymore. To render graphics you need GLES support through something like ANGLE, vectors and fonts via Skia, Unicode, etc. A web browser has those things. Any static binary bu
30.
by sehugg 7mo ago
That policy doesn't explicitly disallow writers from using LLMs as part of their process, nor does it mention reviewing submissions for content that could be LLM-generated. I like some of the ideas in the article but there are some ver

More ›