siev

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by siev 11d ago
Probably thinking of this article: "C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11." https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212477.3212479
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by siev 5mo ago
Hahaha I very much enjoyed seeing GOOL there. I also love that you went for that over GOAL, which is probably the much more famous one.
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by siev 7mo ago
Exactly my thought haha. And Urbit comes from the LISP/Lambda Calculus world of concerning themselves with high level abstractions and mathematical elegance above all, while Uxn and similar systems follow in the footsteps of Forth and
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by siev 8mo ago
Yeah and he didn't want to deal with receiving death threats for working on a passion project. Which I guess is considered being "emotionally unstable".
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by siev 8mo ago
I usually use snowflake as a last resort, and even that's not consistently working right now. However I've seen people recommend running Conduit[1] to friends overseas, which is an easy-to-use Psiphon proxy node. Psiphon is a popu
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by siev 8mo ago
> It subsidize basic needs of its poorer citizens, such as fuel, bread, housing, education and healthcare. Hold on, am I living in the wrong Iran?
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by siev 8mo ago
I guess it's time to check "be accused of spreading psyops" off my internet bucket list. Because I guess you're not interested in my own personal experience of witnessing said people get killed either. Or not exiting my
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by siev 8mo ago
We do. It's not very good. As in, there isn't even a properly functioning domestic search engine that can match the quality of anything past AltaVista. The only local platforms worth a damn are the ones you'd be using anyway.
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Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only(restofworld.org)
421 points by siev 8mo ago|358 comments
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by siev 10mo ago
It unfortunately reads a bit like an unintentional punchline, yes.
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by siev 10mo ago
Gonna link SSFF's enjoyable telling of the 3DO port story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxF1_wg2d_Q I will never get over the company CEO sending here PNGs of new weapon models and saying, essentially, "Yeah so
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A Chip8 Emulator For 68000-based Macs(hackaday.com)
3 points by siev 1y ago|0 comments
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by siev 1y ago
Beating heart: https://tixy.land/?code=%28x%2F7.5-1%29**2%2B%28y%2F7.5-1%29...
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by siev 1y ago
Rust also has the standard NonZero<T> type for that use case.
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by siev 1y ago
I like the sentiment, I love C. But this book seems riddled with errors and baffling decisions. First of all, the fixed points are LITERALLY NOT FIXED POINTS. They're decimal floats. Fixed points are just integers that re-scale when
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by siev 2y ago
I really like the design choices they've made. Namely: - Once you cut out the legacy nonsense out of C, you can then add a few nice modern features to your language and still end up with something that's smaller and simpler than C
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by siev 2y ago
Nice job! Very Important: Are you gonna be adding an entry for the Japan-exclusive set-top box that had its own official port of DOOM done by Jonathan Blow? :p
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Introduction to the PDP-11 (1977) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by siev 2y ago|0 comments
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by siev 2y ago
It also reads to me like the contradictions are intentional. Something about software today feeling samey and churned-out.
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by siev 2y ago
I love the 6502, but if we're considering teaching architecture using a legacy machine my preferred choice would be the PDP-11. The ISA is quite nice, and the machine has many of the "modern" features one would expect from a
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by siev 2y ago
Moving all allocations outside the library was also explored in [Minimalist C Libraries]( https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/06/10/ )
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by siev 2y ago
Most of the popular games in the 2600's library have been disassembled and reverse engineered over the years.[1] As for Activision, they pretty much don't really care about a bunch of hobbyists tearing apart their 40+ year old pie
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by siev 2y ago
Imagine a function z=f(x,y) in 3D space. Now picture a plane at say, x=3, that is parallel to the plane passing through the Y and Z axes. This x=3 plane cuts through our function, and its intersection with the z=f(x,y) function forms a sort