It gives me the vibes of output from 1970's typewriters that my dad used. Having aging eyes, I wish monospace fonts made 8 and 0 (zero) more different from each other. I notice that I have started to confuse those two…
Uncensored Japanese Adult Video is also apparently quite common these days, despite being illegal.
The CPU in the Falcon was also clocked higher (available in 16 MHz or 25 Mhz) was limited by a 16-bit bus. A stock Amiga 1200's 68EC020 ran at 14 Mhz and did have a 32-bit bus was limited by having only "Chip RAM"…
GEM on the Atari ST did not get crippled after Apple's lawsuit against Digital Research over GEM being too much alike the Macintosh's GUI. Atari had already acquired rights to do further development of the port.
My favourite tidbit about the Amiga is that it was the first platform that got PNG support in all its web browsers: you just had to install the png.datatype.
Indeed. The name was well established in the popular Fallout game series before this company was founded.
Immediate reclamation, yes. There do exist a number of reference-allocation algorithms that performs deferred reclamation similar to how tracing GC does.
Reference counting has high runtime overhead, especially atomic reference counting with multiple threads. If you overwrite a pointer, you'd need to also look up and update two counts and do all that in a manner that is…
Later Amigas also supported VGA monitors with 31kHz horizontal refresh rate, with just a passive adaptor. I used a VGA monitor with my Amiga 1200 up until I switched to PC, and a tweaked video mode with 704×520 pixels.…
I long suspected that I had been shadow-banned from commenting on his channel, and I couldn't figure out why. Then I found a subreddit with several threads about his behaviour and it all made sense.
Many European layouts do have more symbols outside ASCII. For example German has ° (degree) and ß (ess-tset) and § (paragraph). German PC keyboards also tend to have µ on the M key, but it is available with the right…
> all three iPhone cameras simultaneously, ideally as a 2-3s video, and use the parallax/multiple perspectives to extract depth information. I think optics could be used to make each camera see a different image. A…
Reverse Tab ⇤ is still with us, above the Tab ⇥ symbol. It is at the top to indicate that it is generated while holding Shift. Many people have got the misconception that both symbols together is the Tab symbol, though.…
I've been posting a similar idea for years. Require that for each piece of commercial software there is a "method" to open it up and use without requiring on-line servers. The method is be registered with a special…
I have seen the date "September 1" be disputed on forums. Is there a credible source other than the book that the article refers to?
Location: Stockholm, Sweden Remote: Up to 50% Willing to relocate: Only within the county. Technologies: Programming video (everything: codecs to A/V), input devices (embedded), compilers (back-end), UI. Résumé/CV:…
You seem to need caffeine, considering that it is on your mind... :)
Firefox now supports WebSerial though. An alternative to Via/Vial could perhaps use that. Kinesis' keyboards with their "Clique" keyboard has a web-based configuration tool that uses WebSerial. Their older "SmartSet"…
Long list here: https://meettheuk.substack.com/p/a-complete-list-of-count-bi... I could get behind most of them, actually ... were I to live in the UK.
One of my pet peeves are pages that detect that I am from another region and then redirect: not to the corresponding page in my language: but to the site's front page with a different region/language setting. Sometimes…
Growth is unrealistic. During the industrial revolution, people were still exploring the world and expanding their reach, establishing new colonies for raw materials. We are living in a global economy now. There is no…
I'd say that 4-6 hours is often the cut-off point for total travel time city-to-city -- provided that the train is fast. I and a friend once started at Stockholm Central station to Malmö Central Station at the same…
You could use any programmable microcontroller with a USB interface. Consumer products tend to have fuses set to they can't be programmed again. The latest driver registered with Microsoft for the product you're going…
A few years ago, plugging in a Razer USB mouse made Windows download and run a installer from which the current user could start PowerShell with administrator privileges. Razer first tried to downplay the issue, but…
The other day, I tried the latest Kubuntu on a Samsung netbook from 2011. It was impossibly slow, and Wayland did not even render colours correctly on the screen.
It gives me the vibes of output from 1970's typewriters that my dad used. Having aging eyes, I wish monospace fonts made 8 and 0 (zero) more different from each other. I notice that I have started to confuse those two…
Uncensored Japanese Adult Video is also apparently quite common these days, despite being illegal.
The CPU in the Falcon was also clocked higher (available in 16 MHz or 25 Mhz) was limited by a 16-bit bus. A stock Amiga 1200's 68EC020 ran at 14 Mhz and did have a 32-bit bus was limited by having only "Chip RAM"…
GEM on the Atari ST did not get crippled after Apple's lawsuit against Digital Research over GEM being too much alike the Macintosh's GUI. Atari had already acquired rights to do further development of the port.
My favourite tidbit about the Amiga is that it was the first platform that got PNG support in all its web browsers: you just had to install the png.datatype.
Indeed. The name was well established in the popular Fallout game series before this company was founded.
Immediate reclamation, yes. There do exist a number of reference-allocation algorithms that performs deferred reclamation similar to how tracing GC does.
Reference counting has high runtime overhead, especially atomic reference counting with multiple threads. If you overwrite a pointer, you'd need to also look up and update two counts and do all that in a manner that is…
Later Amigas also supported VGA monitors with 31kHz horizontal refresh rate, with just a passive adaptor. I used a VGA monitor with my Amiga 1200 up until I switched to PC, and a tweaked video mode with 704×520 pixels.…
I long suspected that I had been shadow-banned from commenting on his channel, and I couldn't figure out why. Then I found a subreddit with several threads about his behaviour and it all made sense.
Many European layouts do have more symbols outside ASCII. For example German has ° (degree) and ß (ess-tset) and § (paragraph). German PC keyboards also tend to have µ on the M key, but it is available with the right…
> all three iPhone cameras simultaneously, ideally as a 2-3s video, and use the parallax/multiple perspectives to extract depth information. I think optics could be used to make each camera see a different image. A…
Reverse Tab ⇤ is still with us, above the Tab ⇥ symbol. It is at the top to indicate that it is generated while holding Shift. Many people have got the misconception that both symbols together is the Tab symbol, though.…
I've been posting a similar idea for years. Require that for each piece of commercial software there is a "method" to open it up and use without requiring on-line servers. The method is be registered with a special…
I have seen the date "September 1" be disputed on forums. Is there a credible source other than the book that the article refers to?
Location: Stockholm, Sweden Remote: Up to 50% Willing to relocate: Only within the county. Technologies: Programming video (everything: codecs to A/V), input devices (embedded), compilers (back-end), UI. Résumé/CV:…
You seem to need caffeine, considering that it is on your mind... :)
Firefox now supports WebSerial though. An alternative to Via/Vial could perhaps use that. Kinesis' keyboards with their "Clique" keyboard has a web-based configuration tool that uses WebSerial. Their older "SmartSet"…
Long list here: https://meettheuk.substack.com/p/a-complete-list-of-count-bi... I could get behind most of them, actually ... were I to live in the UK.
One of my pet peeves are pages that detect that I am from another region and then redirect: not to the corresponding page in my language: but to the site's front page with a different region/language setting. Sometimes…
Growth is unrealistic. During the industrial revolution, people were still exploring the world and expanding their reach, establishing new colonies for raw materials. We are living in a global economy now. There is no…
I'd say that 4-6 hours is often the cut-off point for total travel time city-to-city -- provided that the train is fast. I and a friend once started at Stockholm Central station to Malmö Central Station at the same…
You could use any programmable microcontroller with a USB interface. Consumer products tend to have fuses set to they can't be programmed again. The latest driver registered with Microsoft for the product you're going…
A few years ago, plugging in a Razer USB mouse made Windows download and run a installer from which the current user could start PowerShell with administrator privileges. Razer first tried to downplay the issue, but…
The other day, I tried the latest Kubuntu on a Samsung netbook from 2011. It was impossibly slow, and Wayland did not even render colours correctly on the screen.