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Thorham
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Comment #43953965
That seems a bit small seeing how doubles can represent 53 bit integers accurately.
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Comment #42738579
Lua is nice on small platforms like a Motorola 68030.
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Comment #41667937
Lua is written in C89, perhaps a good example of that.
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Comment #41301727
Dungeon Master (1987) on the Atari ST was mostly written in C.
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Comment #40715933
Then compare orca brains to ours. Theirs are larger and more wrinkly.
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Comment #39890344
Must be a VIC20.
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Comment #38566699
ChaChah is a stream cipher and was never a SHA3 candidate.
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Comment #37404503
Yes, FrexxEd is great. I've done quite a bit of work on the source code to extend it a little, and have overhauled the scripts also.
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Comment #36880850
And now youtube videos about technology are a thing.
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Comment #36781054
"why not?" Simple, 20 tabs already drives me nuts.
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Comment #36222471
Or we could just not kill them?
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Comment #34439488
There were definitely security cameras in the early 90s and 2000s, just not in as many places as now.
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Comment #34171506
An FPGA isn't much more interesting than an emulator for preservation.
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Comment #34171459
In the case of Xoshiro256 you can just make multiple instances of the generator with Xoshiro's jump function. No locking required and no overlapping sequences.
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Comment #33922076
Not to mention Apple with the Mac: 680x0 -> PowerPC -> X86/64 -> Arm
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Comment #30412989
Now compare that to the early days of printing. That difference is much larger.
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Comment #30411999
Most professions are learned and mastered after people finish high school, so that's clearly not true.
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Comment #25823043
Yeah, I miss-read that. Thanks for pointing that out!
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Comment #25822868
You're wrong. Remember that XOR works on individual bits. If what you're saying was true, then swapping bits that are both set to 1 would also fail, which means this algorithm woul…
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Comment #24130287
That first one is madness! That's not even goto-phobia, that's just not knowing what arrays and loops are. The third one is true goto-phobia of course. Crazy how people can't see t…