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Yep, it's astoundingly inefficient. I've been meaning to pull the code back into working memory and do the things I mention in Future Considerations, but it took long enough just t…

Hey, thanks for checking this out. I wanted smooth motion to keep close to the JS piece that inspired this; it seemed like it should be eminently possible to get smooth motion, aft…

Over the years I've written a bunch of things in the orbit of retrocomputing, the largest of which was an incremental game based on a C64 emulator. Somehow I've never written anyth…

Arabic is on the Semitic branch of the hypothesised proto-Indo-European language, which has dual number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number) So you'd expect to …

It's worse than that even: there are delays after every _bit_ transferred, due to various design decisions that were made along the way, which is why the C64's disk drive is slower…

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If nothing else, you can put up a static page on the basics of Boglehead-ish finances; a copy of The Flowchart from /r/personalfinance would be a great low-effort stop-gap.

Mm, I still recall the time my Windows 98 installation corrupted its registry somehow. The only fix was to reinstall, and the machine had no floppy or CD drive... getting Windows b…

> They're larger and heavier for the same capacity, but the lower price makes up for it So yes, the battery will be heavier because sodium's heavier, but it's so much cheaper that …

Reminds me of a ROM-hack for Zelda: Ocarina of Time from a few years ago, that was presented in the release video as using unused assets and storyline from the game itself, when it…

I'm reminded of an MVC microframework I put together many years back in PHP: https://github.com/Two9A/BirSaat Having pulled down a copy just now, the framework itself is 526 lines …

I also see a Login Via GitHub, but there could certainly be scope to allow local accounts here.

Quoting from the README: Our VDI guy, Andy, was one of my favorites. He was grumpy, always tucked his shirt in, kept his desk Type A clean and was just so principled. ...I always t…

I believe it's a reference to the look of a failed LiPo battery: it puffs up and looks like a pillow, but if you puncture it fire spews forth. Reddit first came up with the phrase …

Many of these types of games are daily, so I'd expect it's a different angle tomorrow. (Thanks for the hint.)

Sounds somewhat familiar. I worked at a place that replaced a basic LAMP stack with microservices written in Perl and MongoDB as a backing store, for the sole purpose of raising co…

And I've been using vim exclusively for north of fifteen years with Tab replacement, never had a problem with the editor getting confused about what happens with spaces when I hit …

"CBE" refers to Commander of the most excellent order of the British Empire [0] which is a title conferred by the monarch on those deemed to have performed especially well in the s…

Many years ago, I wrote up a post on doing this kind of thing in plain DOS .com files: https://imrannazar.com/articles/x86-printable-opcodes It's good to see the principle can be e…

I should write that down; -Z would've been really useful when my SSH server was falling over in a heap and I was left scrolling through strace to work out what happened. I wrote th…