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That particular code is idiomatic to anyone who worked with 2D bitmap graphics in that era. pt == point, r == rect, h, v == horizontal, vertical, BSR(...,1) is a fast integer divid…

Shpongle albums are split up into normal-sized tracks. Most CD players, media players, and streaming services support gapless playback of albums, at least for subscribers. When a S…

Cool hack! Also interesting that the performance is no better, presumably due to the lack of cache. The first answer on this forum post has what is probably the correct explanation…

Fun fact: The PowerMac G5 CPU cooling fan controllers have a failsafe mode: If the OS doesn't communicate with the fan controller, the fan controller assumes the worst: that the CP…

I'll add that initial dev kits are typically released 18 months before the console launch, that means they are built using technology that is one generation behind the hardware tha…

Yeah, the poor guy didn't know anything about Xbox, just thought it was funny that Microsoft was receiving so many G5 Macs: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/microsoft-fires-employ…

Google's Fuchsia OS uses a microkernel: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel

There were tons of alternative hypertext systems before the world wide web. Major reasons WWW succeeded: 1) Open standard, no license required. (My understanding is that TB-L worke…

He's covered the decline of BBBY many times in his newsletter, explaining the financial details and shaking his head each time. His Monday April 24th, 2023 newsletter, titled "Bed …

I doubt they'll go anywhere en masse. They'll probably just grudgingly use the official clients. Possibly with browser plugins to customize the UI.

Reddit recently announced changes to their APIs pricing and features that will probably lead to the abandonment of most third-party Reddit clients. Users of those clients are upset…

Besides animation and games, Flash was also used for streaming video and video conferencing. iPhone customers were so desirable that, over time, the video streaming sites had to su…

I also felt Tim was tempting fate when he said "You can import directly from a self published URL. Of course it's the responsibility of the publisher to never change the semantics …

Thanks for this link, very helpful in understanding the Verse language! Verse-as-a-scripting-language-for-a-game-engine is an interesting experiment. The million script writers who…

In my opinion Draw Things is the best stable diffusion app currently available for macOS/iOS. It's free, it is available in the App Store, it manages downloading models and weights…

Interesting UI, and great that's it's open-sourced! M1 Mac owners should also check out the iPad version of Draw Things, which has a large number of features and is in very active …

As an aside, this document was created with FrameMaker. That's why it's got such a fancy layout.

That's shortsightedly frugal accounting. Developing a working Starship is worth a lot to SpaceX. They could go deeply into debt on the first six launches, and make it up later.

Those quotes are entirely compatible with "not really". Chris is talking about the Sooner: https://www.androidcentral.com/look-back-google-sooner-first... . It was called Sooner be…

It's easy to write an app that displays arbitrary graphics at 1600 nits on the MacBook Pro. You just have to use the Metal API, an "extended" color space, and a Float colorPixelFor…

I think MS went open plan starting in '07 with the "The Commons" campus. Some parts like Bungie were open plan much earlier. (The Bungie team demanded it, they felt it improved col…

Back in the day, I saw VCS game developers use two techniques: 1) they would start with a working kernel from an existing game, and incrementally modify it to create a new kernel f…

AoC won't teach you anything about OOP. The problems are designed to be solved in Python with less than 100 lines of code, by taking advantage of Python's extensive library of data…

South Bay homelessness has adapted to car culture. A lot of South Bay homeless live in cars or campers permanently parked on city streets adjacent to parks, school fields, and/or b…

Landley's blog is interesting, too. http://landley.net/notes.html He often describes the step-by-step development process for building the Toybox tools.