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Unfortunately Doom has a lot of undefined behavior (because it's a 30 year old codebase) so if you enable UBSAN you're inundated with warnings. Finding this specific needle in that…

For a real world example of how this can affect code check out this commit I made in mesa: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/20...

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That is a very good description of the Paranoia RPG.

> There’s probably another name for this Race to the bottom

> Right, my humor there was that I'm assuming people specifically did non-debug flags for the build as an optimization. It used to be the case that the presence of debug symbols wo…

I think vtune and toplev will report that as a frontend stall in their topdown metrics.

> In theory it should only be about writing a new build script (not based on `wmake` but on a real `make`). And then workout the tiny flag/preprocessor/C compiler discrepancies. Fo…

The Voodoo 2 completely takes over display output. VESA stuff shouldn't have any effect in this case.

True. I've tried it on a Pentium 166/MMX with a Voodoo 2 and it runs about 15 fps.

If the OS doesn't provide an actual sound API developers will only write support for the most popular sound cards.

If you click on the domain name next to the main link you get a filtered view of submissions for just that domain. This way you can easily find the related posts. It looks like thi…

> death match in a museum would be fun too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh40nFH4-A0

"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the gover…

That does not really work since the only IO was the BIOS-provided one that was 1. synchronous and 2. really slow. If you tried to do that you'd just get insanely bad pauses.

https://github.com/turol/valoserveri It's for controlling DMX colored lights over network. It takes UDP packets (and later Websocket messages) and turns them into DMX protocol pack…

https://xkcd.com/927/

This is not possible. Both disassembly and decompilation are equivalent to the halting problem. At least Mike Van Emmerik's PhD thesis ("Static Single Assignment for Decompilation"…

Strange that they list FreeDOS, DR-DOS and MS-DOS as separate OSes even though they are very similar. They are effectively ABI-compatible, unlike the different Unix flavors.

Discussion on part one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415478

A followup to https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/05/Gaussian-Splatting-is-pr... discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415478