Posts by kragen@nerdculture.de
(DIR) Post #9xxspwnAxxRxG2Zvmq by kragen@nerdculture.de
2020-08-10T02:08:42Z
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@jalcine what?
(DIR) Post #9xxsyEVuxf3SXMSPFQ by kragen@nerdculture.de
2020-08-10T02:10:13Z
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sadly Mastodon converted it to a PNG so you lose the animation
(DIR) Post #9y76G1JNIjVBy1FPkW by kragen@nerdculture.de
2020-08-14T12:51:29Z
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@garfiald most people aren't in the UK
(DIR) Post #9y77Cna1zu1iSv4Acq by kragen@nerdculture.de
2020-08-14T13:02:02Z
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@jackdaniel @loke @temporal on the contrary, I think Google's goal was to make the browser a reasonable alternative to things like Flash, Cocoa, and Win32. The barrier to entry was just an added benefit
(DIR) Post #9y9ffDTR6XdBdgciZ6 by kragen@nerdculture.de
2020-08-15T18:37:36Z
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@queeranarchism @garfiald I think you may be replying to the wrong person
(DIR) Post #9y9fqGMMiNzRm7aF96 by kragen@nerdculture.de
2020-08-15T18:39:37Z
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@garfiald I feel like people assuming that random posts pertain to things in their own country is kind of the same phenomenon as people assuming that whoever reads what they say will have heard about the local news they're writing about. in the US they call it "American Exceptionalism" but I don't think there's a term for it in the UK
(DIR) Post #A2mCyaXKcOzPkl1gtU by kragen@nerdculture.de
2021-01-01T00:18:26Z
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Happy new year! I spent a lot of 02020 writing this book about algorithms, materials science, and other aspects of philosophy, called Derctuo:http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4408470It's poorly organized, incoherent, and has a lot of crap in it, but it also has some really good parts.
(DIR) Post #A2mDDZQ13c8Kd5kSy8 by kragen@nerdculture.de
2018-09-29T23:09:51Z
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@davidpgil (The other drawbacks of Z80s is that they're rather slow—several clocks per instruction, and only 8-bit ALU operations—and, despite what OriansJ said the other day on #bootstrappable, I suspect ARM Thumb beats them on code density. Aside from machine-efficiency issues, bank-switching is kind of a pain.)
(DIR) Post #A2mDDbYF7zu1FBc44O by kragen@nerdculture.de
2018-09-29T23:29:13Z
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@davidpgil Yeah, the 6502 certainly has a proven track record of people producing cool creative work after only a few weeks or months of learning. Part of that was being hooked up to special-purpose graphics and sound hardware that you sort of "scripted" in 6502 assembly, as https://prog21.dadgum.com/173.html explains. The #NES, as you probably already know, has similar hardware.Arduino and Processing have been pretty successful at making this kind of stuff accessible, too.
(DIR) Post #A2mDDcMa6qAVlJAGX2 by kragen@nerdculture.de
2018-09-29T23:35:20Z
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@davidpgil I think #C is probably the ecosystem with the lowest lockin at this point, but anything that's purely free software is a reasonable candidate. Although I don't think anyone is going to implement a full DOM for the Z80 anytime soon, despite the existence of SpiderMonkey and V8 and so on.
(DIR) Post #A2mDDdDOwSQ4P7sRrU by kragen@nerdculture.de
2018-09-29T23:41:15Z
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@davidpgil A big disadvantage of #assembly is that you're locked into a particular CPU architecture; #C helps with that. Although it's not clear what equivalent to C is going to bridge Vulkan, GLSL, C for your CPU, and Verilog for your FPGA—if anything.
(DIR) Post #A2mDDeOQYwpk3c2lge by kragen@nerdculture.de
2018-09-30T00:08:28Z
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@davidpgil #Lisp definitely has its advantages; you may be interested in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/urscheme and https://github.com/davazp/eulex/blob/master/lisp/lisp.fs. I think #Lua is probably a better #bootstrapping choice for the Lisp level, though.
(DIR) Post #A2mE7advgxrIdxy7KS by kragen@nerdculture.de
2021-01-01T00:31:16Z
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Hmm, I just realized that I didn't upload the tarball to Zenodo, but I could; http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4408555 is the DOI of the version with the tarball as well. Use the tarball of HTML instead of the PDF if you can. It's waay easier to navigate.
(DIR) Post #A2mjgEbyh3lV1q3Vc8 by kragen@nerdculture.de
2021-01-01T06:24:53Z
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@akkartik Kind of, yeah, but I didn't realize until recently that people would think it was a new *edition* rather than a sequel.
(DIR) Post #A2mjr3HHAmtz3wWx0K by kragen@nerdculture.de
2021-01-01T06:26:50Z
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@vu3rdd Sorry! http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4408555 has a tarball of the HTML as well as the PDF. The PDF is really only formatted for reading on a cellphone. Also you can git clone https://gitlab.com/kragen/derctuo.git and run `make`.
(DIR) Post #A2mkCCYdrglZvRjpaK by kragen@nerdculture.de
2021-01-01T06:30:38Z
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@vu3rdd I had just forgotten I could upload tarballs to Zenodo as well.
(DIR) Post #A3FClEdFibMpyQ5hyK by kragen@nerdculture.de
2021-01-15T00:02:35Z
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@galaxis I commonly see 500+ MB/s reported on SATA SSDs. I wonder if there's a bottleneck in the SD and USB interfaces, or if the devices there are just not optimized for performance?
(DIR) Post #A3FCwogxzMxezrLoRc by kragen@nerdculture.de
2021-01-15T00:04:38Z
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@kensanata @mike 3000 requests per hour is less than one request per second. Even if your server has only a single core, are your Wiki page load times in second-plus territory, including browser relayout time? Because that's kind of a bad user experience, isn't it?
(DIR) Post #A3FD2kdpxf7KAiiVeq by kragen@nerdculture.de
2021-01-15T00:05:46Z
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@kensanata @mike RSS feeds though are usually small in size, relatively light on the database, and relatively easy to cache
(DIR) Post #A3FD62FQxQoHe6rtwW by kragen@nerdculture.de
2021-01-15T00:06:22Z
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@kelbot that's lovely!