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• Post #4230868

  swear to gods, nobody uses emacs for the keystrokes

• Post #4155948

  i do so love to have the entire flat's computers all taken out at once by a power hiccup... power was down two minutes, maybe? but then everything here needed to be restarted i don't have a lot of time for laptops otherwise, but the one good thing about them is that even a battery with only a few minutes in it will still tide you over momentary cuts and brown-outs

• Post #4155947

  do we even want to know what prompted the latest xkcd?

• Post #4155946

  my respect for Woz remains undimmed https://www.techspot.com/news/112497-steve-wozniak-mentions-ai-graduation-speech-gets-cheers.html

• Post #4155945

  live by the conspiracy theory, die by the conspiracy theory, i guess. on the bright side, you can die by conspiracy theory a lot.

• Post #3911795

  All of the AI projects we have observed as a team are failing. Every single one – we have seen 0% success in a year and a half, not only amongst projects we have been asked to participate in2, but even within projects that we have observed in passing while doing totally unrelated work. -- https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/ sometimes the plural of anecdote is data

• Post #2705127

  for all i snark about Zig not being ready, things like https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/ do give me faith that the process is sound, even if the results aren't quite there yet.

• Post #2705126

  find: warning: you have specified the global option -mount after the argument -iname, but global options are not positional, i.e., -mount affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it. Please specify global options before other arguments. um, find? you clearly understood me. please don't nag me about irrelevant shit. you're a computer program, you don't get to insist on etiquette.

• Post #2705125

  re LB: except, of course, when i want to recall song lyrics from the 80s. at which point, those little bastards are goooooone

• Post #2705124

  trying to find out information about LLM3, the virtual machine used to implement Le_Lisp back in the early 80s, is... um, more difficult than it needs to be today

• Post #2705123

  very pissed off about what's happened with Eurovision. they literally stole gay Christmas from us :-(

• Post #2705122

  for all i love and respect the BS 1363 power standard, if the UK were to adopt AS/NZS 3112 or GB 1002 tomorrow, i wouldn't mind in the least.

• Post #2358513

  i don't suppose anyone still has a copy of Coreboot / SeaBIOS for the #Joggler around? the Wayback Machine came up empty @andy - you might just be my best hope for this #OpenPeak #OpenFrame #O2Joggler

• Post #1964514

  the eZ80 is much less wtf-y than the 65816 in many ways (so few transistors, so many bad decisions!), but whoever decided that it was OK to have the only practical way to access the high byte of a 24-bit address be storing it into memory and loading from n+2 should have to subtitle their CV "i have no design taste"... i mean, at least ld (temp),hl ld a,(temp+2) or push hl ld hl,2 add hl,sp ld a,(hl) or ld (ix-1),hl ld a,(ix+1) only take 12, 11...

• Post #1910702

  Sir Clive never was a programmer: The truth was there was nothing you could do on the 68000 that you couldn't do on the Z80. -- https://archive.org/details/Sinclair_User_053/page/54/mode/2up ...except address more than 64KB without bank switching... which was kind of important, really. and being able to do a multiplication in 10μs and a division in 21μs rather than 100 times as long...

• Post #1867643

  what a bunch of arseholes https://serverfault.com/questions/110219/which-os-distributions-have-64-bit-kernel-and-32-bit-userspace it's a perfectly reasonable question, yet look at literally every single one of them refusing to answer it. that's linux "helpfulness", in a nutshell

• Post #1834345

  as much as i love the idea of displays that are usable in reflected light and consume no power until you change something on them, eInk is going to have to get a lot faster at refreshing before i'm interested in it. i run all my screens at 24Hz, so it's not as though i lack patience... but when you're talking about seconds per frame, it's - a bit much

• Post #1834344

  it is a delight to see an article referenced from Hackaday (or anyhwere really) start with this: This is not AI generated or edited or ideated. I communicate worse when another entity communicates on my behalf. Go direct? suddenly i find myself very interested in what Nikhil Jha has to say: https://nikhiljha.com/ edit: well, that set me up for disappointment. three blog posts, one hosted on Jane Street, and halfway down what was an interesting discussion of a rarely manifesting kernel bug: ....

• Post #1834343

  oh no, meow.social is down :-( i think it might be planned maintenance, but i can't remember...

• Post #1834341

  doing my bit for software preservation: the last ever version of Dream Scheme (an almost-R4RS Scheme written in x86 assembly language and metacompiled in a Forth-esque manner) released before the domain disappeared is now up on github: https://github.com/thamesynne/DreamScheme/

• Post #1834338

  i had to uninstall firefox 128 from the machine in the back room so i could update Void on it i am 83.7% sure this will come back to bite me at some point this summer

• Post #1615189

  re LB: welp. that didn't take long. https://www.commodore.net/post/why-we-re-protecting-your-commodore-64-ultimate-fpga "protecting". uh huh. let's be clear, you're not protecting anyone's C64 Ultimate, NeoCommodore. you're protecting yourselves from being deluged by support claims about third party firmware. which is fine, but say so.

• Post #1615188

  is it just me, or have the vast majority of minicomputers just been completely forgotten? ed. of course, nobody's forgetting about the PDPs, or the Data General machines. i'm thinking of their contemporaries, though: things like the Interdata machines, the Philips P800 range, the Raytheon RDS 700 series, all the TI 9x0 machines, the Honeywell DDP-x16 and especially -x24 ranges, the SDS 9x0s and Sigmas, the Prime range (which used to be huge but has just vanished). and then the even more...

• Post #1615186

  now this is how it should be done! https://github.com/danilogcrf2-oss/ESP32Synth

• Post #1493700

  well, that's odd. the 8085 has a bunch of undocumented instructions - basically, like the 6803 does the 6800, the 8085 attempts to fill some of the more obvious gaps in the 8080's capabilities. among them is the K flag, which as Ken Shirriff documented, is basically the XOR of the V flag (also new to the 8085) and the MSB of an ALU result - which, in the case of a subtraction, results in it being set if A < B. in other words, the 8085's JU is the equivalent of the 8086's...

• Post #1420917

  ok, why am i getting spinners instead of personal notes on profiles?

• Post #1420916

  if someone puts "Claude Code is great!" in any post of theirs i happen to be reading, no matter how interested i might be in the subject matter... ...then that is the point at which i stop reading everything they ever wrote. no exceptions.

• Post #1420915

  i really don't care whether Claude can emit Z80 code, Hackaday. i do know full well that nobody should be asking it to.

• Post #1420914

  CDR-coding might be practical on modern architectures after all. for example, on x86, put these CDR bits at the top of a word: 00 EOL cdr of this cell is NIL 01 NEXT cdr of this cell is next cell 10 ATOM this is not a list cell 11 GONE this cell has moved elsewhere and use the following access code fwd mov eax,[eax*4] ; don't let FWDs into regs cmp eax,$C000000 jae fwd ret car mov edx,[eax*4] ; guaranteed not FWD test eax,eax ; so if MSB set...

• Post #1377020

  gotta say, looking at the absolute bladed sewage redistribution system that is agentic LLMs, i'm kind of wistful for the quaint old days where a company could send its reputation straight into the ground by just hiring an ex-spy-cop and then losing their shit while defending that