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Re:The Epochalypse Project on Sunday May 11, 2025 @10:13AM (#43953965)
That seems a bit small seeing how doubles can represent 53 bit integers accurately.
Re:Lua Programming in Lua (first edition) on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:31AM (#42738579)
Lua is nice on small platforms like a Motorola 68030.
Re:Small3dlib: Suckless PD 3D software rasterizer on Friday September 27, 2024 @05:08AM (#41667937)
Lua is written in C89, perhaps a good example of that.
Re:Getting back into C programming for CP/M on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @12:58PM (#41301727)
Dungeon Master (1987) on the Atari ST was mostly written in C.
Then compare orca brains to ours. Theirs are larger and more wrinkly.
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Re:IrfanView on Sunday March 31, 2024 @10:32PM (#39890344)
Must be a VIC20.
Re:Need a PRNG? Use a CSPRNG on Friday December 08, 2023 @03:40AM (#38566699)
ChaChah is a stream cipher and was never a SHA3 candidate.
Re:Amiga Systems Programming in 2023 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @09:02AM (#37404503)
Yes, FrexxEd is great. I've done quite a bit of work on the source code to extend it a little, and have overhauled the scripts also.
And now youtube videos about technology are a thing.
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @09:14PM (#36781054)
"why not?"

Simple, 20 tabs already drives me nuts.

Re:Bees Can Learn, Remember, Think and Make Decisions on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:23PM (#36222471)
Or we could just not kill them?
Re:Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:12AM (#34439488)
There were definitely security cameras in the early 90s and 2000s, just not in as many places as now.
An FPGA isn't much more interesting than an emulator for preservation.
In the case of Xoshiro256 you can just make multiple instances of the generator with Xoshiro's jump function. No locking required and no overlapping sequences.
Re:Damnit I slipped and (mostly) built an Amiga 500 on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:14AM (#33922076)
Not to mention Apple with the Mac: 680x0 -> PowerPC -> X86/64 -> Arm
Re:How a Book Is Made – Ink, Paper and a 200k-Pound Printer on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:48AM (#30412989)
Now compare that to the early days of printing. That difference is much larger.
Re:Times are great for programmers now. How does it end? on Sunday February 20, 2022 @11:31PM (#30411999)
Most professions are learned and mastered after people finish high school, so that's clearly not true.
Re:That XOR Trick (2020) on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:02AM (#25823043)
Yeah, I miss-read that. Thanks for pointing that out!
Re:That XOR Trick (2020) on Monday January 18, 2021 @10:47AM (#25822868)
You're wrong. Remember that XOR works on individual bits. If what you're saying was true, then swapping bits that are both set to 1 would also fail, which means this algorithm wouldn't work at all.

Edit: Ignore this post, I misread the original post as saying swapping the same values would fail.

Re:NetSurf, a multi-platform web browser on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @06:11AM (#24130287)
That first one is madness! That's not even goto-phobia, that's just not knowing what arrays and loops are.

The third one is true goto-phobia of course. Crazy how people can't see the mess they make by avoiding goto for the sake of avoiding goto.