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Thorham··on The Epochalypse Project
That seems a bit small seeing how doubles can represent 53 bit integers accurately.
Thorham··on Lua Programming in Lua (first edition) (2003)
Lua is nice on small platforms like a Motorola 68030.
Thorham··on Small3dlib: Suckless PD 3D software rasterizer
Lua is written in C89, perhaps a good example of that.
Thorham··on Getting back into C programming for CP/M
Dungeon Master (1987) on the Atari ST was mostly written in C.
Thorham··on Are animals conscious? New research
Then compare orca brains to ours. Theirs are larger and more wrinkly.
Thorham··on Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
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Thorham··on IrfanView
Must be a VIC20.
Thorham··on Need a PRNG? Use a CSPRNG
ChaChah is a stream cipher and was never a SHA3 candidate.
Thorham··on Amiga Systems Programming in 2023
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.
Thorham··on The 1990s Amiga with Video Toaster has a VFX cool factor that endures today
And now youtube videos about technology are a thing.
Thorham··on Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
"why not?"

Simple, 20 tabs already drives me nuts.

Thorham··on Bees can learn, remember, think and make decisions
Or we could just not kill them?
Thorham··on Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records
There were definitely security cameras in the early 90s and 2000s, just not in as many places as now.
Thorham··on Project MaxFake64: My quest for the fakest Commodore 64 possible
An FPGA isn't much more interesting than an emulator for preservation.
Thorham··on Big-O matters, but it's often memory that's killing your performance
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.
Thorham··on Damnit I slipped and (mostly) built an Amiga 500
Not to mention Apple with the Mac: 680x0 -> PowerPC -> X86/64 -> Arm
Thorham··on How a Book Is Made – Ink, Paper and a 200k-Pound Printer
Now compare that to the early days of printing. That difference is much larger.
Thorham··on Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
Most professions are learned and mastered after people finish high school, so that's clearly not true.
Thorham··on That XOR Trick (2020)
Yeah, I miss-read that. Thanks for pointing that out!
Thorham··on That XOR Trick (2020)
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.

Thorham··on NetSurf, a multi-platform web browser
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.