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auselen··on The Binder Linux driver is being rewritten in Rust
I didn’t know Binder is upstream. Is it really?
auselen··on CLI text processing with GNU awk
I did this golfing a while back: Drawing a heart with AWK - https://gist.github.com/auselen/906a53b47a7d616b080dbef85eb8...
auselen··on 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work
Not everyone equally able.

It takes a village to raise a child.

I wonder how much of is about with what kind of ideologies you grow up with.

auselen··on 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work
it helps with everything when there are lots of safety nets in society…
auselen··on 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work
Then you have SOs, kids.. do they have the same standards, and is that guaranteed to stay?
auselen··on Speed Test
No share/record/export/save button?
auselen··on Commander Keen's adaptive tile refresh
I understand that they could work 16 hours a day, but I wouldn’t believe they can separate two businesses like that. I would have told the same thing though.
auselen··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
> The four-month-old 767 was a state-of-the-art machine with state-of-the-art glitches

“state-of-the-art glitches”, I’m using that!

auselen··on CS:GO: From Zero to 0-Day
They might reveal trade secrets though.
auselen··on I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)
Anyone has a project for converting GB roms to something intermediate like llvm-ir or directly to another isa?
auselen··on Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP
Any explanation on how does it work? Is it via Android’s virtual display feature?
auselen··on Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?
Every manager I worked with gets impressed by origin stories like this. I would guess it is even easier in Europe.
auselen··on Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution
8 was also released that year.
auselen··on Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
Fake 10GB html can be a zip bomb?
auselen··on Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)
Very similar experience to mine except I failed to memorize stuff and had to ask prof. how I can improve my score, he told me that I should do my best and he will fix the rest. He was kinda grandpa figure.
auselen··on When I made another Monkey Island
It was clearly something better for me, and I think I played it around ‘94, it was better than what was on tv or video. And it was why we were playing video games, because with each one they kept getting better.
auselen··on Insect Hotel
Aren’t these a heaven for spiders?
auselen··on Ken and Roberta Williams Working on Colossal Cave Adventure Remake for VR and PC
Ken’s book “Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings” was a nice read: https://kensbook.com/faq/
auselen··on My favorite liar (2009)
I can never claim I can find all the bugs, I’m not even that smart. Thus I can comment on style, overall compatibility with existing mechanisms. Ask/remind which tests were run.

Trivial stuff is easy to catch, refactoring parts I’m familiar might help with pitfalls known to me.

Still I can’t see how one can claim finding all bugs is possible.

auselen··on A Universe in One Line of Code with 10 PRINT
I did this a while back and saved in a gist. I don't remember if it had any problems though.

s=╱╲;while :;do printf ${s:RANDOM%2:1};sleep 0.001;done

auselen··on Monte Carlo estimation of Pi
Today I tried to write this on shell, I couldn't do it in a compact way. Are there some nice PLs for these kind of plays? Cleanest I could do was doing below in a single line via "python -c". I couldn't get it done via bc or awk.

  from random import random
  l = lambda (a, b), c: (a + c, b + 1)
  g = (1 if random()**2 + random()**2 <= 1 else 0 for i in range(10**6))
  r, t = reduce(l, g, (0.0, 0))
  print r / t * 4
auselen··on Ken's Academy Award: Noise and Turbulence
This was something I always wanted to look into, and I did a while ago. I added options to visualize grid, vectors and make it moving to show the intuition people around. I think it helps discussion a lot. (there might be errors in implementation or it might be completely off if my memory failing me)

https://jsfiddle.net/auselen/6owerdnh/

auselen··on AMD is working on K12, brand-new x86 and ARM cores
I was using paper as a basis since that's what is linked (which I found as a poor one)

"We find that ARM and x86 processors are simply engineering design points optimized for different levels of performance, and there is nothing fundamentally more energy efficient in one ISA class or the other. The ISA being RISC or CISC seems irrelevant."

So if you think as X and Y of course they don't matter. However we are talking about ARM vs x86 which have measurable properties in this whole discussions context+time, and that matters as "a phone powered with ARM" vs "a phone powered with x86" or "a server powered with ARM/x86". That's the level of terminology we are using.

auselen··on AMD is working on K12, brand-new x86 and ARM cores
'I don't think ARM really has any inherent "power advantage" over x86'

paper states ~ISA being CISC or RISC doesn't matter... performance differences are generated by ISA-independent microarchitecture differences".

So being ARM or x86 matters for "power advantage", but being "CISC or RISC" doesn't.

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