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djmips··on Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool
(2016) even more important because of the age we live in now.
djmips··on SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president
Two turntables and a microphone... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_4Jjm3MMiU
djmips··on Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser
It would be great fun.
djmips··on Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser
Is there one for RP2350?
djmips··on AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities
I don't have references unfortunately but I imagine that polymorphic viruses existed before the nineties.
djmips··on Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum
that is fantastic
djmips··on Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?
I always called myself a software mechanic.
djmips··on How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect
You might enjoy this talk. I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTfa2UF_oiI
djmips··on A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
Well I was tricked so I think it's better to be accurate.
djmips··on A 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors
WWW.JCY - early webpage obv
djmips··on Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity
the example was cheese, not a salad.
djmips··on REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
I don't think it is better than just doing it yourself in Claude Code (in fact worse) but some people like cute UI for everything I guess.
djmips··on VECOS – A windows-like operating system for the Vectrex for the UVMC2 [video]
There's a guy who did some cool mods for the Vectrex to improve it's ability to run faster vector lists (ie increase bandwidth ). This was so it would directly work from Asteroids arcade PCB.

https://www.e-basteln.de/arcade/asteroids/intro/

djmips··on VECOS – A windows-like operating system for the Vectrex for the UVMC2 [video]
This won't work with that though, well maybe you could port it but what's the point... Mini is not a vector machine.
djmips··on God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser
Exactly, Bleem came to mind for me - running PlayStation One games on Dreamcast through the same technique. Doesn't it really matter if you translate at run-time or ahead of time.
djmips··on Receipt for sale of Jane, age 18, and her son, Henry, age 1
Rich people can afford slaves. Abhorrent practice.
djmips··on New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads
The Chinese breakthroughs are often around optimization. And I gather it's because they are constrained and very bright so it's a natural progression.
djmips··on I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it
We'll send Claude to settle there
djmips··on Doom (mhm) on a Vectrex but playable this time [video]
Vector Doom running on RP2350 cart. A surge of mostly AI coded conversions has hit the Vectrex recently and everyone loves Doom.
djmips··on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
terminal were the OG dark mode. Nice hack to get around that!
djmips··on Sonnet 5.5
> you'd have a loop of build->review->build->review, it would take maybe 5-7 rounds for it to 'settle' and not find the smallest nitpicks to argue about.

You sure that wasn't just working at Microsoft?

djmips··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Perhaps demand is going down abroad due to people eschewing US products.
djmips··on World Labs Is Joining AMD
note that unless you've de-anonymized your text - your own idosyncracies might be enough with other clues you've left to figure out who you are IRL
djmips··on Coding is not solved
And another corollary is the formerly golden lazy and clever are also transformed into lazy and productive because they no longer need to apply their cleverness to get results...
djmips··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
I don't have the same story but I did turn down a job offer from Nvidia in '97 which I think about from time to time.
djmips··on Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
Semantics - not worth me arguing about
djmips··on Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
You really aren't in the "premature optimization bad" camp you just don't realize you optimize all the time but justify it as obvious. The main thing to know is that what is 'obvious' isn't unless you are profiling.
djmips··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Ok.
djmips··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
I'm not making a claim for a significant health benefit from 0.5g of creatine I'm just countering your bald claim that it's insignficant - we are getting into word lawyer territory. But anyway to establish what I'm claiming, 0.5g of creatine, I feel, is a useful amount - the numbers you are fixated on are for athletes or neurotropic nerds.

"Although the human body produces a portion of its daily creatine needs, approximately 50 % must be obtained through the diet – predominantly from animal-based foods like red meat and fish"

So in that context, a vegetarian can benefit from small amounts of supplementation if they aren't getting it in their diet.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12722096/

djmips··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Creatine is not available from plants and the 0.5 g is not insignficant for normal health. The 5 grams you're quoting is generally for people who supplement for athletic performance.

Creatine is created within the body so a vegetarian eating plant precursors can help create their own baseline supply.

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