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sehugg

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@sehugg from @8bitworkshop

Making 8-bit dev tools since 2016: https://8bitworkshop.com/

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sehugg··on A Real-Time Wideband Neural Vocoder at 1.6 Kb/S Using LPCNet
Sounds like a typical LPC encoder at a low bitrate, like maybe 5 kbps.
sehugg··on Why Should Americans Be Grateful for $137 Insulin? Germans Get It for $55
The pharma industry successfully lobbied for this outcome in 2005: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/heres-why-you...
sehugg··on Italy bans unvaccinated children from school
For more detail, look up the Five Star movement and comedian/populist hero Beppe Grillo: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/11/rise-of-italia...
sehugg··on Home of Strategic Command and Some of the USAF's Most Prized Aircraft Flooded
The feds wanted to expand the floodplain, but the business-friendly local NRD wanted to shrink it to save on insurance costs: https://www.omaha.com/news/metro/nrd-s-flood-plain-map-might...
sehugg··on What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance
"A Face in the Crowd" comes close, with Andy Griffith playing a populist hero who gets involved in politics. Near the movie's climax, the front-runner offers him the position of "Secretary for National Morale".
sehugg··on Ask HN: Is jQuery on its way out?
GitHub has a good post on removing jQuery: https://github.blog/2018-09-06-removing-jquery-from-github-f...

I still include it because I'm lazy, and it largely plays well with TypeScript.

sehugg··on Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
I've found it pretty easy to use the IceStorm toolchain. You can do everything from the command line without a funky proprietary IDE.
sehugg··on Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
Nice job! Are you going to do more designs in the future? Maybe Verilog/VHDL based?
sehugg··on “No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java”
Yes, it's really more about the GCs than the JIT. The yak-shaving involved in a performant C++ app is an order of magnitude higher. Plus, you get nice stack traces. Libraries like Netty make for extremely high-throughput apps.
sehugg··on Lock 'n roll: a tale of three cartridges
Pitfall II was the first cart I remember having a coprocessor -- the DPC, only used for this game since the 2600 was on the way out: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/144075-how-exactly-does-the...

NES carts actually have an audio pass-through that can replace/remix the built-in APU sound. Atari 2600 does not, but the DPC gave it three-voice music. How? The CPU has to read from the DPC once per scanline, then manually shove that value into the volume register, generating the audio waveform at a 15.7 kHz sample rate.

sehugg··on Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database
Not only tracking them, but putting flags on their passports and interrogating them at the border:

“They asked about the new caravan and if word had gotten out about how difficult it is to seek asylum in the U.S.,” Drehsler said. “Then before I left, the female agent asked if I rented or owned my home.”

This sounds much more like a political intimidation operation than serving a national security purpose.

sehugg··on Business Card Ray Tracer (2013)
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.
sehugg··on Oldest Viable Laptop (2017)
My Samsung Chromebook 3 is a pretty poor performer, but I love the matte screen and battery life. I use Termux all day long with Typescript background-compiling.

I wouldn't run Xcode on a non-SSD MBP, though.

sehugg··on A Canticle for Leibowitz Still Smolders (2014)
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

Okay, this is real? (apparently so)

sehugg··on Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)
If you've ever been to a resort with a wet bar, you might see people drinking for several hours without getting out of the pool. One can draw conclusions.
sehugg··on This Cat Does Not Exist
Human-cat hybrids: https://imgur.com/a/mqBA8IM
sehugg··on The men fighting Florida’s python epidemic
Copperheads are bad, especially since many other species look like them. They can put you in the hospital. Avoid the triangle head.
sehugg··on The Peculiar Power of Plane Mechanic Simulator
Great way to spread the word about your game. IIRC Minecraft went viral when people started posting videos of their houses catching on fire...
sehugg··on Captain Marvel throwback site
Not if you wanted your site to work on MSIE -- I don't think setTimeout() was even supported until IE4.
sehugg··on Google Easter Egg- Translating Monty Python's “funniest Joke Ever” from German
A content warning for HN's German speakers would have been nice.
sehugg··on $1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis
Let's also not forget the credit rating agencies' role: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/14/moodys-864m...
sehugg··on Amazon Ruined Online Shopping
If you absolutely need a single 4116 16kbit DRAM chip right now (well, in several days) eBay is the place.
sehugg··on MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming
I wonder if this could be retargeted to retro CPUs like the 6502 and Z80? Seems the assumption of 32-bit integers might make things less efficient though. (EDIT: never mind, it does support smaller int types!)
sehugg··on MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming
Interesting -- I wonder how this would work for sharing on social networks, given that they often recompress images. You could also hide the data in a proprietary PNG metadata chunk, but this also might not survive recompression.
sehugg··on NetHack beaten in 7 minutes 15 seconds real time
The 2600 didn't have a built-in RNG, but many games took advantage of uninitialized registers on powerup to seed their own RNG.
sehugg··on Thoughts on Modern C++ and Game Dev
They weren't all in assembly. Lots of games were published in BASIC or Pascal or even custom interpreters like Z-Code. But most arcade games and cartridge titles were coded in assembly back then.
sehugg··on Apple Early Chip Design
Also the price of RAM dropping nearly tenfold from 1977 to 1981.
sehugg··on How Atari created the Star Wars arcade game (2017)
There's one at the Barcade in Jersey City, too. You can even reboot and switch it to the Empire Strikes Back ROM.
sehugg··on Show HN: Fincher, a steganography tool for text
I did one of these many years ago, basically just abusing lex/flex: https://github.com/countrygeek/stegparty/blob/master/stegpar...
sehugg··on Open Source IDE for FPGAs as QtCreator Learns Verilog
I use Verilator to run simulations in the browser, which is useful to people who want to learn Verilog without installing anything: http://8bitworkshop.com/blog/release/2018/12/15/verilog-prog...
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