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Thorham
11 months ago
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The Epochalypse Project
That seems a bit small seeing how doubles can represent 53 bit integers accurately.
tomsmeding
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>>> 2**53/(1000*3600*24*365)+1970 287586.41472415626
There's a lot of milliseconds.
dgfl
11 months ago
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Well, 2^53 milliseconds is indeed 285 414 years.
Thorham
on Jan 17, 2025
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Programming in Lua (first edition) (2003)
Lua is nice on small platforms like a Motorola 68030.
Thorham
on Sept 27, 2024
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Small3dlib: Public domain 3D software rasterizer
Lua is written in C89, perhaps a good example of that.
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on Aug 20, 2024
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Getting back into C programming for CP/M
Dungeon Master (1987) on the Atari ST was mostly written in C.
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on June 18, 2024
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Are animals conscious? New research
Then compare orca brains to ours. Theirs are larger and more wrinkly.
agumonkey
on June 19, 2024
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Yeah but their body is immensely larger, which I assume will require more neurons for basic biological duties. (yet another napkin theory)
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on May 28, 2024
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Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embe...
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IrfanView
Must be a VIC20.
Thorham
on Dec 8, 2023
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Need a PRNG? Use a CSPRNG
ChaChah is a stream cipher and was never a SHA3 candidate.
Thorham
on Sept 6, 2023
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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 July 26, 2023
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The 1990s Amiga with Video Toaster has a VFX cool ...
And now youtube videos about technology are a thing.
esafak
on July 26, 2023
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The difference is that the TV shows came from a place of technological optimism and the YouTube shows from commercial apathy. Society isn't optimistic any more, especially about technology.
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