Gregory's Server
"Whitney is no respecter of rules. One of the scariest things I ever did as a young man was following him through central Toronto on a bicycle. " #apl
http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320
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The promise of reversible computing is that the amount of heat loss for reversible architectures would be minimal for significantly large numbers of transistors. Rather than creating entropy (and thus heat) through destructive operations, a reversible architecture conserves the energy by performing other operations that preserve the system state. An erasure of information in a closed system is always accompanied by an increase in energy consumption. In the extremely unlikely scenario that you, like me, might need a little graphical desktop #abacus, I made this tiny thing(1.2kb) to help me with homework. Download: https://rabbits.srht.site/soroban/soroban.rom Enjoy! I've been enjoying this book a lot. Takashi Kojima's Advanced Abacus, incidentally it describes something very similar to the Karatsuba algorithm in the alternative multiplication techniques. Thanks to everyone who tuned in for the talk, it was fun to explain the process out loud for the first time. Someone's quietly building a mml(Music Macro Language) player in #uxn. I'm pretty excited about this one! So, Yeti on the #uxntal mailing list discovered a genius way to print inline strings(as opposed to passing a reference to that piece of text), and @tty rewrote it to be this super lean 10 bytes long implementation. I've added it to this collection of routines: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal_library.html#strings "Because, in a world where Creation and Communication are heavily commercialized, the act of Creating a Thing or building a community that doesn’t enrich our corporate overlords is a radical act."
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 @neauoire "and you’re left with HBO/DISCOVERY, Disney, Facebook, and Joe Rogan" Jeez this author should have a go at writing horror novels, they already wrote the pilot.... "To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security." Walter M. Miller Jr. I've been doing my drawtobers with a 🎃 theme to put me in the spirit. Only a week left of #drawtober! This month just flew right by. One thing I like about assembly programming is the reuse of routine bodies, not returning from a routine and falling through to the next one when needing to append something before a routine.   @neauoire It's interesting how, depending on the sort of programmer you ask, one will say it's wonderful and another will say it's a terrible idea. 😈 "Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together." :glenda: I tend to open my binaries in a pixel art editor to see deadzones, like I noticed here there's a 8 byte buffer(blank zone in the middle of the code), that should be moved to the zero-page. Anyone else have this habit?
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@neauoire Hehe, that's a fun one. Makes me think of how insightful it can be to visualize data differently[1].  @neauoire This has got some Cypher Maxtrix "I don’t even see the code anymore" energy 😂
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Before anyone asks, all the drawings are made in a little drawing program called Noodle.  Thrilled to be sharing the stage at Handmade Seattle next month with Peter van Hardenberg and Rasmus Andersson to share our experiments with personal computing. I know a handful of people there who will be joining us, I'm not sure how you'd like to coordinate this all, but right now I have an email thread with a couple of people. Anyone in the area who want to meet up, get in touch :) @cancel I've been having the funnest back and forth with someone. First they sent me an email like, "how do I uninstall uxn32", here's how it went: them: "So where is the rest of the emulator?"  @neauoire @cancel I had a similar thing happen with Fennel; someone on windows downloaded the compiler and they were like "where's the installer; I wanted an installer" and it was like ... why would you want an installer when you could just ... get the program that you were going to use the installer to install? I don't know if I'll ever understand windows users. |
@neauoire '"Hate scrolling" he mumbled.'