foone

foone, 6 months ago to random

It seems every company I've worked at has a person who looms large in their legend.
Like, they're often the person who built the core systems, everything was originally their design, but they left recently and in their absence they've had to hire like 5 more people to try and take over all their responsibilities.

I think next time I'm gonna track down that person, find out where they moved to, and go work there instead

foone, 7 months ago to random

To compete with RISC-V I'm going to design my own ISA and call it CISC-VI

What now?

foone, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Scifi idea: an alien fleet shows up and says they're taking over or they'll zap us from orbit. Says this is at risk of turning into a holy war... Because see, Earth is a garden planet, specifically chosen for their former God-Emperor to retire to, and in the last couple thousand years we've suddenly gotten all spicy and he's worried about his survival.
When we ask where this alien God-Emperor is, they react in shock. We can't have missed him, he's only the biggest organism on the planet!

foone, 10 months ago to random

it'd be nice if my hex editor could automatically keep an eye out for some common file format patterns.
like, a series of integers A, B, C where B is located A bytes after A, C is located B bytes after B (and A+B bytes after A, etc), or a long run of 4-byte numbers that are strictly increasing.

foone, 10 months ago to random

you know that saying about how a compiler made by N teams will contain N+1 passes?
like every big program contains a replica of the organizational structure that created it?

It's fun sometimes to see big programs made by one person, because they're a sort of inverse mold of their brain structure.

foone, 6 months ago to random

so given that my "write a bison/flex parser for a flag DSL" project has stalled, I think I'm gonna cheat and start with the bytecode for it first.

foone, 2 months ago to random

on a scale of 1 to WE COPYRIGHTED THE FUCKING PLASTIC CASE OF OUR DUMB TERMINAL, how many layers of IP law are you on?

foone, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

I took some pseudo-selfies with my Sony Mavica FD5 from 1997, which saves jpegs on a floppy disk. Amazingly, this is the high quality mode!

foone, 10 months ago to random

wow. in a game that ships on a 128 megabyte rom, 54mb of that is 6 test files.

what the heck are you doing, bioware?

foone, 9 months ago to random

I think to finish this windows 10 install without signing in using an online account, I'm going to need to either use another computer to make an install disk and restart it from scratch, or open up the laptop and yank out the wifi card

foone, 11 months ago to random

look I'm not an expert at this computers thing, but I'm pretty sure a pointer shouldn't be set to 14

foone, 2 months ago to random

more sci-fi should deal with the fact that your average Enterprise starship has a fuel tank measured in Chicxulubs of antimatter

foone, 7 months ago to random

Now that Microsoft owns Activision, what's your shitpost choice for a game from their library that you'd like to see them open source?
My first guess is H.E.R.O. but I'm sure there's something else in that huge library

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Activision_video_games

foone, 8 months ago to random

So I decided to look at a game (software toy?) that my partner plays. It's a fully 2D coloring program, where you have geometric pages and you can colorize it as you wish.

Guess what: IT'S UNITY!

foone, 9 months ago to random

it's sadly not supported in the current version, but I was reading the docs to a network-connected power-strip and they explain how you used to program it

fun fact: this is a BASIC program. each textbox is one numbered line

foone, 4 months ago to random

I'm gonna petition the US government to make an exception to copyright laws on video for analog sources that are VHS quality or worse.

I mean, after all the DMCA doesn't apply. It's not digital!

foone, 3 months ago to random

Yep, that CRT has lost vertical deflection.

Just my luck, I bought a 1 dimensional monitor.

foone, 3 months ago to random

Do you have several/all ascii codepoints memorized or are you a normal person?

foone, 8 months ago to random

given how many rp2040 based microcontrollers there are now, I wonder if anyone has made a "5v" pico yet?

yeah it's a 3v chip but you could put level shifters on all the GPIO

foone, 1 year ago to random

Here's the most annoying thing:
I have a scripting engine from this game, and there's debugging files alongside each bytecode file. Great, right?

NO! because I only have the release version of the engine, which DOES NOT LOAD DEBUGGING FILES. At all! I have no way to reverse engineer how they work, other than staring at the hex editor and crying

foone, 8 months ago to random

2023 is going to be the year of the zip disk, just you wait

foone, 9 months ago to random

gah. it turns out this fucking SBC has been somewhat operational this entire time, except it's generating an HDMI signal that FOR SOME REASON my monitor decided not to recognize

foone, 5 months ago to random

my damn test monitor has only one input button and way too many inputs, plus the input button is right next to the power button AND it takes 10 seconds to switch inputs.

so if it ever gets pressed by accident, you have to step through
RCA 1, RCA 2, S-VIDEO, COMPONENT, VGA, ANT, CABLE

foone, 9 months ago to random

fun fact with these magnetic USB charging cables:
if you have two of them, they will naturally attach to each other, creating a forbidden USB A-A cable, but better yet: they actually cross-connect because MAGNETS, so ground is wired to +5 and vice versa!

foone, 3 months ago to random

I took apart a POS system and it turns out it has a nuvoton NCT6106D superio controller.