Why are LISP and assembly two different languages

STOP MAKING BLACK HOLES

* The Schwarzschild radius was NOT MEANT TO BE EXCEEDED

* INFINITE QUANTITIES OF TIME and yet NO POINT ON THE WORLDLINE where a SINGULARITY ACTUALLY FORMS

* "Yes this point is a TOPOLOGICAL SINGULARITY. Yes it EVAPORATES" statements dreamed up by the utterly quantum-brained

These are REAL path integrals, done in REAL canonical quantum gravity

[various non-renormalizable divergent series labelled with "?????"]

THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS

hmm. if your Z80-based machine absolutely must have banked memory - for example, using the Spectrum scheme where only the top 16KB can be switched, or the Amstrad scheme where only the low-mid 16KB can be switched - the inconvenience could be considerably reduced by just hanging a counter off a couple of spare ports, and gating the counter strobe off the address and read select of another port, so that you can switch to the bank you want to write to, then out the address of the memory you want to read from, and use inir to copy up to 256 bytes at once...

also, by involving read select in the gating of the counter strobe, reads from the port will pre-increment the address but writes to it won't, which allows for this reasonably fast read-modify-write code:

         ld bc,bank*256+BKADDR
         ld de,addr
         ld hl,maskaddr
         out (c),e
         inc c
         out (c),d ; also gates bank
         inc c
         ld b,COUNT
  rmw    in a,(c)
         xor (hl) ; or whichever alu op
         out (c),a
         djnz rmw

my question: did any machine actually do this? because it'd only involve a couple of gates, but as i say, it'd make dealing with banked memory so much easier. i was originally thinking of it for reading from VRAM stacked underneath ROM, but then i realised it'd work with any banked memory

thanks @igwigg@sk.igwigg.space for fishing money out of my wallet ​​

unfortunate sons

#unix_surrealism #mata #comic #technomage

Pokémon Integer and Pokémon IEEE 754b— Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic

this ai hackathon has actually been super useful! i now have access to cursor, which is a cool tool to use to reinforce the fact that i do not want any form of AI integration into my code editor. like holy fuck the ai fixes one thing and two more things break

small if true

wait no the load bearing ssh connection!

Apparently you can't get riolu until the postgame in Pokémon Black & White, so why the fuck am I playing this then? Knowing pokémon it'll be like 9999 hours of horrible grind to get to the postgame and then there'll be one millisecond of postgame content and you won't even have any reason to use any pokémon you catch

The latest special from New Ellijay Television is out now: https://vod.newellijay.tv/videos/watch/f1ee38b0-fcb6-4ddb-b58d-5d7a679b8444

It's about housing, but it was spurred on by a very bleak thing that the city of Atlanta did which resulted in the death of an innocent man.

CW for police violence, institutional racism, police brutality and indifference, and associated topics.

It's a very good video, Connor did a very good job producing it. It's bleak, it's sad, but it is also very clearheaded and ultimately revolutionary.

thank you SO much to all of you who have experimented with the network and documented your experiences and trials/errors with getting things working over the past year.

(and of course, a huge thank you to paul and dan for creating the network in the first place!)

all those blogs and pages have left us with an embarrassment of riches when it comes to marchintosh and globaltalk stuff. there are always a few people asking about how to connect and set up their hardware/software, and sometimes that's not easy to find.

so for this year's marchintosh, my contribution will be renewing the http://globaltalk.network domain and turning it into a publicly editable wiki for all things globaltalk. it's sat dormant for the past year because i just didn't know what to do with it.

i'm recovering from a flu, but in the next few days i hope to have the basic page up, and afterwards folks can start adding their own globaltalk info to it.

#globaltalk #marchintosh

Vs code addon be like: Attention user! This setting is now deprecated!
Me: Okay, what's the replacement?
Addon: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

maybe you were aware that one thing that makes a website a "progressive web app" is that your browser can fake up the feeling of it being installed like a native app

which could in theory get us away from huge bloated platform specific development environments and just let us make apps the same way we make sites. maybe like electron except you don't need several gigs worth of a whole extra copy of a browser

welp desktop firefox and safari don't implement that 🤷

it would be funny* if firefox market share dropped to literally zero, but mozilla just kept zombieing on

churning out releases into the void, integrating bullshit nobody wants, giving the ceo a million dollar raise every year

all because google continues funding them to be their token antitrust avoidance entity

So, I have the first part of the A-roll edited for my inaugural YouTube video, but I still need to finish the remainder of the edit (the part where I'm actually coding). But I just can't seem to find the fucking time to do it. There's always a fucking honey do, distraction, cat fight, job search alert that I must respond to, etc.

Like, wtf!! Enough is enough already!!

a couple of irrelevant comments on @yassie_j@labyrinth.zone 's yascast episode with @kuriko@wetdry.world and @iro_miya ​​

i'm not done with the episode yet, but i have a couple of comments to add

in the fedi origin story section, @iro_miya is speculating, that i might have been originally a niu user. i was never on niu, but it is true that our communities were pretty closely nitted. many niu users had alts on fab. and we called each others instance sister instances. i took great inspiration from niu on how to run FAB.

in the switch2 section, @yassie_j@labyrinth.zone talks about the gameboy only used 2 AA batteries. thats not entierly true because the original model did use 4. its only in later models, like the GBC, where nintendo downsized to 2 AAs.