madog

14 days agodiscuss

I was wondering what instruction set architecture the megadrive was using and came across this great article on the Motorolla 68000 and megadrive: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/mega-drive-genesis...

madog

6 months agodiscuss

https://archive.ph/rd87B

madog

6 months agodiscuss

If you have wired I just found out you can get a $30 wireless dongle for this these days. Available for both CarPlay and Android Auto. Meant to work pretty flawlessly although mine is the mail so I haven't tested it out yet.

madog

7 months agodiscuss

It's not entirely, because Github simply does not support inter-version diffs when you have multiple commits. If you force push onto multiple commits there is no way to show a diff between version 2 and version 3 of those commits. How Github lacks such basic (and imo necessary) functionality in 2025 is amazing to me.

Something like linked and dependent PRs in a chain would go someway to replicating Gerrit but again this basic functionality is not available out of the box for whatever reason.

madog

7 months agodiscuss

Something like Gerrit. Instead of carefully crafting a logical series of patches that are all well documented with commit messages, PRs are just garbage filled diff soup of "fix typo" commits. I hate it. It's hard to review and seems to be based on putting the least amount of effort into proposing changes to the code. See https://gist.github.com/thoughtpolice/9c45287550a56b2047c631...

madog

9 months agodiscuss

Migrating to Obsidian looks to be very easy now: https://help.obsidian.md/import/evernote

When I converted many years ago it required 3rd party tools and was slightly more involved (but still totally worth it).

madog

9 months agodiscuss

Presumably they were using a decompiler e.g. IDA Pro to know what characters to change in the hex editor? I've done that before to find offsets in the binary to NOP out some function calls.

madog

10 months agodiscuss

5% at 70 mph is 3.5 mph

10% at 30 mph is 3 mph

I saw this with various European cars.

My experience is that it seems to be a fixed percentage rather than a fixed amount i.e. the absolute difference increases with speed.

madog

10 months agodiscuss

It's not a rumour. They usually read somewhere between 5-10% over actual speed. Use a more accurate GPS speedometer on your phone to check that.

madog

11 months agodiscuss

For sure. $1000 Herman Miller Aeron has been worth every penny considering the time spent sat on it.

madog

11 months agodiscuss

Just use gettimeofday/clock_gettime via vDSO.

  struct timespec ts;
  clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts);

On arm64 it directly uses the cntvct_el0 register under the hood but with a standard/easy to use API instead of messing about with inline assembly. Also avoids a context switch because it's vDSO.

madog

last yeardiscuss

I agree.

Seems like the first step should be understanding that you CAN have control over it, even if you don't currently; and that you have the agency and strength to do that without appeal to some higher power.

The admitting you have no control sounds fatalistic to me and robs you of agency/responsibility. Then you're reliant on some externality or higher power instead of finding it within yourself.

Even those who go for the higher power are ultimately doing it themselves, they've just kidded themselves something else is involved, and if that helps you find that you can have some control over it, then great, I guess?

madog

last yeardiscuss

Not to mention Meta is ad tech so these will be full to the brim of tracking and adverts to recoup R+D costs.

I'm yet to be convinced these are useful and not just another way to inject ads directly into eyeballs.

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