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mikejmoffitt··on The Texas Instruments 99/4: World’s First 16-Bit Computer
I'm sorry, but I genuinely don't understand what you mean. There are thousands of videos of people demonstrating use of this computer. Is there a specific property of a demonstration you are looking for?
mikejmoffitt··on Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile
Why in the world is an emulator wrapped up in Unity?
mikejmoffitt··on Retro ThinkPad: It’s Alive
I hope not. Except for a few choice models (the T4-T6 era "FlexView" IPS panels), the screens in ThinkPads have not been exceptional at all. Even the IPS choices were a total lottery.
mikejmoffitt··on Retro ThinkPad: It’s Alive
"Firm" doesn't feel at all like it was before.
mikejmoffitt··on How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud
I don't know why people are negatively marking your post, because this is a thing a lot of people do and it does feel like there is a bit of a stigma to do so.
mikejmoffitt··on Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
Respecting indent preferences of others while not breaking the formatting of that line-split function call.
mikejmoffitt··on Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
This is an example of where it's absolutely okay to mix tabs and spaces. If it's Python, that's not going to work, but depending on one's preferences and opinions that can be seen as a defect of the language, not the formatting. In C, C++, Java, Javascript, and nearly every other language, this is a great practice.
mikejmoffitt··on Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
This guy gets it.

Tabs for indent, spaces for formatting within. No need to push your tab size standards on the next person to edit your code, and no need to force their editor to retab it to their preference, and back again when it's saved.

"It's the editor's default", or worse, "I never really thought about it" are horrible reasons for doing anything, and hearing something else might be a sign of a pulse.

mikejmoffitt··on “Markets Today Are Not What We Believe” – The Façade of Competition
The future of self-driving cars is not going to be one based around ownership.
mikejmoffitt··on SoftBank Takes $4B Stake in Nvidia
If these artists/creators get picked up (which is in many of their interests), they are faced with pressure to deliver, bedroom or not.
mikejmoffitt··on Show HN: 15-question programming quiz with answers
This is a quiz about python gotchas.
mikejmoffitt··on Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
There is a little more CPU time, but the extended vertical blanking interval means there is a huge difference in video memory bandwidth, which is critical for a long DMA transfer from 68000-bus memory to VRAM through the Mega Drive's VDP.

60Hz V-blank DMA: 7524 50Hz V-blank DMA: 17622

That's at 320x224 resolution for both. I don't know how much this affects this one demo in particular, but for other things it can be a little annoying sometimes to be bandwidth-starved.

mikejmoffitt··on Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone
Can this be used with a wired keyboard and mouse on most phones?
mikejmoffitt··on Mac Pro: Failure and Future
The first has results from Geekbench finding that "A10 Fusion has roughly the same single-core processor performance as Intel's top sixth-generation Core m processor".

The second references Matt Mariska's misleading tweet: "Geekbench has the iPhone 7 beating the $6,500 12-core Mac Pro in single-thread." - Never mind that it's a $6,500 12-core Mac from over four years ago. This one gets regurgitated over and over.

The third still illustrates performance edging close to the Core M series of processors.

mikejmoffitt··on Mac Pro: Failure and Future
"The A10 processor inside my iPhone is no less powerful than the Intel processor inside my MacBook"

[citation needed]

mikejmoffitt··on Ask HN: What's your working day like?
>[06:30] Gym >[07:00] Commute to work

Serious question: How does this work? Do you work out for exactly 30 minutes and jump straight on transport / in the car / etc? 20 minutes plus a quick shower? Is there no time factored in for cleaning yourself up after working out, to be presentable at work?

mikejmoffitt··on AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit
A floating pin on a CMOS device is absolutely real.
mikejmoffitt··on The Lowly Folding Chair, Reimagined with Algorithms
I don't see a video of a person actually unfolding this thing, which looks like a complicated process when your friend gravity insists on helping you out.
mikejmoffitt··on Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
YouTube users do not organize videos into channels. Channels are delivery mechanisms. Users organize them with Playlists, which is intuitive for the content.
mikejmoffitt··on AmigaOne X5000 – first impression
I also do not quite understand. As someone who loves 68000-based powerhouse art computers from the '80s, I can understand the appeal of the original Amiga line, but the PowerPC ones confuse me a bit because they no longer bring a unique graphics chipset to the table. Without the (potentially) interesting graphics chipset, does the appeal really extend beyond the OS interface design and the brand itself?
mikejmoffitt··on AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit
You could have a lot of combinational logic dependent on floating/high-Z inputs, which is not good for CMOS circuitry.
mikejmoffitt··on Nintendo Discontinues the NES Classic Edition
I'm sure a lot of people are going to recommend RetroPie and other emulation packages. I'm going to recommend against general-purpose emulation if you enjoy the games in question: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2019/an-input-lag-invest...
mikejmoffitt··on Ubuntu 17.04 Released
Is there any difference between flavors other than the preinstalled software?
mikejmoffitt··on Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
From experience, using the bridge means pinging the admin on slack about it, and convincing them that it's even worth doing, and then being stuck in "The IRC Room", instead of the others rooms in which people are actually communicating.
mikejmoffitt··on Dumb thermometer gets digital output
A lot of these small LCDs interface with a zebra pad, hitting contacts on the LCD glass and some gold or carbon-coated conductors on the PCB. Gold conductors are easy, carbon-coated conductors are okay but can be annoying, but the pitch generally narrow for these, as you've mentioned.
mikejmoffitt··on Hackathon hustlers who make a living from corporate coding contests
I think the big difference can be seen across two types of hackathons: ones that are corporate-sponsered, with corporations offering massive prizes and startup funding for people with "fresh, hip disruptive ideas leveraging their cool web tech", versus small ones that are about creating something neat and showing it to others. Of course, this is a gradient, and things are not black-and-white here.

A lot of small local game jams fall closer to the second category there. I think you are right that financial stakes affects the attitude of the hackathon.

mikejmoffitt··on [dead]
While the sentiment isn't untrue, to say that the "see how you think" discussions are bullshit is going a little far.
mikejmoffitt··on NESticle, a classic NES emulator for DOS, is 20 years old today
NESticle got me into modification and reverse-engineering. Specifically, it allowed the user to not only view the graphics ROM data all at once, but also modify the tiles and see the effect in real-time!
mikejmoffitt··on Revealing Capcom’s Custom Silicon Security
Interesting that there appears to be a watchdog for the encryption chip.
mikejmoffitt··on Bigger brains are not always better
The amount of potentially different experiences male and female adolescents have had by the time they take the SAT make me believe SAT results are not good references for this subject.
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