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flykespice commented on Octo: A Chip8 IDE   github.com/JohnEarnest/Oc... · Posted by u/tosh
flykespice · 2 days ago
Chip8 is the rite of passage for many emulator devs due to its simplicity, it can be implemented on virtually every 1 cent microcontroller out there.

It should've had a more dedicated vibrant community if it weren't the many incompabilities among the different emulators implementations out there, all due to people using cowgod's chip-8 tecnical reference as the single source of truth[0], which itself is based on David Winter's original implementation which contained a few inaccuracies on some instructions behavior from the original COSMAC VIP interpreter.

[0]: http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM

flykespice commented on Damn Small Linux   damnsmalllinux.org/... · Posted by u/grubbs
flykespice · 7 days ago
Damn Small Linux was one of the first distros I tried out as teenager with a LiveCD. It's sad it fell out due to his lead being rather an asshole with his contributors and overall incompetent.

BTW, one of former core contributors went to make their own distro called TinyCoreLinux.

flykespice commented on Linus Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company   neowin.net/news/linux-cre... · Posted by u/bundie
dzhiurgis · 9 days ago
> I’m sure Elon is familiar with the nuances of slander laws after he baselessly accused a hero rescue worker of a terrible crime and then hid behind his lawyers.

Funny how people remember this.

Hero rescue worker he was not. He just was one of the hundreds divers in the area, while total 10,000 people were involved ("The rescue effort involved as many as 10,000 people, including more than 100 divers, scores of rescue workers, representatives from about 100 governmental agencies, 900 police officers and 2,000 soldiers." [0]). There were teams from 11 countries, Musk included.

No one was asked out as per his made-up story during interview. Essentially he was slandering Musk...

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tham_Luang_cave_rescue

flykespice · 8 days ago
It doesn't makes him less a hero rescuer if many others were still involved, in fact, every diver who volunteered on the rescue effort is a hero on my book.

> There were teams from 11 countries, Musk included.

What did Musk help exactly, other than coming up with an impractical solution, then calling the hero rescuer a "pedo guy" after getting his big ego bruised?

flykespice commented on Why xor eax, eax?   xania.org/202512/01-xor-e... · Posted by u/hasheddan
201984 · 13 days ago
AArch64 also zeroes the upper 32 bits of the destination register when you use a 32 bit instruction.
flykespice · 13 days ago
I'm curious, why is that?

I know x86-64 zeroes the upper part of the register for backwards compability and improve instruction cache (no need for REX prefix), but AArch64 is unclear for me.

flykespice commented on Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground   zigtools.org/blog/zigbook... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
yoyohello13 · 15 days ago
I don’t think Andrew is a bad guy, but his tone seems to attract a certain kind of person. All the technical people I’ve interacted with in the Zig community have been awesome, but for whatever reason it also attracts a lot of people who are just there to shit on anything mainstream.
flykespice · 14 days ago
He has a pattern of taking any bit of criticism of his language on bad faith, and immediately goes all defensive accusing the criticizer of being a psyop working with a rival language.

This is all childish and unacceptable behavior.

flykespice commented on Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground   zigtools.org/blog/zigbook... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
flykespice · 14 days ago
This is just a vibe coder who tried spin his business onto a growing language. They don't care about their product (code) quality as long as it sells.
flykespice commented on Show HN: Awesome J2ME   github.com/hstsethi/aweso... · Posted by u/catstor
flykespice · 25 days ago
BTW there is J2ME Loader, a free j2me emulator for android devices available through PlayStore, it plays very nice (you can customize your keys too).

One I noticed is j2me games often don't play music on the background and just resorts to sporadic sounds, any reason for that?

flykespice commented on Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2   ruby-lang.org/en/news/202... · Posted by u/pansa2
thebigkick · a month ago
Curious, why would DHH trigger a mass exodus?
flykespice · a month ago
Would you keep using a programming language leaded by a racist? I wouldn't
flykespice commented on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition   minecraft.net/en-us/artic... · Posted by u/SteveHawk27
flykespice · a month ago
Does removing obfuscation implies any performance speed-up for Minecraft Java, or were the obfuscations done in Java with zero-cost?

u/flykespice

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