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CPColin posted:(lol except the bytes in the video RAM are packed little-endian and Java is expecting big-endian whoops) nice all this emulatorchat is making me think that i should give this emulator101 thing a shot
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got to use my favourite debugging method today: draw a bunch of rectangles on the screen and try to divine meaning from their locations
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Aug 27, 2018 06:08
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go for it but make a 68000, the objectively superior architecture but make a 68010 since it can actually resume an instruction after an exception
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Aug 27, 2018 06:41
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nah there’s no reason not to use Musashi for the 68000 family, even MAME uses it if you want a challenge, upgrade your 8080 to a Z80! there’s a PDF on the internet that’s a 30 page description of how the Pac-Man hardware works
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Aug 27, 2018 06:57
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no do a fancy emulator like the table-based 68K emulator with deterministic timing that Apple wrote for PowerPC so even interrupt level code would just work
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Aug 27, 2018 07:20
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Jabor posted:got to use my favourite debugging method today: draw a bunch of rectangles on the screen and try to divine meaning from their locations Use colours, screenshot, then a colour picker to get the exact rgb!
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ctps: My current Go gripes: So, being a .Net programmer by trade, I've grown accustomed to using cancellation tokens when I have multiple layers (both vertically and horizontally) of async calls that I need to shut down all at once when something goes wrong or a connection dies or something. Go has something sort of similar: context. If you don't use contexts you end up having to create these things called signal channels, and you can monitor this channel in all your goroutines and when you close your signal channel (because one of your goroutines wants to shut everything down) your goroutines can all watch that channel and return out of their functions when it closes. Ok, fine. With context, you get the same functionality, but it has the channel built in, as well as built-in support for timeouts and some other stuff. An n-tier set of services, correctly using context, will all shut their connections down gracefully when needed. It's kinda nice, allows a bit cleaner code than having these lovely signal channels all over the place. Well, i'm now running into people in the golang community that loving haaaaattteeee context. It's been called a virus, for example, because it "infects" all layers of your code, which is kinda funny to me because I've seen the same argument against using async/await in .Net. In my mind, it's like decrying exceptions because "now we have try-catch all over our apps... you should just return errors :P", which is also a thing in golang, lmbo. I was told by one golang package maintainer that context is not idiomatic because you can accomplish the same thing without using contexts. Isn't that like saying "You can accomplish the same thing without using Go... just write assembly :P"?
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Aug 27, 2018 18:35
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the problem was that context was popping up in apis it had no business with. like you should absolutely use context in a web service context but people were using it solely as a scoped key-value store where a custom 'context' struct would have worked much better. but yes, the backlash is real and stupid. the go community really struggles with concepts like 'sometimes thing good, sometimes thing bad' if you introduce context, it will spread like a virus. if you introduce generics, the language will be instantly transformed into enterprise java. DONT THREAD ON ME fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Aug 27, 2018 |
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Aug 27, 2018 18:40
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:the go community really struggles with concepts like 'sometimes thing good, sometimes thing bad' okay now i understand why my coworker likes go
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Aug 27, 2018 18:47
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leper khan posted:you people and your 8080s. try implementing something fun and esoteric, like a belt machine. if your want real fun, build the whole thing in VHDL after your emulator is working. back in my university days (~10 years ago) i put together a dedicated machine in VHDL that synthesized a VGA controller, ram controller, and a few shift registers to interface with a NES controller, as well as an instruction set dedicated to playing a tank game like the old atari game. it was cool having a dedicated "bullet" instruction. i don't think i could do it again, though.
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Aug 27, 2018 20:35
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:back in my university days (~10 years ago) i put together a dedicated machine in VHDL that synthesized a VGA controller, ram controller, and a few shift registers to interface with a NES controller, as well as an instruction set dedicated to playing a tank game like the old atari game. it was cool having a dedicated "bullet" instruction. play exapunks, in it you program a gameboy-like in assembly-like
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wanted to take a look at some of our ssis packages but apparently they broke vsta in vs 15.8. thanks michaelsoft
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Aug 27, 2018 23:05
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gonadic io posted:play exapunks, in it you program a gameboy-like in assembly-like oh i bought it on launch day, of course, like every zachtronics thing. i just dont think i could do VHDL again lol
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Aug 28, 2018 00:24
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:back in my university days (~10 years ago) i put together a dedicated machine in VHDL that synthesized a VGA controller, ram controller, and a few shift registers to interface with a NES controller, as well as an instruction set dedicated to playing a tank game like the old atari game. it was cool having a dedicated "bullet" instruction. we did the same (well, the NES controller bit) at my college, was so much fun but I haaaated Verilog
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Aug 28, 2018 00:41
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current adventure: paging I haven't figured out how to actually set up kernel processes with their own address space yet but the MMU is pointing everything below the 1MB barrier to itself? lol
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Aug 28, 2018 01:04
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vhdl and verilog are cursed languages and hardware is a nightmare tarpit
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Aug 28, 2018 02:54
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anthonypants posted:wanted to take a look at some of our ssis packages but apparently they broke vsta in vs 15.8. thanks michaelsoft we used to have dts packages so old that I was the only person that could view them because I was the only one that bothered to hack together a dts 2000 install to open them
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Aug 28, 2018 09:04
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i've been loving around with game dev the last few days since i was doing stuff with ggez and god help me i kinda want to do this more seriously.
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Aug 28, 2018 11:02
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i've been loving around with game dev the last few days since i was doing stuff with ggez and god help me i kinda want to do this more seriously. Did you see the post of the ggez author using it and specs (an ecs component system) for the latest Ludlum dare? https://wiki.alopex.li/LD42Postmortem
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Aug 28, 2018 11:35
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Also: gamedev and in fact any non-cli user interface are all poo poo. Posting json is the only way to fly imo
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Aug 28, 2018 11:37
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gonadic io posted:Did you see the post of the ggez author using it and specs (an ecs component system) for the latest Ludlum dare? did not see it, will check it out!
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Aug 28, 2018 11:51
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ive read about ecs a lot and it seems like a really cool pattern to use, especially if you are doing something like a turn based roguelike
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Aug 28, 2018 12:27
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is the post ghost back
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Aug 28, 2018 12:31
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cinci zoo sniper posted:is the post ghost back dunno, i havent noticed. regarding rls+vscode and intellij+rust extension: my laptop is in for repairs so i'm developing on my desktop which is much beefier, obv. the experience of using RLS is much much better on a beefy system, and intellij is better as well. i'll probably continue to code on my desktop after my laptop is fixed because this is just much better. also my emulator runs just fine on linux as well as osx, so that's neat.
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Aug 28, 2018 12:51
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laptops are the loving worst. if you work with computers your employer should at the very least have the god damned decency to provide you with a workstation - a real computer that can actually use its cpu without thermal throttling after thirty seconds, and that you can actually repair, not one of these small plastic toys urging you to bring work with you wherever you go. for too long we have accepted the mountain coming to muhammad as natural. physically leaving your desk should be equivalent to mentally leaving work behind. bringing your loving laptop with you is dysfunctional as gently caress.
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Aug 28, 2018 13:42
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ban laptops
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Aug 28, 2018 13:43
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or at least impose heavy tax penalties on them, gently caress
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Aug 28, 2018 13:43
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cinci zoo sniper posted:is the post ghost back it is. i saw you were the last reply for awhile and the "new replies" marker said there was a new reply, but i couldn't see your post at all.
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terrible programmer status: I couldn't figure out why my shading routine didn't work the formula for finding the shading ratio of a vertex is: take the dot product of the normalized vector (light_position - vertex_position) and the normal after transformation I was projecting a vertex, then normalizing (light_position - vertex_position)  now I have a cube https://twitter.com/LuigiThirty/status/1034337242196652032
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Aug 28, 2018 14:07
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Experimenting w/ our legacy codebase last night I found that our application doesn't start its idle timer until a few steps in to the login process, so you can leave the screen on a confirmation window and then leave the software open overnight. This is accounting software that cares A WHOLE BUNCH about date/session ranges to do accountability reports on where money goes  Also the idle timer is a single DispatchTimer with a 15 minute Interval that just locks the program on Tick, any anytime you do something that matters enough, it resets that timer and makes a new interval, which can't start until the current one has ended. So if you're idle for 7 minutes then do something, your idle timeout is now 22 minutes instead of 15.
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Aug 28, 2018 14:32
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Skyl3lazer posted:Experimenting w/ our legacy codebase last night I found that our application doesn't start its idle timer until a few steps in to the login process, so you can leave the screen on a confirmation window and then leave the software open overnight. gently caress yeah legacy desktop app
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I have a random dumb question... What does it take to do consultancy? Like, if I wanted to offer consultant services as a "highly experienced" software developer and architect, do I need to know anything beyond cs basics and various software designs? I feel like I could easily go into a business and tell them how they're doing everything wrong, and come up with a plan for fixing things. Anyone here do this kinda stuff or is it really awful somehow?
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Aug 28, 2018 15:55
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there are going to be two hard requirements for independent consultancy - nice and lengthy-ish experience on paper and ability to hold conversation that client's business and tech leads will both find likeable
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i've kinda been wondering about the same. the most convenient thing for me ATM would be to establish a freelancing/consultancy business, so i can focus on going back to school or whatever i want while still paying the bills. while i've got the experience to back it up, i'm really not great with strangers and would not enjoy having to deal with a revolving door of new, demanding faces. also i'd probably let myself be a doormat and would have a hard time saying no to unreasonable expectations.
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IME, sometimes it owns, sometimes it sucks. If you can keep the doors open and bills paid then it mostly owns. Oh you want to gently caress off out of town for a couple days mid-week? Great! You want to knock out a project and take a month off before the next one starts? No problem! However I'd say the number-one hard requirement is a solid pipeline of work, however you come by it. Someone in here mentioned that consultants live and die by billing and it's super true. It's tempting to get wrapped up in a project doing the fun stuff and forget about beating the pavement for the next bit of work, especially if you're delivering what feels like a big project for what sounds like big money. It's probably not as much money as you think it is and it always takes longer to get it in the door than you expect. At least you don't have some dipshit boss telling you how to live your life, because the dipshit boss is now you!!
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My personal gold standard of consulting life goals is a story I heard from a friend who worked for a metrology product manufacturer. There was a dude with a box that they would hire every so often to come in to the facility. They would put a device in his box, he would press a button, and later on a report would pop out, along with an invoice for >$100,000.
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Spime Wrangler posted:My personal gold standard of consulting life goals is a story I heard from a friend who worked for a metrology product manufacturer. There was a dude with a box that they would hire every so often to come in to the facility. They would put a device in his box, he would press a button, and later on a report would pop out, along with an invoice for >$100,000. Is this a metaphor is that literally what happened??
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Aug 28, 2018 17:20
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lets start the yospos consulting group
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I feel like the litmus test of contracting is if you roll your own billing/invoicing setup. If you do, you've failed already.
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Bloody posted:lets start the yospos consulting group lots of money to be made consulting on wiki's
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