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New comment by Dork1234 in "Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerste"

Dork1234 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:37:50 +0000

By going to godbolt Just realized how hard it is to generate x87 FPU code these days. Almost all supported compilers are outputing XMM? SSE instructions these days.

New comment by Dork1234 in "Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever"

Dork1234 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:34:01 +0000

Thanks to SmugMug, need to give credit to them for saving it.

New comment by Dork1234 in "Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?"

Dork1234 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:18:44 +0000

Creality K1 SE is only $50 more over the Ender 3 SE right now. Much better deal.

New comment by Dork1234 in "Lua beats MicroPython for embedded devs"

Dork1234 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:29:23 +0000

Do you have anything like this: https://docs.micropython.org/en/v1.9.3/pyboard/reference/spe...

Viper Bytecode emitter.

New comment by Dork1234 in "Lua beats MicroPython for embedded devs"

Dork1234 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:26:20 +0000

Well it is compiled into Bytecode.

New comment by Dork1234 in "National Park Service Will Cite AWD Drivers for Driving on 4WD-Only Trails"

Dork1234 — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 13:58:50 +0000

The problem with reducing AWD to all open Diffs. Subuaru, Mitishbishi, Honda (Acura), Toyato have all sold AWD system with various levels of limited slip and/or locking diffs which are much more complicated than just applying brakes.

New comment by Dork1234 in "AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source"

Dork1234 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:06:41 +0000

Microsoft could do that because they had the Operating System monopoly to leverage and take out both Lotus 123 and WordPerfect. Without the monopoly of the operating system they wouldn't of been able to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

New comment by Dork1234 in "AMD confirms Ryzen 8000G APUs don't support ECC RAM, despite initial claims"

Dork1234 — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:43:59 +0000

Is it just not validated but still supported by turning it on the Motherboard?

New comment by Dork1234 in "Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS"

Dork1234 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:06:50 +0000

It is $200-300 per license times 5x. It it worth $1000-$1500 for it?

New comment by Dork1234 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)"

Dork1234 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:59:43 +0000

I as well am waiting for the next Y Combinator startup for using A.I. to automate whether or not you should apply for a job. Should we start on a Series-A pitch deck?

New comment by Dork1234 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)"

Dork1234 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:23:58 +0000

FYI: I've heard of multiple qualified people being rejected early in the process with Tulip for roles that have been posted a long time. Invest your time wisely with this company.

New comment by Dork1234 in "Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi"

Dork1234 — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 04:02:05 +0000

You can always replace them with RP2040 which have integer performance similar to the Cray-1 if that makes you feel better.

New comment by Dork1234 in "First 96-Core AMD Zen 4 Threadripper Tests Show Utter Domination over Intel"

Dork1234 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 01:35:33 +0000

Larger sticks (or more sticks) of RAM are generally slower than smaller sticks. It might not be possible to duplicate same speed ram and capacity on the Intel board. I would hope they duplicated the test with the same speed of RAM before matching capacity. The results are so one sided, I doubt either capacity or speed matters.

New comment by Dork1234 in "Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)"

Dork1234 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 19:25:36 +0000

Since 2000 we they have publicly disclosed Janet Jackson crashing harddrives:

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/janet-jackson-rhythm-nat...

and moving a controller crashes the PS1.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/my-hardest-bug-eve...

Makes me thinks there are tons of these issues out there.

New comment by Dork1234 in "Apple ditches the Lightning connector in favor of USB-C after 11 years"

Dork1234 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:40:41 +0000

USB-C came out after lighting connector, 30 pin connector was at the end of the life when it came out. Apple didn't have a good choice.

New comment by Dork1234 in "Apple ditches the Lightning connector in favor of USB-C after 11 years"

Dork1234 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:38:44 +0000

I remember the days when every single device had a different cable to connect/power (looking at you sony laptops and cameras). Apple has always been one of the better companies for limited unneeded changes.

New comment by Dork1234 in "Arduino raises $22M Series B round"

Dork1234 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:21:06 +0000

What is the difference between PlatformIO and something you use to develop for an Embedded platform? To me it seems PlatformIO is just a wrapper around the same command-line tools used by other companies.

New comment by Dork1234 in "Arduino raises $22M Series B round"

Dork1234 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:18:29 +0000

If it isn't Arduino, then it will be MicroPython/CiruitPython and you won't even need a compiler.

New comment by Dork1234 in "How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?"

Dork1234 — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 17:16:40 +0000

My take is it not the skill or even the cost of labor. The biggest issues is it is easier to find skilled people in Asia willing to work late and long hours to keep the machines running 24/7. The only way to make money is to keep these machines running as close to 100% efficiency 24/7. It isn't just one company, it is the whole chain of suppliers/manufactures with fast turn around time that gives Asia a upper hand.

New comment by Dork1234 in "FunctionTrace: Graphical Python Profiler"

Dork1234 — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:55:14 +0000

Is this something that could be made to work with MicroPython?