Hacker News: Thorham

New comment by Thorham in "The Epochalypse Project"

Thorham — Sun, 11 May 2025 14:13:05 +0000

That seems a bit small seeing how doubles can represent 53 bit integers accurately.

New comment by Thorham in "Lua Programming in Lua (first edition) (2003)"

Thorham — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:31:52 +0000

Lua is nice on small platforms like a Motorola 68030.

New comment by Thorham in "Small3dlib: Suckless PD 3D software rasterizer"

Thorham — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:08:50 +0000

Lua is written in C89, perhaps a good example of that.

New comment by Thorham in "Getting back into C programming for CP/M"

Thorham — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:58:03 +0000

Dungeon Master (1987) on the Atari ST was mostly written in C.

New comment by Thorham in "Are animals conscious? New research"

Thorham — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:14:51 +0000

Then compare orca brains to ours. Theirs are larger and more wrinkly.

New comment by Thorham in "Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings"

Thorham — Tue, 28 May 2024 11:09:26 +0000

New comment by Thorham in "IrfanView"

Thorham — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 02:32:55 +0000

Must be a VIC20.

New comment by Thorham in "Need a PRNG? Use a CSPRNG"

Thorham — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 08:40:25 +0000

ChaChah is a stream cipher and was never a SHA3 candidate.

New comment by Thorham in "Amiga Systems Programming in 2023"

Thorham — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:02:21 +0000

Yes, FrexxEd is great. I've done quite a bit of work on the source code to extend it a little, and have overhauled the scripts also.

New comment by Thorham in "The 1990s Amiga with Video Toaster has a VFX cool factor that endures today"

Thorham — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:53:37 +0000

And now youtube videos about technology are a thing.

New comment by Thorham in "Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer"

Thorham — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:14:39 +0000

"why not?"

Simple, 20 tabs already drives me nuts.

New comment by Thorham in "Bees can learn, remember, think and make decisions"

Thorham — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 03:23:30 +0000

Or we could just not kill them?

New comment by Thorham in "Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records"

Thorham — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:12:29 +0000

There were definitely security cameras in the early 90s and 2000s, just not in as many places as now.

New comment by Thorham in "Project MaxFake64: My quest for the fakest Commodore 64 possible"

Thorham — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 11:10:55 +0000

An FPGA isn't much more interesting than an emulator for preservation.

New comment by Thorham in "Big-O matters, but it's often memory that's killing your performance"

Thorham — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 11:00:04 +0000

In the case of Xoshiro256 you can just make multiple instances of the generator with Xoshiro's jump function. No locking required and no overlapping sequences.

New comment by Thorham in "Damnit I slipped and (mostly) built an Amiga 500"

Thorham — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:14:21 +0000

Not to mention Apple with the Mac: 680x0 -> PowerPC -> X86/64 -> Arm

New comment by Thorham in "How a Book Is Made – Ink, Paper and a 200k-Pound Printer"

Thorham — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 07:48:00 +0000

Now compare that to the early days of printing. That difference is much larger.

New comment by Thorham in "Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?"

Thorham — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 04:31:16 +0000

Most professions are learned and mastered after people finish high school, so that's clearly not true.

New comment by Thorham in "That XOR Trick (2020)"

Thorham — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:02:10 +0000

Yeah, I miss-read that. Thanks for pointing that out!

New comment by Thorham in "That XOR Trick (2020)"

Thorham — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:47:47 +0000

You're wrong. Remember that XOR works on individual bits. If what you're saying was true, then swapping bits that are both set to 1 would also fail, which means this algorithm wouldn't work at all.

Edit: Ignore this post, I misread the original post as saying swapping the same values would fail.