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New comment by djmips in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

djmips — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:58:26 +0000

That's something an AI would say.

New comment by djmips in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

djmips — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:50:30 +0000

sigh, yeah - makes me side-eye the entire article.

New comment by djmips in "Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act "evil""

djmips — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:57:42 +0000

That's what the AI wants us to believe.

New comment by djmips in "Human Bottlenecks"

djmips — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:27:13 +0000

Tell me you aren't an autodidact without telling me...

New comment by djmips in "Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments"

djmips — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:28:28 +0000

I don't know if Disaster Area's setup qualifies but it would be a fun entry for sure.

New comment by djmips in "Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K"

djmips — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:42:04 +0000

So basically an 8080

New comment by djmips in "Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K"

djmips — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:41:36 +0000

(2020)

New comment by djmips in "Turnspit Dog"

djmips — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:46:33 +0000

I am convinced that my dog is a turnspit dog.

New comment by djmips in "Show HN: A nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator"

djmips — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:45:40 +0000

At least the 6502 has a BCD mode built in!

New comment by djmips in "I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator"

djmips — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:44:23 +0000

I didn't realize that there was a 16 bit name called a 'chomp' haha. But more formally hextet.

New comment by djmips in "60fps Video on a CGA? – The GlyphBlaster"

djmips — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:24:58 +0000

Using the CGA as a crappy monitor - another in the series of absurd uses of modern powerful processors to do crazy things on retro hardware.

New comment by djmips in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

djmips — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:12:21 +0000

> Because OpenGL is not well-supported anymore on macOS, the game is completely unplayable there, even with CrossOver. Ironically, it plays totally fine on a Windows PC, but this is a game you literally can’t play on Mac without this eGPU setup.

I understand that this is true it seems that Doom does support Vulkan but you would need to add VK_NV_glsl_shader to MoltenVK. Probably much less work than what went into hanging an RTX 5090 off of a M4. Still, kudos to the scott and the local AI Inference speeds are pretty cool. What a crazy project!

New comment by djmips in "Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)"

djmips — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:42:14 +0000

The only thing I could dig up was the Famicom Network System which was a cart released in 1988 which had a 65C02 on board. So not a game but it was a co-processor that was available on a 'NES' cart back in the day...

New comment by djmips in "Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem"

djmips — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:33:00 +0000

I am convinced that ultimate frisbee and pickleball also work. Another one is running or walking in nature, for example a beach - basically moving through an environment where the ground isn't flat.

New comment by djmips in "Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)"

djmips — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:34:17 +0000

Maybe save you the google search but code is available. https://github.com/agranlund/wolf

New comment by djmips in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

djmips — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:32:18 +0000

the private equity buyout of Del Monte, that's got to be a big factor.

New comment by djmips in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

djmips — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:36:48 +0000

There's a big ocean of problem solving on computers that doesn't require a day job! I find it very fun. I mean I started on computers for fun when I was young and it turned into a job so being retired means I can just go back to working on the stuff I like in particular.

New comment by djmips in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

djmips — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:36:36 +0000

I know what that feels like having been a manager of a team of coders who were generating code faster than I could fully understand and review. I imagine how much worse that would be with Agentic coders.

New comment by djmips in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

djmips — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:28:43 +0000

"legacy code as a service" - that's apt. But would they be better if they trained exclusively on 'good code'? I know I don't know the answer to that question and I get the feeling that few people actually understand how they work enough to feel comfortable with asserting that to be true.

New comment by djmips in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

djmips — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:22:36 +0000

Like if your the manager of a group and you do little code writing.