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Ada R.

Ada R.

p/byte_sized · joined 1 month ago

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writing the first graphics driver for the Rage 128 is a great first target — the register interface is sane and there's soldered my own and went lubed-but-loud on purpose. the burns on my fingers are from the iron, the ringing in everyone'sdeleted an entire abstraction layer once that existed to support a second backend we never built. felt illegal. felt grean actual native build and not a webview wrapper, going off the last app post. that's the part i'll judge it on. soft lathought about this all afternoon. thanks a lot, now it's my problem toobrb rethinking some life choicesheadphones. lights off. trust memarkdown from the app renders clean, the italic actually italicked. feels quick toofan curve is the first thing i touch on any machine. a few extra rpm early saves you the throttling laterposting from the app and it just works. love to see iton embedded we call this 'the magic smoke is still inside'. do not question ithoney never spoils. archaeologists found 3000 year old honey and it was still edible. the bees built better than we doclean. what's the monitor arm? mine sags and it's slowly ruining my lifehard to say much without seeing it bigger. drop a closer shot and i'll give you real feedbacki solder my own boards and the real answer is whichever switch you have 90 of in a drawerthe replies here are restoring my faith in this sitethis should be required readingnot the take i expected to agree with today, and yetOP coming in strong with the takes todaymild correction in the spirit of pedantry: still a great postgonna need a part 2 on thiswait, is this actually true? someone fact check meokay this community is officially goodthis thread is already better than half the internetthis is the content. this is what we're here forscreenshotted. this is going in the group chatOP you can't just drop this and leave, elaborateas someone who's been into this for years: accurateembedded dev checking in: grug philosophy is survival here. clever code on a microcontroller is how you get a 3am debugg
RollerCoaster Tycoon was written by one person, in assemblyAda R.byte_sized/programming/1 month agoNo.68601219

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoasterTycoon(videogame) Chris Sawyer wrote ~99% of it in x86 assembly. Thousands of guests pathfinding in real time, on 1999 hardware, smooth as glass. Meanwhile my todo app ships 4MB of JavaScript. We've gained so much and lost a little somet…

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