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[pibbuR]

Linux is now an option for safety-minded software-defined vehicle developers

Increasingly, our cars will be controlled by a small number of powerful computers.

arstechnica.com

Codeproject: "Get ready for a right-hand turn with: 'ti --activen --side:right --tick:3000'"

pibbuR who remembers the Unix scene from Jurassic Park

 

[pibbuR]

A new interface for games:

https://0110.be/posts/Making_a_flute_controlled_mouse

pibbuR who is happy that he no longer has to choose between K+M and contoller (which he either doesn't have, or it's stored somewhere unspecified in his big archive)

 

[notdart]

I think the Z80 is mostly adding some instructions to the 8080 set, with a few incompatibilities. But I agree, preferences can also depends on the assembler's syntax (and the tools!). For example, I can't stand the GNU assembly language because of all the % gibberish and inverted operands vs the official Intel syntax, but it's just a matter of habit.


The fact there were Pascal compilers on CPUs like Z80 and 6502 always amazes me.
My notions of required memory size have been completely biased by what today's executables are using. I think I couldn't get back to the mindset of the 80s and 90s, or estimate what was possible or not.

Turbo Pascal was a life safer when it came out - we've had the turbopascal topic already but It showed all those large moronic companies how to write a compiler. $$$ might make a market but knowledge makes the product.

 

[Redglyph]

Turbo Pascal was a life safer when it came out - we've had the turbopascal topic already but It showed all those large moronic companies how to write a compiler. $$$ might make a market but knowledge makes the product.

It was great, but the code produced by the Borland compilers was poorly optimized.

 

[Couchpotato]

Steam is going to make it harder to get refunds because of Early Access.

Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day

Closing the early access loophole.

www.theverge.com

 

[pibbuR]

Since I mentioned the new Snapdragons:

Qualcomm responds to benchmark cheating allegations — Snapdragon X Elite/Plus benchmarks claimed to be fraudulent (Updated)

Seriously concerning news for Qualcomm's latest

www.tomshardware.com

pibbuR who fortunately isn't going to by a new CPU any time soon. He hopes.

 

[pibbuR]

pibbuR isn't going to buy a new TV either.

The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC

The curious case of a living room screen making Windows' Settings app disappear.

arstechnica.com

"User Narayan B wrote in Microsoft's forum that the issue is the Hisense TV generating "random UUIDs for UPNP network discovery every few minutes." Windows, seemingly not knowing why any device would routinely do this, sees and adds those alternate Hisense devices to its Device Association Framework, or DAF. This service being stuffed full of attention-grabbing devices can hang up Task Manager, Bluetooth, the Settings apps, File Explorer, and more."

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

Turbo Pascal was a life safer when it came out - we've had the turbopascal topic already but It showed all those large moronic companies how to write a compiler. $$$ might make a market but knowledge makes the product.

I learned programming with Turbo Pascal. It was my very first proigramming language - after a week at school where we learned to do a "guss the number" program in BASIC.
I programmed that in almost every programming language i ever learned afterwards - and I very strongly believe that such a "game" is the far best way to learn proigramming right after "Hello World" - mostly, because after finishing it, you'l have something you can have some sort of fun with !
( In a recent "beginner's programming" series of articles, a more serious oriented magazine was showing several different programming languages - and their "beginner's" program was to do a Fibonaccy thing ... I found that absolutely awful, because it has no real relevance in Real Life, imho. i man, who needs a Fibonaccy number sequence in daily life ??? )