Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe), page 2

@clacke Same. I turned it off, because it's completely useless to anyone with a passing understanding of English.

What the actual...

I thought prime day was celebrating prime numbers, like pi day if you like.

Then I searched for it.

Others are better than me at doing the anti-amazon rant. I'm just too exhausted for it.

Firefox question: Is there some way I can set the privacy settings globally, so it affects all users?

What I'm actually trying to do is to set this in my Qubes OS templates so it affects all the VM's based on that template.

@notclacke @eobet in my part, no. The content was far too dynamic for that. In some other parts there was some of that.

Unless the content is static, it's difficult to combine work like that. Perhaps if the work is a data copy from one location to another, it would be reasonable.

@notclacke @eobet yes. Pretty much. You have a few instructions during horizontal blanking and then some more during the vertical blak interval. You can also add a bit of extra top and bottom border to get some more time to do stuff.

@notclacke @eobet well, there were 6 people involved in this production. Two coders (of which I am one, and Ionly did one part), two people were doing the two songs, and two people were doing graphics.

@eobet the border isn't technically removed. There isn't any need to since you don't actually draw any graphics. Well, the top border is removed but that's just so that you can lock the raster as early as possible.

The fastest normal way you can change the background is 8 pixels horizontally. Conveniently it's 1 pixel per cycle, so the colour switch is done from a register to the background colour address. That instruction is 8 cycles.

However, it's also possible to use a 12 cycle instruction to offset the drawing by 8 pixels.

Note that if you want a switch in 8 cycles you need the source data to be a register, and since the destination address also needs to be in a register you are limited in the number of colours available per line. Also, there isn't enough time in the horizontal blanking area to change all the registers so if you want both high resolution and lots of colours you need be clever in the way you update the registers.

At Sommarhack this weekend we somehow managed to win the zero bitplane competition with this contribution: https://youtu.be/QlbSEDq6Cno?si=sdocBAN_f3ZRj5fV

We just barely managed to get a higher score than SMFX with this demo, which in my opinion is more technically impressive: https://youtu.be/z2Ke-Irp7U8?si=fiBT7UXIl24bpIsa

The rules for the competition was that the demo should run on an Atari ST and should never display any graphics on the bitmap, and the only way you are allowed to display anything on the screen is by changing the background colour at precise times.

#atari #atarist #retrocomputing #demoscene

I'm currently at Sommarhack: https://sommarhack.se/2024/

Demo compos will be streamed later: https://www.twitch.tv/evldhs

@edward I'm in a hotel right now and they indeed do not have IPv6.

@edward on this trip I've stayed at 3 hotels so far (one in Paris and 2 in Stockholm). No IPv6. I'm not 100% sure I checked the first hotel in Stockholm, but I'm pretty sure it's a no there too.

@clacke @wolf480pl @amberage over here: 26 nice and cool. 32 the fires of hell.

@wolf480pl @clacke @amberage I see. I don't know how that works. But the humidity in Singapore is almost always very close to 100%.

@liztai maybe they just came from SG. Food is quite expensive here now (I need a smiley here but I don't know which one)

Can someone knowledgeable in C++ tell me why someone would declare a class member like so:

Rather than:

These should do the same thing, but surely the second in much more clear?

As a programming language designer, I think it's bound to happen, but every time it does, it really makes you question yourself:

When people shows they are better at using your language than you are.

I think game designers must feel this all the time.

@annika Can you add a <label> element and use CSS to only show it on screen reader devices?

@liztai Village grocer is in JB, isn't it?

@ktemkin Wait, people use the C preprocessor with Fortran? Does that actually work?

@clacke You may want to look at MirageOS if you want to play with Ocaml. It itegrates quite well with Qubes OS in case you use it.