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Detective Sergeant James Doakes knows but cannot prove it

When you know P≠NP but you can't prove it. 💸

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IOCCC winner code entry

This IOCCC winner entry (International Obfuscated C Code Contest) made me smile. The code draws the current moon phase to the console.

Medieval dog wearing a hood and reading a book

Me, earlier today, reading the available options of flags in the awk man page:

Compiler Explorer vs gcc -S flag

It's actually the other way around but whatever. 😅

When you use a secondary camera object with Render-to-Texture to create a mirror effect with OpenGL but you pick the wrong camera view for the mirror target. 😶

JET.ANS ASCII art by Michael C. Ling

ASCII art in the 90s was 🔥

Hacker News comment on Stanford's compiler class

Your friendly weekly reminder that big R1 institutions do *not* care about teaching undergraduates.

hand with multiple fingers on a computer keyboard

When I forget which key I need to press to enter the BIOS.

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One thing I like about programming software renderers on old systems is how each machine is a new arena with different rules for a known puzzle. You think you know how to solve a problem and there comes a CPU with a weird way of doing math or a smart coprocessor that think of things differently. 💛

hahaha.

MEN WILL TURN 16 AND BASE AND BASE THEIR WHOLE PERSONALITY OFF OF ONE OF THESE. Amiga, Atari ST, Archimedes, IBM PC.

Which way, "modern" man?

Build your own Pentium processor PC book cover

I really wish there was no "PC" in that title. 😬

Hey my Brazilian 🇧🇷 friends. Unfortunately I cannot accept payments using PIX. It looks like it requires me to have a Brazilian bank account and I currently don't have one. Maybe in the near future, who knows. 🤞

Correct. Maybe I could've used "not axis-aligned" too.

Ah, got it.

Sorry for my ignorance, but is that a game?

IBM 3340 data module

I just came back from a conference in a place called Winchester, UK, and apparently nobody calls old HDDs "Winchester" anymore. 😔

FYI: The term "Winchester" for hard disk drives originated from IBM's development of a 30-30 (30MB) drive, named after the Winchester .30-30 rifle.

That image gave me herpes.

Mea culpa.

Rotation with three shears There's a graphics trick that used to be widely known that has now probably almost vanished from the graphics consciousness - you can do rotations by applying three shears in a row. This should surpri...

Yes, it was a post from @tomforsyth.bsky.social.

I found it on waybackmachine:

web.archive.org/web/20250107...

Look, I try not to say anything about game design because that's not my thing anyway, but if there's one animation style that grinds my gears is the one that rotates pixelated sprites and ignores the orientation of the pixels. 😠

interpreter bytecode

It's so great to see students expand the code from our Compilers & Interpreters course and add more stuff to it. ❤️

Oh, nothing in particular recently. It's just something I observed a while back plus the wish to find a way of amplifying the reach so good people can find the website.

Barbadol can

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I sometimes wish there was a faster way of letting people know about the school without everyone automatically thinking I'm a spammer/scammer. It looks like most forums are fine with authors sharing links to their books but admins get really uncomfortable if I try doing the same with my lectures. 😔

Shakira smiling and working on an old computer

When you free some conventional memory with MEMMAKER.EXE and now the game finally runs:

Oscilloscope sine wave

If I buy a new oscilloscope, I won't tell anyone... but there will be sines.

Riding a horse in the pampas

I found an old notebook I carried with me before I became a father. In one of the pages I wrote a list of hopes & fears I had for the delivery day. Looking back at how everything turned out; how blessed are we, uh? ❤️