mdhughes

joined 9 months ago
[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 days ago

Get an 8-bit computer emulator, and learn 6502 or Z-80 assembly.

Usborne machine-code-for-beginners or any book by Rodnay Zaks.

It gets deeper from there, and modern CPUs are kind of awful to hand-hack assembly on, but you'll at least learn how the computer really works!

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I first read the bottom right as "The Nanny", and I was wondering how Fran Drescher's plastic surgery got that bad.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

Why does the right-wing kid not just come over to the left-wing?

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

I was doing some ST retrocomputing last night, and GEM was just great, so much cleaner and simpler than modern GUIs.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

print( ["even", "odd"][num % 2] )

If you need to avoid evaluating the wrong branch:

print( [lambda: "even", lambda: "odd"][num % 2]() )

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Most people don't want the WoD 5E crew back. But if nobody from the original writers are present, and the new "White Wolf" is just brand with no new writers mentioned, then this is purely a marketing douchebag move.

Save your hopes and expectations for something that isn't obviously poisoned well.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Product formerly known as one thing but then renamed, is now known as the old thing! Brands, IP, MARKETING!

No mention of the writers, which is the only part that actually matters, we should kill and compost all marketing douchebags and CEOs.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

I only use nerdtree, and bind some scripts to F-keys. Haven't updated in a couple years, just works.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

She just wants a friend and a bath, don't kick her out.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It won't kill off the need for skill, but a lot of lazy "coders" will stop even learning a minimal amount, and get by on no skill at all. Until they get fired, too.

Nothing the LLM generates can be relied on, it's a gibberish machine.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago

"They were drunk and horny, and didn't use protection."

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