Love this! #retrocomputing #coding

Prof Steve Furber talks about Acorn, BBC Micro and ARM. Favorite quote "The origin of the 8-way resistor pack on the bus was was my finger. I discovered if I put my finger at a certain place on the board the computer started working, if I took it off it stopped." www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2yD...

Clocks go back in the UK tonight. They change in the US on November 2nd. Welcome to the Week When No One Knows What Time It Is 😆

Folks on AtariAge made a 3D model of the dissolving character belt of doom in the 1027 printer 3D printed a rigid master and made a mold, so I could cast in durable urethane. Should outlast the rest of the printer now I can make a few more, so DM me if you need one. Easy to toss in an envelope.

This October marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Octavia Butler’s final book. We spoke with a librarian at @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social's Octavia Lab about the prophetic nature of Butler’s work.

 🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social

Project Redneck, my Ford Ranger fixer, continues with upgrades and tweaks. Got me a neutral stance with 31" wheels on a -12 offset and a front leveling kit (that needs some tweaks).

In Redmond, parked behind SpaceX are a block of cyber trucks sitting alone and fenced off. Almost like they were parked to prop up sales figures. That can't be true, surely?

DDR5 is unstable garbage. 
Max out your memory channels? Flaky. Temperature a bit too hot? Silent Throttle with no logs. Too “Dense” of a stick? Good luck training. Last gen was rock solid by comparison. Here's what happened.

Ford Ranger successfully leveled so we can get new shoes before the snow.

The more you look, the more amazing the color theory used - tone & value, hot & cold, arial lighting, this color on hard mode and it looks effortless.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

What a great write up on living with Orgmode for over a decade of One Big Text File.

As GDC talk applications have opened, I want to politely remind you that GDC remains one of the most inaccessible, unfairly expensive, and dangerous for-profit game industry events out there - and that offering your labour for free to it just adds value that pressures people into going needlessly.

Visited the Anne Frank house one year ago. It's a sobering place.

Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles

Madonna had a watch that turns into a robot.

Mathematician, computer scientist, and WWII code breaker Alan Turing was born #OTD in 1912. His work helped establish the theoretical foundation for just about every modern computing device, making it possible (among other things) for you to read this. 🧪 💾 Image: The Guardian

If A.I. is so powerful, why does every 2000 word article about how powerful it is mostly come down to "it summarises, it translates, it fumbles when you try and make it do actual work, some software engineers like it, also it doesn't know anything and thus cannot truly be trusted"?

Explain your @ I am both fat and a limey, living in the US. It was given to me by the long lost game dev gossip site fatbabies.com home of the conference room teabag.

Our computer vision textbook is now available for free online here: visionbook.mit.edu We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs. Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!

Anyone got a bell tower? Asking for a hunchback I know.

This is a very good piece on AI by cognitive scientists who knows what he’s talking about. Explains why AIs do that thing where they are INCREDIBLY IMPRESSIVE and then suddenly GODAWFULLY STUPID. There are very good reasons to think this won’t go away: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Building a Debugger is now officially released! It guides you through building a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes. Even if you don't care about building a debugger, you can read it to your cat.

Ace of Base and the Lords of Acid meet in a bar and neutralize each other

Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.

Physicist and chemist Esther Conwell was born #OTD in 1922. Her work with Weisskopf, on the scattering of electrons by semiconductor impurities, was essential for understanding transistors, and for the development of integrated circuits. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Images: AIP, Ryan K. Morris Photography

Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written. www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

Oh yeah, careful when visiting the SCEA PlayStation campus.

H1B resident aliens, read this mad story.

I wish I could take my brain out and blow on it like a classic NES cartridge, and put it back in.

Reading a reddit thread where the OP asks for help deciding a substitution cypher. Comments are all chuds running it through ChatGPT and coming up with different kinds of urgent sounding warnings or "mysteries". Not one letter freq analysis. The Internet is dead. www.reddit.com/comments/1ki...

I was part of the brain drain from the UK in 2000, stayed because of the insane opportunities in the Bay Area to create the future. At any moment you could start a company, build something incredible, change lives. That's gone now. youtube.com/shorts/dJanc...

Ah, all the artifacts were fixed by replacing one '<' with '<=', duh. It all works now, particle life completely on WebGPU! There are 2^18 (~260k) particles here; my PC struggles after about half a million particles. Will probably try to optimize it a bit later.

Every year the CNN people get closer to rediscovering Basis Pursuit and Sparse Methods.

I got a bucket of sidewalk chalk and some bubbles if you wanna come over and maybe forget about things for a while

My teenage niece and nephew were pitying me because we didn’t have smart phones growing up and I was like, kids, let me tell you about a glorious reality in which you could lie to your parents about where you were and, if you were smart, they’d have no way of knowing.

Remember us folks who birthed circle MUD and then smaug, IRC, gzip, and so on? We are still here. These big companies want you to think they are tech, and have been so since the start. Nope, just some piece of shit CEOs who will disappear into the wind as their board deems fit. It is the people, us.

🔼 Triangles may have won the hardware-acceleration rendering battle ... 🔼 ⏹️ ... but the method in our latest blog enables emulation of quadrilateral rasterization, through bilinear interpolation of quadrilateral vertices! ⏹️ See how it squares up: gpuopen.com/learn/biline...

Kurt Vonnegut man

Oliver Heaviside, who is responsible for there being just 4 Maxwell equations of electromagnetism - he reduced them from Maxwell’s 20 - couldn’t make any sense of Maxwell’s theory. So he spent years trying to re-cast it, using “vector” notation he created www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/oliver-...

New blog post: "Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone". hforsten.com/homemade-pol...

I have for a long time referred to my parental units as "Aged Ps", e.g. "We're going to visit the Aged Ps, bring the scones" Sounds like edge lord terminology but it comes from pop 'zine writer Charles Dickens in "Great Expectations", probably via some BBC drama. Dickens, the original shitposter.

This photo is from May 2005, I'm working at PlayStation R&D and running Traktor on my brand new Vaio laptop. I've been mixing digitally since 1997 starting with Carrot Software "Virtual Turntables (VTT)". I have MP3s twice as old as my kids.

“Simulating water over terrain” lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/s... #gamedev #programming #fluiddynamics

600 million white points make up this image of mine on a canvas of 60000 pixels x 60000 pixels. Each point is a root of the parametric polynomial: 4𝑥⁶ + (−10𝑡₁³ + 10𝑡₁² − 10𝑡₁ + 10𝑖)𝑥² + (10𝑡₂³ − 10𝑡₂² − 10𝑡₂ + 10𝑖)𝑥 𝑡₁, 𝑡₂ ∈ ℂ, |𝑡₁| = |𝑡₂| = 1

The latest parenting advice for your teen: "Countering AI mind parasites requires us to react with disgust when finding them." Welcome to the future, avoid Nova kids.

[Daily Dose of Disco #97] Troiano "We All Need Love" (1979) This song certainly wouldn't be out of place if it was on a Hall&Oates LP. A beautiful melody, sparkling production and inspired message all combine for a truly memorable and timeless #disco jam of the highest order youtu.be/8Z42IQ64mcg

Artists I wish I could paint like no. 706: Rob Pointon (not here but on IG at www.instagram.com/robpointonar...)