I found my old reMarkable 2 paper tablet, bought in 2021, it had sat unused for ~4 years or so. The device was in a sorry state: This post details how you might be able to bring your tablet back to working order if you find yourself in a similar situation. Googling the error I … Devamını oku
What is so special about the number 19? The question came up last month in a conversation among YSDA alumni, when the school turned 19. Someone pointed out that 19 is a twin prime. Someone else replied that 19 is the number of cells in the only non-trivial normal magic hexagon. Wait, what is a … Devamını oku
This project is a fully working native Windows x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, whose historical codename wasOpus. It builds the original Word source and resources together with modern replacements for the 16-bit assembly, segmented-memory, and Win16 platform boundaries. Clone the repository, configure the included CMake preset, and build it from a PowerShell … Devamını oku
will go toBletchly Park Trustif Keith wins,orThe Internet Archiveif Haughey wins. “Cool URIs don’t change” wrote Tim Berners-Lee in 01999, but link rot is the entropy of the web. The probability of a web document surviving in its original location decreases greatly over time. I suspect that even a relatively short time period (eleven years) … Devamını oku
will go toBletchly Park Trustif Keith wins,orThe Internet Archiveif Haughey wins. “Cool URIs don’t change” wrote Tim Berners-Lee in 01999, but link rot is the entropy of the web. The probability of a web document surviving in its original location decreases greatly over time. I suspect that even a relatively short time period (eleven years) … Devamını oku
In an abandoned luxury apartment in the Syrian capital Damascus, armed men dressed in military fatigues sifted through designer clothes and documents. Scattered across the living room floor, under a sparkling crystal chandelier, were dozens of photos of the same slender man in different settings – sitting at his desk, even playing in the snow. … Devamını oku
A Macintosh System 1-style desktop for the Intel 8086, written entirely in real-mode assembly and booted from a floppy. Overlapping windows, pull-down menus, a serial mouse, loadable programs — and pre-emptive multitasking, which the real 1984 Macintosh never had. os8088 boots from the first sector of a floppy into a graphical desktop. There is no … Devamını oku
For optimizing A* we usually look at the priority queue or the map representation. Often overlooked isimproving the heuristic function. Here’s an example from the town ofDenerimin Dragon Age Origins.Try moving the startBand goalto see A*in action: Nowtry moving the greenLto be near the purple. As the heuristic valuegets closer to thetruedistance, the number of … Devamını oku
For a while, my personal infrastructure lived on a small Hetzner VPS. It ran a few web apps,a remote browser called Surf, Caddy, and the usual supporting cast. Nothing particularly serious. It worked, I just didn’t like paying for it. Buying another machine wasn’t an appealing escape hatch either.DRAM prices have gone completely stupid, so … Devamını oku
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is clear many aspects of work and life will be transformed—including programming. One of the comments I hear often lately boils down to “LLMs may be good at coding, but software … Devamını oku