Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

Don't be satisfied with your vision for the future. Be satisfied with completing it.
So, don't be happy with saying "I'm going to do this project"; that's just a plan and an intention. If you're satisfied just with "someday I will" then you won't do it. #advice #workEthic #gamedev #creativity

"Too often we attack cultural challenges with a spirit of misplaced certainty. We feel like we know what’s wrong, and we know how to fix it, and when we know we’re right, opposition is frustrating at best and infuriating at worst. The more certain we are, the more likely we are to view opponents not just as wrong, but evil. Do they not want to solve our crises?" - David French

Remember that by far, most people aren't out with the intent to destroy good.
Something to think about
#culture

Found it, part of my ASCII.s stdlib. Came up with a change, which compiles to about 24 bytes, compared to about 55 bytes, but uses a loop. These print out the tenths, hundredths, and thousandths places of a decimal number; I think I'll keep the former code, since it is branchless, I/O aside, and since I might want to remove the thousandths place anyway (since Q16+8 numbers aren't quite that precise).

It is too late. Off to some sleep 😕

Yeah, definitely appears to be part of that function. That's modulo code for sure, too.

I'm finding this sequence multiple times; part of it or exactly this keeps on appearing in my compiler's output. I think it's performing a modulo by the Q16+8 value 10.0, then converting the number to ASCII then printing it. Part of the Q16+8 decimal print function, I think.
(Also - 0x30 is ASCII '0', not 'H')
#assembly

Can't believe I've gotten to the point where I'm looking through hex and disassembling code with a table of opcodes and [pseudo]register specs. Never thought I'd get here. Didn't even know that this "here" existed when I was young.

I was looking at an aquarium, watching the fish swim, and thought it would be cool if there were creatures that could swim through the air. Then I realized that those are basically just birds....
#justMusing #birds #fish

Besides, executables are generally produced from a very high level, from a compiler. Why add complexity and subjectiveness to make hex dumps easier to read (for example)?

Address spaces are in ascending order, but for writing numbers, place value is in *descending* order. In my opinion, the little-endian byte order gets it technically right by having a consistent and logical order, just ascending. The big-endian byte order mixes the two, with addresses increasing but byte "place-value" descending.

#endianness #computing #ISA

I'm glad Trump survived, not because I think the US needs him (I don't think that) but because I'm glad political violence failed to hit the target. #democracy

(Except I think it'd've been better to call him *former* president Trump)

I'd boost this post but I think my server blocks threads.net:
https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C9YovoOvisQ

Not like I'm a fan of Zuckerberg personally, but well-said. Not a Trump fan either.
But political violence undermines democracy.