Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

A man designs and builds a racecar that is supposed to win a particular race, and another man drives it and wins that particular race. Did the driver do the most to win or did the designer+builder do the most to win?

#philosophy

Well, rarely; it doesn't do it every time. It's pretty strange

Waiting for the day Firefox fixes the bug where touchpad pinch-to-zoom on Wayland opens the search bar and changes your search engine... 🙂 weird.

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.