Valmond @ Valmond @lemmy.mindoki.com

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How does that work out? I mean in french you'd gender it by what it is defining. A yellow car, the "A" is gendered the same as the cars gender.

Oh.

I think I get it. That must be confusing for foreigners!

Cheers Polish brothers and sisters!

Dick in French is, you guessed it, female.

To be fair, there has been a lot of complicated stuff to know/fiddle/find out to compile even a hello world, especially on windows (I guess?).

Skillsets skillsets, when the darn thing needs jre older than the one you have installed or tiger.dll is missing, what do you do ... ?

It's always easy until it isn't, and todays youth is probably more tech savy than what my peers was back in the nineties.

Yeah I was like yes why isn't there an obvious download binaries tab easily found (there is sometimes right?)

Gold goes to Qt though, hell to just download and decompress it...

And maybe vet rid of the money hoarding CEOs. Well when we're dreaming here :-)

Yes yes! But wasn't there some limit, like if you had a 1Mbit cartridge you still had to shuffle the data around? Or was it just a penalty to map a different chunk of memory?

My memory is sure not that fast or reliable:-)

15-20 years?

C/C++ dev here.

I don't know as the (cURL http) API I'm using is confusing for messages so I only have the servers & communities.

If I get it up and running I'll tell :-D

$480.000 cancer treatment enters the chat.

They'll just find the signal in what you're doing. Sorry but checkmate, mate.

Use png and IDK I don't remember which cmd line soft but it stripped out unused colors and compressed images like that one hard.

That, without the red lines and circles, and without jpeg jitter should be like 1kb. Or less less.

Now, as an oldtimer, when you load that 1kb image up, it will still take like 640x320 bytes (it was all 8bit) so 200KB of RAM. But back in the day I guess it was more like the original GB 160x144 so 22.5KB RAM needed to show that image.

Did it work like that?

No, because cartridges didn't have a lot of space, and the consoles didn't have much RAM, so you used tiles. You had a tile map image, each tile was 8x8 pixels pointing to a palette (so you could use 4-bits for the color. More or less so, there were a lot of 'modes'). Each tile had a number and your screen was some 20x18 tiles x 1 byte numbers, designing the 'tile' to be shown at that particular position of the screen.

All done by hardware so way fast!

To make the scrolling run you had a 'delta' pixels to slightly move the "screen" around.

Fun times.

Time to go to bed 😪😴

I made a crude lemmy scanner, but as I'm using the "http api" I'm a bit stuck at servers and instances. Almost 1800 servers and IIRC (I'm on my phone) some 40.000 communities. Yay!

I know the official api docs, but I don't know how to really use it, just send a json to some server? Would love to have an easy example and I'll go from there (family, work, art, and other gets in the way).

The goal would be to figure out how to make a search engine without storing the whole lemmyverse locally.

FOSS obviously.

Nice.

I thought it was someone making a bunch of bot accounts for the future...

Are people still on about that? Haven't those ones moved on to the next thing after we didn't all die? Call them out, it's 6G cell towers now and eh, another kabal. Revelations Any day soon! Promise!

Lol

"Nah, only when working..."

I'm a developer and AI is already changing what we do, because we do AI sometimes, not how we do it though.

Thanks! At 169 grams its almost twice as heavy as the Veger proposed by mondoman712 though.

The plane.

Whoah, that seems like you'd flesh out code elsewhere, you know when you throw stuff together to make it work, and then fix it up to standards.

Feels like you should have to make git commits perfectly well before being able to compile...

Put that overwhelmingly intrusive thing in a hook checking out your commits instead (when you push your branch ofc).

The screen is already modded lol