That _is_ super cool! Probably obsolete because nobody programs assembly anymore, but definitely something I would implement if I were doing a retro fantasy computer of some sort
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Most SPARC programs also weren't hand-written assembly code, this was well within the era of C. But it simplifies the compiler logic and calling convention, and reduces function call overhead (it's faster to increment an offset register than it is to write a bunch of values to memory).
Every odd byte has MSB stored first, and every even byte has MSB stored last. Sounds appropriately terrible?
Opinion of darcs and/or pijul? I like them, except for the fact that they're in Haskell and Rust respectively.
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I hadn't even heard about Darcs or Pijul until now, so I'm just going off of what their Web sites say. Both of them seem quite interesting. The ability to undo a single change, without affecting any of the history after that point, sounds like it would be very useful. But it also sounds like a promise that'd come with some unmentioned caveats. I suppose I'll just have to see for myself.
Is SPARC even used before? Also what do you have against little endian??
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Yeah, SPARC is the architecture that Sun Microsystems workstations used, and what Solaris originally ran on. It's actually really cool, the killer feature I like about it is the sliding register window – basically, SPARC processors have a stack of up to 640 non-global registers, 24 of which are accessible at any given time. At every call/return instruction, the window moves, exposing a different set of registers. It pretty much eliminates the need to manually push registers onto the stack before calling a function.
Also, I don't really have anything against little-endian, I just think it'd be funny to revive long-dead computer science holy wars.
You know f97a9107820ed04f’s post reminds me, you never see people saying “top” with no other comment like that
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I mean, true, but you do see people saying things like OMG I want you to step on me, which I'd consider to be basically equivalent.
Opinion on small form factor PC building?
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I miss compact PCs, like the SPARCstations that had pizza-box cases, or the G4 Cube. I was actually originally planning to convert my desktop computer into a Mini-ITX when I upgraded it, but I couldn't get the parts I would have needed in order to do that.
Opinion on ppc64le?
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You had me at PowerPC, but lost me at little-endian. (Also, SPARC supremacy.)
Bottom
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Well, you're not entirely wrong...
Opinion on kittens? (Literal baby house cats to be clear)
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They're adorable, who the hell could possibly dislike them?!
Beans. Also, nice auto dark mode, thanks.
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Yeah, it defaults to whatever colour scheme your browser is set to prefer. Unfortunately, I can't test dark mode as easily, because LibreWolf's "resist fingerprinting" option disables the prefers-color-scheme media query... even in the developer tools
I am sending this via Tor because I am an elite hacker.
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Nice! I plan to make a few more of my services available through .onion domains, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
u really did Wallace and Gromit dirty there
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you're welcome <3
there are two buttons. one turns all the catboys into dogboys and the other does the opposite. if you reject the premise they all turn into bnuuy. yroue move
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What happens if I press both buttons at the same time? Is this machine susceptible to race conditions?
