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Cake day: March 25th, 2022

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  • Faresh@lemmy.mltoRetroGaming@lemmy.worldHow hard could it be?
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    18 days ago

    you’re not usually directly accessing/working on the hardware

    I mean, you are. Sure, there’s a layer of abstraction when doing tasks that require the intervention of the kernel, but you are still dealing with cpu registers and stuff like that. Merely by writing in assembly you are making your software less portable because you are writing for a specific ISA that only a certain family of processors can read, and talking with the kernel through an API or ABI that is specific to the kernel (standards like Posix mitigate the latter part somewhat, but some systems (windows) aren’t Posix compilant).









  • Faresh@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@programming.devof=/dev/sda
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    1 month ago

    echo and alias are both shell commands. If the shell is running (which it obviously still is), those commands should still work, as it does not involve reading data from disk, but from memory.

    Edit: I just noticed the picture said cd was not found, which is also a shell built-in. So, I don’t know.



  • Faresh@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlmeta lemmy cross-instances dissing
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    2 months ago

    I do see Lemmy.world running into issues in the future

    I think lemmy.world is already pretty bad. To get away from their posts and comments I’ve considered joining hexbear, since you people honestly have the best content and most wholesome community and aren’t federated with .world, but I also don’t want to be completely isolated from the rest of the fediverse. However, I just noticed there are only 5 instances in hexbear’s blocked instance list and plenty in the linked list. Maybe I didn’t notice how all other instances started federating with hexbear again?

    I don’t know what the “allowed” instance list means though.




  • Faresh@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlZen Z
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    3 months ago

    It goes beyond just showing what part of day you are in. Everything is reduced to angles. You don’t have to do any math with numbers, just look how much the pointer has to move to see how much time is left until an event you are interested in, and you get to visually compare that angle with the entire half of a day to get an even better perception of the passage of time.


  • Faresh@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlZen Z
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    3 months ago

    I used to have one, but now I set my phone clock to be displayed as an analogue clock so that kind of made it obsolete, since it now has all the benefits of an analogue display with the additional advantage of automatically syncing time and adjusting for time zones and daylight saving time.


  • Faresh@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlZen Z
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    3 months ago

    Being able to know exactly the time in a moment’s glance seems better to me.

    That seems more like a pro for analogue to me. It’s much easier with an analogue clock since you get a visual presentation of time. Whenever someone tells me a time, I have to first imagine an analogue clock to understand what that time means.