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very raw finish
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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#Worldle #536 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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My colleague who flew to Serbia arrived at the site safely, with prototype board in tow.
Fired it up on site, and it worked without a hitch! How often does that happen?
Usually work product doesn't survive initial contact with the real world.
Anyway, it's a good day. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch/gfx
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Congrats to you and your colleagues. Obviously, the presenter did not invoke the wrath of the Gods by saying something like "I think you'll be impressed" to the client.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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k5054 wrote: I think you'll be impressed
The kiss of death right there! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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if that all worked. You might want to go buy a lotto ticket.
hahahaha
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: You might want to go buy a lotto ticket.
No point. Whatever reservoir of luck he built up was just consumed.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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probably true
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Just curious...
What does your prototype board do, exactly?
Russia–Serbia relations - Wikipedia[^]
Russia and Serbia are both predominantly Slavic and Eastern Orthodox countries, which share a strong mutual cultural affinity. The countries have been close allies for centuries; and the friendship between them has been strongly maintained despite Serbia's recent attempt to maintain closer relations with the West.
U.S. Relations with Serbia[^]
modified 11-Jul-23 16:03pm.
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I don't know how much I'm allowed to divulge about the project, so I shall remain cautiously mum on the matter.
It's nothing groundbreaking, IMO but it is complicated, with a lot of fiddly bits that can go wrong. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch/gfx
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I think chickens might be involved.
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I love it when that happens.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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honey the codewitch wrote: Fired it up on site, and it worked without a hitch! How often does that happen?
Usually work product doesn't survive initial contact with the real world.
That's when you're trying NOT to say out loud, in front of others, why is it working without any problem, and start questioning yourself...
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I feel personally attacked by this relatable content.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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Need mans shirt? It's essential! (11)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Requirement ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Is the correct answer!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I take it you are at the dentists ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Sitting.
Waiting.
...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Explain please.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Definition: It's essential!
Need: REQUIRE
Mans: MEN
Shirt: T
REQUIREMENT
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I once installed Perl a long time ago, but removed it the same day.
Never again!
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What do you expect when a frumious bandersnatch is involved?
Software Zen: delete this;
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I need a break. Time to go back when things were simple (or at least appeared to be so) and do something just for fun. Like writing a little game for my old box. A little 8 bit processor, 4k RAM, a weird little graphics chip and the assembler is all you need.
But wait, this is tech from 1976! A graphics chip? Yep, we are racing the electron beam again. But they did that in such a clever way that a kid could get it to work. It involved interrupts and DMA and all code that had to stay in sync with the electron beam was contained in that less than 32 instructions long interrupt routine.
However, that simplicity still does not come without a price. The graphics chip issues 1024 x 60 DMA requests every second and also calls the interrupt routine 60 times a second as well. Whatever is going on in that interrupt routine adds up very quickly to take away a good percentage of the instructions the processor can 'waste' on such luxuries as executing its program every second.
Just how much, exactly? Those interrupt routines come in two flavors and we get two very different values. After all these years I have now taken the time to actually do the math:
The worst case are those interrupt routines that manipulate the DMA pointer to repeat every raster line two or more times. To do that, you have to stay in the interrupt routine for the entire duration of the frame, leaving only the vertical blank period for program execution. Just as bad as racing the beam always was. At least you had a more useful vertical resolution this way and required a significantly smaller graphics buffer. Still, this left you with only 33.64% of the CPU time for your program. Ouch.
The better option was not to race the beam at all. The interrupt routine merely reset the DMA pointer to the beginning of your graphics buffer for every frame and did not hang around any longer to repeat any scan lines. That left you with a weird resolution of 64 x 128 pixels and required a graphics buffer of 1024 bytes, but also left 71.63% of the CPU time for the actual program.
So, which option would you choose? Memory is not as much of an issue as it used to be, but I think I can live with a weird resolution and take the performance gain. By the way, the same old processor, unrestricted by the old graphics chip, gives me more than 12 times the instructions per second compared to that worst case I have been using for 45 years now. And I have not even really tried to overclock it yet.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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