Adam Dunkels

IoT guy. Entrepreneur. Developer. Programmer. Builds things.

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@bhaskark_la if i remember correctly, ethernet and it’s use of csma/ca, was based on wireless networking concepts developed in the early 1970s as part of the ALOHAnet project

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Turns out that ChatGPT can be effective for providing simple explanations of ideas:

Using ChatGPT to Pitch Almost Any Idea https://t.co/vszBlnL9aF

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Procosoco: A Simple Way to Pitch Almost Any Idea: https://t.co/rZSBq14b9F

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"The world record for getting up earliest in the morning is held by Sonam Paljor, an Indian man who rose at 3.30am on 11 April 2018."

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I asked the OpenAI playground who holds the record for getting up earliest in the morning (an absurd question). To my surprise, I got an answer!

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Magic numbers are apparently on decline on the inside of the Linux kernel: https://t.co/HX1zgwMhU2

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@mdwelsh late stage programming

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@loriberenberg I asked ChatGPT what it thought about this, and it replied with "AIplaining".

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Two simultaneous links about Commodore 64 stuff on Hacker News right now - this one is about how to achieve a full-screen scrolling bitmap with streaming data directly from the disk drive: https://t.co/zeGwfVlZVC

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And this screenshot is just great: https://t.co/wapfRm7NJZ

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"Despite being discontinued in 2005, the Boa web server continues to be implemented by different vendors across a variety of IoT devices and popular software development kits (SDKs). " 🤔

https://t.co/Kf6X6fNfGZ

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The Boa web server has an awesome oldschool website: https://t.co/eUR2FlRdQb

With this picture:

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This is an incredibly impressive technical feat: https://t.co/xeFaLRdNes

The game Eye of the Beholder, but for the Commodore 64. Relased today. In 2022.

Full source code here: https://t.co/U5f5tayxB4

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Stumbled across this subreddit, pictures of computers crashing in public places: https://t.co/InV907P6X9

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Anyone have any other nice programming techniques or software patterns that can be applied to everyday situations?

#toothpaste #programming

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Here is a programming technique that I've found immensly useful in real life: The Sentinel Toothpaste https://t.co/RE56F6CWzJ

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The idea comes from the Sentinel Value / Sentinel Pattern in programming: when you have a special value to denote (for example) the last value in a list. Null-terminated strings is an example of this programming pattern.

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Source: https://t.co/4I74hmElgJ

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I just learned a nifty trick for adding HTML classes to Markdown tables:

| A simple | table |
| with multiple | lines|
{: .my-class }