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Sunday, July 21st, 2024
| Time | Event |
| 2:51a | Rust is defective by design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=769VqNu Meme tier language. Current Mood:  amusedCurrent Music: Command & Conquer - Industrial (YM2612 Cover) |
| 11:15a | Linux is secure becasue nobody cares about it When Windows BSODs on boot, it makes worldwide headlines. When the kernel panics on boot on Linux, it doesn't even make news because it happens all the time.  Current Mood: amused |
| 5:32p | Final Fantasy 7 Engine Used Staged Modules Instead of Overlays The game was decomposed into a state machine, and each major state was put into its own executable module with a distinct interface https://q-gears.sourceforge.net/gears.p That allowed spreading work across several teams, while keeping in memory only the current module. PlayStation 1 had no MMU, so paging was not an option, and the compilers they used never supported overlays. Overlays were invented at the dawn of computing, for Cobol and Fortran. Yet good technology gets abandoned and forgotten in favor of inferior solutions.  Current Mood: amused |
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