Desktop OSes just assume the vertical subtiles (at best with an option between RGB and BGR). TVs and mobile devices don't generally support subpixel rendering at all.
gynvael 2 hours ago [-]
Sorry, we moved this. It's on page 37 now - "Hardware" section works better for this one than "Food for thought".
I've never seen this before, it's like a modern 2600 - deeply technical, scattered topics and depth, all very hacker-curious - and beautifully designed to boot.
Rendello 3 hours ago [-]
For those interested, anyone can write a (one-page) article:
Fun fact - the computiles piece is an uncredited rediscovery of Wang's work from the 1960's on computable tilings. Specifically, he went as far to show that the halting problem is equivalent to the 'domino problem' - can we tile the plane using a given finite set of dominoes (aka tiles) where we have infinitely many copies of each and the tiling must preserve edge-meet criteria. Every tiling is a computer program, every computer program is a tiling.
Graziano_M 2 hours ago [-]
It’s credited in section 3
bbayles 5 hours ago [-]
Michał Zalewski's article on page 42 is very funny.
mixedmath 4 hours ago [-]
Would someone be interested in explaining what in the world is going on in that article?
q3k 4 hours ago [-]
What do you mean? It's just simple beginner's examples in C. Should be easy enough to understand, C is famously very simple ('portable assembler' as they say!).
FergusArgyll 21 minutes ago [-]
> In our experience, C has proven to be a pleasant, expressive and versatile language for a wide variety of programs. It is easy to learn, and it wears well as one's experience with it grows.
The C Programming Language K&R
pillmillipedes 57 minutes ago [-]
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brcmthrowaway 4 hours ago [-]
The anime avatar twitter people have finally created something beautiful.
gynvael 3 hours ago [-]
Ahaha thank you for this comment, it's peak internet meme culture. Made my day :D
yu3zhou4 6 hours ago [-]
My fav zine
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The C Programming Language K&R