Do you have a New Year's resolution?
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@evan yes, to not piss myself in my sleep.
It was just a dribble, for the first time since I was a child, but it wasn't how I imagined my first New Year's Eve in my 60s.
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@evan I've already changed the litterbox
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@evan Yes. 5120x1440.
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@evan yes, to not piss myself in my sleep.
It was just a dribble, for the first time since I was a child, but it wasn't how I imagined my first New Year's Eve in my 60s.
@grahamperrin good luck!
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@evan I've already changed the litterbox
@amro uh... You need to do that more than once per year.
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@evan replace WS by @signalapp đ
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@evan@cosocial.ca
Whatâs your New Yearâs resolution? -
@evan@cosocial.ca
Whatâs your New Yearâs resolution?@fdrc_ff this joke never gets old!
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@evan replace WS by @signalapp đ
@hlrx @signalapp what's WS?
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@lohang happy new year!
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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E un altro anno è iniziato. Auguri a tutti!!
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Il razzo SLS della missione Artemis 2 proiettato sul Washington Monument. Il 2026 sarĂ l'anno della Luna. Si avvicina il primo lancio di astronauti verso il nostro satellite dal 1972. La sorvoleranno testando i sistemi per preparare l'allunaggio con la missione seguente. Foto NASA/Bill Ingals
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/55016654116/in/album-72177720331210302
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Chi #manmaggia a capodannoâŚ
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A joyful close-up of an evergreen would be a Happy Yew Near.
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Buon anno regà ! Vojo inizzià questo 2026 faciendovi tante belle promesse che sò le stesse de gli anni scorsi e che verano piaciute tanto!
Questo sarĂ l'anno che costruiremo er Ponte, supereremo la Fornero, abboliremo le accise, e tante belle cose cosĂŹ
Bevetevele tutte con un buon prosecco! Auguri! đĽ â¤ď¸
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/12/31/meloni-promesse-mancate-accise-ponte-tasse-pensioni/
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The Many-Sprites Interpretation of Amiga Mechanics
The invention of sprites triggered a major shift in video game design, enabling games with independent moving objects and richer graphics despite the limitations of early video gaming hardware. As a result, hardware design was specifically built to manipulate sprites, and generally as new generations of hardware were produced the number of sprites a system could produce went up. But [Coding Secrets], who published games for the Commodore Amiga, used an interesting method to get this system to produce far more sprites at a single time than the hardware claimed to support.
This hack is demonstrated with [Coding Secrets]âs first published game on the Amiga, Leander. Normally the Amiga can only display up to eight sprites at once, but there is a coprocessor in the computer that allows for re-drawing sprites in different areas of the screen. It can wait for certain vertical and horizontal line positions and then execute certain instructions. This doesnât allow unlimited sprites to be displayed, but as long as only eight are displayed on any given line the effect is similar. [Coding Secrets] used this trick to display the information bar with sprites, as well as many backgrounds, all simultaneously with the characters and enemies weâd normally recognize as sprites.
Of course, using built-in hardware to do something the computer was designed to do isnât necessarily a hack, but it does demonstrate how intimate knowledge of the system could result in a much more in-depth and immersive experience even on hardware that was otherwise limited. It also wasnât free to use this coprocessor; it stole processing time away from other tasks the game might otherwise have to perform, so it did take finesse as well. Weâve seen similar programming feats in other gaming projects like this one which gets Tetris running with only 1000 lines of code.
youtube.com/embed/YdeUebxTt5M?âŚ
Thanks to [Keith] for the tip!
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Odd lang syne, Mastodon.
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Happy New Year!!!
