C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

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anthk•about 1 hour ago

On the subleq VM, it would run faster if they implemented Muxleq, but it woudn't win the IOCCC contest maybe. Altough in unobfuscated it's C it's just an extra short if clause with two more lines.

On 32k roms for the GB emulator:

https://github.com/tbsp/Adjustris

Old build:

https://pdroms.de/?__df=24010f101611170c163a13544b55553a4d22...

Someone ping back the IOCCC creator, please.

RicoElectrico•about 1 hour ago

> Nixie tube is a tiny electrical tube with filaments in the shapes of all the digits stacked one on top of another, and it displays the desired digit by making just that filament glow

Lol, no. That's a Numitron (although they were 7 segment)

tasty_freeze•about 1 hour ago

You are confidently incorrect.

https://ethw.org/Nixie_Tubes

master-lincoln•17 minutes ago

your article says it's a gas discharge vacuum tube, so no filament. You seem to be confidently incorrect too.

RicoElectrico•41 minutes ago

Filament implies it is resistively heated, per tube terminology. Nixie is essentially a neon lamp, specially shaped, whose cathode is cold.

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