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71/151 opcodes implemented for the CPU

The CPU is halfway done. This is a grind.

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JOExHIGASHI posted...

I don't know how AI learning art works. Does it steal images or parts of images to create art?

You train an image set on X artist's work by clicking a button.
You type "a picture of a new pokemon by X artist"
You get an image that's nearly identical to X artist's work.

The real metric is income inequality, which has skyrocketed since Reagan.

I don't want to say.

shadowsword87 posted...

I was showing that AI art can do more than the awful generic AI art that's being plastered on every shitty mobile game. I was fairly clear about that.

Yeah sorry I wasn't really attacking you, just the picture, which was a good example.

Some stuff a doctor might tell you to do anyway;

https://www.webmd.com/men/ss/slideshow-low-testosterone-natural-boost

Also everyone has different levels of test and it's not necessarily good or bad. A doctor might presecribe you meds if your levels are way too low.

My greatest asset is my health because by all other means I'm in the red.

AI art looks really bad if you know what to look for, and at that point it's just shameful that you thought you could get away with it.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a2bd8a42.jpg

Why is this boat so small?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/ab32bdfb.jpg

Why is this boat empty?

The thing that bothers me the most is that people actually appreciate it or think it has any deeper meaning. It's a cool tech demo, it's not art. You're not an artist for clicking a button. lol.

Now every time I see a nice painting I have to automatically assume it was some sweaty tech bro that generated it.

Yeah people always say to start with chip8, but idc about chip8, I've never heard about it in my life.

The only weird thing is dealing with the many different kinds of mappers that ROMs used, which basically put the ROM somewhere in the 64kb address space, as well as any RAM that came with the cartridge itself. After that, you spend a week or so doing every opcode, and apparently the PPU is simple enough to get done quickly, then you can play Mario.

But the reason movement is kind of janky on the NES is that the NES did not support any kind of decimal number. There is no 0.5 on the NES. And the dumb thing is that the 6502 did support decimal arithmetic, it's just they disabled it because they were using a bootleg chip that was based off the 6502, and it's speculated that they disabled the decimal functions to avoid a lawsuit.

It's in a nice middle ground where it's complicated enough to make a good emulator that you might even use, without taking years to complete. ("complete" an emulator, yeah that never happens)

There are already 40+ NES emulators out there but I want to make one just so I can learn emulation better. Here are some key things that you might not know;

The CPU is the NES. When you provide it power it just starts moving memory around which makes other things happen. You could violently rip out the other parts, and the CPU would keep chugging, probably kind of confused.

The CPU has a number inside it that tells it where to get its next instruction. That number has a max value of 65535, so that's how many "things" it can see. Some of those values lead to nothing, some lead to what's in the RAM, what's in the ROM, and two of those addresses tell it what buttons are being pressed on the controller.

Here's a log of my CPU executing 10 instructions on a ROM called "nestest.nes". I'm able to tell if it's doing things right by comparing it to a similar log that's basically the cheat sheet to the test. You might notice that these are assembly instructions. It runs until it hits an instruction that I haven't added, I have 22/151 instructions. It gets through 72 before hitting one I haven't done yet.

1 C000 4C F5 C5 JMP $C5F5 A:00 X:00 Y:00 P:24 S:FD CYC:7
2 C5F5 A2 00 LDX #$00 A:00 X:00 Y:00 P:24 S:FD CYC:10
3 C5F7 86 00 STX $00 = 00 A:00 X:00 Y:00 P:26 S:FD CYC:12
4 C5F9 86 10 STX $10 = 00 A:00 X:00 Y:00 P:26 S:FD CYC:15
5 C5FB 86 11 STX $11 = 00 A:00 X:00 Y:00 P:26 S:FD CYC:18
6 C5FD 20 2D C7 JSR $C72D A:00 X:00 Y:00 P:26 S:FD CYC:21
7 C72D EA NOP A:00 X:00 Y:00 P:26 S:FB CYC:28
8 C72E 38 SEC A:00 X:00 Y:00 P:26 S:FB CYC:30
9 C72F B0 04 BCS $C733 (?) A:00 X:00 Y:00 P:27 S:FB CYC:32
10 C735 EA NOP A:00 X:00 Y:00 P:27 S:FB CYC:35

What's it doing?

It starts at C000 (hex)
1 JMP: It's jumping to that memory location. Aka, it sets the number it looks for its next instruction to C5F5. Notice how the memory address changes after this.
2 LDX: Load that value into the X register. A register is a byte that the CPU keeps internally so it can access it faster. It has several of these.
3 STX: Store the X register value in that memory location. It's setting those memory addresses to 0.
4 JSR: It's jumping to a location and storing the return address on the stack. Later, when it hits a "RTS" instruction, it will pull this value from the stack and come back to this point in memory.
5: NOP: Just do nothing for a little bit.
6: SEC: The has a status register. It uses all 8 bits of this byte as individual true or false values. In this case, it sets the "carry" flag to 1. This one 0000_000c.
7: BCS: And immediately after that, it checks to see if the carry flag is set. If the carry flag is set, it will jump to another location. And it is, so it will.

I love mice a lot. I hate having to kill them, but those suckers multiply and poop so they get no quarter.

It must be weird having a giant just pick you up and mess with you.

Thankfully they've preserved Ayn Rand's head in a jar so we can stick it on a robot and make it president at some point.

When you fall into a black hole, because of relativity, to the outside world you freeze in time, and the outside world speeds up.

So if your loved one ever got pushed into a black hole, you would have to live with the fact that at every single moment your loved one is screaming in terror. But it's the same amount of terror overall as someone who died in real time, so would you have to dilute your empathy and accept that while your friend is suffering every second, it's scaled down to a mild annoyance?

If you pushed someone into a black hole, is that even murder? They might outlive the human race because of you.

I don't understand how any of this is even real.

OhhhJa posted...

Looks like he's dressing as a final fantasy villain lol

Idc if it's Elmo, I have a coworker that dresses like that and they look fucking badass on a daily basis while everyone else is boring. Everyone should walk around looking like an anime character.

And before you say anything about turbovirginity she's a hot girl checkmate your double standards.

Well I don't. I forgot.

Why does it keep happening and try not to do it again while explaining

adjl posted...

https://imgur.com/rBHf5DC

He actually looks pretty cool in that picture?

Better than the one where he's sucking his gut in so hard he looks like he has a giant torso.

TomNook posted...

Straight women like to watch gay porn, the same way straight guys like to watch lesbian porn.

This is true, but only a minority watching them are women

a massive 37% of all Pornhub visitors viewing gay male porn are female

I'm "bi" but I never tell anyone because I have no reason to, don't want random guys hitting on me, and don't like having it automatically be 20% of what people think of when they think of me. I think most people are bisexual to some extent and just don't like the stigma attached to it, have some kind of mental block put up to ward off any slightly gay thoughts they might have very easily.

I read that only 1.3% of the population is bisexual and I call total horseshit on that. And 1.6% identify as gay? Yeah, and that's why 30% of the porn I see posted is gay. Sure guys, whatever you say.

Further backing that up;
https://gcn.ie/straight-people-watch-lot-gay-porn-youporn/

Sure. I assume you look like this too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DMZ_ownSiM

Tbh a lot of my knowledge of software also stems from my own insecurities in trusting things we're supposed to rely on. It would weird me out to use a phone every day and have no idea how it works like it's some kind of magic. Idk why I don't feel this insecurity towards things like engineering or physics, maybe because like you say there could just be some dude spying on us and we wouldn't even know. I don't mind the questions, but for your sake consider the fact that you are taking cyber-security so seriously makes you very unlikely to ever be hacked. There's also the fact that ChromeOs is inherently more secure than Windows by virtue of having a smaller user base. Why would a hacker bother targeting ChromeOs when they could just go after people using Windows? Say you're using something like a browser on a video game console. You probably have, by complete accident, the most secure browser out of anyone else.

I still have a lot to research on cyber security, until I get really into Kali Linux's official (paid) courses.

To answer your question it won't clear cookies while you're using it since it only clears it from the hard drive, more so only while in sleep/reboot. (Basically) never from RAM. If it's loaded into a program while you're using it, it's not going to just disappear mid-use.

OhhhJa posted...

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I can tell that guy lost his job and deserved so much more.

Your token/cookies expired/got cleaned up. They are designed to do that after a while. It's only an issue if it does it so often that it's inconvenient, otherwise it's not a security issue.

There's no real schedule to when your OS decides to do these things, but there are settings you can enable to have it do it less.

No one liked that.

Yeah when I think of child safety the first thing I think about is the state with razorwire in their rivers to drown kids

Tbf you are, with respect, very pro-death and anti-human, since you've apparently got nothing to lose and see nothing worth protecting.

I actually think artists are relatively safe, they have to learn to filter out the spam for now, but at least most people would refuse to read a book written by AI (who would do that), would prefer graphics made by a human, and musicians outright have rejected AI altogether. Even though they were attacked first, I think they'll be the last to go, until a generation 100 years from now changes societal views on what art is. Maybe people will just start generating their own custom tailor-fit media that never leaves their computer and that will be the death of art, and that generation will largely see no problem with doing it. Maybe people will decide that having friends and SOs is too hard and just live in virtual worlds.

With desk jobs you're right that no one will cry over something that was arguably lacking human creativity in the first place. Why would anyone prefer a website with backends written by a human instead of an AI? Charity? Handouts? Companies that like wasting time and money?

The silver lining here is that if/when it does take over programming jobs, it will be a problem for all of society as a whole. It won't just be the artists or 3d modelers that will be left behind.

Lay people tend to brush it off as hype, or hype it up for futurism because they like blinking lights and magic tricks. But for people following this closely, it is growing exponentially to the point where jobs are starting to be replaced. The new AI "Devin" is a standalone programmer that can create and close its own issues on GitHub with a 13% success rate. Only 13% you might say, but that's a metric that will only grow, until it's 50%, 80%, 99%. At some point, programmers are going to be out of a job.

So we're going to be relegated to physical jobs only, right? Wrong. Those are going too. These companies have made it their stated goal to replace the human workforce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiKvPJSOUmE

Why pay someone $30k annually when you could buy one $10k robot to do it forever? And people say there will be jobs that pop up that are more advanced to replace the old ones. Maybe, but most likely there will be something like a 1:10 replacement ratio. And people say it's currently too crappy to replace humans, or that it fundamentally will never be good enough. This is just wrong. With all due respect, you are not paying attention to how fast this is growing with no major hurdles.

There will be mass layoffs, and either we adopt some kind of UBI or we will just collapse. This is a huge curveball from regular political discourse.

That idea might be considered right leaning in a couple years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiKvPJSOUmE

Plebs all know Pi, but how many of you know e?? (I don't)

I'm not saying Elon fans are dumb, but I am saying they all have some very irrational pro-establishment bias and maybe all every last one of them have daddy issues

Let me explain the amazing story of how Elon got rich...

Father owns an emerald mine lends him $1M
Elon becomes CEO of PayPal
Elon fired for incompetence from PayPal, keeps his shares and becomes rich
Elon invests in Tesla, watches Iron Man and goes "that me I the Iron Man" and hypes up/invlates his stock 50* over it's true valuation by promising 20 things that can never happen according to the laws of physics, and all the fans go "Man he's so smart, and he's so rich there's no way he's an idiot!" so they buy 20 TSLA shares on Robinhood.

He's the definition of failing up.

Oh, and they obviously can't fire him from Tesla. The second they do, the stock price will crash.

And who can blame the Elon haters when Elon fans have been putting out brainless shit like this for a decade?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZG4ug0byXk

Maximothelad posted...

Elon is smarter than everyone on these boards combined. If you don't think so , you are the problem. Hard cold facts.

I mean apparently lok has an IQ of 170 so

I'm amazed Mexicans even want to live here anymore.

Hashtag because I am a millenial/old zoomer.

Never called it pound in my life.

^If it's jumping from 20% to 80% bg processes aren't causing the problem.

RJP_X posted...

whats the worst that can happen if i keep using it this way? i wish i knew how to check battery health.

Nothing, it'll just get worse and worse until it can't hold a charge anymore.

I think he's unintelligent, has mental health problems, grew up as a trust fund kid from bad parents, and on top of that does a lot of mind-altering drugs. He runs his company like a 10 year old would, flying cars, solar panel roof tiles, hyperloop, colonizing mars... He's a pretty good example of why money shouldn't snowball.

According to his own ex-employees, anything successful he does is sheerly because his employees manage to keep him distracted long enough. I think it's pretty obvious that any company he runs would be better off if he just sat in his office and did nothing. One ex-Tesla employee said that Twitter is an example of Elon without anyone holding him back.

People might say he's smart enough to run all these lies and a rabid fanbase. Smart people don't lie, it's self-destructive.

Your battery sounds faulty unfortunately. Had a secondhand Pixel doing this exact same thing.

You can buy a new battery and a replacement kit or send it off to get repaired. Otherwise there's not much to do.

I don't like jrpgs and never have so I doubt I would like it.

I've never disliked any accent. That's not a tomboy either.

Np. I'll look into that later though, no time rn.

It derives time-sensitive hashes from a shared private key. That's all it does.

The OAuth QR contains the name of the website with the secret key, that's how it got the name "Nintendo".

It's not bad, it's a protocol that works with no oversight by design. I've created websites that use authenticator apps, it doesn't even connect to the internet. I could turn off my internet on both my phone and computer and use my authenticator all locally (on a site run locally).

Authy doesn't even need to be aware of Nintendo's existence to support them, that's by design. Any visuals next to it are just "Authy's best guess".

Checked for myself, Nintendo's official guide walks you through setting up for Google's Authenticator, which doesn't use images. Whoever set it up had no reason to provide any images for OAuth.

RJP_X posted...

also not sure what it said before, but don't know why the bubble says HT next to the nintendo name. is it a glitch? a random assigned set of letters since nintendo don't have its own icon like say amazon or something?

Either Nintendo hasn't provided Authy an image to use, or Authy hasn't added an image themselves for Nintendo. I don't know what HT stands for.

It's an open protocol that works interchangeably over many "auth" apps and websites. Visual bugs are not really a high priority fix and it's impossible to account for every single service that could ever use it.

jsb0714 posted...

You weren't missed.

I'm glad you enjoyed Mar10 day without me.

acesxhigh posted...

how's it going so far TC

All my nervous tics came back and my ADHD is amplified to the point where I hyperfocus over little things like the hissing noise that comes out of the cheap charger used at work. A quiet hissing noise caused by a cheap transformer circuit stepping 120v AC to 5v DC (I was told by the internet or misread it) resonates at around 20,000 hertz, which is too high pitched for most people to hear and should be a D# note, was way too low frequency to be over 16000 Hz, but I can't verify because all modern OSes filter out frequencies higher than 16000 Hz. I asked an older woman to listen to it and she heard it, which rules out it being 20000 Hz. That makes sense because in a cheap circuit like that it wouldn't have more than a single transformer that's operating at 60 Hz, and the rattling is caused by the ferromagnetic iron sheets rattling as the eddy currents alternate through them, not adhered correctly due to a cheaper manufacturing process, which means that it's a B note, something I was able to infer after listening to it for a while anyway. That still leaves the question of why did someone say 20,000 Hz? Which is another rabbit hole. I have to do research and teardowns of higher wattage power supplies, but I've already been at this for 2 hours and have to get more than 3 hours of sleep.

ZayKayWill posted...

Hey man. Glad that you haven't had any serious withdrawals after quitting. Hopefully it stays that way. Everyone is so incredibly different it's crazy. So maybe you won't need the long process of detox and withdrawal like a lot of people do after quitting.

Apparently some people can just smoke cigarettes socially which is crazy to me.

BUMPED2002 posted...

I think you see a doctor as soon as you can. Good luck and I wish you well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IncHyS5G_iI

Skipping Mar10 day this time on account of Mario destroying Citra Yuzu and taking the dolphin devs off the internet.

People go to school, other people's houses, have jobs where they can use it, want to take it outside to do work, sit on the couch with other people, go on camping trips, car rides, idk. I assume people buy laptops so they can take it somewhere.

I've always wanted one of these slim laptops/phones to just make the thing a brick but quadruple the battery life so it lasts for multiple days. Idk why they don't do this. Tough sell to shareholders maybe.