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So farewell then.

Warp Life is a particularly fast implementation of Conway's Game of Life. Golly may be faster but it doesn't run on the smaller devices, just the iPad.

If you're willing to help, I'll need the UDIDs of each device you want to test with. Follow these instructions to obtain your device's UDID.

Mail your UDID(s) to mdcrawford@gmail.com.

You could really help a brother out if you would forward the URL to my beta test page to anyone you genuinely feel would be interested in or would benefit from it:

http://www.warplife.com/beta-testing

I'm working on a macOS - it's not Mac OS X anymore - USB Video driver. This is by far the most complex driver that I've ever developed.

It works now, but only for a hardwired resolution and pixel depths. There are lots of other problems, the worst one being that it doesn't play nice with power management. There are vast quantities of "// TODO:" comments.

When I get it to beta - hopefully Real Soon Now - I'll be getting a huge paycheck. When it's completely finished, I'll get another one.

My client is a fabless semiconductor firm. They sell chips to manufacturers who sell finished products to end-users. Hopefully my whizzy new driver will enable them to sell lots more chips.

We're big in China.

I told my client about my mental illness. They were totally cool with it. But I haven't mentioned my experience with homelessness.

In other news, I have a mad crush on a barista, but as yet she doesn't seem to return my interest.

An external SSD has become Samsung's first drive to hit the market with 64-layer V-NAND. It includes a 10 Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C connection and capacities ranging from 250GB to 2TB:

Moving on to the pricing aspect, it must be remembered that the Portable SSD T5 is a pilot vehicle for Samsung's 64-layer V-NAND as its production ramps up. Samsung naturally expects this to be a low-volume, high-margin part. Therefore, despite the higher density, consumers should not expect much difference in the cost per GB compared to other external SSDs in the market. The 2TB variant will have a MSRP of $800 and the 500GB will retail at $200. At 40 cents/GB, it is priced close to other such products currently in the market.

Also at Samsung, PCWorld, The Verge, PCMag, and YouTube.

Not a submission because: Intel First to Market With 64-Layer 3D NAND SSDs

You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf

Oh, this is getting ridiculous. I write a small state machine to test understanding of a micro-controller and it is now going to be used to run a quiz. Additional hardware is on order. (A cheaper Arduino which can be damaged or stolen without affecting my work.) Even sillier, I'm getting feature requests. The first feature request is for lights per participant and per team. So, code has been extended to allow up to four separate buttons for each of four teams:-

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(Usual instructions for uudecode process.)

Another feature request is distinct sound samples per participant or per team. That would be awkward. The sound samples would either have to be compressed and compiled into flash with the program or loaded into RAM via a USB virtual serial port or invoke an unholy set of libraries to read FAT32 flash storage over SPI and play MP3s or invoke a separate piece of hardare which does the same task or port/re-implement algorithm to a different platform, such as a Raspberry Pi. So, no, there won't be distinct sound samples. Pin goes high. Pin drives NPN transistor. Buzzer makes noise.

If people also want scores on a digital display then the project may be re-implemented on other hardware. At that point, someone else can continue the project because I have more important tasks.

Last of Secret JFK Files Slated for Release This Fall

Fresh Air interview with Philip Shenon, author of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination, airing now. Will edit link in later.

I wrote a small program to implement the buzzer round of a quiz game. This is not much more than a "Hello World!" test in the quest to implement a 3D surround sound speaker array which itself is part of a larger project. During this process, I repeatedly bump into emperical but mundane reality. The most mundane problem includes not having any momentary switches to hand and only having latching switches. Therefore, the buzzer game code has been updated so that it works either type of switch. This has the side-effect that any of the switches may be independently wired with pull-up resistors or pull-down resistors. Therefore, the project has gained some idiot-proofing which may be considered elsewhere.

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(Usual instructions for uudecode process.)