Игры и игровые консоли
Let's continue detailed conversation about “mappers”—expanded memory management devices on Famicom, NES, and Dandy game consoles. In the second part of the article, we will look at the features of several main types of mappers and their impact on the content of games, programming
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About once a decade, on Russian-language computer resources, someone raises the topic of such an element of the architecture of 8-bit Dandy and its progenitors as a “mapper,” trying to explain in detail what it is. And every time I get the feeling that the narrators themselves ar
Communication Systems
A hands-on guide to building a private 4G LTE network at home using software-defined radio and the open-source srsRAN stack, covering everything from hardware selection to SIM card programming and internet connectivity.
Video Processing
A complete walkthrough of remastering all 163 classic Tom and Jerry episodes to 1440p using AI upscaling, audio track reconstruction, color correction, and video compression — all done by one person over a few months.
Python
What happens when you take a beginner's naive approach to checking if a number is even or odd — using individual if statements — and scale it to 4 billion? A hilarious journey through metaprogramming, compiler limits, and raw machine code generation.
Reverse Engineering
Continuing the investigation into Brick Game handheld consoles, the author decapsulates microcontroller dies, reads ROM contents through an optical microscope, and builds a working emulator from the recovered firmware.
Open Source
In the tech world, many companies manufacture devices and software for them. However, in some cases, these companies fail to comply with international open-source norms, leading to violations of freedom and agreements — as exemplified by the Honor 90 brazenly violating GPLv2.
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With the advent of broadband access and high speeds of mobile Internet, network load has become one of the key bottlenecks for system performance. Network providers are faced with the need to continually increase and optimize network throughput and capacity while maintaining prof
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For many years now, pixel graphics have successfully coexisted in the gaming industry, along with the latest graphics technologies, in almost the same form in which it existed in games for home computers and game consoles of the 80s and 90s. Its return to gaming monitors in the l
Linux
The author of sane-airscan and ipp-usb — two packages included in virtually every Linux distribution — shares a candid account of building, debugging, and promoting open source software that became the standard for driverless scanning on Linux.
IT Career
A senior developer's passionate rant about overengineering in software development, arguing that simple CRUD code beats clever algorithms, and that real seniority means simplifying — not complicating — systems.
Machine Learning
A comprehensive accessible explanation of how ChatGPT works, tracing the evolution from T9 predictive text through neural networks, Transformers, GPT-1/2/3, RLHF, and finally ChatGPT — with analogies and minimal math.