On a related note (but with Python), I recently tried uv instead of pip and was impressed by both its speed and dependency resolution. I was attempting to upgrade an internal project from Python 3.9, and pip was frustratingly slow, sometimes it would just get stuck with no output and no errors...
There’s growing consensus that with uv python tooling finally became good enough in terms of both speed and functionality, no need to choose one or the other (like, poetry had functionality but was extra slow).
you won't when the thick walls and all objects are radiating 30C heat at you
Most (not all) old euro cities don't get a good breeze unless they're built on the windward side of a hill because (generalizing here): the streets aren't a grid and everything is built to the same height.
plus the humidity is still there without aircon. 20C humid != 20C dry.
I'd say this ain't an opinion - it's a fact. Where else can you rename a bunch of items in your directory tree, recursively, using all the features of your editor - multiple cursors, keyboard macros, spellchecking, etc.?
There just doesn't exist another piece of software (go ahead, prove me wrong) where you can edit your filesystem like a wiki page.
The details are explained on the Cturt blog mentioned in another post, the original researcher, this one seems a GUI to simplify the process of patching ISO.
About your questions, I would guess transforming PS2 CD title to PS2 DVD first could work.
For PS1 titles, with a different exploit (mechapwn) you could boot them, but read the fine prints as it basically convert a consumer PS2 to a devkit/testkit (DEX?)...
Also from USB, unfortunately it's only USB 1.1 so titles with FMV sequence tend to stutter, so for slim models the network SMB share it's preferred...
About PS1 titles, there is a Sony PS1 emulator for PS2 called POPS that you can use with OPL but from what I read it has not a wide compatibility and it's not officially distributed by Sony, the other option is to use mechapwn to boot PS1 CDs, but it doesn't work on the early PS2 models according to this: https://github.com/MechaResearch/MechaPwn?tab=readme-ov-file...
Unfortunately Mullvad and the majority of VPN providers don't offer port-forwarding anymore, last year when I checked only a couple, maybe three remained...
Having wrote that, another option, under Linux with network namespaces and Wireguard it's possible to have a pretty fail proof VPN...
I remember as a teen I did mine in 68000 assembly on a Commodore Amiga to get it reasonable fast considering it was running on a 16 MHz CPU — i would say a few seconds to draw the canonical image — but IIRC it reached pretty fast the limit of math precision.
At that time I didn't know what was a complex number, but was fascinated by the whole concept of fractals and how complex structures could be created with a relative simple program.
A few seconds? Wow! I did a science fair project on the Mandelbrot set using my Amiga 2000, and it took me a good 45+ minutes to generate a single 320x200 color image. IIRC, I wrote the generator in some variant of Pascal, and was so happy with the performance increase over Basic on my C=128...
I ran in to the precision limit pretty quickly, same as you. I didn't understand computers well enough to know that's what the problem was, and I remember spending hours pouring over my code, trying to figure out where the bug was. Good times. :D
If I'm not confusing it with something else, I seem to recall that when zooming on the set the calculation was nearly instantaneous. As you said, good times! ^__^
I still have that A500 but who knows where I put those floppies, I'm tempted to turn it on but I'm scared the PSU will blow itself...
A500 PSUs (particularly the 2nd one) are the most reliable and powerful.
The A500 themselves are built like tanks. Chances are it just works.
But watch out for trapdoor expansion. Most likely has a varta barrel battery in it, which will eventually leak and damage the expansion, and possibly also the computer itself.
I would recommend opening that trapdoor and removing/inspecting anything installed there as soon as possible.
These barrel batteries are only used to keep RTC, and the board will be fine w/o.
