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EXCERPT: Signal//Noise

by [Your Name]

The dome of the Grand Assembly cracked with strobes and pulses of pure algorithmic light. Hexsound tunneled through the crowd like a virus—compressed, modulated, fractal-burst into flesh. In the center pit, on a circular dais of jury-rigged silicon and scrapmetal chrome, the Sceners were at war.

"Sectorjam’s up," said Ryn, thumb twitching on her neural-ink interface. She sat in the mezzanine shadows above the compo pit, visor lenses flickering with debug streams. “Running custom synthmods on a gutted Triarc Z80. He’s bending opcode like origami.”

Below, Sectorjam—neon mohawk, skin like a failed BIOS boot—drove his fingers across a ghostboard, each tap spitting machinecode into a corrupted 8-bit memory space. His demo was alive: vector forests blooming in real-time, synced to audio generated from nothing but electromagnetic ripple and clever abuse of voltage.

“Watch the sync chain,” muttered Kaz, Ryn’s partner, hunched beside her, his spinal jack trailing

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;
; assembly example to write a message on the Commodore 64 screen
;

; address of the basic loader. the RUN command is looking for the first instruction here.
; the assembly code should be compiled to start here as well, so it can be run with a sys command
*=$0801

; this is the basic loader, this is mimicing of jumping in to the assembly code with a sys command
!byte $0c,$08,$b5,$07,$9e,$20,$32,$30,$36,$32,$00,$00,$00

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"""\
Boids is an artificial life program, which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds, and related group motion.

Some resources I'd recommend if you wanted to learn more about boids:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids
* https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/labs/s2021/Boids/Boids.html
* http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

This is my quick excercise to make a simplified, 2d, retro inspiried implementation.
"""

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import os
import time
import random

animals = "🐅🐆🦓🦣🐘🦛🦏🐪🦒🦘🦬🐃🐂🐄🐎🐖🐏🦙🐐🦌🐕🐈🐓🐇🦝"
#animals = "🐶🐱🐭🐰🦊🐻🐼🦁🐯🐨🐻🐮"

width = os.get_terminal_size().columns - 2
pos = [width] * len(animals)

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Bootstrap script for setting up a macOS machine
#

# Requires xcode and tools!
xcode-select -p || exit "XCode must be installed! (use the app store)"


echo "Starting bootstrapping"

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import os
import datetime

with os.popen("nvram -p") as out:
    ts_line = next((line for line in out.readlines() if line.startswith("panicmedic-timestamps")), None)
    if ts_line:
        ts_hex = ts_line.split("\t")[-1]
        ts_int = int(ts_hex, 16)
        ts = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(ts_int // 1000000)
        print(f"Last kernel panic: {ts}")

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import collections

with open("words.txt") as f:
  # let's read the words from the file, but ignore anything that ends with s
  # just to remove plurals
  words = [line.strip() for line in f.read().splitlines() if line[4] != "s"]

  # how often the different letter occur?
  occurances = collections.Counter()
  for word in words:

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import locale

import requests
import tabulate

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "en_US")

# available snapshots: 30, 90, 365 days
data_ranges = {"new": 30, "old": 90}

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import pyxel


class Intro:
    def __init__(self):
        pyxel.init(160, 120, caption="Greg was here")
        self.timer = 0
        pyxel.run(self.update, self.draw)

    def update(self):

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import random
import math

size = (40, 25)
field_types = "🏔⛰🌲🌳🌴🏜🌊"

def voronoi_map():
  no_seeds = 20
  seeds = [
    {