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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
You do not need hypertext to prefix lines with "> ".
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
It's extremely embarrassing that my (American) employer refers to me as a "software engineer" when in fact I dropped out of the university computer engineer program and can not legally call myself an engineer in my country. I
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
It would be nice to have some sort of widespread standard for doing issue tracking, reviews, and CI in the repo, synced with the repo to all its clones (and fully from version-managed text-files and scripts) rather than in external, central
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
Random things are installed in ~/.local/bin. In ~/bin I have only what I put there.
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
That used to be true, but much of modern python code I see looks nothing like pseudocode. That advantage was lost around version 3, if not even before that.
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
That is the alternative timeline for software I always wanted to live in, both as a user and as a developer. Make it 100 different tools instead to make it even more likely that there is a close enough match. Games are closer to that than a
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
The game library first released in 1990, 36 years ago. (Most recent release January 2026.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro_(software_library)
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
I only know about this game because it was in some Humble Bundle. Have the Linux version from that. Not sure how old it is. Looks like the screenshot of one of the remastered versions. Remember installing it and playing for a few hours but
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
January 2026 was the first month since March 2018 with no one shot dead here in Sweden. I guess that is good, but one theory is that it is correlated with January also being the coldest month in decades, and low temperatures tend to calm th
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
NetBSD is probably what would make most sense to run on that old hardware. Alternatively you may have accidently built a great machine for installing FreeDOS to run old DOS games/applications. It does install from USB, but needs BIOS s
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
Is there any hope of turning this around so I can still do fun work and AI can take over the management roles instead?
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
There is also VGA Paint 386. It runs everywhere since it is a DOS application. https://www.bttr-software.de/products/vp386/
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
There is another old site ("since September 23, 1996"), my second favorite maze site, that has some articles about things like that. Like on the page below ("Tips on how to create difficult and fun Mazes, and how to solve and
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
It is common in traditional roguelikes to support vi keys as an alternative to arrow keys. I use that all the time when playing Brogue. Have a great vi keys muscle memory now thanks to that, but I use Emacs and only rarely vi, so it's
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
There are still many smaller publishers, and individual self-publishers, keeping small niches of miniatures gaming alive and well completely outside of the reach of GW or other big companies. I follow many old blogs and some forums where pe
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
They also aggressively went after fan-made variants and other content posted online, unlike almost any other miniatures/boardgame publisher. Lot of (ex-)fans upset about that. I think that has in particular bothered older players, as t
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
I kind of do that already with my most recent project, developing it in my local fossil repo and each release I have a script that copies it to a local git-repo, tags it, and pushes it to GitHub. So the GitHub history just has a series of r
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
I thought about this a lot recently and decided that the small, mostly complete, project I work on now, if I release it (I probably will), I will just post an archive somewhere with the source code, like in old days.
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
The problem is building (operating) systems that are orders of magnitude more complex than what are possible to fully understand or reason about. I don't think the top developers in the world could avoid catastrophic errors to sometime
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
Show context-based ads instead of spying on people would be a good start. That should be the only form of legal advertising. It is for sure the only form of potentially ethical advertising. I also pay to get past paywalls when a site has co
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
I guess chat-ability would require some chat-like data, so would that mean first coming up with a way to extract chat-like dialogue from the era and then use that to fine-tune the model?
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
I would not want to use fossil at work and I do not know if it could handle projects of that size. Would require manyears of rewriting tools that would not be realistic. For my hobby projects I have used fossil for several years. It works g
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
I have used Emacs on mobile for years. Works great in Termux on Android for instance. I use it daily and with the same .emacs.d (synced using git) as I use on computers, with just a few conditionals in init.el to not load too many bloated d
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
I thought I was the only one. It is great for just having some text with headers and links, without any distractions. Only complaint is that it handles line-breaks the way some Markdown variants do, with each line being one paragraph of tex
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
Did you edit your comment? I was about to begin by saying I could not see how you escaped that, but now I see the backslashes. Looks like even the documentation for org-mode recommends using zero-width spaces: https://orgmode.org
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
Maybe not proper support, but when I tried NetBSD recently my entire installation was around 1.5 GB on disk and seemed to handle Unicode well enough for me (for languages I care about). Not doubting some more packages would be needed to sup
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
DOSBox! Super stable APIs that will never change. And it self-hosts compilers and editors (up to latest versions of Emacs and at least versions of vim from earlier this century) so anywhere your code can run you can also modify and recompil
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
So we pay more. Many owners of very old good, but mostly forgotten, games must know that the rights are basically worthless anyway.
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
Their DOS releases are fantastic. I install the games, then copy the files to my virtual C: directory for DOSBox-X and know those games will always Just Work and I will never have to reinstall anything or mess with configurations. Some game
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
I would be happy to donate to campaigns to buy old ip (video games, but also music, movies, old tabletop rpgs etc) to then slap an open license on and release for free. Seems like a good investment for the future, to get as much content as

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