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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
What could possibly go wrong? https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-i...
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
I don't know Warhammer that well, but I see a lot of 3D printing for historical wargames. Seems popular for naval wargames for instance, but I saw many printed tanks as well. Not so much small scale infantry perhaps. There are so many
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
It would be interesting to see a combined list taking into account both US "1930 or older" rule and more common internationally "life+70" rule, to see what works have finally escaped both of those and make works a bit le
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by 1313ed01 9mo ago
NoScript mostly solves this, except for sites that open up with the pop-ups already visible and require JavaScript to be enabled to be able to close them. My reaction then is usually to just click the back-button.
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
If they can lock it to some version to avoid breaking code every time there is a new Lua version. Or Lua stop making breaking changes.
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
Someone just discovered why some of us enjoy shell scripts and Emacs so much. No need for LLM, just small hacks to solve specific problems in limited contexts that works well enough, most of the time, for one user.
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
Not likely to happen. There is geminiprotocol with gemtext though for those of us that are fine with that level of simplicity. Work towards an eventual feature freeze and final standardisation of the web would be fantastic though, and a hug
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
Sonic Pi is SuperCollider, but using Ruby instead of the default sclang language. Overtone is similar (and possibly originally by the same developer, iirc?) but using Clojure, and is also missing from the list.
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
Sadly it looks like there is no support kept for MS-DOS, which means this can not run on my favorite (most stable, future-safe, and portable) virtual machine, DOSBox (or any of the many other ways of running DOS software)?
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
Army men came in various sizes, and one of the most common one was always close to 1:72, or at least that has been the case since the 1980's. I remember one of my friends had larger, maybe 40mm army men, but my collection was only the
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
My guess is the vast majority of those were/are cheap, generic, Army Men types, usually clones of clones of some 1960's Airfix sculpts. You could buy those in large bags in toy stores in the 1980's and these days you can get
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
There are many 1:76 sets as well, even if 1:72 is more common. Anecdotally, wargamers do not use those minis much. Some older gamers started out with playing more or less improvised wargames using 1:72 (mainly Airfix) figures in the 1960&#x
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
Sweden used to have very cheap electricity. That's why there are so many houses with electric radiators. Far more expensive now. That is why so many houses here now have air-to-air heat pumps. That is by far the cheapest way to improve
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
GW-BASIC, and probably other MS BASICs, only looked up destination lines once, then replaced the GOTO code with a direct pointer to the destination. Something similar may have been used for other symbols, but I don't remember for sure?
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
I still have one like that, and it runs mostly fine, but is partly held together by duct tape these days. Not replacing it as long as I can keep it running. Especially considering that story some year ago about photos taken by Roombas that
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
I feel like the indie-games are almost as clustered in small areas of potential "game design space" as AAA-games are, but just clustered in different areas, in particular around "games inspired by ha handful of SNES games and
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
How is 3 so much better than 2, but 4 not so much better than 3?
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
I use Termux on my Android phone and sync my text-files using git or fossil, just like how I sync between laptops/desktops. I run Emacs in Termux (but vim and many other text editors are also available, for those that prefer those). No
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
I installed some old Debian versions in virtual machines recently, and had a similar thought. Other than security upgrades really 99% of anything useful was already included ~25 years ago. Could probably go back quite a bit further. One ann
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
No. Breaking other people's code is why we have this broken software world where new bugs (and security holes) are added everywhere all the time since no software is allowed to just exist without monthly rewrites. We need a culture whe
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
There were generic VESA SVGA drivers towards the end of the MS-DOS era. Sound blaster(16) also came close to being standard enough that games could just support that. Extrapolating I think MS-DOS was on a nice trajectory to having complete
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
Back when I subscribed to O'Reilly I had a bookmark set up to search there with Packt excluded. Otherwise no matter what I searched for the results were clogged up with Packt-slop.
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
I signed up many years ago when they had 50% off and then was allowed to renew at the same price. Made it very difficult to cancel, knowing that I will have to pay full price if I ever want it back, but one year I looked at how much I had p
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
I saw some gamebook for two players many years ago that had a small 5x5 table printed on each page. When players needed a random number 1-5 they simultaneously revealed a hand showing 1-5 fingers and used the table on the current page to cr
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
I agree. Especially as someone that likes LISP-like languages and uses Janet and Fennel quite a bit (and some elisp, in the past also Clojure) but never used a macro for anything. Would love to hear more about that third dimension I am miss
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
I'm the last person to be able to answer that. There would be Chesterton's fences everywhere for one thing. Better question is what to add to something like C. The bare minimum to make it perfectly safe. Then stop there.
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
I would love to see a language that is to C what Rust is to C++. Something a more average human brain like mine can understand. Keep the no-gc memory safety things, but simplify everything else a thousand times. Not saying that should repla
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by 1313ed01 10mo ago
I like the idea overall. Looks like something that would be fun to combine with music programming languages (SuperCollider/Of etc). Not so sure how human-friendly the fractional beats are? Is that something that people more into music
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by 1313ed01 11mo ago
Probably the only good thing about this country shutting down the 2G and 3G networks now is all the spy devices that will go permanently offline.
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by 1313ed01 11mo ago
I used Debian since around version 1.2 (even if not always as my main desktop OS) but increasingly using FreeBSD and NetBSD on my old computers.

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