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the author (either of the blog or its software) would do well to consult https://www.petefreitag.com/blog/rss-autodiscovery/
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what is the source of google's pronunciations? i've always held the cambridge learner dictionary's ones in high esteem. e.g. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pronunci...
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i've tried 'pdfcpu images list' on a random pdf i've had lying around and the tool unexpectedly started downloading some font from unspecified internet location to my local disk. sorry, too spooky even for october. :-)
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curiously poppler doesn't mention that anywhere on their website, but the library comes with a similar suite of tools, typically available in linux distributions. i have found them very helpful. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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related: https://www.copperspice.com/
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related: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/vec/vec.html
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and 32-bit arm (nothing wrong with it; just like tcl and erlang, it's alive and well)
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interestingly, this is the first esp32 firmware i've seen that claims to support loadable native code applications ("elf apps"), even though it seems to come with only a single example: https://github.com/Byte
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yes, thanks! i was unsure whether to include it because it looks quite different. but you are right, it has the similar exploratory vibe and is a great game.
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obligatory list of similar stuff. - alba: a wildlife adventure. more gameplay but somewhat similar controls/feel - a short hike. isometric but similar feel (thanks thrance) - the legend of zelda: the wind waker. haven't played, bu
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well spotted! seems to be the case: https://x.com/vlucendo/status/1971219342231732516
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https://github.com/barddoo/zedis/blob/87321b04224b2e2e857b67... these seem to occur only in college assignment projects, and in the output of text generators trained on those.
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most of those games would have windows builds? that said, i sometimes think about a clean-room reimplementation of e.g. the unity3d runtime -- there are so many games that don't even use native code logic (which still could be supporte
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nice! alternatively, control volume with analogue keyboard keys: https://wooting.io/ https://www.razer.com/technology/razer-analog-optical-switch
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didn't really buy it for the advertised features, although networked tic-tac-toe works fine. :-)
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i absolutely love the form factor! a similar one was beamu (eink screen, nrf52 with bt): https://nicgardner.com/2020/05/09/beamu-first-impressions/ (this was an actual product, if a bit pointless. i have
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what made it magical was us being younger. likewise, it's very likely impossible to get that back.
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before the current ai craze, there was this: https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/petrovich.html > imagine a Petrovich layer over another operating system, such as Microsoft Windows (TM). Every time Windows does som
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i like how most of your demo video is clicking through various firefox and google popups.
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firefox continues to support mv2 alongside mv3 and has no plans to the contrary as far as i know.
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closer? https://x.com/tomstokes/status/1938626898915193272 https://jlcpcb.com/blog/jlcpcb-launches-transparent-fpc-see-...
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reminds me of proteus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus_(video_game) (i liked that it had some minimal interactivity/gameplay). any others like it?
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i've never looked closely at any of this, and it's been a long time since i looked at all. reading colorforth code and especially commentary ( https://github.com/Howerd/colorForth ) it seemed that it refines th
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this looks very impressive. forgive me a stupid question as a prolog outsider: is this actually using any logical prolog features, or mostly just the 'functional' subset of prolog? on a cursory look almost all annotated predicates
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highly related: https://webamp.org/ (many times dicussed on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=webamp.org )
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> slowly working on my own browser engine care to tell us more?
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like https://www.princexml.com/ ?
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the cambridge dictionary thesaurus has a similar organisation and i always thought it was a unique quirk (further promulgated by the mobile version calling it "smart thesaurus"). https://dictionary.cambridge.org/th
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i have no idea whether i'm using your patches -- thanks anyway! this has been my daily driver for years and i'm looking forward to future upgrades (there seems to be a meteor lake motherboard in the works).
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interestingly enough, when the 51nb guys set about recreating a classic thinkpad with newer innards -- i have an x2100 which is x200 with 10th gen intel motherboard -- they've chosen to replicate this aspect faithfully. brightness cont
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