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by 5- 1y ago
most likely this very unfortunate misnomer started with fortran, where it was deemed lucrative to point out "how much programs look like mathematic formulas!". not only is this overloading a symbol (equality) with a completely di
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by 5- 1y ago
when i was forced (thankfully, briefly) to use outlook (web version), one of the big surprises was that rsvp'ing on the invite deleted the message. several times i came looking for that invite and felt gaslighted not to have it in my i
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by 5- 1y ago
plenty of mobile-only banks here in (former?) europe. losing access to a bank account might be as critical as to an insurance one.
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by 5- 1y ago
i suspect it's a matter of how you sell the idea of this service to the governments. i agree that the usual overreach will stand in the way, but i feel (perhaps wrongly) that the idea hasn't been pitched in earnest.
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by 5- 1y ago
why wouldn't an identity/age verification scheme that blinds both sides work? e.g. a site wants to have some proof of identity. it generates a token and sends the user with it to a government service. the service verifies the user
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by 5- 2y ago
having your own domain is worth it for email portability. no matter who is hosting your email (megacorp, a hn darling, your hosting provider, yourself) you get to keep your email addresses. this also means one of the primary means of authen
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by 5- 2y ago
an rts-lite has been likely the most commercially successful implementation of this concept (later open-sourced): https://colobot.info/
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by 5- 2y ago
> game stops completely as you level up, you get to think and choose an upgrade in peace, and then the frenetic action starts again probably the classic example of this particular gameplay mechanic is crimsonland (2003, 2014), on which m
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by 5- 2y ago
http://www.underhanded-c.org/ is a c programming contest specifically dealing with programs that hide behaviour 'in plain sight'. the winners are very much worth a look.
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by 5- 2y ago
gloomwood, while not released yet, looks like a potentially worthy successor.
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by 5- 2y ago
it'd be interesting to see a comparison of these -- the building blocks are (mostly) the same, but the interfaces differ in interesting ways: - nsjail - firejail - bubblewrap - runc etc.
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by 5- 2y ago
> Zig came up with a way around this: compile directly to LLVM bitcode (LLVM has strong backwards-compatibility on its bitcode but not on its public-facing API) and then upgrades become trivial because we can keep our existing code gene
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by 5- 2y ago
you probably meant to link https://blog.beeper.com/2024/04/09/beeper-is-joining-automat... between this new/old enterprise of yours and the other stuff going on with automattic i am worried about beeper.
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by 5- 2y ago
> If you ship a project and your management chain begins talking about the next thing, stop improving that project. and this type of advice is precisely why the whole industry completely lost its ability to produce usable things.
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by 5- 2y ago
i'm not sure why you are being downvoted -- i can see angle as just a platform compatibility layer (in the same category as qt, which ladybird also uses), but skia (vector graphics) is definitely an important part of a rendering engine
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by 5- 2y ago
why not zipit z2 (if you can find it)? i remember the keyboard not being great but it was completely usable. around the same time there was also ben nanonote, but the z2 is probably preferable to it. not a lot of clamshells since then (and
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by 5- 2y ago
note that you can also add breakpoints directly to your code, in the same way as printf, no ide needed. sadly there is no standard way to do this (c++ is reportedly getting one in '26: https://en.cppreference.com/w&#x2F
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by 5- 2y ago
great work! as others have mentioned, it's surprising this isn't an actual doom wad. the choice of objects is also surprising to me: these are masterpieces from the met, rather than the 'contemporary art' slop i would as
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by 5- 2y ago
mentioned the other day (as the road not taken) in One Dog vs. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42594024 (92 comments)
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by 5- 2y ago
somewhat related: https://www.standard-time.com/ discussed on hn in the past, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913719 (referencing this project, too)
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by 5- 2y ago
yes, this one conforms to 'whatever linux agrees to exec(2)', which apparently is a lot that is out of spec.
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by 5- 2y ago
here's an 80 byte x86_64 linux 'hello world' (okay, not 'Hello world!'). convert to binary with xxd -r -p: 7f454c46488d3537000000ffc7b20eeb03003e00 b001eb1a01000000050000001800000000000000 1800000005000000b0
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by 5- 2y ago
to point out what you probably intended, this is appropriately an english version of an early twentieth century russian song. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Were_the_Days_%28song%29
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by 5- 2y ago
just to clarify, you can still buy fomu: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu
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by 5- 2y ago
also coming from linux + some bare-metal experience, esp-idf was absolutely horrifying. fortunately it turned out that the s3 hardware (i've got a cardputer) isn't that crazy, and it is relatively easy, if almost completely untrod
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by 5- 2y ago
that's a tough one! i'm a native russian speaker (though i have been living in an english-speaking country for a while), yet it took me a few moments, and i compulsively consulted wiktionary to check myself: "five fireplace-p
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by 5- 2y ago
that's already available in binaryninja out of the box, via the (seemingly undocumented) 'plugins' -> 'export as dwarf' menu item.
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by 5- 2y ago
this gets discussed, or at least mentioned, often on hn, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28651093 (this very faq) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40773880 (jart's commit) https:/&#
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by 5- 2y ago
> stories of some of those couples this one, about two people having met online, was written in 1879 (not a typo): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24353
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by 5- 2y ago
https://www.mayhewnews.co.uk/ in belgravia at least used to stock the last issue or two. in fact it's where i've learned of lq!

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