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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I prefer not being on social media, it's amazing. Where to jump back in honestly depends on your target audience. For niche tech stuff, HN seems to be fine. I can't recommend reddit. I got an account a few months ago, and nearly e
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Ask HN: Weirdest programs you ever made?
9 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|27 comments
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Indiana Pi Bill(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|0 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
We would only need a committee's approval if changing it would break things. I say we skip that process, test it in a lab somewhere in rural midwest where nobody lives, and see if gravity starts changing or whatever. As long as cows do
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
They already weighted in on the definition of π so why not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> If there's a way to extract moisture from the air with less energy and less noise, that would be huge. I vote we write to our legislators to update the laws of thermodynamics to enable this. Typically I would agree we should leave
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I never knew WebGL or OpenGL, my first experience was learning WebGPU, because I planned to use it for the drawing of 90s.dev which is meant to be future-first. But WebGPU is just not there yet. And from what I read about it, it looks like
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I still don't really understand them. The last time I used them was for a client probably in 2016 or 2018, and I forgot everything I learned about them. But they have an RFC so that's pretty cool.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> It’s often said that one sign of a standard having succeeded is that it’s used for things that the inventors never imagined. It's certainly a sign of something's utility and versatility, for sure. Congrats.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I agree. I actually named my submission "Finally releasing 90s.dev" but the HN mods changed it to the current "Show HN: ..." title. They based it on the second section of my blog, which I changed to "New game making
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Wow, this is an incredibly full featured Win10-like OS using plain HTML, with apps like Quake3 and Tic80 built in. Besides having something you can continuously work on, what's the current concrete end goal for it for users?
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Looks like a good zig argparse lib. How do you like Zig compared to TypeScript? What would you like to see improved?
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
These points summarize the principles behind 90s.dev which I've been following for years and still stand by. Especially this: don't be afraid to try to innovate, to get a new answer to an old question, to start over from first pri
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Maybe I'm just old and tired, but this pun is exactly like what you'd find in a movie review, which is literally the worst type of literature for that exact reason, and should be banned worldwide.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
The one thing I miss about dired-x is being able to edit multiple filenames simultaneously in the same way you do edit a file using multiple cursors, and commit the changes all at once. Can someone make that work in Windows Explorer or VS C
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
You're mixing up ideas. Microsoft isn't "sincere" because it's just a business doing what businesses do, making money. They're not trying to be altruistic or principled. They're just doing business. But I
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Also, given that they recently bought github, they have financial incentive to keep people there, who might upgrade to pro accounts or grow to need enterprise.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Microsoft seems to be going all in on open source over the past 10-15 years. From a consumer perspective, we're almost all benefiting. From a business perspective, they get unpaid help and community brownie points.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
The semantics are very different. It's much closer to a mathematical proof than a C program with different syntax, in terms of its lazy evaluation.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I honestly just skimmed the code and assumed it probably does what I would guess it does. It seemed to make sense and be straightforward... assuming my guesses were right, I guess?
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
For one thing, it's hard to know what to spend it on. What should take priority? Obviously your own basic needs, for starters. And then of course the needs of your immediate dependents. But then what? Do you try to increase your qualit
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Neat. With ~3 more lines of code, you could get a URL and render it in simpler HTML and be a full fledged replacement.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Firefox introducing tabs instantly made it more usable than IE. Then Chrome came out, and was always two steps ahead of Firefox. A month ago or so I added Firefox support for 90s.dev but for some reason they still don't support ES modu
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
That's a new error, and it's because I changed some internals[1]. For now, you'll have to open the link[2] in a new tab and do the steps there. [1] For about a week (and at the time of posting) the app was on 90s.dev/os&
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Gccx transforms CPX (JSX like syntax) into asm-DOM Virtual DOM (C++)(github.com)
2 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|0 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I tried jsdoc for so many years before just giving up and going full TypeScript. But you're right, the TS layer would be static, and you would compile to JS and just use that... I guess. Until the types-proposal is inevitably implement
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I think so, but that was the 90s where we needed a lot more hindsight to get it right. Plus that was mostly just Sun, right? WASM is backed by all browsers and it looks like MS might be looking at bridging it with its own kernel or somethin
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
QuickJS came out a few years ago, and it was really exciting at the time, being a Lua-style embeddable JS in contrast to V8 which is a beast but very fast and much more comparable to LuaJIT. Which basically meant you could stop using Lua
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
It seems to me like all languages are converging towards something like WASM. I wonder if in 20 years we will see WASM become the de facto platform that all apps can compile to and all operating systems can run near-natively with only a thi
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JSLN: Meeting JSON Halfway(90s.dev)
2 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|1 comments

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