JNRowe

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by JNRowe 3y ago
There was a really awful and amazing floating point implementation posted here¹ a couple of years ago, with a few interesting comments too². I remember it in part because I was surprised there wasn't more discussion. ¹ https:/&#
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Unless I'm misreading your comment, zsh does provide similar functionality via zsh/mapfile¹. It, and a lot of other cool stuff, is documented in zshmodules(1). ¹ https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Zs
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Numeric Pangrams(kryogenix.org)
1 points by JNRowe 3y ago|0 comments
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Origami Document Folder(blog.trueelena.org)
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The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace(blog.plover.com)
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Some time back I sent a "thank you for moderating" note, and about a minute after I hit send it dawned on me that the hn@ inbox was probably also collecting a few "I'm being silenced" mails at around the same time.
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by JNRowe 3y ago
There was an extension¹ posted a few years ago² which implements blocking on the client side. The possible issue is there may be some users who you wish to block in the general case that do add value in other threads, so you would have t
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Prince of Persia is back in 2D – but this time he needs rescuing(theguardian.com)
2 points by JNRowe 3y ago|0 comments
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by JNRowe 3y ago
There are far more public extensions than I realised¹, many of which look really interesting… and some of which I've made crappy versions of myself. ¹ https://sqlpkg.org/all/
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SQLite Package Manager(github.com)
3 points by JNRowe 3y ago|1 comments
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Like always, it depends. The hardware section on the wiki lists some device specifics¹, and if you follow the OnDebian² links there are a couple that look like they might work-ish out of the box. Presumably -- or perhaps hopefully -- thin
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by JNRowe 3y ago
There was an interesting use case for the early zero language code. It allowed the checksum to remain intact when switching from early SBN to I SBN, all you had to do was prefix with zero. It isn't quite so simple today, if you find
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Not OP, but the one that sticks in my mind¹ with comments². Although, I also could've sworn I commented on it :/ ¹ https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/04/29/ ² https://news.ycombinato
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by JNRowe 3y ago
f1metrics¹, which is sadly no longer updated, contains an awful lot of historical analysis on F1 team and driver ranking, often peppered with rabbit hole footnotes. If you also get your thrills from excessive gnuplot output, it is worth a
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Related: 2bit Astrophotography with the Game Boy Camera¹, which features a few surprisingly large accompanying photos. ¹ https://pietrow.net/astrogb.html
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by JNRowe 3y ago
I think if I was going to attempt to push cricket to a new audience I'd take The Hundred¹. Simpler to explain, predictable timings for media, added entertainment sparkle as part of the design format. As a light cricket fan², I take th
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Every time I see this I'm hoping that it has taken off, because it feels like such an obvious improvement. Instead of that we have some support for it in FreeBSD, and a homegrown solution in some packages like util-linux. Yeah, there
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Perhaps it was this¹ impressively huge archive? The main index² on that site is such a masterpiece, I'm unsure whether it is art or satire or satirical art. Regardless, pure genius for my overloaded from all the movement eyes. ¹ http
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txt2regex is a regular expression wizard for the command line(aurelio.net)
3 points by JNRowe 3y ago|0 comments
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Discussed recently, with lots of comments¹. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643278
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Loads of commentary on the original source from a day or so ago¹. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36659859
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Discussed recently, with lots of comments¹. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643278
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by JNRowe 3y ago
That is not what "Show HN" is for¹, but the idea of a curated collection of "On This Day" event reports from the wayback machine sounds like a nice idea to me now ;) ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.
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by JNRowe 3y ago
There is no backref, but the Magic Smoke¹ article to this one. I've always quite liked both topics as seemingly reasonable explanations for observed behaviour, there is something both quaint and fun about them from a modern eye. I saw
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Sandboxing Phone Apps(etbe.coker.com.au)
2 points by JNRowe 3y ago|0 comments
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Discussed over the past couple of days¹. And even with the less inflammatory title from LWN, it went… er, well. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36630032
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Sadly, that doesn't look like it will work. The '.backup' command needs a filename and won't accept '-' or even '/dev/stdout', at least in the version available on Debian it will simply err
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by JNRowe 3y ago
That is great. I could see a lot it was in the wayback machine, but I have no idea what the pipeline for that is. Poking around from your link was informative, thanks!
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by JNRowe 3y ago
I sincerely applaud everything ending up on IA. However, if you're searching for specific instructions brickinstructions is excellent as it is far more navigable. For a random example see Starguider¹. I wonder if someone has alrea
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by JNRowe 3y ago
The '.backup' command also carries across the metadata too, so you don't lose things like 'application_id'¹. I mention this as I once wasted a bunch of time trying to get a backup created from a '.dump | sqlite

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