RedNifre

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by RedNifre 2y ago
Interesting. In the 90s in Germany I learned that for some letters you lift the pen, even though the result will look connected, e.g. "ac" would lift after the a, draw the c leftwards, touching the end of the a and then swing arou
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by RedNifre 2y ago
Doesn't it only pick C? Negative leap seconds make POSIX time skip a second.
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by RedNifre 2y ago
Weird article, in my experience it's the other way around and the article kinda explains why: Old people grew up with thumb based gaming consoles, e.g. the Game Boy, whereas people 20 years old or younger grew up with smart phones as t
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by RedNifre 2y ago
It's a typewriter thing and meant for writing tables, so tab has always advanced the cursor to the next "tabular" stop. What would be the use case of having them fixed width?
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by RedNifre 3y ago
How?
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by RedNifre 3y ago
The Sierra Adventures used vector graphics, so it's possible to render them in higher resolutions: https://youtu.be/sclZDCjUVvI?si=voV4oOiiFdbGzA75&t=294
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by RedNifre 3y ago
Sure you can, what is called "Proof of work" in the context of Bitcoin is actually "Proof of money lost" in the form of paid electricity. If you taxed mining at 90%, you would also reduce mining and thus electricity cons
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by RedNifre 3y ago
You click on one of the languages on a random post, then change the language in the URL to the one you like.
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by RedNifre 3y ago
It's a great language if you want to write a compiler for fun: You can add the different statements incrementally, so you quickly get to a point where you can compile your first program and then add more and more features to compile mo
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by RedNifre 3y ago
Isn't it more useful to think of code not as an asset but as a liability? As in, instead of code being "produced", you "spend" lines of code when you solve a problem, i.e. "Getting X amount of business value co
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by RedNifre 3y ago
No, it's not: Mode 7 can only zoom, translate and rotate the layer in 2D. For example, the Bowser fight in Super Mario World is a typical use of mode 7: Bowser moves around, sometimes rotates and between rounds flies around in "3D
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by RedNifre 3y ago
+0 = -0
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by RedNifre 3y ago
It's -5 because if you add 5 to it, you get 0: 11111011 + 00000101 -------- (1)00000000 Two's complement is just like those spinning number wheel counters, like the km counter in old cars: If you drove more tha
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by RedNifre 3y ago
The last line would be on a separate card, so it does not need to be reversible. I wonder if you could write this on one card like /**/ debug = 1; /*/ ;0 = gubed /**/
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by RedNifre 3y ago
Yes? Wasn't that the entire point of racism in the first place?
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by RedNifre 3y ago
Not in this case: They also changed the amount from "5.99" to "5.99 €", so the total number of bytes went up (3 bytes for the €).
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by RedNifre 3y ago
Will it help? On the one hand, I think it would be fantastic, if you had automated tests for the law. For example, when German politicians introduced the "hacker law", you could have pointed out that "This new law would break
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by RedNifre 3y ago
My bank is now y2.1k bug ready: In their CSV export, they changed the date format for the year back to 2 digits. It only takes 23 years to forget history.
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by RedNifre 3y ago
As an illustration, I wrote a Sokoban game in that style (no mutation, no side effects, partial application everywhere). See https://github.com/Michael-Zinn/fpsokobanjs/blob/master/game...
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by RedNifre 3y ago
Try edn: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/edn/
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by RedNifre 3y ago
What makes you think that search will last? They could easily sunset it as soon as the majority of users switch to some AI chat for getting answers.
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by RedNifre 3y ago
We can't see what you posted, because it does not ship to our location.
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by RedNifre 3y ago
Oh, interesting, thanks for correcting me! Why didn't the Game Boy check the logo that it loaded to display instead of loading it twice though?
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by RedNifre 3y ago
This reminds me of how the Game Boy displayed the Nintendo logo on boot up: The logo is a bitmap in the cartridge, the Game Boy displays it and only continues if the checksum matches the Nintendo logo. The point of this is that trademark sh
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by RedNifre 3y ago
Are there some well defined Unicode subsets, e.g. one without Emoji? (I'm only vaguely aware of XML specifying "Unicode without control characters" in the beginning).
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by RedNifre 3y ago
Or two bots, generating the same content.
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by RedNifre 3y ago
This would be interesting as a one-off thing, like reddit's "The Button". Having it say "The sky has fallen 989 times." makes it a bit meaningless.
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by RedNifre 3y ago
Maybe Idris or Blodwen. Idris can at least define a printf function where the string must contain the right template, i.e. printf("number %i text %s", 5, "hey") compiles, but printf("number %s text %s", 5, &quo
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by RedNifre 3y ago
The endgame is that we will be spending 99% of our time restarting IDEs and clearing caches to get rid of nonsensical errors, but since we will be 1000x as productive in the remaining 1%, it will still be worth it economically.
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by RedNifre 3y ago
I don't see this as a good way to get the point across. I perceived it like this: 1. This is a game, here are the rules, remember, it's not about intent, as in "should this vehicle be allowed?", it's strictly about

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