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by Rendello 6y ago
And like Amtrak, it's a hollow husk of what it once was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1G0Lyh3uik
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by Rendello 6y ago
Thanks! I've got the canonical stuff down pat already in my project, but I am still allocating the tree to get the bit-lengths in the first place. Once I have the package-merge algorithm up and running, the code will never allocate a t
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by Rendello 6y ago
It's generally used on bytes, but as others have said, it can be any symbol. Even on complete words! https://www.nayuki.io/page/huffman-coding-english-words
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I'm glad the resources on the basic trees exist, since that's what got me interested. But I would love to see more resources on canonical Huffman and especially the package-merge algorithm! The former was confusing at first but mi
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by Rendello 6y ago
My current project is a Huffman coder built in Zig, it's been a lot of fun to build. The Huffman tree generation is simple, but there's a lot of different nuances and variations to account for. For example, a "canonical Huffm
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by Rendello 6y ago
When I was primarily developing in Python I hated using languages with braces, and especially Lua with is then...end blocks, but I think I've come around now. I appreciate the ability to format things on the next line without worry abo
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by Rendello 6y ago
He also taught Tom to play The Royal Game of Ur [1], a Middle-Eastern precursor to Backgammon that was the Chess of that era in terms of popularity. Irving was the one to decipher the rules from a cuneiform tablet. 1. https://you
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It's interesting that I saw this post minutes after watching the talk "What's a Memory Allocator Anyway?" by Benjamin Feng. It's ostensibly about Zig's allocation schemes, but it's more of a general overvi
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Some of the coolest programs I've seen are PICO-8 "tweet carts" [1], where a graphical demo is squeezed into 280 chars (previously 140) and tweeted as GIFs along with their code. It's amazing what people can do As a side
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by Rendello 6y ago
When I was looking to fill my bookshelf with technical books last month, I stumbled upon https://hackernewsbooks.com , it helped me find a lot of good programming literature. The websites and Twitter feeds seem similar (and both
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by Rendello 6y ago
That makes sense, I'd only seen the term in reference to similar games before, I guess I'm not the only one online that was mistaken!
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by Rendello 6y ago
One of my favourite games of all time is called Knossu and is also non-Euclidian (edit: this is wrong, see comment below), although it takes a very different approach to confusing the player. The author, Jonathan Whiting, is probably best k
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> The project arose when the Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno was due to reopen in 1979 after decades of closure. Its director commissioned a photographic project from Bennett, with the intention of capturing the atmosphere of North Wales coa
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by Rendello 6y ago
My adblocker blocked the "after" photos for me
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uBlock origin blocks all of the "after" picures but none of the before ones, I was confused for a good two minutes!
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I love seeing interest in the OS! > I've never understood how much criticism the creator of TempleOS got. Terry Davis was very mentally ill, much moreso than I think some people realize. His schizophrenia made him think that he was
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Two entries stood out to me. The first is the book "UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernigan", and the second the blog post "A Constructive Look at TempleOS". That blog post [1] along with "A Language Design A
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by Rendello 6y ago
Do you have any thoughts on Zig? It's nowhere near stable yet, but it seems like the a promising C replacement, in terms of maintaining simplicity, strict memory control, etc. (speaking as someone who's only worked a few months in
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by Rendello 6y ago
I started using the old-fashioned analogue rice cooker after watching Technology Connection's video on how they work. The principle is clever: liquids at boiling point stay at boiling point, since any additional heat energy is used to
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Retrocomputing(blog.information-superhighway.net)
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