Thoreandan

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by Thoreandan 9d ago
Huh, small world, I'm the one who submitted that to Slashdot.
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by Thoreandan 4mo ago
Close, it's MinGW/msys - different pathname semantics and under-the-hood approaches.
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by Thoreandan 5mo ago
TIL that Knuth made a Literate Programming port of Adventure in 2002.
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by Thoreandan 6mo ago
This reminds me of the 9/11-era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Analysis_Market ...which was shut down in 2003 "after multiple US senators condemned it as an assassination and terrorism market".
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by Thoreandan 7mo ago
Considering the amount of random hate he’s conjuring up from green HN usernames, he must be doing something right that’s upsetting to some community or another. :-D
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by Thoreandan 7mo ago
Similar technique was used in Daisy Dot II https://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n3/daisydot2.php
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by Thoreandan 8mo ago
Reminds me of an excellent paper I just read by a former Google DeepMind Ethics Research Team member https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/114/1/4 - Reinecke, Madeline G., et al. "The double-edged sword of anth
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by Thoreandan 8mo ago
Does your source .pdf material have FlateDecode'd chunks or did you fully uncompress it?
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by Thoreandan 11mo ago
Harry says: What are you waiting for?
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by Thoreandan 11mo ago
Checking in - it's not possible to disable from the app anymore, is it? The preference setting is still there, but ignored, afaict.
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
Today I learned: The creator of Chose Your Own Adventure is currently 94 and has a website at https://edwardpackard.com/ Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Packard_(writer)
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
Huh. Posting a screenshot of the tweet just got my FB account suspended.
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
Bonus: They leak! https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-04-et-quick...
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
Viewing it under Chrome, as soon as the scrollbar reached a certain point, it started progressively zoom-increasing the text size. Weird bug.
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
I'm waiting for BoringX or OpenX or, well, any other fork. Search for 'xorg drama'.
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
Mentioning the licensing up front would be nice.
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
Feels. Not gonna blow condescending garbage your way. Your feeling is not unique but not in the majority, and it’s exhausting to hear the ‘have’ ppl with no actual ability to relate jabber on. Hope you can find bits of joy where you can mak
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
It's right there in the URL, along with #ZDGAF
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
That's a fun coincidence, I just learned about Myrtle last Friday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T-8E-dEbwc
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
I'd always wanted to see a physical copy of the $5,000.00 'Deluxe Distribution' - https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/16/gnu_bulletin_23.... > The FSF Deluxe Distribution contains
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
It'd be a privilege to be able to disconnect from the feeds, but trying to rebuild in-person social interactions when you're old and have no family or local friends really sucks. Facebook's become: * Who died this week * Spa
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
I guess B1FF@BITNET posts are gonna come from an LLM now. Context: https://web.archive.org/web/20030830105202/http://www.catb.o...
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
I registered my copy. I also remember that in the Help->About, if you clicked Khaled Mardam-Bey's nose it would squeak.
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by Thoreandan 1y ago
Game Developers Conference Classic Gaming Postmortem: Zork (2014) "Dave Lebling, co-author of Zork and co-founder of Infocom, gives a postmortem talk on the classic text adventure. Lebling, who currently works as a senior principal
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DeepSeek-V3-0324 released, 641GB, MIT licensed, >20tok/SEC on $<10k hardware(web.archive.org)
15 points by Thoreandan 2y ago|4 comments
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Seconded - https://bsky.app/profile/scalzi.com is one of the more interesting feeds on the site.
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
I was reminded of Mel as well! If you haven't seen it, Usagi Electric on YouTube has gotten a drum-memory system from the 1950s nearly fully-functional again.
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Fun fact: If a student in my state is handed a diploma, they've effectively been kicked out of the educational system and aren't eligible for remedial assistance. Context: Tried helping someone not dissimilar to the person in the
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
I'd consider the tools in the iPhone's Photos app to be amongst the most "core" features - yet there've been glitches in it for the past year where if you annotate a picture (say, by adding text), the position of ev
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by Thoreandan 2y ago
Context: This is remembering his daughter, Rebecca. (2008-2014) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_A._Meyer#:~:text=In%20201...

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