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by akavel 5y ago
Maybe I didn't express it clearly enough, but I don't think I'd call it a disappointment, more like emotional trauma of losing this character.
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by akavel 5y ago
Curiously, I'm perfectly fine with roguelikes since long ago, but I can't muster emotional energy to get back to XCOM: Enemy Unknown (the modern one) since one of my characters on a team died there (I still vaguely remember the
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by akavel 6y ago
I actually just stumbled upon an article where someone went through HCL and finally landed at Lua: http://dnaeon.github.io/choosing-lua-as-the-ddl-and-config-l...
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by akavel 6y ago
Or, to avoid sooner or later falling into Greenspun's Tenth Rule, just go immediately to Lua, which actually evolved out of a configuration language ( https://www.lua.org/history.html ), so it has syntax & features t
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by akavel 6y ago
This seems to align with what the article says in: "[...] it is estimated that the Germanic element makes up some 70 to 75% of the overall lexicon [...]" and: "[...] note that early Yiddish developed from Middle High Germa
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by akavel 6y ago
But why do you claim the article "leaves out" German grammar, if the mention of it is clearly there, as an explicitly called out base, in the very first sentences of the article? "With its German grammatical structure and th
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by akavel 6y ago
Did you try contacting their support team?
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by akavel 6y ago
"[...] What the cells did first was unremarkable: They gathered into a ball, composed of dozens of cells or a few hundred. That kind of behavior was already well known and reflects the tendency of skin cells to make their surface area
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by akavel 6y ago
'twas me ;P and the timing coincidence was suspicious indeed xD
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by akavel 6y ago
Not much, really. Yet somehow those little things add up to something... faster :) Basically "just": - not having to append `| head -n $ROWS` or something similar on every command (yet having the view as-if-you-typed-it, but at th
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by akavel 6y ago
Hi ducktective, thanks for submitting again! :) It was a pleasant surprise seeing it here today, on my regular HN addiction^H^H^H daily read :) I completely didn't connect the dots that it's ok to repost periodically to share the
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by akavel 6y ago
I didn't manage to grasp it from quickly skimming the video and the gifs: is it possible to retry a command in piper until I find the right combination of flags, and only then press `|` to push it to the buffer? Ideally, keeping the in
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by akavel 6y ago
One of the reasons for not doing this is that I decided I don't want to lure the users into a false sense of security. A comment by hnlmorg basically sums this up better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by akavel 6y ago
Please note that up respects $SHELL, so if you find a way to set $SHELL to point to maybe (possibly wrapped in some helper script) in a useful manner, it might actually work! I'd highly appreciate an issue with a report/guide
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by akavel 6y ago
Don't worry, when I published up I also learned about a previous similar project from commenters ;) probably wouldn't start if I knew earlier ;) fortunately I didn't know :D just in case if you still have some mojo left, u
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by akavel 6y ago
A variation on userland is the next project I'm trying to work on, though there are... distractions. In a random case that some benevolent millionaire wants to sponsor me to work full time on things like that, I'm certainly open t
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by akavel 6y ago
You might like to also check out https://github.com/akavel/up when in need for some more complex filtering with live preview
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by akavel 6y ago
Nope, didn't; someone added it there, I just accepted the info into the readme.
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by akavel 6y ago
Hm; and yes, and no... in my case at least, I personally remember having more of those others - and for which I'm super grateful, they mean A LOT to me - i.e. the likes of, literally: - The unforgeable "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL
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by akavel 6y ago
Self-learning wing-foiling (when you're on the lake, being 6 feet from someone means dangerously close to a collision, so "social distancing" is natural...), kinda as an excuse to spend some time outside, move, generate endor
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by akavel 6y ago
I believe phys.org is particularly sensationalist and untrustworthy in this regard, to the extent that I decided to stop wasting my time and avoid clicking on any phys.org link on HN. In fact, I often wonder why it wasn't banned from h
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by akavel 6y ago
I heard that squeezing "possibly related to climate change" somewhere in academic work increases chances of getting grant money nowadays, could it be it's the only reason why this phrase is there in this case?
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by akavel 6y ago
I still distinctly remember the moment of shock with the minimalism of their homepage at the time; compared to AltaVista jam-packed with ads and other stuff to the brim, seeing just the logo and the editbox on a plain white page made me sta
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by akavel 6y ago
The "simplicity of the Bomb" phrase reminded me of the story of the Demon Core: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core For me, it shows how hard it is to internalize dangers of a technology one is working w
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by akavel 6y ago
No problem, I just assumed some kind of misunderstanding and tried to explain my thoughts in different words :) I'm afraid I don't have especially great ideas for that, nor am I a sysadmin. In fact, I was hoping to see some exampl
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by akavel 6y ago
In the installation guides, please mention at least in passing that it needs Erlang to be installed as a prerequisite. Being a casual reader, I wasn't sure about that until I found https://caramel.run/manual/gettin
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by akavel 6y ago
> it didn't even show up in normal testing, exactly because swapfiles just aren't normal. Uhh, does it mean swapfiles are undertested in the Linux kernel? Or is there some "non-normal" extra testing that is being r
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by akavel 6y ago
You may have gotten this in reverse direction: it's rather that users of open-source software often desire support, and sometimes speak about it, and developers then tend to have hard time managing psychological boundaries with regards
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by akavel 6y ago
I don't see any markdown in the script at the top, it looks like a normal bash script. It doesn't look in any way as "literate programming" as commonly understood since originally introduced. I'm in utterly confused
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by akavel 6y ago
Please show a "hello world" script in your readme demonstrating the core feature of your tool. I skimmed the whole big readme and couldn't find any example of an actual literate script. Nor could I find any "examples&quo

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