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   by akkartik 4y ago

   When was this? And which community? I haven't noticed this either in the Discord or https://love2d.org/forums . Then again I haven't spent a whole lot of time in either, I'm mostly just building my own stuff.
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   Coming from a similar use case, I'm all in on LÖVE ( https://love2d.org ) You can see some of the things I built with it at http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   Is the catenary example just a case of really fast computation? Using the substrate computer directly is faster than using an emulated computer atop it. A real scene renders faster than any raytracer. I'm sympathetic to the idea that w
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   I don't really think of any Vernor Vinge as hard scifi that's got a core "theme" that everything has to connect to. It's rather space opera with fairly deep world building. Every chapter has certain "episodic&q
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   Yeah, Blindsight is great in many ways but the aliens aren't really the centerpiece. Once they get too alien you just get noise. As it happens, I recently inventoried my favorite aliens and eliminated the ones that were too humanized a
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   Merry Christmas to you too.
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   Yes, though I don't remember any of it 15+ years later. Do you have a (spoiler-free) reason to reread it? :)
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   "The new Power had no weapons on the ground, nothing but a comm laser. That could not even melt steel at the frigate’s range. No matter, the laser was aimed, tuned civilly on the retreating warship’s receiver. No acknowledgment. The h
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   You're replying to a comment that starts, "Linux on the desktop may never come.." so I think you aren't quite responding to it.
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    What app were you using to format the flash drive?
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    Is there a link to learn more about this project? It seems different from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(programming_language)
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    This seems like a fun scene. Is there like an "awesome" list of BBSs somewhere? Edit : Ooh, https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I've always wanted to follow HN users. 10+ years ago I built multiple iterations of a solution ( http://akkartik.name/hackerstream , http://akkartik.name/post/hackerstream ), all now defunct because
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    Overlapping markup(en.wikipedia.org)

    92 points by akkartik 4y ago|47 comments
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    Sure. You're not disagreeing. People want control and people want safety without having to think about it all the time. I think we haven't found the best technical solution to this tension, and we're stuck on a local optimum
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    Normal people bristle at restrictions they run into -- but also apps that take advantage of the freedoms granted them. The early value of browsers and AJAX was precisely that the browser was locked down. "Nothing to install" is va
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    This recent project has a C compiler: https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos https://lists.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos-discuss/%3C69cfdb97-49d6...
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    After many years I recently have a way to follow people on HN once again ( https://www.hnfollow.com ). Since I started following you, I've favorited a couple in particular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    You are already so prolific outside HN, have you considered collecting your HN comments in your own space? Once I started doing this I found HN comments would grow off HN. Now there are a few subjects where I can just point people at a link
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    Last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29749061
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I saw the popup and literally kept scrolling. Because it appeared perfectly centered on the amazon screenshot and I thought it was part of the screenshot. And as I scrolled more stuff got added to the screenshot. It's a Poe's law
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    Discontinuation of mailing lists and moving to Discourse(mail.gnome.org)

    3 points by akkartik 4y ago|0 comments
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    Thank you, wonderful comment. Favorited.
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    This really speaks to me. Modern software is too hard to assemble from source. If you're shipping sources, every moving part you add increases the odds of something going wrong on other people's computers. It's worth having s
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    "More-than-Moore has created a compelling case for the implementation-analyses microcosm to transcend across the fabrics of system design, from silicon to package, and even beyond, and more so in the systems companies that are at the
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    Looking around, I got the impression they're double rather than single quotes.
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    Turns Out Sometimes the Government Can Get Things Right(nytimes.com)

    1 points by akkartik 4y ago|2 comments
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    Thank you! Now that you mention it, I tend to pause and rewind a lot. But I likely do miss connections that are more than a few minutes apart.
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    Can you elaborate on why some comments won't be made if people watched the video rather than read the transcript? I certainly agree with your second point that some people prefer reading transcripts to watching videos. I used to be one
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I'm sorry to hear it :/ I've been trying harder to provide alt texts in images, for what that's worth..