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   by busfahrer 1y ago

   Do you need flex/bison for something like this, or is it small enough that you can take some shortcuts?
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   Literate Programming(en.wikipedia.org)

   8 points by busfahrer 1y ago|0 comments
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   by busfahrer 1y ago

   I believe there is also some connection between this and the Apple II. It shipped with "Applesoft BASIC", which was provided by Microsoft and was a dialect of MS Basic for the 6502, so I'm guessing that there has to be at lea
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   by busfahrer 1y ago

   This is what I do, it feels weird, but works perfectly and is the least effort solution
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   by busfahrer 1y ago

   Neat! I think I found a bug though? I'm in Southern Germany, and for some direction south of me it showed me Italy, which doesn't border Germany, I think edit: As a wild guess, it might have something to do with scanning resolutio
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   by busfahrer 1y ago

   Only tangentially related: In the Quake source code, they have strings to represent the intensity over time of a flickering light source: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/bf4ac424ce754894ac... &#
7. 67.▲
   by busfahrer 1y ago

   I love Gibson, but I can't get past more than a few pages of Rucker, and I have no idea why
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   by busfahrer 1y ago

   I have fond memories of 2fort. Desperately wanting to play TF1 on a 14.4K modem from Germany - no European servers meant playing with 500ms ping, which made aiming completely impossible, so I took the pacifist route each time by picking th
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   by busfahrer 1y ago

   Agreed. The only thing more technically challenging than Q3 was its aptly named Challenge ProMode (CPM) mod which added thing like full air control to make gameplay even faster. Watching demos of the best CPM players I had the feeling that
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    by busfahrer 1y ago

    > One day, on a plane with WiFi before paying, I noticed that DNS queries were still allowed and thought it would be nice to chat with an LLM over it. There used to be a service where DNS requests to FOO.that-service.org would return the
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    by busfahrer 1y ago

    > That is, any sufficiently mature indie game project will end up implementing an informally specified, ad hoc, bug-ridden implementation of Unity (... or just use the informally specified, ad hoc and bug-ridden game engine called "
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    Gyrobus: A Bus Powered by a Flywheel(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by busfahrer 2y ago|0 comments
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    by busfahrer 2y ago

    Reminds me of notcurses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4lmMADP1lA Mind you, this rendered entirely in a terminal. You can try it yourself on most systems by installing notcurses and then running `notcurses-demo`.
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    Blue–Green Distinction in Language(en.wikipedia.org)

    4 points by busfahrer 2y ago|0 comments
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    ZIL (Zork Implementation Language), a Lisp-Family Language(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by busfahrer 2y ago|0 comments
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    List of common 3D test models(en.wikipedia.org)

    4 points by busfahrer 2y ago|0 comments
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    I love Copetti’s architecture articles, especially the one on PS1, such an interesting early not-quite-3D architecture.
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    Depending on the environment I'm in I either use `npx serve` or `python3 -m http.server` (aka `python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer`)
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    I love classless CSS frameworks, but I think it's a pity that there are only so few that use serif fonts. I'm grateful for any links if anybody has some hints.
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    One tip for beginning Jazz listeners that I’ve heard is to go through each of the musicians that played on Kind of Blue and listen to their own albums respectively, then recurse
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    One thing that made my i3 experience complete is discovering the Vimium browser extension that allows you to completely control your browser using the keyboard shortcuts you already know. Fundamentally changed the way I use browsers. https
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    Speaking of URLs that do fancy stuff on the terminal, I once stumbled upon this one from textfiles.com, it's essentially a short animated movie on the terminal using VT100 terminal codes, all served from a URI. On modern systems you ca
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    This reminds me of this article[1] recently linked on HN, talking about how Intel had an analog chip for neural nets in the 90s, if I understood correctly [1] https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/john-c-dvorak-on-intels
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    > It's the kind of thing that even if you don't end up using, you come out with lessons that make you a better programmer. Sort of a modern front-end developer's version of reading SICP even if you're not going to end
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    Also, Romero recently released his memoir “Doom Guy”, has anybody here read it? Wondering if it’s any good.
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    Wholeheartedly agree, I did not know books like this even exist, and enjoyed both (Doom as well) of them thoroughly. Too bad he’s never going to write the Quake/i586 book.
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    One of my favourites is "The AWK Programming Language". Very concisely written, very natural to follow, and very insightful even if you do not care about AWK at all. https://awk.dev/
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    I still wish all of these would default to a synchronous mode of operation, maybe with something like an „unawait“ keyword for those cases where you really benefit from async behavior?
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    Automatic Novel Writing: A Status Report (1973)(minds.wisconsin.edu)

    1 points by busfahrer 3y ago|0 comments
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    by busfahrer 3y ago

    I literally started reading his short stories yesterday. Can you recommend some favorites? So far, I’ve read Terminal Beach and The Drowned Giant.