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by busfahrer 3y ago
Low-effort and high-tech, to paraphrase Gibson‘s M.O.
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by busfahrer 3y ago
That's an interesting thought, whereas previously technology wrapped computer protocols (I send hello in chat and the computer will wrap and unwrap it in TCP for me), in your example we have the AI wrapping the message in social pr
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by busfahrer 3y ago
Interesting, what are your laptop specs? I imagine the 33B Q8 to need a bit of memory - are you sharing VRAM and RAM?
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by busfahrer 3y ago
This reminds me of a blog post a while advocating less state, as a demo they implement the infamous DVD screensaver completely stateless.
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by busfahrer 3y ago
Also, it sort of models yin-yang both in what the game is simulating as well as what is presented visually
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Stoned Ape Theory(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by busfahrer 3y ago|0 comments
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by busfahrer 3y ago
Fascinating, this lead me to this list (or should I say rabbit hole?): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_inventions
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by busfahrer 3y ago
I don't often use a file manager, but when I do, I use ranger. It's mostly for use cases like "delete everything in this directory but these 3 files" and navigating deep directory structures with many files. However, rec
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by busfahrer 3y ago
The first thing I remember reading that could be described as a blog would be John Carmack's .plan file that he frequently updated with his progress on Quake development. This could be retrieved using a dedicated "finger" pro
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A Star Trek Episode in VT100 Codes (1985)(textfiles.com)
3 points by busfahrer 3y ago|1 comments
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by busfahrer 3y ago
How to use: curl --limit-rate 1000 http://textfiles.com/sf/STARTREK/trek.vt && reset I just stumbled on this, it's a short terminal Star Trek episode in VT100 terminal codes. I'm aware of the St
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by busfahrer 3y ago
I had several experiences similar to what you describe. One of my favourites was a TV show we stumbled across while visiting Japan. It was sort of a game show, where three blindfolded contestants had to sit on a bench that had been taken fr
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Show HN: C port of the (non-super) Star Trek game, incl. WASM for browser/phone(busfahrer.github.io)
5 points by busfahrer 3y ago|0 comments
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by busfahrer 3y ago
Despite the unappealing name, I've found brown noise the best noise to study with. Also, didn't expect to see number stations pop up in there, nice surprise.
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The Night Before Doom: A Poem from the Past (1993)(gamers.org)
15 points by busfahrer 3y ago|1 comments
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by busfahrer 3y ago
Don’t forget Crystal Caves, my favorite of that era
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by busfahrer 3y ago
Had the same experience with the StarCraft Remaster
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by busfahrer 3y ago
Can someone please elaborate on how this differs from Firebird, which also seems to be a lightweight VM that can spin up very fast
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by busfahrer 3y ago
FWIW, it might be worth mentioning in this context that iTerm 2 also has its own protocol for displaying pixels, so you can cat images in the terminal using an "imgcat" script that they offer for download: https://iterm
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by busfahrer 3y ago
This essentially comes down to the commutative property of pointer arithmetic. This was also used in David Korn‘s (creator of the Korn shell) 1987 IOCCC entry: https://www.ioccc.org/1987/korn/korn.c
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by busfahrer 4y ago
I use "just" for this purpose, and I'm very happy with it: https://github.com/casey/just
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Fresnel Zone(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by busfahrer 4y ago|0 comments
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by busfahrer 4y ago
3D engines on these limited systems fascinate me. There was also the game "X" running on the original gameboy which had a simple wiremesh 3D engine, akin to BattleZone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(1992_vi
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The Mystery of 355/113(davidbau.com)
3 points by busfahrer 4y ago|0 comments
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Pagan Occult Distribution System Network(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by busfahrer 4y ago|0 comments
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Album era(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by busfahrer 5y ago|3 comments
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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by busfahrer 5y ago|0 comments
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Canada-United States international border vista(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by busfahrer 5y ago|0 comments
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Portland International Airport Carpet(en.wikipedia.org)
13 points by busfahrer 5y ago|1 comments
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by busfahrer 5y ago
I remember there was some controversy around Starbound's Early Access status when it was first released, haven't heard of it since - I'm assuming that it has turned out fine based on your recommendation?

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