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by cyco130 4y ago
And the rules are: - Use Latin for 1-10 - Use Latin 10n, 10n+1 and 10n+2 - Use Greek for the units + Latin for the tens for 10n+3..10n+9 The Greek-Latin mixup was probably caused by whoever invented the word hexadecimal (16). The older &quo
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by cyco130 4y ago
That's because base 12 (dozens) and base 60 (minutes) are commonly used across cultures. So is 20 (vigesimal). Base 11 is called undecimal[1] and Wikipedia has a comprehensive list[2]. It doesn't list 59 but it would be enneaquinq
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by cyco130 4y ago
Haha, I meant "anti-piracy". Freudian slip.
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by cyco130 4y ago
I've known more than one music studio owner in the past who used a cracked Cubase despite owning a legal license because their anti-privacy dongles created lots of compatibility problems. The pirated copy simply worked better.
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Show HN: Sfotty Pie, a 6502 emulator in TypeScript(sfotty.cyco130.com)
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by cyco130 4y ago
I got lucky there. A friend and his friend had a small startup and they needed a Chrome extension which they didn't have the time to make. I offered my services and they liked the job I did and offered me a fulltime job. I refused init
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by cyco130 4y ago
I'm 43 and I took my first fulltime gig 6 years ago. I was working in unrelated sectors before that. I've been wanting to relocate to another country lately and I managed to find a -better paying- job there too, and I signed the c
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by cyco130 4y ago
I love HTMX and similar technologies but I think GitHub is a particularly telling example of what can go wrong with these techs. The frontend is so full of consistency bugs that it's appalling: https://youtu.be/860d8usG
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by cyco130 4y ago
It made me think: As humans, we are a very lonely species. There are no living beings of the same intellectual capacity as us other than ourselves. Chimps and gorillas have comparable intellectual capacities. We can bond with cats, dogs, an
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by cyco130 4y ago
Web RPC protocols are not trying to replace local function calls though. They're trying to replace remote API calls (REST, GraphQL etc.). And all remote protocols have to solve problems like availability, latency, and reliability. Thos
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by cyco130 4y ago
Cool Edit Pro was one of my favorite programs ever. Adobe bought it and renamed it to Audition. I still can't believe how fast it went down after that.
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Show HN: Vite-Powered React Framework(github.com)
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Show HN: PHP back end code in client-side JavaScript
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by cyco130 4y ago
Nope they haven't. The edge functions from the previous deploy keeps running. Pfft.
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Ask HN: Has Netlify quietly landed streaming support?
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by cyco130 4y ago
Plain JavaScript is of course faster. Not doing something is always faster than doing something. But highly interactive web apps have some problems that need to be addressed: First is syntax extensions: TypeScript (a strictly type JavaScrip
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GitHub Copilot starts requiring paid subscription(docs.github.com)
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by cyco130 4y ago
I was kind of hoping to see Borland's BGI fonts in there.
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What Is a “Sympathetic Bit”?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
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by cyco130 4y ago
An earlier assembler for the same system was called SCAT[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_700/7000_series#FORTRAN_as...
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by cyco130 4y ago
I'm the original author of AspeQt (of which RespeQt is a fork: the maintainer after me turned out to be hard to get along with, so the guys in the AtariAge community forked it). Great to see it still brings joy to people after all thes
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by cyco130 4y ago
So how does a group of baby cowbirds learn to be a group of cowbirds (without adults teaching them) then?
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by cyco130 4y ago
Some years ago a friend suggested someone should make a browser extension that replaces the text of every Elon Musk tweet with “PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!” and I made a quick MVP: https://gist.github.com/cyco130/d96f678d41fd
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by cyco130 4y ago
My... eyes... For people less familiar with the subject: console.log(await fetch("https:/...").then(r => r.text())) I agree progress reporting needs improvement though.
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by cyco130 4y ago
Yes, I meant usage. I agree axios has many nice features but fetch comes with 90% of what you need for free. Also, its API is spreading on the "other side" too. Service workers, worker runtimes (Cloudflare etc.) and Deno all use t
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by cyco130 5y ago
I haven't seen XMLHttpRequest used directly in non-legacy code in quite some time. If there is any battle, it's between fetch and axios[1], and fetch is winning by virtue of being standard. Node.js also decided to implement it.[2]
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by cyco130 5y ago
I used to walk around with a queen of hearts in my pocket and, as a party trick, ask a female friend or acquaintance to "name a card, any card, just not ace of spades, everybody picks an ace for some reason". If I got it right, I&
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by cyco130 5y ago
I assumed the job queue was on the same database so either both would succeed or both would fail. Your should_send_email flag effectively corresponds to my job queue.
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by cyco130 5y ago
If sending the email is mission critical you could start a transaction, update the DB, send the email, commit the transaction. Maybe slightly better is: start the transaction, update the DB, put the "send email" job in a job queue
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Should we use dependency injection to get the current date?(softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)
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