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by dustfinger 10mo ago
True. how about https://ycombinator-status.com or https://status.ycombinator.com . They can drop that link on their official ycombinator.com site just so it is easy to tell that it is legit when they are not down. The
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by dustfinger 10mo ago
It would be a nice feature if hackernews had a simple news.ycombinator.com/status page that I could trust. I don't like loading those some-sketchy-domain/status-right-now sites.
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Why Old Programming Languages Like COBOL, Fortran, and Lisp Still Matter(marchcampaign.com)
4 points by dustfinger 10mo ago|1 comments
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The Interactive Fiction Database – Reviews(ifdb.org)
5 points by dustfinger 10mo ago|0 comments
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Current Game and Season Materials (First Tech Challenge 2025-2026)(ftc-resources.firstinspires.org)
1 points by dustfinger 10mo ago|0 comments
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Dungeon-mode: a dungeon crawler game for Emacs(github.com)
8 points by dustfinger 10mo ago|0 comments
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by dustfinger 10mo ago
Thank you, I will check that out.
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by dustfinger 10mo ago
If you are an emacs user, you might be interested in org-drill, which of course is plain text and uses space repetition algorithm: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html
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Current Game and Season Materials (First Tech Challenge 2025-2026)(ftc-resources.firstinspires.org)
1 points by dustfinger 10mo ago|0 comments
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be about exercise :-P
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
Hmm, I am getting a 403 when trying to load the link.
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
While that is partly what I meant, my notion was really about being creative, inventive and having a lot of fun hacking code or hardware without it being about work. I really meant these notions of hacking: - https://stallman.org
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
Despite all the critisism, C++ has been my favorite language for 20+ years. Nowadays I code 99% of the time in python and previously TypeScript, but all my personal for fun projects are in C++. I just enjoy coding in it so much more. I know
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
Can you elaborate. I just use it by itself and think it is wonderful, but I am curious for some examples of using it with other tools. EDIT: I just looked at the link posted by lvass and I understand now. So cool! I am going to update my wo
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
I would agree that the usefulness is reduced if you have tight vertical space constraints (3 lines of text).
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
Don't underestimate the advantage of being able to move the cursor anywhere in a few clicks without having to take your hands off the keyboard. It is much faster than a mouse. Also, you can save your elbows the pain of constantly reach
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
My favorite way to move around in Emacs, and to move text around, is via avy-mode: https://github.com/abo-abo/avy . If you have not experienced avy-mode, give it a try, I think you will wonder how you ever got along wit
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Ask HN: Best IDE/compiler agnostic C++ for beginners book
1 points by dustfinger 11mo ago|0 comments
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
ahh, you are right. I am blind.
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
Why does the main page show all green when there is an ongoing incident? All green here -> https://www.githubstatus.com/
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
Thank you stebalien, I will remember these points about EXWM / emacs and concurrency. I'll look into EAT as well.
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
I live in EXWM. I absolutely love it as a coding environment. EXWM + helm + projectile. I mainly use v-term for cli, but I have always been interested in learning eshell, just never got around to it. I have been thread-locked on occasion, a
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by dustfinger 11mo ago
I have been coding for so long now that I can't have my keyboard any higher than my lap. I code with it resting directly on my legs. A mouse is right out. Any higher, and my hands turn to clubs. I love emacs because I can do everything
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by dustfinger 1y ago
As long as they don’t plan to demolish Earth to make way for an intergalactic highway (a reference to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), we’re fine. Humans are not out to get ants, but imagine how many ant colonies we have destroyed to
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by dustfinger 1y ago
If they mean us harm, then yes, I am insecure about it.
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AI Agent Evaluation: The Definitive Guide to Testing AI Agents(confident-ai.com)
2 points by dustfinger 1y ago|0 comments
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AI Agent Evaluation: The Definitive Guide to Testing AI Agents(confident-ai.com)
2 points by dustfinger 1y ago|0 comments
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by dustfinger 1y ago
There are many people that believe the contrails, that they refer to as chemtrails, are about weather control. Those are the people that I think are confused. Just search "chemtrails weather control" or "manipulation". I
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by dustfinger 1y ago
There are a lot of comments here mocking “chemtrail” believers, but I think the confusion is understandable. There seems to be a mix-up between three terms: contrails, chemtrails, and cloud seeding. Contrails are just condensation trails ca
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by dustfinger 1y ago
I use exwm as my windows manager [1], so for me, everything is emacs-first. Therefore, trimming a video in emacs is more natural than using another program to do it. I love the experience of using exwm and emacs for everything whenever poss

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