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   by hcs 4y ago

   `this self referential joke does not exist`
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   by hcs 4y ago

   You can get that behavior if you install Firefox from a tar [1], Firefox will then manage its own updates the same as on Windows (though the user running Firefox will need to have permissions to modify the files, which may be risky). But if
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   by hcs 4y ago

   > But then you have to send your original comment to a translation company so there are privacy concerns there too. There are modern offline translation systems available such as Bergamot https://browser.mt/
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   by hcs 4y ago

   The light gray text in the slide [1] suggests that this is about multiple URLs returning the same content: > 1. remove protocol duplicates - favor HTTPS > 2. remove www/non-www > 3. remove URLs with useless parameters (session
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   by hcs 4y ago

   I think the only Zachtronics game to have a console release was Infinifactory on PS4. (And Hack*Match on NES, technically.) Agreed with the sibling comment that Opus Magnum seems like it'd be a good fit. But the economics of a port may
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   by hcs 4y ago

   Most of the article is (2016)
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   by hcs 4y ago

   Speaking of geometric designs and puzzle games, this reminded me of Engare: https://store.steampowered.com/app/415170/Engare/
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   by hcs 4y ago

   I just ran across MPEG-4 SLS [1] (née "AAZ" for "Advanced Audio Zip", aka HD-AAC), which is a lossless format on top of AAC's MDCT, and which is patented, unfortunately. That led me to other coders: DTS-HD Master Au
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   by hcs 4y ago

   I don't know much about the practical engineering of modern codecs, I was just assuming that the exact order and combination of operations (particularly rounding) would be underspecified to allow for different architectures, and that w
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    by hcs 4y ago

    PSA: If you want to recreate the original file (WAV, AIFF, etc), including metadata, you should use the --keep-foreign-metadata switch to flac, otherwise it only preserves what’s needed for the audio. https://xiph.org/flac&#
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    by hcs 4y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format All these formats, IFF, AIFF, and RIFF, use named chunks for organization, and store PCM basically the same way, though there are other payloads possible.
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    by hcs 4y ago

    > is there a lossless format that just embeds a regular lossy encoding of the audio as the approximation, and then computes+stores the residual relative to that? It's not "regular lossy", but WavPack does allow separating
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    Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals (1969)(archive.org)

    2 points by hcs 4y ago|2 comments
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    by hcs 4y ago

    > The Mortar Wreck is England’s oldest known protected wreck site with a visible surviving hull.
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    by hcs 4y ago

    Turing Complete is quite rough around the edges (still in early access), but it's very ambitious. In my opinion these don't tend to succeed well as games, even puzzle games. The steps they need to take you through can feel very ar
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    by hcs 4y ago

    I see there's a website for Code with interactive examples (in another thread), I wonder if he has a perspective on using interactive games for teaching this kind of "build a computer from logic gates" material. Examples are
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    by hcs 4y ago

    As an aspiring game designer I always enjoy and sometimes learn from Game Maker's Toolkit: https://youtube.com/c/MarkBrownGMT There are probably better more technical YouTubers in this space but I don't have
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    by hcs 4y ago

    FYI if you only have the 2nd edition of volume 2, Knuth provides the full text of the changes from the 2nd to 3rd edition electronically: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html (search for "Errata f
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    by hcs 4y ago

    It's a lagged Fibonacci generator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagged_Fibonacci_generator In the third edition (1998) there are a few more notes, most importantly: "Lagged Fibonacci generators have been use
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    by hcs 4y ago

    Here's a table in a 1966 book showing the different keywords across implementations: https://archive.org/details/breuer-dictionary-for-computer-l... (It uses a weird glyph for NOT that I've never seen elsewhe
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    by hcs 4y ago

    I don't think these were used for piano, but there was an organ book music system that used a chain of cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_music Edit: some discussion here https://music.stackexc
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    by hcs 4y ago

    A suffix array is useful as a part of binary diff, finding a longest matching substring to copy from an old file. Bsdiff makes heavy use of this, it's used in Courgette for patching after preprocessing. And once you have a suffix array
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    by hcs 4y ago

    I've heard this about AutoHotKey: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ahk/ Not just macros, but deeper automation of anything in a Windows UI, with a great depth of community scripts and knowledge.
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    by hcs 4y ago

    I recall they'd announced the intention to set up a mirror in Canada, did that ever materialize? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/worried-about-us...
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    by hcs 4y ago

    I was surprised to find that Algol 60 had implication in among the Boolean operators, makes sense given the formal background, never got picked up by its many descendants.
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    by hcs 4y ago

    Is there a recommended way to manually review and correct OCR generated like this? I've tried different methods over the years but nothing makes it easy enough, and tools that deal with hOCR all seem to be broken in different ways.
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    by hcs 4y ago

    I've pictured myself in a research librarian or archivist role, cataloguing and searching catalogues. When I've done similar work as a volunteer or enthusiast, it's been the closest feeling to getting obsessed over coding. Ma
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    by hcs 4y ago

    > Those who arrive at Thekla can see little of the city, beyond the plank fences, the sackcloth screens, the scaffoldings, the metal armatures, the wooden catwalks hanging from ropes or supported by sawhorses, the ladders, the trestles.
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    by hcs 4y ago

    Clear on the other side of Pennsylvania (Bucks County), I grew up in a fairly old house (1930s? 40s?) with a toilet in the basement out in the open like this, next to the heating oil tank. Most strikingly it was up on a concrete pedestal, a
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    by hcs 4y ago

    Good point, those aren't relays at all, I didn't think to make the connection to the needle telegraph.