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by kqr 1y ago
This is a good point! I have personally decided to save some of the all-time greatest games until I am better at text adventures and can enjoy them with fewer hints.
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by kqr 1y ago
This must be a different version than the original, then. The original was exceedingly cruel, as Douglas Adams wanted to play practical jokes riffing on genre conventions.
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by kqr 1y ago
Advice fror people trying to get into text adventures: do not start with infocom games. Start with something like Glowgrass, Violet, The Dreamhold, Plundered Hearts*, or Lost Pig. They'pe friendlier to the player. I get that the interf
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by kqr 1y ago
I read it all. I don't expect anyone to have the definitive answer. I'm aware I'm only picking up wild speculation.
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by kqr 1y ago
Author here. I really like that interpretation. How would you like to be credited for it?
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by kqr 1y ago
Wait whose money do you think is in the bank? Banks are funded by depositors' money and they absolutely play fast and loose with it when not regulated.
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by kqr 1y ago
This is one of my favourite images from a long-defunct proto-meme blog: https://entropicthoughts.com/image/doesntworkbutfast.jpg
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by kqr 1y ago
I have a 2D variant of this puzzle and got curious about the solvability of various starting positions so I made this graphical tool: https://xkqr.org/info/tetrispuzzlesolver.html Being able to solve starting from vari
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by kqr 1y ago
But if you pin it to a wall, it's easier to reach the top pins with the most earthful bits at face height if the earthful bits are at the top.
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by kqr 1y ago
I try to say "countries around the northern Atlantic" because that's really what people mean by "West".
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by kqr 1y ago
I try to put on a friendly tone and say "I'll continue once you're done with whatever you need to do on your phone". Sometimes it really was something important (the last few seconds of an auction is the common, time-sen
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by kqr 1y ago
Strange. The web page mentions it being runnable in DOSBox for non-Windows platforms, but I suppose the author might not have tried that in a while...
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by kqr 1y ago
When I saw a zip file for a Windows application I was worried it would do that Windows thing and unzip its contents not in subdirectory. I was pleasantly surprised it did not! Unfortunately, when I start the exe file in DOSBox Staging it on
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by kqr 1y ago
Author here. I did not expect this to show up on HN already. I took a few hours to make something I’ve long wanted to make: a very tiny “ATC simulator”. It’s different from all the others in that airplanes cannot be vectored, i.e. one canno
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by kqr 1y ago
For people on Android phones, Ghost Commander is neat. For people who like the power of Emacs dired, there used to be Sunrise Commander but last I looked it wasn't so actively maintained and had some bugs, so I've sadly gone back
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by kqr 1y ago
I think this is one of the cases where Nix would be easier. To try it out without polluting your global namespace, nix run nixpkgs#mc.
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by kqr 1y ago
The "orthodox" comes from a specific type of GUI, namely one that is driven by commands under the hood. UI elements are merely used to trigger commands that have the actual effect, and these commands could just as well be executed
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by kqr 1y ago
You're right. That was a bad choice of wording on my part. Thanks for clarifying!
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by kqr 1y ago
You might not even need fancy techniques to have UX similar to a React app. When the page load is fast enough, browsers hide that it happened. This means you can afford to do everything in the backend and just send plain HTML over to the us
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by kqr 1y ago
The problem in this case is not the HTTPS connection, but the fact that browsers, when importing ES6 modules, import all their transitive dependencies one by one. This means they can make a bazillion requests under the hood when importing j
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by kqr 1y ago
Not strictly food poisoning, but my wife is extremely allergic to one of the types of seeds commonly put on bread. The plastic packaging virtually eliminates contamination between breads stored adjacent to each other. Since marrying her, I&
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by kqr 1y ago
There are other barriers to adoption besides network effects. I showed in another comment downthread how easy it is to inject React into just the parts of an otherwise static web page that need enhanced interactivity. Svelte and Qwik need t
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by kqr 1y ago
You certainly don't need JSX for React, nor a build chain. My ship investor Kelly trainer game[1] is a simple React application in a single HTML file. The initial page load is slow because I experimented with using built-in browser mod
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Can ChatGPT Land an Airplane? [video](youtube.com)
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by kqr 1y ago
Yes, people's brains selectively modify contrast, saturation, detail, framing, and just about every parameter there is. When it comes to visual experiences, it is meaningless to talk about "honesty" because they are so subjec
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by kqr 1y ago
Depends on what kind of action. Sunny 16 and hyperfocal distance lets you get away with a lot.
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by kqr 1y ago
> ends up looking like it couldn't look in real life. Eyes are subjective. The goal of manual post processing is often to make an image that replicates what the photographer saw , which is rarely possible with the automatic process
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by kqr 1y ago
Great idea to showcase Darktables advanced masking functionality! That and wavelet decomposition are areas where Darktable easily beats the incumbent Adobe Lightroom.
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by kqr 1y ago
...who spends half the year in darkness, to boot. It's so bad they even have a national holiday to grieve the departure of the sun and call for its return!
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by kqr 1y ago
Indeed. When I was young I had a mandatory bedtime that was slightly before I got tired, and not having many alternatives I ended up using it for reading. I suppose these days electronics would have to stay outside the room for it to work.

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