livrem

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by livrem 2y ago
As someone who often prints boardgames, this strikes me as a game that would be very easy to build a physical version of, just printing some tiles with random distributions printed on, and finding some tokens and a die to use. It would make
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by livrem 2y ago
https://www.gog.com/en/games?developers=turcan-research-syst... I guess with a LLM you could make interacting with the game a bit more interesting than what a 1989 text-parser could handle.
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by livrem 2y ago
That was a fun way to find the address and POKE it. Never knew of any of this, but it inspired me to search for more info, and it looks like there are also easier ways to unprotect files: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com&
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by livrem 2y ago
I thought of his Black Book when reading about the VGA registers. He goes quite deep into how the VGA hardware works. Interesting to read, but I only read it around 2010. Would have been much more useful to have read in 1990. https:/&
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by livrem 3y ago
One thing I remember and even used quite recently, is that you could C-z out of emacs in MS-DOS to get a new COMMAND.COM for running other applications, then exit back to emacs. I think this was some kind of feature of later versions of MS-
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by livrem 3y ago
Correct, but most of the time I use the same set of panes, created at startup, so the commands are in the history where I need them. And when they are not I grep in ~/.bash_history_*.
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by livrem 3y ago
I set HISTFILE=~/.bash_history_$TMUX_PANE (when that variable is set). A bit kludgy, but works good enough for me.
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by livrem 3y ago
Extendable text-editors like emacs already are starting to see integration with local language-models. What the article describes sound like quite straightforward functions to add once you have some plumbing in place to send text selection
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by livrem 3y ago
"Subject to the remainder of these Terms, we encourage Basic Tier Users to employ the Services to make creative, non-commercial use of Content ... Unlike Basic Tier Users, paid tiers of users may use the Services to generate Content fo
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by livrem 3y ago
I see what everyone is saying about autotools, and I never envied those that maintained the config scripts, but as an end-user I miss the days when installing almost any software was as simple as ./configure && make &&
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by livrem 3y ago
The Car Wars board game originally published in 1981 already imagined a post-apocalyptic world using mostly electric cars: "There are two kinds of engine available in 2040: gas and electric. With gasoline unavailable in many areas of t
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by livrem 3y ago
I liked that the article begins with the Hoare quote "One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies" that was also th
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by livrem 3y ago
Stability has dreamstudio.ai, but it never seemed like they were seriously investing in it to try to compete with Midjourney?
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by livrem 3y ago
I like to start up Dosbox-X or one of the virtual Amiga environments that comes bundled with Amiga forever. Definitely cozy. More often I use some old application, like the nowadays BSD-licensed ex-Autodesk Animator. It is fun to figure it
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by livrem 3y ago
There is some discussion about that on https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2024/happiness-of-the-young... . They did actually drop a pretty significant 0.9 points in the latest poll, but since the list is using three
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by livrem 3y ago
No, but build a railway in a tunnel across the border from Mexico to the US and that defense will not necessarily help you in court. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51304861
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by livrem 3y ago
Yes, Mastermind is a variant of an old folk game called Bulls and Cows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls_and_Cows
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by livrem 3y ago
I used it for all my hobby projects created in the last three years. I still use Git for everything else. Fossil is nice. I can't imagine using it in a big project with many developers, but it was never designed for that. As long as Fo
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by livrem 3y ago
No disagreement, just additional information.
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by livrem 3y ago
Wikipedia says they are "the second largest retail company in the Nordic countries[citation needed]". Pretty big company anyway and embarrassing for them. Would love to learn more about what the bug was, but I guess they will neve
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by livrem 3y ago
Another alternative would be music programming languages. There was a thing for a while with posting SuperCollider tracks as 140 character tweets. A floppy would be plenty of space for full albums of music. There are also wrappers for it in
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by livrem 3y ago
How does price caps work on Hetzner? I never managed to figure that out from reading their price lists. It looks to me like they charge for each TB, and the only thing I can see is that you can set an email alert to go off when close to som
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by livrem 3y ago
I have a 1.44 MB floppy here somewhere that boots MS-DOS with Windows 1.01. I do not remember if I even had to do anything special to fit that on a single bootable floppy. Probably not. From the first item I find on archive.org it looks lik
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by livrem 3y ago
And a TTRPG (table-top RPG) is like a RPG, but played using pencils and paper and dice instead of on a computer or console.
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by livrem 3y ago
That page could use an intro that explains what it is. Even the examples page begins with something about CSV instead of just a minimal jsonlines example. I THINK that the format is like a JSON file with an implicit top-level list and the t
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by livrem 3y ago
Coincidentally I posted a link to an article from 1893 earlier today: On Electric Spark Photographs; Or, Photography of Flying Bullets, etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479222
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by livrem 3y ago
I have looked for a long time for some stable, cross-platform, environment to use for my future hobby projects, and Free Pascal might be the best candidate I have seen. They officially support a large number of platforms from 16-bit to 64-b
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by livrem 3y ago
It was one of the first successful boardgames on kickstarter, that really started the trend of boardgames being published by crowdfunding. Found this 2014 article claiming it was "the most backed board game in Kickstarter history"
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On Electric Spark Photographs; Or, Photography of Flying Bullets, etc. (1893)(archive.org)
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by livrem 3y ago
Part 2 is here: https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1038_047440a0/mode/...

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