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by livrem 3y ago
Still grinding my way through the Goldbox games. Same party as I started with in Pool of Radiance ~1995 is now somewhere halfway(?) through Pools of Darkness. Not sure if I am going to try to complete the rest of the Goldbox after that, or
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by livrem 3y ago
A bit strange to mention Lazarus as if it was a thing of the past ("could never match...") but then also mention a few lines below that the last release was a week ago (almost two weeks now). It looks to me like the project is rea
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by livrem 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_in_public_domain That is a start at least. International copyright of course is a complete mess and it is not obvious exactly what expiring copyrights in one country means elsewhere.
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by livrem 3y ago
Local AI is definitely a good thing and I can see why llamafiles can be useful. Sounds great for the use-case of a trusted organization distributing models for easy end-user deployment. But if I am going to be downloading a bunch of differe
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by livrem 3y ago
Llamafiles look a bit scary, like back when StableDiffusion models were distributed as pickled Python files (allowing, in theory, for arbitrary code execution when loading a model) before everyone switched to safetensors (dumb data files th
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by livrem 3y ago
I expected to read this and furiously disagree with the author, but I 100% agree with the point that is being made. I just don't think it is semantic versioning that is to blame. It would be nice to see more responsibility taken for ba
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by livrem 3y ago
Guess triangular and hexagonal grids are somewhat rare, but not exactly unknown. I remember the Programming Clojure book included a maze-generator that was shown for both square and hex grids (and could probably be easily modified for trian
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by livrem 3y ago
Serious question: What makes BASIC BASIC? I don't see anything in the FreeBasic example code that looks anything like what GWBASIC was 40 years ago. No line numbers and not a single GOTO. Is there still support for compiling old style
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by livrem 3y ago
> Mobile games are only harmful to a relatively tiny group of addicted gamers, while internet ads have very serious consequences acting on society as a whole It is still unethical to even play "free"-to-play games. You are ente
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by livrem 3y ago
Looks like five new sets added since last time I visited that site a few years ago. Thanks for the reminder! Should get back to using a RSS reader to not miss updates from sites like that. Last time I tried it seemed to work quite well to i
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by livrem 3y ago
Back in the day there was a very nice and simple little MIDI sequencer for X-Windows called Seq24 that I used every now and then. Of course there are much more complex music software that also happens to have MIDI-support (LMMS, Renoise, ..
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by livrem 3y ago
> The Atari 2600’s demise is generally blamed on a glut of low-quality cartridges, caused in part by the console’s openness to unlicensed games Every history about video games mention how low-quality games killed Atari, but is that true
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by livrem 3y ago
This was a comment in the thread on distros deprecating ARMv6 support, not the clang issue.
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by livrem 3y ago
I test my own open source code on a RPi Zero when applicable. I can report bugs to other projects if I happen to notice something is missing, but I can't decide what platforms they should support or not. I can hope that as many as poss
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by livrem 3y ago
Raspberry Pi Zero (W) are still great. There will be millions of them around in use for decades to come. I will probably always have a few in some drawer. Sad to hear that anyone even considers deprecating support for that hardware. Not to
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by livrem 3y ago
I almost coded some Turbo Pascal earlier this year. I found the source code for one of the (not so great) games I (tried to) write in Turbo Pascal 2.0 as a kid. Had fun porting it to the latest stable Free Pascal. Never used Free Pascal be
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by livrem 3y ago
That can no longer run on many modern computers as the backwards-compatible BIOS is phased out, not to mention many computers switching to ARM.
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by livrem 3y ago
They would not have to be able to play the game if the job of the LLM was mostly to handle some diplomacy and communicate with the player. The strategy and tactics could still be handled by good old game AI tricks and tree-searches. Sounds
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by livrem 3y ago
Looks like the dictionaries used are from this file? https://registry.npmjs.org/naughty-words/-/naughty-words-1.2... From a quick look, the lists are pretty short, except for the one with English words that at lea
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by livrem 3y ago
I used to daydream about having a web proxy that could store every page I visited (instead of having to manually save interesting pages... something I do a lot). But I never had the storage space for that, and the bloat in web pages has gro
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by livrem 3y ago
For some reason that I can not remember there was no pull down key available in the first version of Sopwith I remember playing. Possibly something with the layout of the (Swedish) keyboard I played on. But a later copy I got from some frie
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by livrem 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37380100
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by livrem 3y ago
Jonathan Blow did a good talk on this, but unfortunately the only version of it I know of is concatenated by some youtube uploader with a silly twitch stream (also by Jonathan Blow, but less interesting, and not even sure he is correct abou
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by livrem 3y ago
CC-BY-SA is much closer to GPL.
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by livrem 3y ago
"Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins as before. But the world does not need twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sen
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by livrem 3y ago
HTML has had checkboxes since at least version 2 (1995), so just use those if you want to do multi-select using checkboxes. I don't think you can do shift-clicking to select ranges though (without resorting to js) but control-click is
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by livrem 3y ago
> bHyve is a goddess Does it work well with graphics? I just started using FreeBSD and one of the first thing I did was to follow the Handbook instructions to set up a minimal Debian in Bhyve that I then used to access my old Linux parti
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by livrem 3y ago
Amazon avoided having to sign a collective agreement with a union in Sweden by outsourcing their business in Sweden to some other company. The workers in that company have a collective agreement. I guess some arrangement like this could wor
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by livrem 3y ago
Transport union in Norway is considering to join, to prevent Tesla from shipping their cars to Sweden through Norway. I would be surprised if any of the big unions in any Nordic country stays out of this for long. Allowing Musk to win this
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by livrem 3y ago
Text says "the world’s oldest surviving photograph", so I guess there were other known (or suspected?) photographs even before that, just not any that we still have a copy of?

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