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by mhd 3y ago
Wild shot, but does anyone have data sets on how different languages compress in a similar manner? It would be an interesting mix of letters/phonemes used, word length etc.
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by mhd 3y ago
You need to add room for potentially multiple levels of added quote marks.
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by mhd 3y ago
Is the field of competition so ripe here? I'm seeing Go, but what else? It seems a lot of the other languages: - don't have an easy compilation story (interpreted, VM, compilers as secondary implementations) - lean more on the fun
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by mhd 3y ago
I immediately want to install the Enlightenment WM with that old steampunk theme again and do some POV-RAY.
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by mhd 3y ago
Hershey fonts[0] look a bit odd on high-res pixel screens, but one might be able to cope with that by carefully selecting sizes and fudging with the definitions. Definitely low-code. And once upon a time, X11 had another weird little format
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by mhd 3y ago
Nobody is ever talking about the original Dartmouth BASIC, so we're really talking about a vast language family here. Arguably with more difference between different strands than e.g. within the BCPL family.
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by mhd 3y ago
Yeah, I read the first one a while ago and really enjoyed the world building. Guess someone who's really into mapping won't disappoint on that front.
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by mhd 3y ago
Next to the 97 part video tutorial on how to get back from your semi-hydrated micro-frontend to something sane for your 12 person company ;)
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by mhd 3y ago
With all these different faces being displayed at once, this risks being the typographical equivalent of "Angry Fruit Salad" syntax highlighting…
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by mhd 3y ago
I got OS/2 2.x when IBM sold it very cheaply one time (about 60 Deutschmarks, I think). But it came on soo many floppies and had such requirements that I never got around to install it. I used the floppies years after for warez, though
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by mhd 3y ago
Haven't seen that many refcounted string libraries for C in recent times, most common one is probably still the one from glib. I guess you're going to implement your from scratch, or is there some prior art you're likely to u
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by mhd 3y ago
Cigarette adds quite often…
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by mhd 3y ago
Interesting theories in the replies. But no, those blacked out sections are there in the original book, not added by the blog poster. Probably to stretch the few ad sentences over a whole page (or two).
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by mhd 3y ago
Do kids these days even know where Perth is?
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by mhd 3y ago
I remember a lot of arguments about how a signature should look…
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by mhd 3y ago
Why would they be scared, would the people who take them take less supplements than before? I see this more as an opportunity? "Hey, this new drug is all great, but focus your reduced caloric intake on the proper macros, brozempic!&quo
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by mhd 3y ago
Did I miss a study in the article? There's a bit about general muscle mass loss, a study about bariatric bypass surgery, and then some generic advice to take protein. This looks a bit like a supplement ad.
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by mhd 3y ago
Speaking of RPG layout troubles, does anyone know of a good package/method of easily placing images? LaTeX itself is mostly focused on figures, and the solutions I found (like e.g. D&D 5E layouts) are rather specific. Ideally I&#x2
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by mhd 3y ago
Or get them legally from Amiga Forever? http://www.amigaforever.com
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by mhd 3y ago
Never mind that a lot of Volga boats were very single-threaded. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/12/belyana-russias-giant-...
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by mhd 3y ago
Whatever happened to web2py? I remember that being brought up a lot in these discussions…
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by mhd 3y ago
> I wonder how Bintracker gets around the requirement of having to write native code that actually plays the music on all the various platforms? But I guess that a stub that just "pipes" the data through to the emulated sound h
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by mhd 3y ago
Well, there's the Chipophone: http://www.linusakesson.net/chipophone/index.php
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by mhd 3y ago
Given how much Amiga users I knew in the past gushed about their allegedly stellar GoldEd and CygnusEd, I'm quite surprised that this uses Lite.
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by mhd 3y ago
I feel that way about knitting and jogging, so let's see how "deccelerated development" will go for my mental health.
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by mhd 3y ago
I'm surprised that the guys worried about one or more "collapses" aren't more into COBOL. Because when something heavy and hard hits, all that's left will be roaches, COBOL and Perl scripts. But seriously, I bought
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by mhd 3y ago
Not the OP, but there even used to be a rubydramas.com site. Not longer available and archive.org doesn't work for me there, but there have been a few HN submissions about this. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ru
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by mhd 3y ago
I recently read about a "page-based routing" library for… PHP.
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by mhd 3y ago
Which ebook reader does something horrible here? When not adjusting settings or loading books, most of them just display a book-like page. I haven't encountered one yet with Office-like toolbars or whatever Acrobat thinks it's doi
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by mhd 3y ago
> If you're a top-rate software engineer, you're not going to choose a career path that will trap you in some deprecated technology. Which is kinda good, to be honest. Long-term Fortran projects and the like don't deal wit

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