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by mrob 2y ago
ncurses lets you move the cursor to arbitrary positions, and also lets you hide it. And you can disable echo, so you can type without the cursor having any influence on what you see. This means you can treat the terminal cursor as though it
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by mrob 2y ago
The whole hobby of speedrunning relies heavily on exploiting deterministic game bugs.
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It seems to me that your evidence supports the exact opposite of your conclusion. Familiarity was only enough to find ad-hoc heuristics for specific situations. It let us discover intuitive methods to throw stones, drive carts, play ball ga
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by mrob 2y ago
Putting cursors within the document does not preclude supporting different cursors for different windows.
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by mrob 2y ago
I'd make cursors be positioned within the document instead of on the screen. Currently, Emacs does not support off-screen cursors. If you attempt to scroll a cursor off screen, it will move within the document to stay on screen. This b
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by mrob 2y ago
I block CSS animations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33223080 I'd be interested to know if it's sufficient to avoid this recent vulnerability. Either way, it confirms my opinion that UI animations are an a
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by mrob 2y ago
Previously reported NES Tetris accomplishments did not involve modifying the game to bypass an extremely difficult part of that accomplishment. Fixing a score display bug makes almost no difference to how the game is played. Similarly, play
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by mrob 2y ago
It's true when you advertise the accomplishment as being played on "NES Tetris". The vast majority of readers will assume this means it was played on the original NES Tetris. This kind of misreporting is especially bad becaus
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by mrob 2y ago
Only to correct the score display for the benefit of viewers. Unlike removing the crashes, it didn't change how the game actually played.
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by mrob 2y ago
I'd argue that in the context of overflowing the level counter, dodging the crashes (the most difficult part) is in fact the core mechanic. This doesn't take away from the skill required for playing at this level on the hacked ver
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by mrob 2y ago
here is a free verse poem with lines of unknown length and deliberate lack of uppercase or punctuation It's plain text. "Plain text" does not impose any restrictions on formatting. Was the poem two lines or three?
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by mrob 2y ago
Your "existence proof" is no such thing; you simply moved the deleted information to the metadata by telling us which reconstruction algorithm to use.
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by mrob 2y ago
Here's some Stack Overflow discussion showing why it's a non-trivial problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/400359/algorithm-for-re-... Modern LLMs could probably do a better job, but there's
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by mrob 2y ago
It's a hard-wrapped text file, which is objectively worse than simple HTML because there's no reliable way to reflow it for different screen sizes. You have to apply heuristics to guess if line breaks are semantic or not.
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If there were no trademarks you wouldn't even know this happened.
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by mrob 2y ago
As somebody who buys products, perpetual trademarks are useful to me. I want to know who I'm buying from. The problem I have is with trademarks being used as nouns but somehow not becoming generic. I searched "Velcro" on Amaz
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by mrob 2y ago
The high resolution but limited colors example looks like screen printing. Screen printing involves squeezing ink through stencils supported by a fine mesh. It can produce excellent detail, but you need a separate stencil for each color so
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by mrob 2y ago
Ring modulation is a form of amplitude modulation, not frequency modulation. Filters are not modulation at all.
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by mrob 2y ago
It's more Baldur's Gate 2 that's to blame. The original still has plenty of wilderness exploration, and while the main quest is linear, there's no real urgency to following it. You need to pay attention to figure out wha
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by mrob 2y ago
What's wrong with AGPL?
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by mrob 2y ago
In my opinion, no natural fabric is as comfortable as synthetics. But I have cotton bedding and curtains. I think these are higher priority: bedding is used while you're lying close to it and easily able to inhale any dust, and curtain
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by mrob 2y ago
I'm in favor of banning release of small molecule PFAS altogether. I don't see how that's "gambling".
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by mrob 2y ago
>it's impossible to know how hot a pan surface Just point an IR thermometer at it. They're cheap and useful for cooking even if you're not using non-stick.
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by mrob 2y ago
That's also risky because of the potential for hot spots. I microwave things regularly, but in glazed ceramic.
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by mrob 2y ago
It's not just "association"; PTFE literally is a PFAS. My point is there's a major different between PFAS polymers and PFAS small molecules. From https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/source/hsdb/833
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by mrob 2y ago
Depends what you're cooking. I'd never sear meat on non-stick, but there are many other dishes that don't need high temperatures.
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by mrob 2y ago
Still more reactive than PTFE.
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by mrob 2y ago
Glass isn't good enough for extreme non-reactivity, e.g. for containing ultrapure water used in semiconductor fabs. The real gold standard for non-reactive chemicals is PTFE, which is a PFAS. This shows that lumping all PFAS together a
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by mrob 2y ago
And the "critical failure during combat causes accidental self-injury" rule quickly turns any combat-heavy campaign into slapstick comedy.
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by mrob 2y ago
The biggest danger that's specific to leaded solder is accidental ingestion. Both the common methods of cleaning your iron (damp sponge and brass wool) produce many tiny little balls of solder. They're difficult to see, and becaus

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