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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I recommend staying in the dark on this one: a few years ago I asked "what's org mode", and now my whole life is lived inside Emacs.
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Which part of the article are you disagreeing with? Just the title?
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Do you have some examples of these articles?
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I think this book would be perfect for me - I have been using Emacs for quite a while, but never mastered elisp: I could never figure out how to structure things properly. Looking at the book landing page, I think I would have passed on it
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I learned the term "dead-listing" from Fravia's Pages of Reverse Engineering in the 90s [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia ]. I felt like such a hardcore hacker removing the nag screen from some bit of
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
That sounds like a great idea, but I'm not sure how "framework-able" a great UI it is. I was wondering how you might apply a Blender GUI layer to GIMP (I tolerate GIMP, but I love Blender). I imagine the issues run deeper tha
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Holy cow - I didn't know about this book. Everything Gabriel puts out is awesome: this is an instant-buy for me!
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Basic-er Commodore 64 BASIC(mrspeaker.net)
1 points by mrspeaker 5y ago|0 comments
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I'm too scared to google it in case it causes the algorithm to think I'm interested in corporate buzzword frameworks (at least, that's my bet on what it is... Remember RUP?)
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I remember someone had made an early iPhone game out of UI elements (around 2009 ish?). I thought it was such a cool idea, and spent a bunch of time messing around with "ui-elements-as-graphics". My favourite thing I came up with
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
The article does mention this a bit, and (after reading quite a bit of Gemini content) I agree: 'The links are awkwardly placed, and the "placeholder" markers (such as numbers or brackets) to connect the text to the link belo
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I can't believe the sunlight trick works. My brain always thought it was the sun that made it yellow! I saw this first on the Retro Recipes channel a while back where he shared some theories on the maybe how's and why's. ( ht
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I got the same feeling reading the "Pompeii wall graffiti". It's not beautiful, but it hit me hard: 2000+ years, and people are the same people! ( https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffi
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I've learned two foreign languages living in other countries, and never been able to speak them: so don't do what I do! But, of people that I've seen go from bad to good when they are immersed - the traits I notice is "p
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Because the creator himself specifically addressed the headline in the article. So either you think you know better than the creator, or just saw the headline and knee-jerk wrote a comment without reading the article contents. Saying "
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I recently had the feeling of those early home-computing days from the Ben Eater's "8-bit computer from scratch" videos/kits. Really fun project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyznrdDSSGM&list=PLowK
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
A lot of it is the baked lighting (he mentions it takes about 7 hours to bake the lighting if he wants to change the scene! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1144467679?t=00h18m03s ). I love doing 3D stuff for fun - but lik
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Maybe they don't want tire-kickers, but the whole website feels like "If you have to ask, you don't belong here, move along!". The blog post doesn't mention what it is, the home page doesn't mention what it is,
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I got into C64 6502 coding last year - had a pretty decent game prototype working (before had to relocate and life got in the way!). If anyone wants to go down that rabbit hole, I recommend the Twitch streamer "Shallan" ( https:&#
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
They just have to keep adding new items faster than you can listen to them!
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
This is amazing. The root page for it is here: https://www.falstad.com/pong/index.html and shows how each part works. Though I don't really understand how an image is produced on a CRT. In this circuit ( https:&#x
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
("Oeuf!" made me do a snort-coffee-out-my-nose laugh. Genius.)
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
From what I witnessed from coworkers in the US, it was very common to order 5 variations of the same thing, then send 4 back. "Free shipping/free returns" seems like an environmental disaster, but I think it's becoming t
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Wow, I naively thought Atari 2600 graphics were "state of the art" in 1975. I had no idea the field of 3D graphics was so advanced (albeit on an IBM 360/65!). https://www.atariarchives.org/artist/sec32.ph
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Reminds me of this (less math-heavy!) analysis of "Skateboarding Science" about Rodney Mullen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFRPhi0jhGc
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
And I looked in the console messages, expecting to see a lil' easter egg or something, but instead I see `Loading failed for the <script> with source “ https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-S8P17EH...”
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Whenever I see a "how-but-not-why" article I assume that the author doesn't understand the "why" part yet... they've likely just rote-learned the "how" part and are regurgitating it. My favorite artic
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Yes! Teaching is really hard, and is an independent skill from having knowledge about a subject. Many blog posts and articles are written by people who know the domain, but are not good teachers. The same goes for teachers in general - you
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I'd given up even clicking twitter links anymore because I'd get stuck in a "you have to enable js/you have to login" dead end... this is brilliant - I'd never heard of it before. Thanks for pointing it out!
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Ask HN: Non-sci-fi fiction recommendations?
12 points by mrspeaker 5y ago|22 comments

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