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by nathell 4y ago
Directed acyclic word graphs (DAWGs)! They’re like tries, but with identical subtrees glued together. They’re capable of encoding real-world dictionaries of millions of words into ~1 byte per word, when stored cleverly (see [0]). They let y
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Get Better at Coding Interviews(3jane.co.uk)
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by nathell 4y ago
I have. I started with the novel, in a Polish translation, when I was maybe 13, and it had resonated with me so much that to this day I consider it _the_ most important book I’ve ever read. A formative read, indeed. I read the short story a
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by nathell 4y ago
> Foobar2000? where are you? Do you still have that tattoo on your arm that screams "FUNCTIONALISM"? F2K is at https://www.foobar2000.org/ , it works just as well as ever, and, yes, still has that tattoo. I’m ha
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by nathell 4y ago
Yes please. Before I switched to the iPhone, I was using the Xiaomi Mi A1, which ticked a lot of the boxes for me (stock Android!) while also having a great bang-for-buck value; but I’d still have preferred it in a smaller form factor.
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by nathell 4y ago
OMG this is so inspiring. Reminds me of early high school days when I’d fire up Turbo Pascal on my 486DX2/66 and play around with the VGA. It seems like it’s easy to get the creative juices flowing with the TIC-80. Kudos to the author!
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by nathell 4y ago
No, it was moved. Essentially slided on six purpose-built rails in a three-hours-long operation.
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by nathell 4y ago
In 1962, the church of Mary’s Nativity in Warsaw, Poland, was moved by 21 metres to make room for widening of the nearby major thoroughfare [0]. It was the first moving-of-a-church operation in Europe. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by nathell 4y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/724/ ; there are implementations (google “Hell Tetris”).
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by nathell 4y ago
Once on a kayaking trip, I experienced an angry bird encounter. It was a swan, not a turkey. The lake was small and really muddy. The only viable path through it was through the small patches of reasonably clear water by the east side, but
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by nathell 4y ago
Will it be possible to connect to a running Kandria with a SLIME REPL? (If so, I’d consider buying a copy just for the fun of that.)
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by nathell 4y ago
I'm running a side project in Clojure (a guess-the-number-of-covid-cases lottery, https://koronalotek.pl ) on a small VPS (Scaleway DEV1-S), and it is no problem either. It runs happily in the 2 GB RAM that the server has; I
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by nathell 4y ago
Another blog that is a single executable binary ( and a Zip archive at the same time) is Redbean: https://redbean.dev/
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by nathell 4y ago
https://danieljanus.pl Made with a bespoke SSG: https://github.com/nathell/nhp
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by nathell 5y ago
If the content on your blog is valuable, people will discuss it anyway in various places where discussion happens. They will discuss it on HN, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, the fediverse. Everywhere where it’s convenient. I’ve come to the conc
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by nathell 5y ago
In some languages (e.g., Polish), the word for "serif" is the same as the one for "sheriff".
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by nathell 5y ago
> Here’s one such case: Say someone wrote something. You think they’re wrong, so you write a manifesto arguing that they’re wrong. Whoa, whoa, hold your horses. Pause right there. How does that "so" conjunction work? Given that
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by nathell 5y ago
Nikita Prokopov is developing Humble UI which is worth keeping a close eye on. (Yes, it's Clojure, but Java interop is bound to emerge if it builds up a critical mass and catches on.) https://github.com/HumbleUI/Hu
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by nathell 5y ago
From HN guidelines: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
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by nathell 5y ago
Like every other day, I was shopping this morning at my local bakery in Warsaw, Poland. As I was packing my purchases, a woman next in line after me ordered coffee in Ukrainian. (We have it lucky. Polish and Ukrainian are mutually intelligi
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by nathell 5y ago
Some services delayed by up to 8 hours: https://www.facebook.com/Opoznionypociag/posts/1868989756625... This article suggests an outage of an Alstom-operated NTP server to which 19 (out of 33) local traffic contro
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“Time formatting error” caused rail delays in Poland(reuters.com)
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by nathell 5y ago
That’s the adage oft repeated by people who had had a cursory look at Emacs, but haven’t been really using it. In reality, the opposite is true. Emacs is a great editor, but the operating system that it is [0] is lacking in many ways: - per
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by nathell 5y ago
OMG, memories come back. My father brought a C64C back from Germany in 1991, complete with a German edition of the User’s Guide. The sample programs ring a bell. I distinctly remember a 7yo version of myself typing in code for the balloon s
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by nathell 5y ago
Metacomment: I like your approach of explicitly labelling feedback items as bugs, opinions, or ideas. This allows for quick triaging – as a Show HN’er, I’d love to receive feedback in this format. I’m also going to reuse it for the feedback
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by nathell 5y ago
There’s a similar algorithm for indexing words in text collections (I know it from the ‘Managing Gigabytes’ book). Say you want to store the information that the word ‘algorithm’ occurs in documents 42, 2718 and 3141. That’s a sorted list,
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by nathell 5y ago
Seems to work now. Or it might be geographically constrained (I’m in Poland).
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by nathell 5y ago
This is great! Previous HN discussion on him becoming a minister: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29540771
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by nathell 5y ago
It’d be great to learn about other code by prominent politicians. Off the top of my head, I only recall one other example: COBOL on Wheelchair [0], a web micro-framework for GNU COBOL, written by Adrian Zandberg [1], a Polish MP. [0]: http
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by nathell 5y ago
Get this through Jepsen and it’ll be more dependable than most high-hyped DBMSs out there.

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