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by nathell 5y ago
Wow. That was unexpectedly, profoundly beautiful. Not so much a game as a work of art, definitely worth some time to experience. Makes me want to donate to the authors. From the colophon [0]: > Each experience of Wayfinder is as unique a
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by nathell 5y ago
Skyscraper, my scraping and restructuring framework: https://github.com/nathell/skyscraper I’ve used it to build datasets for various research purposes, and also an archive tool for the now-extinct soup.io: https:&#x2
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by nathell 5y ago
At least it’s not COVID-19
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by nathell 5y ago
How about „When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton”? Arguably less mindblowing. The fi
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by nathell 5y ago
APFS still defaults to case-preserving: [nathell@macmini /tmp]$ echo first > A [nathell@macmini /tmp]$ echo second > a [nathell@macmini /tmp]$ cat A second
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by nathell 5y ago
Poland is directly affected, as the FR4978 with Pratasievič on board was a SP-RSM belonging to Ryanair Sun and registered in Poland.
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by nathell 5y ago
That's clearly wrong. It lists Halt and Catch Fire with the mnemonic HACF, instead of the canonical HCF.
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Weekend hacking: wireless charging for a HP-25 calculator(partsbox.com)
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by nathell 5y ago
> Wouldn't it become rather difficult to do identity statements without "is"? Not really, depending on the language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula
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The big-O notation is unnecessarily over-complicated and confusing(facebook.com)
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by nathell 5y ago
> .out binary format was amazing - binaries used MUCH less memory, and were faster in general in comparison to modern "ELF". I'd be interested in seeing this claim backed by some data. I remember running Monkey Linux (ELF-
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by nathell 5y ago
I won't. Under my definition, it causes the page to stop being a document and start being an application. Being able to detect JS can be useful sometimes, but, to me, it doesn't belong in a boilerplate. http://blog.dani
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by nathell 5y ago
Well, I vividly remember reporting this bug against ws-xmlrpc 14 years ago: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ws-xmlrpc-dev/20070... as well as the mental effort it took me to figure this out – by no metric
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by nathell 5y ago
There's https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug (I haven't tried it out yet, but looks very promising).
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by nathell 5y ago
Which is why EDN is so much better for config.
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by nathell 5y ago
I made one too, 20 years ago! http://pliki.danieljanus.pl/btetris.bin (Use qemu-system-i386 -fda btetris.bin if you want to try it out.) Not really an OS, I just squeezed an implementation of Tetris into a 512-byte boot se
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COBOL on Wheelchair(github.com)
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by nathell 6y ago
I think there isn't an official one, but since 2016 there's been a major version released approximately every two years, and a minor version every couple of months. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/hist
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by nathell 6y ago
This reminded me of Theydon Bois, a village just off Greater London on the Central Line. From Wikipedia: > A notable characteristic of the village is its almost complete absence of street lighting. Villagers have consistently voted again
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by nathell 6y ago
> This is a deliberately misleading statement > the same kind of bias > another willful misrepresentation These phrases, as well as the whole last paragraph, contribute no meritorical value to the comment, but are aggresively vocal
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by nathell 6y ago
Out of curiosity, which commercial CL implementation would that be? LispWorks? Allegro?
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by nathell 6y ago
Haven't used SBCL in a while, so just to confirm: is this a better alternative to SB-EXT:SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE?
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by nathell 6y ago
In 1996, I wrote programs in TP 6.0 on a 486DX2/66 with 4 MB RAM. The IDE weighed in at a few megs, compiled my stuff in less than a second, and produced standalone .EXEs that ran on every DOS PC. In 2021, I'm writing programs for
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by nathell 6y ago
Oh yeah, submodules can bite. At my previous job, we tried open-sourcing a part of our monorepo using them, which resulted in a clunky workflow. So we whipped up a syncing bot integrating with GitHub that would propagate changes both ways:
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by nathell 6y ago
There also is a backup API: https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html
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by nathell 6y ago
So happy to see Przekrój on HN! Started in 1945, it's to the Polish culture what New Yorker is to the American one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przekr%C3%B3j
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by nathell 6y ago
Sure there is. One of the proposed successors to ASDF the Common Lisp package manager is XCVB ( https://common-lisp.net/project/xcvb/ ), the eXtensible Component Verifier and Builder.
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by nathell 6y ago
A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician are all watching a house that seems empty. Presently, two people enter the house, and after a while three people come back out. The biologist says: "Clearly, there was a breeding." The
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by nathell 6y ago
Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969), the namesake of Sierpiński's triangle, was famously a proponent of zero-based indexing, including in everyday life. Sadly, I can only find sources in Polish that corroborate this [0]. [0]: https:/&#
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by nathell 6y ago
Can you share the project?

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