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by nathell 9mo ago
https://danieljanus.pl Contains the links to my blogs, my poetry translations, and some other assorted stuff.
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by nathell 9mo ago
Java in the terminal works exquisitely well already, and it’s called Babashka. Clojure rocks, Bash reaches, and Java provides a rock-solid foundation.
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Online interpreter of SAKO, a Polish 1959 programming language(sako-zam41.netlify.app)
2 points by nathell 9mo ago|1 comments
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by nathell 9mo ago
About SAKO: [0] Written (vibe-coded, I think) by Adrian Zandberg [1], a prominent Polish politician. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAKO_(programming_language) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by nathell 9mo ago
Another GPD MicroPC owner here. It’s not quite as comfortable as a normal-sized keyboard, but much more comfortable than it looks. It’s quite decent for occasional recreational programming, and I’ve also used it to write daily blog posts fr
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by nathell 9mo ago
A few years ago, I spotted a guy on the underground in Warsaw, hacking on some code in a language I didn't recognize, but it was definitely assembly of some sort. Being shy, I resorted to throwing curious glimpses at his laptop for a f
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by nathell 10mo ago
Which key pieces of IP are worth the exponential fees?
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by nathell 10mo ago
Fortunately, the Java ecosystem isn’t JS where breakage is so common that you have to be extra careful about the version of Node you’re using. As a Clojure programmer, I have never seen a case where it mattered which vendor my JVM was comin
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by nathell 11mo ago
Don’t even mention COBOL.
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Kindle PDF Annotator(marcinmilkowski.pl)
1 points by nathell 11mo ago|0 comments
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by nathell 1y ago
Is this written by Arthur Whitney himself?
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by nathell 1y ago
Authentic haiku needn't have seventeen morae in total, either. See, e.g., Bashō's crow haiku, arguably one of the genre-defining poems [0]. Plus, English is on average terser than Japanese; I've read somewhere that, in Englis
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by nathell 1y ago
It’s Verdana. Fun fact: the article uses U+03C0 GREEK SMALL LETTER PI (π), but Unicode also has several pi codepoints meant to be used specifically for math. E.g., U+1D6D1 MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL PI (let’s see whether HN strips it: [edit: i
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by nathell 1y ago
Yep. Existence of "the best engineers" would imply existence of The One True Metric by which you can judge the person in all context; but that's at best an oversimplification. The actual metrics (not necessarily easily quanti
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by nathell 1y ago
I keep a handwritten diary and a handwritten blog. Not that my penmanship is particularly exquisite – in fact it’s pretty mediocre – but handwriting by its nature is a very focusing activity for me. It’s one of the life hacks for my ADHD.
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by nathell 1y ago
If you can run it, then you can REPL it, no matter how deeply nested. Scope-capture ( https://github.com/vvvvalvalval/scope-capture ) has been probably the most important tool in my box. Hope jank supports it eventually.
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by nathell 1y ago
OK, I have a fun one. I was a rookie back then, it was 2007, and the cloud was only beginning to take off. My company had a physical server room. Automated CI was not quite as big back then as it is now; we had some in-house CI-ish faciliti
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by nathell 1y ago
Thumbs up for the philosophy. This is the way.
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by nathell 1y ago
array[1..25, 1..80] of Word absolute $B800:0000. Arrays in TP were laid out in row-major order, and each character was represented by two bytes, one denoting the character itself and the other the attributes (foreground/background colo
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by nathell 1y ago
My pet peeve with C++ RAII is that it uses destructors for cleanup, so it can’t throw an exception from within the destructor if that fails somehow. E.g. from the manual page of close(2): > A careful programmer will check the return valu
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by nathell 1y ago
It’s something like 130. I was educated in Poland, so never passed SAT, but did well at the ~equivalent matura. At the uni, I was a mediocre-ish student, though. I approached the math olympiad back in high school, but found it too challengi
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by nathell 1y ago
I learned to recognize individual letters at ~18 months old, and read fluently at ~3yo (by way of adults responding to my curiosity about letters). I’m 41 now; AMA.
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by nathell 1y ago
Alternatively, use visidata ( https://www.visidata.org/ ) in the terminal. Supports xls/xlsx too! One of my favourite tools for terminal data exploration (along with jq, fx, and jet).
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by nathell 1y ago
Which is a combination of lisp-case and CamelCase. Neat!
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by nathell 1y ago
They also at one time blocked the author on Twitter. https://x.com/zverok/status/1823757570240340466
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by nathell 1y ago
Here’s another one that I made: https://danieljanus.pl/wladcyslow/ – rearrange 9-letter words into grids of 5-letter words
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by nathell 1y ago
It actually predates ISC, dating back to 2001. These days you can play actual Scrabble on Kurnik, too! ISC also supports Polish (with OSPS).
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by nathell 1y ago
From [0]: > Rev. Robert Prevost bears responsibility for allowing former Providence Catholic H.S. President and priest Richard McGrath to stay at the high school amidst sex abuse allegations that dated back to the 1990s. > That's
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by nathell 1y ago
Some related stuff: In 2004, Gavin Barraclough’s mini-OS [0] won the IOCCC, packing a 32-bit multitasking operating system for x86 computers, with GUI and filesystem, support for loading and executing user applications in ELF binary format,
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by nathell 1y ago
> This is also a chess puzzle marked as very hard that a person who is good at chess should give themselves fifteen minutes to solve. Is it, though? I play at around 1000 Elo – I have a long-standing interest in chess, but my brain invar

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