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by nathell 2y ago
For a history of IF between 1972–1999, see the Inform Designer's Manual Edition 4, Chapter 46. https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/html/s46.html
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by nathell 2y ago
Self-promo: not a daily challenge, but a quick word game https://danieljanus.pl/wladcyslow/
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by nathell 2y ago
Someone should make a programming language called ‘ever’ with a reeeally slow interpreter, so that everyone else can now legit claim that their language is faster than ever.
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by nathell 2y ago
Remember that before Winamp, there was DOSamp! I used to use version 0.8. Playback was jerky on a 486DX2/66 but once I upgraded to a Pentium, it was smooth sailing.
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by nathell 2y ago
> C'mon, it's 2024. There's got to be some AI in here, right? Wrong. This is a perfect way of convincing me _not_ to use the tool. I'd take dumb, dependable, predictable, easy-to-explain tools over "smart",
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by nathell 2y ago
Yes. I’ve been toying around with a similar idea and wanting to prototype it for a while, but somebody has beaten me to it. I’ll definitely keep an eye on this. One thing I’d add is specific prompting for a participant’s intent in discussio
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by nathell 2y ago
Bash is a Lisp, too. https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2014/05/20/you-already-use-lisp-...
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by nathell 2y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/214/
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by nathell 2y ago
Remember it’s mostly false: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/
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by nathell 2y ago
See also San Escobar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Escobar With a delightfully detailed map (featuring San Serriffe as a neighbour!): https://www.polityka.pl/multimedia/_resource/res&#x
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by nathell 2y ago
Where do I donate to the authors?
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by nathell 2y ago
Kamila Szewczyk is working on a bzip3 to improve the state-of-the-art in the domain of compressors based on Burrows-Wheeler: https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3 I’m keeping fingers crossed for the project. Especiall
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The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper(twitter.com)
452 points by nathell 2y ago|286 comments
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by nathell 2y ago
https://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html (written by Andrew Eldritch himself, like the whole site!) Also: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pron surfed, weak and weary, Over many a strange and spurious
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by nathell 3y ago
It makes Rich Hickey’s „Open Source Is Not About You” [0] particularly poignant. As a hobbyist developer/maintainer of open source projects, I strive to remember that this is my gift to the world, and it comes with no strings attached.
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by nathell 3y ago
Yes! My Clojure scraping framework [0] facilitates that kind of workflow, and I’ve been using it to scrape/restructure massive sites (millions of pages). I guess I’m going to write a blog post about scraping with it at scale. Although
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by nathell 3y ago
That web still exists. Even though it has been eclipsed by the siloized monstrous goos, those independent, quirky, greenfield sites are still very much alive.
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by nathell 3y ago
It’s a very fancy autocomplete, and I treat it as such. It can be a very useful tool, but I tend to take a conservative stance and stay clear of the hype.
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by nathell 3y ago
Author here – thanks! This is an interesting avenue of exploration that I hadn’t thought about. Exactly the kind of feedback I hoped for. I’ll try and give it a shot.
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Show HN: Cssfact – Lossy CSS compressor based on binary matrix factorization(github.com)
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by nathell 3y ago
Reminds me of the crusty C64 that was still being used in production a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10951404
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by nathell 3y ago
Also, why on earth would this metric be important? Failure is a fact of life; one needs to experience it many, many times on the road to grandmastery. I’m pretty sure Bach had. It makes more sense to cherish than deplore it.
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by nathell 3y ago
I’m so happy that this article mentions Bajtek. It was one of the most important, if not _the_ most important, source of computing knowledge in my early childhood. I was born in 1984, got my first computer – a C64C – in 1991, and my dad pro
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by nathell 3y ago
Just yesterday I watched a talk [0] at WarsawJS about LavaMoat [1], a set of tools to protect against malicious behaviour from npm dependencies. Guess it’s time to look into it deeper. [0]: https://naugtur.pl/pres3/lava
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by nathell 3y ago
The author, Kaz Kylheku, hangs out on HN as kazinator.
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by nathell 3y ago
This article always reminds me of this excerpt from re-frame’s docs [0]: > Now, you think and design abstractly for a living, and that repetition will feel uncomfortable. It will call to you like a Siren: "refaaaaactoooor meeeee&quo
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by nathell 3y ago
I’m a die-hard ripgrep fan, but just recently found ugrep looking for one feature that ripgrep lacks: searching in zip archives (without decompressing them to disk). Ugrep has that. In my case, I’m working with zipped corpora of millions of
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by nathell 3y ago
I’m 39. I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD/AS about 11 months ago, after having seen a psychiatrist complaining about chronic fatigue (cf. my Ask HN from two years ago [0]). Methylphenidate has helped _immensely_. As has accepting the wirin
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by nathell 3y ago
Written by Adrian Zandberg [1], a co-leader of a Polish political party (Razem) that’s set to enter the government following the recent election. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zandberg
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by nathell 3y ago
Poe's letters (a full collection available from the EAP Society of Baltimore, https://eapoe.org/works/letters/index.htm ), while for the most part very mundane, provide a unique insight into a most stormy life

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