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   Sadist – An old DOS game from 1998(github.com)

   59 points by nathell 3y ago|25 comments
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   by nathell 3y ago

   Do you have any source for the 90% figure? Some casual players do indeed use the alternative names, but pretty much everyone I know uses „hetman” for the queen. (I’ve even heard the colloquial abbreviation „heć”.) Literature uses the offici
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   by nathell 3y ago

   https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.html
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   by nathell 3y ago

   > Our last function is strcmp. It looks at two strings and determines whether they are equal to each other or not. If they are it returns 0. If they aren’t it returns 1. No it doesn’t. RETURN VALUES The strcmp() and strncm
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   by nathell 4y ago

   „Love Will Tear Us Apart” might not be my favourite Joy Division song (that title goes to „Atmosphere”), but still I’m delighted to find this on HN #1. Splendidly executed. I watched in awe, then smiled at the final „Again” being rendered a
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   by nathell 4y ago

   Make wasn’t designed to be a task runner. It can be used as one, but it doesn’t make (pun not intended) a very good one, and it doesn’t have the best syntax, either. Make is an artifact updater. Although it’s not its main focus, Peter Mille
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   ChatGPT just helped me tweak my Emacs configuration(twitter.com)

   3 points by nathell 4y ago|0 comments
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   by nathell 4y ago

   I like Matthew Butterick’s approach. He sells whole families at a time (on a pay-once basis), offers discounts if you get the whole library, and the license is short, to the point, and reasonable: https://mbtype.com/license&
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   by nathell 4y ago

   I've been mostly using React from ClojureScript, via reagent and re-frame. I've mostly avoided the hype of hooks, except in interop where they've been a pain. And I second the sentiment of Mike Thompson, who says [0]: > Hu
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    by nathell 4y ago

    Came here to say pretty much this. Technical issues come and go; open communication is a core part of the company culture, and builds up trust.
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    by nathell 4y ago

    Postcodes in Poland are much less granular than the UK ones, but you can still get by in more rural areas on the assumption of local postmen knowing the people. My parents used to routinely successfully receive letters addressed just <my
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    by nathell 4y ago

    Also, Russian post successfully deciphering and delivering a mojibaked address: https://twitter.com/notrevenant/status/993170640625598470
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    Berkshire Hathaway Inc(berkshirehathaway.com)

    1 points by nathell 4y ago|0 comments
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    by nathell 4y ago

    Stoicism in general has aged very well. When I read Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, I was amazed at how relevant the thing still is, even though it’s 1.8K+ years old at this point.
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    by nathell 4y ago

    One of my favourite hacks I did recently was in 2020 when soup.io was unexpectedly discontinued with short notice; to promote my scraping framework, Skyscraper, I quickly whipped up a content downloader. It produced an archive of assets, an
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    by nathell 4y ago

    Marcin Ciura has famously discovered many new Polish pangrams: https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2018/06/24/perfect-polish-... https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/more-
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    by nathell 4y ago

    It is easy enough to wrap libc's qsort() with LD_PRELOAD, sure. The problem is heterogeneity: qsort() is by far not the only sort implementation the machine is running. Even identifying them all might be a daunting task, not to mention
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    by nathell 4y ago

    This got me thinking about sorting. I wonder how many times per day (or, indeed, per second) my computer does sorting of any kind. I just checked a largish codebase I'm working on, and about 0.12% SLOCs invoke the standard library&#x27
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    by nathell 4y ago

    I used to run Autosummarized HN, which would summarize Twitter submissions as something along the way of: „Twitter has detected that JavaScript is disabled in the browser, and asks the user to enable JavaScript or switch to a supported brow
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    by nathell 4y ago

    Anchorhead! My favourite game of all time.
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    by nathell 4y ago

    I guess it boils down to the difference in prompts. Mine is just "Summarize the following article in one sentence: %s\n\n", whereas Summate’s asks for more detail. Also, I’m on text-davinci-002, which tends to produce less verbose
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    by nathell 4y ago

    I did too! See a link elsewhere in this thread.
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    by nathell 4y ago

    Related: Autosummarized HN – https://danieljanus.pl/autosummarized-hn/
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    by nathell 4y ago

    Me: this task is big, I’m not at all sure whether it’ll take a week or two, let’s better subdivide it into subtasks and estimate each one in turn This guy: I am pretty sure I can get done in ~5 years Seriously, though, fingers crossed! I no
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    by nathell 4y ago

    Sure! Spec: https://github.com/edn-format/edn Example (linter config): https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo/blob/634294183a0aa2ca...
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    by nathell 4y ago

    EDN’s my favourite config format. + Simple (like JSON) + Has comments + Extensible + Built-in sets, UUIDs & timestamps + Well-suited to configuration (cf. Aero) + Lispy (well, Clojurey) - Lispy (well, Clojurey) - Handwavey specs - Not w
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    by nathell 4y ago

    Nitpick: it's ʻOumuamua, not 'Oumuamua. The initial letter is the ʻokina (U+02BB), representing a glottal stop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOkina
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    by nathell 4y ago

    My initial interpretation of the title was something that _displays_ the game inside the URL, using Unicode block characters.
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    by nathell 4y ago

    My favourite Crowley song is “Crowleymass” by Current 93. Adequately quirky.
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    by nathell 4y ago

    Thanks so much! I’ve sent you an email.