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Interesting. IIRC, at least some of those (Descent and Descent II) have source available.
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by npsimons 6y ago
Seen someone recreate a Sound Blaster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25029727
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I really like having sunlight after work, but as a teenager in high school, we had "zero hour" marching band practice before the sun rose, and over one hundred students had no problem making rehearsals. I think making the argume
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> And just to top it off, you'll be forcing a lot of kids to walk to school in the dark. That sounds like a problem of school starting too early. Honestly, I like having sunlight after work, so I can do things out of doors like bo
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My use case is emacs, git and ssh so that I can have my org files on my phone and synchronize them with my other computers. And no, the org apps aren't good enough, plus there are other features of emacs that are nice to have at all ti
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> I think this is definitely exacerbated by the general lockdown situation on top of just working from home. Yeah, people need to realize, this is not normal. Even I, as a highly distractable/sensitive introvert have had trouble c
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by npsimons 6y ago
Honestly, I'm not in contact with any of my exes. It's not on purpose, we just grew apart and have moved on. If we happen upon a chance meeting, I'm sure we would be friendly with each other, but we're not going out of o
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by npsimons 6y ago
> It's a bit of a red flag if someone is in complete radio silence with all their exes, frankly. Why? > I'm surprised you dated enough that there's a "breakup" if you don't enjoy each other enough to have
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by npsimons 6y ago
I'm wondering if there is a difference between gas and electric. Of course, you can burn food and generate smoke on both, but I think just heating things up with electricity will by default produce less pollution (and yes, before any s
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by npsimons 6y ago
Why? The original site is still up.
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Lot of comments here, many good, so I'll try not to duplicate, but: 1. Emacs is a hurdle, but one that's worth it when you use SLIME. 2. I went through Barski's "Land of Lisp" and enjoyed it, but couldn't
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> Not sure if people should be worried about possible plastic they might be eating or the loads of junk food they're stuffing themselves with every day. Why not both?
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This also helps reduce the mercury in one's diet, unless one was solely eating things like sardines.
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Consistency for readability is a virtue; did you miss that part? And it's not about "gating" development with "personal preferences", what a strawman. If someone can't be bothered to run the formatting tool i
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Some of use use Emacs+OrgMode in Termux. Then synchronize with git+ssh. Works well enough for my needs.
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by npsimons 6y ago
I honestly love that Go has a formatter included, and the style is specified. Similarly with black[0] for Python. I used to care terribly about style, until I realized I just care about consistency and readability. Otherwise I don't gi
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by npsimons 6y ago
> Properly analyzing an idea takes time away from other things you could be doing, and some ideas are so outlandish that your life will almost certainly be better by simply making the choice to spend as little time as possible flirting w
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> (consider that some Emacs power-users used to do most things in Emacs, including email, Usenet, etc.) We still do . Consider that I have coordinates for weather in my .emacs, and yes, I should probably externalize that, but FFS, shari
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by npsimons 6y ago
Some people who are more accomplished than you are shitty coaches though. Some rock climbers I've known come immediately to mind.
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> I guess the author has never heard of vim-wiki? The author, as well as most everyone in the comments here, have apparently never heard of org-mode. Yeah, I can understand that for some people emacs is a non-starter, but trust me, if yo
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git commit -am "Synchronizing." && git push
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> One day I'll just read the manual from start to finish and try to start properly from there, one day. Define "manual", because I've been using org-mode since (greps .org files) . . . 2010, and I still haven't r
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Oh look, someone reinvented org-mode.
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> is so buttersmooth and no other setup has given me such an seamless interoperability between an editor and an OS . . . This is the most underrated killer feature. You've just described what it feels like to be an emacs user. It&#x
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by npsimons 6y ago
The commentary on adding OO to Lisp, I feel, is still very illuminating. As for "not reposting to HN", I take that as "don't clutter up the front page with something that's been posted multiple times already and has
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Same. And PG isn't the only one. Plus, there are a plethora of books being published on CL, and enough libraries I'm running into paradox of choice in some domains.
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by npsimons 6y ago
The Lisp Curse. (for the lucky 10,000: http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html )
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Better still, grapes. Juicing removes fiber.
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Here's the thing: there are so many websites that would just simply be better without JS. So many simple blog posts that all the content is simple plain text and does not need anything beyond HTML and maybe some CSS. Us JS "ha
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> but if everyone can get their heads out of the hobbyist-tinkerer mindset for a moment and consider that lifetime TCO is a real and meaningful consideration for businesses This is the hard thing for me. I just like having so much contr

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