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by omoikane 2mo ago
Related, Oscar Toledo also made a tiny Klondike Solitaire program for IOCCC, I wonder if it was inspired by this one: https://nanochess.org/klondike_in_c.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450024 -
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by omoikane 2mo ago
> Sanjay (who just joined Twitter) Clarification: this comment is saying Sanjay Ghemawat joined Twitter as a user recently (new account @Sanjay_Ghemawat as of July 2026), as opposed to Sanjay working for Twitter the company.
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by omoikane 2mo ago
It's probably not that different from rangefinder style cameras[1]. I don't think the problem with this one is with its transparent viewfinder, it's more that its output quality just aren't that great according to someo
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by omoikane 2mo ago
I am glad they also cloned the snake game. https://github.com/8bitbubsy/ft2-clone/blob/master/src/ft2_n...
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by omoikane 2mo ago
I also liked how the "Be" in "to Be continued" resembles BeOS.
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by omoikane 2mo ago
It sounds like you are looking for Happy Vertical People Transporters with Genuine People Personalities.
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by omoikane 2mo ago
> Destination Dispatch [...] are in general worse I wonder if this is an artifact of how the author used random destinations. I worked in a building that used Destination Dispatch, and the common travel pattern seemed to be: - Everyone
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by omoikane 2mo ago
I thought this article was going to be about graphical imagery as opposed to textual elements. I was specifically thinking about certain levels in Pragmata where they had this somewhat broken and inconsistent look that was meant to resembl
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by omoikane 2mo ago
The contest ended a few days ago, some teams have already published their writeups. Usage of LLM-based tools appear to have mixed results. For example, I think #23 place claimed to have used nothing but AI[1], while the #24 place seems to
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by omoikane 3mo ago
In that sense, this game is similar to Mosaic[1] where the clues are all initially visible, except in Mosaic the count includes all 9 cells since black squares can be placed on the numbers themselves. [1] https://www.chiark.green
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by omoikane 3mo ago
I think the number actually runs out at 69999: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/documentation/gp-data-formats.ph... In the linked bluesky thread, they have been estimating when they will need 6 digit numbers, and seems
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by omoikane 3mo ago
If you have control over the HTTP server, a different technique is to set "refresh" in the response header[1], which makes the client fetch new animation frames periodically. This is the technique used in a 2013 IOCCC entry to sh
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by omoikane 3mo ago
Related, a collection of tiny chess programs by Oscar Toledo: https://nanochess.org/chess.html
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by omoikane 3mo ago
This is an interesting tool and maybe it works for the songs you need, but for classical guitar songs where printed scores are generally available, I would rather just buy those from some reputable publisher (e.g. Zen-On or Doremi). It has
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by omoikane 3mo ago
I hope this eventually ends up in https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ so I can see how unique my math functions are relative to a larger population.
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by omoikane 3mo ago
Not sure about <blink>, but I sampled a few random sites from their gallery[1] and all of them have <marquee>. <marquee> is deprecated[2] and no longer scrolls in Firefox, but still works in Chrome. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by omoikane 3mo ago
Looks like they illustrate the dual nature of how line intersections in the grid map to equilateral polygons in the tiles. It wasn't obvious to me until I read the "how it works" section. https://github.com/a
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by omoikane 3mo ago
I don't think most browsers enable transliteration out of the box. Lynx does[1], but it does that using iconv, which I think doesn't use UTS #35 transliteration rules. [1] https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.9.
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by omoikane 3mo ago
I like how retirement progress is tracked in a "freedom bar". I have heard that amount of money being described with a different f-word.
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by omoikane 3mo ago
I can't find any restriction on the submission language, maybe that should be explicitly spelled out. 1000 words in German would carry a different amount of information from 1000 words in English or 1000 characters in Japanese.
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by omoikane 3mo ago
A related concept in Chinese is 對號入座: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%99%9F%E5%85%A5%E... An example might be some person A saying "only an idiot with this set of very specific negative attributes woul
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by omoikane 3mo ago
Also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwq-xr2fDBU
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by omoikane 3mo ago
It's not obvious if this is a wishlist or endorsement for a product that actually exists. The tone makes it sound like a real product, but if I search for "Windows Lite", I get Windows LTSC, or some downloadable Windows-like
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by omoikane 3mo ago
I have been making recordings for some of the code I wrote since 2011, mostly because I like the visual effect of how the code came together, but I guess it also proved that I wrote those code manually. A recent example can be found here:
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by omoikane 3mo ago
> U+2E3B three em dash I had to look up why this exists, and apparently it was added in Unicode 6.1 (2012) because some style guide required it, and using consecutive U+2014 em dashes isn't sufficient because that might not render a
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by omoikane 4mo ago
Reminds me of this story about every app being sluggish on a relatively new machine, compared to equivalent apps running on a 20+ year old machine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983 - Fast machines, slow machine
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by omoikane 4mo ago
> https://hackernewstrends.com/who-is-hiring Currently it says "no job-post mentions in this window" for everything. Transient error?
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by omoikane 4mo ago
Lua 5.3 (2015-01-12) added the bitwise operators: https://www.lua.org/versions.html#5.3 https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.4.2 Looks like LuaJIT is catching up, but calling these "s
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by omoikane 4mo ago
> Programmer A sees duplication. This step should also be parameterized by how many times the duplication has occurred. Refactoring preemptively may lead to poor abstractions, but not refactoring after seeing the exact same thing tens o
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by omoikane 4mo ago
I can't find any information on https://rtalabel.org/ to explain why that specific string, but I appreciate that the string being unique made it easy to find the official website, compared to something generic like &qu

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