omoikane

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by omoikane 4mo ago
> Only download the templates you need This is going to save me gigabytes of space :)
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by omoikane 4mo ago
I would think twice before adding those type of features to Anubis. I like how Anubis currently does one thing and do that well. Once you make a captcha-like service that also does useful work, users will eventually perceive it as a usefu
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by omoikane 4mo ago
So that you would notice sites that are serving obnoxious ads, and remember not to visit them in the future. Maybe you are saying "the whole internet is like that now, it's impossible to find good sites without obnoxious ads"
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by omoikane 4mo ago
I find that you have to decide which direction to turn before the turn. Once I got that figured out, it was mostly a race to catch pacman along the long straight path at the bottom edge with the ghost's superior speed.
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by omoikane 4mo ago
Is there a timeline for each of these bugs? I wonder if these bugs had been reported to ffmpeg yet.
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by omoikane 4mo ago
Looks like it outputs PPM and use ffplay as a display driver: https://github.com/icitry/FPS.cob/blob/497867bb6827bcfc32d50...
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by omoikane 4mo ago
Capture the flag has clear objectives while obfuscated C contest does not. I understand improvements in AI for goal-orientated contests, I am not sure what would be considered improvements in open-ended contests with artistic flair. Maybe
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by omoikane 4mo ago
This primarily affects the judges who are opening themselves up to potentially a flood of shoddy code, but given the nature of the contest, I suspect they are very good at differentiating interesting code from low quality code. I think it&#
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by omoikane 4mo ago
There are two Frieren references, the other one is https://www.ioccc.org/2025/yang1/index.html
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by omoikane 4mo ago
Launching git repeatedly was probably not the best example. But it's hard to think of good examples where launching processes repeatedly is the most performant thing to do, probably because launching processes had been expensive and e
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by omoikane 4mo ago
Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19621799 - A fork() in the road (2019-04-10, 178 comments)
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by omoikane 4mo ago
Placing disassembled screws on double sided tape is such a great idea, I am going to try that next time I disassemble my electronics (as opposed dropping everything in a container and spend time finding the original size screws during reass
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by omoikane 4mo ago
What about "ln" (make symbolic links)? https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/ln-i... https://uutils.github.io/coreutils/docs/utils/ln.html
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by omoikane 4mo ago
> It's worth the cost of humans avoiding them That's really unfortunate though. It's like Michael Bolton from Office Space: "No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."
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by omoikane 5mo ago
UTF-8 has the same issue ("overlong encoding") where multiple representations are possible the same code point. Someone proposed a similar tweak to remove the overlapping ranges by adjusting the base offset for byte sequences tha
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by omoikane 5mo ago
The article says "approximately 303 gold bars, each of which weighed approximately one kilogram" I guess the gold bars aren't uniformly sized, which would agree with your ~280kg number.
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by omoikane 5mo ago
> Coral Pixels The version at Github and Google fonts seems old, the one from the font maker's website is at version 1.01, which includes Kanji characters: https://tanukifont.com/sango/ ("sango" is co
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by omoikane 5mo ago
Book is available here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8581/8581-h/8581-h.htm Previous discussion (2023-01-20, 69 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34447945
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by omoikane 5mo ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219992 - Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations (~1 day ago, 414 comments)
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by omoikane 5mo ago
> pay 40℅ tax Offtopic but I thought your percent looked weird. Turns out, that's the "care of" symbol (℅, U+2105) and not percent (%, U+0025).
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by omoikane 5mo ago
I think it should be "10 keywords" plus "11 types". In C standards, type names such as "void" would also be listed as keywords. Also, the toplevel documentation seems to be missing examples for "pub"
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by omoikane 5mo ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40469711 - Ian Clarke explains the next generation of Freenet [video] (2023)
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by omoikane 5mo ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_arithmetic
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by omoikane 5mo ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788857 - Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) (2026-04-16, 111 comments) By the way: > After 25 years of dual-stack effort, IPv6 still carries a minority of global traffic.
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by omoikane 5mo ago
Hackers have an incentive to destroy the data as promised, because if it becomes a trend where the data is leaked despite the ransom being paid, no one would pay ransoms in the future. Obviously this doesn't stop hackers from selling t
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by omoikane 5mo ago
There would have been a server split, and half of the people would be chatting among themselves wondering why the some people suddenly got disconnected, while being unaware that there might be a server problem because they can still continu
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by omoikane 5mo ago
I also use Inkscape for pixel art. There are two settings under document properties that make it easier to draw in screen pixel units: - Set display units to "px" - Set scale (px per user unit) to 1.0 I have a script that convert
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by omoikane 5mo ago
> a simple hand-crafted SVG I have also had trouble with some generated SVGs, for example: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/5317 Part of the problem is that Inkscape is too good, and the
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by omoikane 5mo ago
List of changes: https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/NetHack-5.0/doc/fixe...
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by omoikane 6mo ago
> inspired by HolyC by Terry Davis Definitely was not expecting this reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS#HolyC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis

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