pickledcods

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by pickledcods 6y ago
Thank you for pointing out my grammatical failure. Tom's work is amazing, I read it and was really impressed. There are not many people who swim on this level of coding. What I meant was that I knew that executables consisting of print
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by pickledcods 6y ago
As was noted by jstrieb, there exists a compiler that does that, so basically any native program. There is no challenge in that. A real challenge would be, how far can you cripple an instruction set such that it still can do something usefu
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by pickledcods 6y ago
ASCII executables have been made in the past and use any displayable ASCII character. The difference with those is that this project is exclusively alphanumeric. To my knowledge that is a first.
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Show HN: Smile - executable ASCII art (2011 remastered)(github.com)
25 points by pickledcods 6y ago|7 comments
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by pickledcods 6y ago
Hi HN! When ASCII art is the executable.... Executables consisting exclusively of alpha-numeric characters. The digits "0123456789" are used for dark, the letters "acemnorsuvwxz" for light. Removing instructions that are
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by pickledcods 6y ago
Things I haven't considered. Thanks.
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Ask HN: Has too much coding changed my lingual skills
2 points by pickledcods 6y ago|3 comments
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by pickledcods 6y ago
CSS "visual formatting" was broken since day 1 due to inconsistency. Take for example "height: auto", a key component in vertical (absolute) positioning. According to section 10.6.4 "Absolutely positioned, non-repla
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by pickledcods 6y ago
> and in 30 years, I've hardly used any of it. So you don't see the sine in the sky from sunrise to sunset?
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by pickledcods 6y ago
Or... what I also encountered and found to be the hardest to reverse engineer, having a block decode in the interrupt vector table using all registers including stack pointers as decode keys. That meant that making a mistake would result in
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by pickledcods 6y ago
True, I started optimistic seeding much potential in possibilities to extend HTML only to discover that embedded javascript only works when the SVG is the main URL target or wrapped in <object> or <iframe>. Sad actually.
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by pickledcods 6y ago
You can use scripted SVG in combination with github pages HTML using: <embed src="scripted-svg.svg" type="image/svg+xml" width="200" height="200"> I couldn't get it working with README
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by pickledcods 6y ago
I believe that Google pushed DoH to track your cross-site browsing. TLS hides your URL, and blockers can break adsense tracking and/or any other call-home backlinks. Using DoH, especially one served by an advert company is just signing
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by pickledcods 6y ago
Thank you. It's mailto:xyzzy%40rockingship.org
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by pickledcods 6y ago
And then age... I'm an eighties whizz-kid, educated hardware and software background with borderline epiphanic understanding of computer technology. From firmware to systems where peoples lives literally depend on. In 2000 jumped on a
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by pickledcods 6y ago
You can catch that with a pass-on clause. The idea behind this is to stop commercially exploitation of your contribution to FOSS with intention to keep everything for themselves and keeping the FOSS philosophy for those who do care.
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by pickledcods 6y ago
How about a new type of licence. If you contribute to FOSS its copyleft, otherwise if you want to use it closed source its a copyright 10% revenue based commercial licence.
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by pickledcods 6y ago
The epiphany I experienced with rebasing is that this is an incorrect visualisation of the workflow. It's not like you create a separate branch and work independent of master. It's more like working on a kind of local pre-release
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by pickledcods 6y ago
I believe there is still potential. Dominant TCP implementations bet on the single horse "TCP Congestion Control" which is a different breed for a different situation.
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by pickledcods 6y ago
Back in 1996 I developed a TCP/IP stack from the ground up based on the the DARPA and RFC specifications from that era. The impression I has from the quality of consistency was that TCP/IP was a students project. Delayed-ACKs was
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by pickledcods 6y ago
Really sorry to hear that. I do not have such a device and without. If I knew which engine was being used I might have a starting point to figure out what might be happening. edit: I noticed that the QR needs to contain a message or it will
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by pickledcods 6y ago
That might be true. What would you suggest as a better description.
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by pickledcods 6y ago
Hiding information in plain sight :) Animations. Real life Games. Information stickers (like my photo containing contact information).
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by pickledcods 6y ago
It uses dithering by Spacial Colour Quantification to get the best photorealistic 93x93/186x186 colour image. The title plays on that the QR can be near photo and not some pixelated icon.
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by pickledcods 6y ago
Ultimately it should be made possible to do it locally. Current setting is low-quality and takes about 1-2 seconds. Mid-setting about 20 seconds and high about 20 minutes.
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by pickledcods 6y ago
In the two hours triggered 2546 request to generate a QR. And it literally killed my nano instance.
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by pickledcods 6y ago
It should be inline replaced. I'll add a link to the final image name in case the connection breaks.
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by pickledcods 6y ago
It's a front/back-end system. I'm currently running the backend on a c5a.xlarge instance.
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by pickledcods 6y ago
Please be patient, I'm adding extra workers to the instance. Old instance died because it exceeded limits.
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by pickledcods 6y ago
Thank You!

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