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by rsaarelm 3y ago
I've been using names of chemical elements. They're nice since they come with abbreviations and associated numbers. So if there's host 'gallium', you know that it can also be referenced as 'ga' and that it
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
People have been trying to do this for at least two hundred years, the Jefferson Bible was completed in 1820. We still can't point to any clear successes.
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
Here's how this could be done as a HN-side feature with zero interaction with archive.is servers: * Compile a list of domains like nytimes.com that have soft paywalls. * When a link like https://example.com/ is submitt
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
You can go in the browser URL field and type "archive.is/" in front of the URL and press enter after step 2. It'll either redirect you to an existing archive page or lets you create one if one doesn't exist.
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Maybe Everything Is a Coroutine(adam.nels.onl)
160 points by rsaarelm 3y ago|81 comments
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
I realized I had an old apk installed and grabbed the newest thumb-key from the site, and it does indeed have a ME-compatible layout now so I don't need to relearn everything. Not having gesture-based capitalization still irks me thoug
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
Thanks for the post. I had also been using MessagEase for years and was blindsided by the popup and confused how there's almost nothing about it online. So now I'm googling for messagease stuff from the last week and found my way
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
Meditation before bed and going to bed early after taking some melatonin tends to give me more vivid dreams. The wake-back-to-bed technique often works to give me short lucid dreams. I think the trick is that when you wake yourself up in th
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
The games from the 00s are pretty much just "that one random game someone released this year", but it's neat how in the 10s they actually start looking different again and often really cutting edge and something you wouldn&#x
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
Some fun hard cases rdacomp/CollapseOS A Forth operating system for 8-bit computers Co-dfns/Co-dfns A compiler in APL Xe/TempleOS A very special operating system
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
Some notable open-source games and engines I'd like to see: NetHack/NetHack angband/angband crawl/crawl tmewett/BrogueCE wesnoth/wesnoth freeciv/freeciv godotengine/godot CleverRaven
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
What's the deal with the "headline ... in a California newspaper", "Scientists say that mice cannot be made to look like human beings"? Is this referencing some actual thing or did he just make it up?
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
Looks like there's an unmerged PR on the third-party hnrss project that would add this: https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/pull/84
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
> I predict many people will dislike the fact that they'll almost certainly be dead (and in an unrecoverable state, before anyone gets their hopes up) Cryonics is a thing already.
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
Apparently it held two screens in RAM, a single 16x32 is only 512 characters. https://gwcohn.com/tvtypewriter/index.htm
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Why checked exceptions failed(borretti.me)
108 points by rsaarelm 3y ago|314 comments
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NetHack Playtesting Feedback(nethack4.org)
7 points by rsaarelm 3y ago|0 comments
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
There's Daniel Ingram's stuff, I liked his book and there's a forum at https://www.dharmaoverground.org/ , haven't checked out how cranky it is. Culadasa's The Mind Illuminated is detailed, non-myst
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
Don't we? It just looks like a new culture establishing itself instead of something that happens in the circumstances of the collapse. There was the early history of the Roman Republic, High Middle Ages in Europe, the Puritans in Ameri
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
The article sets up two options, either morality has been in genuine decline for 2000 years or more and we're still somehow standing, or the perceived local decline is an illusion. Isn't there a third option where the decline is r
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
This exercises the happy path, but otherwise works surprisingly badly for testing. You already know what the game is supposed to be about, so you can't really tell how well the interface communicates things to someone who doesn't,
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by rsaarelm 3y ago
Sounds made up. Finnish boat-sealing tradition is all about pine tar.
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by rsaarelm 4y ago
There's some slack with just guessing randomly when you're down to something like three candidates for who someone might be. Some of the definite hints get very obscure and a normal playthrough will probably end up using a bit gue
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by rsaarelm 4y ago
Try to find your way downstairs while avoiding monsters too dangerous to fight and collect more powerful items. Standard NetHack strategy is that you should try to collect an "Ascension kit" of items and know when to use the tools
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by rsaarelm 4y ago
Yup, been going with feedly.com since Google Reader shut down.
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by rsaarelm 4y ago
$75. They're advertising a giveaway of 1000 free copies.
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by rsaarelm 4y ago
How do the recently discovered rare galaxies that look like they have no dark matter fit in with the idea that instead of clumpy stuff that can end up distributed oddly, we're dealing with a universal physical law? Shouldn't the p
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by rsaarelm 4y ago
I see people talking about the default mode network in the brain nowadays in relation to mindfulness. As far as I understand it, normally when you're focused on an external task, the default mode network is inactive. When you're n
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by rsaarelm 4y ago
There's All Things Devours for 1). http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/devours/ Working online interpreter link: https://iplayif.com/?story=http://www.amirrorclear.net&#x2F
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by rsaarelm 4y ago
> E. You are aware that there is considerable scientific writing arguing in support of many kinds of intelligence, no? There's certainly considerable social demand for this to be true, and Howard Gardner is tirelessly promoting it,

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