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Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did (2012)(forbes.com)
3 points by stevekemp 3mo ago|0 comments
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by stevekemp 3mo ago
"to prevent multiple from" seems to be missing a word.
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by stevekemp 3mo ago
You might enjoy this writeup of the related "The Incredible Machine" https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/the-incredible-machine/
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
That's really nice. Even with your limitations you have things I don't, for example quoting and booleans. There's a part of me that thinks your comparisons should return "Nil" on failure rather than "False&quo
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
There was a repost of Peter Norvig's lisp interpreter in python a week ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619831 That came just around the time I was struggling with my "real" language, and switc
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
Hacker News always likes lisp stuff, and even though this is a very simple compiler I had a lot of fun writing it. I started writing a different compiler, but tied myself in knots with the type-encoding, and lack of clear plan. I figured I
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Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64)(github.com)
66 points by stevekemp 4mo ago|8 comments
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
Many YC companies do bad things, and I guess they do so independently. There may well be repercussions for the most egregious cases, but I suspect a lot of ill-behaviour simply flies under the radar. For example only yesterday I got spam f
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
Perhaps it varied on the school, or perhaps they tried to make it a little less divided on gender lines since my time. (I'm 50.) Housework, sewing, knitting and stuff I'd been exposed to at home due to a pretty large family alrea
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A Wild Register Appears: Hunting the 30-Year-Old World of Xeen MT-32 Crash(finalpatch.github.io)
5 points by stevekemp 4mo ago|0 comments
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
I moved to Finland, and starting when my child was about three years old I took him to Oodi every weekend. The soft-play area was heaven for him, and he liked flicking through the donald-duck comic books. Even now, when he's nine, I go
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
It might be you need to make a choice to choose it; I know that when I was at school in the UK I got to choose between "CDT" (craft, design, and technology) or home economics, which was sewing, cooking, & etc. I picked woodwor
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Kuksa – Crafting the traditional wooden cup(finlandnaturally.com)
3 points by stevekemp 4mo ago|0 comments
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
Helsinki has a lot of parks, and also housing companies tend to have trees in their gardens, along with trees alongside many of the bigger roads. But even so it's a reasonably dense city. Espoo is much more spread out, and the areas b
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
I had a similar realization recently; I was writing a compiler so I implemented a "random" function as part of the runtime. To avoid regression I have some simple code examples I compile and execute, and I compare their output to
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
When creating a programming language it's worth assuming nobody will ever use it. So name it after yourself, or give it a single-letter name (that seems equally common based on looking at /r/compilers or /r/Programm
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
Same here. I've been working on a linux/amd64 compiler for a simple scripting language, it barely seems worth discussing as many people have created their own languages, and it's done just for learning/fun rather than in
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
It's good taste to mention that you're associated with an external tool you're recommending.
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
In the TV show "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" the plot revolves around a gang of Geordie brickies who are contracted to dismantle an iconic bridge, The Tees Transport Bridge, from England and rebuild it for a wealthy buyer in Arizona
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map!
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
I had a domain registered and I got notices for about five email addresses - but after a while I was told I'd had too many localparts appear in breaches and I had to pay to upgrade. It might have changed again now, but that was the poi
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
Yes, but note that you have to pay for that, see the pricing here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Subscription#corePlans For me, with a similar wildcard setup, it became something I wasn't willing to spend money on. I wor
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
I found middle-clicking to open a link in a new tab was often fragile. I'd get 10+ tabs all stuck in a "loading" state, and even force-reloading wouldn't make their contents match the address-bar.
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
Getting hit in the face/neck by a cricket ball moving at 150mph can cause serious injuries, even death. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Hughes
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
I've spent the past few weeks coming up with my own simple programming language, which compiles to linux/amd64 assembly. I could have gone all out writing standard library routines for opening files, running shell commands, coding
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Tributes to Buffy and Ted Lasso star Anthony Head after death aged 72(bbc.com)
3 points by stevekemp 4mo ago|0 comments
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
Take a look here for some other tools: https://github.com/skx/cpm-dist I found the compiler collection here useful too: https://github.com/davidly/cpm_compilers Though I guess some of these things
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
Back in the 80s most of the (monthly) magazines had a cassette tape glued to them, with demos or full games. But there was also a brief period of time when you'd get a vinyl instead. I remember loading games from those a couple of tim
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
It's been happening for years at this point. "I saw your comment about GOLANG and I thought you might be interested in our TOKEN DROP FOR FREE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS". Spam from YC companies happens now and again, from other scr
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by stevekemp 4mo ago
> The mentats are theoretically safer because of their imperial conditioning, but even that can be tampered with, as we see with Dr Yueh Dr Yueh was not a mentat, but a suk doctor who was subject to conditioning. (Which was broken by th

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