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by superdisk 3mo ago
And people called Stallman alarmist. Truth is, if you give them an inch they take a mile every time, so a hardline stance is strictly required.
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by superdisk 4mo ago
Not to criticize your work too harshly, but you specifically call out that this showcases attention to detail, and it's actually very inaccurate to the actual Windows XP, for anyone who's ever used it before. The UI elements are a
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by superdisk 4mo ago
Fwiw this post seems to have gotten nuked off the front page (and all subsequent pages). Not sure why.
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by superdisk 4mo ago
He uses SVN and specifically has stated that Git isn't suitable for the work he does due to big binaries in source control.
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by superdisk 4mo ago
This one does. You can configure the noise injected into the signal and when it gets too much, it loses sync and the picture starts rolling. It's actually a software NTSC modulator/demodulator, not just an effect to simulate it.
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by superdisk 4mo ago
I see you ran into Markus Triska. He's indeed a legend and his StackOverflow posts were super high effort and illuminating.
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by superdisk 5mo ago
He's clearly doing a bit where he pretends to be confused and incompetent, and the punchline of the video is that he ends up with a working Windows CE port. He did a bit of soldering on the N64 board in the video so I think he probabl
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by superdisk 5mo ago
As the other commenter said, I don't think contributing it would be that useful, since QBE is a rather zen-garden project and I don't think the author would accept slop. Also he could just generate it with a prompt himself :P It&#
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by superdisk 5mo ago
The backend is only ~1300 lines. QBE is a super simple project which is why adding a backend to it worked so well. I just pointed Claude at the existing RISC-V backend for reference and it whipped up the MIPS one. It really does work, thoug
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by superdisk 5mo ago
Cool project, and FWIW it's like one Claude prompt to add MIPS support to this. I did that and then was able to compile my little custom language to the N64.
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by superdisk 5mo ago
Looks cool and does aim to address some of the annoying warts in Pascal. Especially the memory model.
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by superdisk 6mo ago
You can plug your ears and accept riding run-down trains full of shit, litter, puke, and threatening mentally ill people, in the name of not being "hateful," or as a society you can choose to have dignity and not put up with that.
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by superdisk 6mo ago
I maintain a niche-popular project that I didn't do any marketing for. My understanding is that even for popular projects, the usual dynamic is that there's just one guy doing all the work. So "getting off the ground" ju
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by superdisk 6mo ago
An open source project really shouldn't be something you need to "get off the ground." If it provides value then people will naturally use it.
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by superdisk 6mo ago
I actually am speaking from experience, I saw both of those things my first week in New York. It's really not uncommon, I find it hard to believe that you've never run into shit/barf, usually when a car pulls up that has nobo
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by superdisk 6mo ago
It's extremely common for there to be human shit in the train cars, and lunatics going nuts. It's absolutely nothing like Japan.
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by superdisk 8mo ago
It's just very poser behavior.
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by superdisk 8mo ago
I worked on a language learning site and in order to try to onboard tutors, I wrote a script that scraped the Preply tutor list, which gave first names, pictures, and a YouTube account link. From there I made a spreadsheet and spent hours g
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by superdisk 8mo ago
This is a legitimate question but this was clearly generated using an LLM. To add something constructive, this demo represents an amazing ideal of what debugging could be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2EC5fkcE
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by superdisk 9mo ago
I sometimes daydream about becoming a billionaire and bankrolling this project to completion. Would do the world so much good.
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by superdisk 9mo ago
America wrote the Japanese constitution.
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by superdisk 10mo ago
This is true. There are a few stock topics that will consistently get the fanboys out (Postgres, Ruby, Rust, SQLite) which is, IMO, usually just uninteresting fodder. And then interesting stuff which requires some intellectual engagement ve
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by superdisk 10mo ago
If he made this I would buy it in a second. Right now my non-work daily driver is a Thinkpad X1 Carbon because I fell for the Thinkpad meme, but it's honestly pretty terrible all things considered. Battery life sucks, touchpad sucks, t
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by superdisk 10mo ago
I'll actually answer your question, it's horrible. I have a X1 Carbon and get maybe 3-4 hours on Linux.
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by superdisk 10mo ago
Lol. The fact that the 4x one actually works and is correctly reporting that the 3x one is down actually makes this a lot funnier to me.
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by superdisk 11mo ago
It was actually ported to a Common Lisp based implementation a while back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683969
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by superdisk 11mo ago
Contrary to what everyone else is saying, I think you're completely correct. Using it for AI or "reasoning" is a hopeless dead end, even if people wish otherwise. However I've found that Prolog is an excellent language f
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by superdisk 11mo ago
> There's no way to determine whether a contributor used LLMs in part or full, not without them being honest about it. Oh, you can tell.
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by superdisk 11mo ago
For what it's worth they do call it out in the manual as a common thing to do: https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco... Granted I've never tried it so take it with a grain of
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by superdisk 11mo ago
If you do it over NFS or whatever then you can collaborate as well.

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