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by susam 2y ago
The DEBUG.EXE example in my post demonstrates using the E command to enter bytes directly into video memory. While that's certainly one way to use DEBUG.EXE, I'd say it's not the most typical use case. Back in the day, I pri
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How much of your time is spent doing math that goes nowhere?(old.reddit.com)
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by susam 2y ago
Exactly! These old websites from the 90s that are still alive carry such a powerful dose of nostalgia. I wrote and published my first public website on GeoCities. Sadly, that's lose to time. The second one I wrote was published on
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The UK Fountain Pens Buyer's Guide(ukfountainpens.com)
2 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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Railways and Landscapes – All Paintings(robrowland.co.uk)
2 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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Physical Security Maxims (2008)(web.archive.org)
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by susam 2y ago
> The first Linux distribution was also started in 1992: Softlanding Linux System or SLS. The next year, SLS morphed into Slackware, which inspired Ian Murdock to start Debian in 1993, in order to explore a more community-based developme
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Floppy Disk Storage(ibm.com)
1 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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Scroll Quintus(shellsharks.com)
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Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations: From IBM CGA Colours to Mnemonic Systems(susam.net)
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by susam 2y ago
>>> Maybe I've spent too much time with Forth, but the given example didn't look bad at all to me. Quite the contrary. [...] >> A lot of people said this, why building this I had no idea of how these languages look
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by susam 2y ago
Even in modern mathematics, the postfix notation is used in some places. One example I can recall is permutations. Consider the following permutation: f = (1 2 3 4) (1 4 2 3) This is typically written in cycle-notation like th
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by susam 2y ago
Maybe I've spent too much time with Forth, but the given example didn't look bad at all to me. Quite the contrary. The moment I reached line 2 (i.e., ",20 = count let"), I knew exactly what was happening. My mind imme
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MathB.in Is Shutting Down(susam.net)
2 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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by susam 2y ago
After spending far too much time integrating third-party comment systems into my website, I finally decided to roll my own in Common Lisp [1]. I’m quite happy with the result. It’s simple, minimal, and fast. It does exactly what I need an
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MathB.in Is Shutting Down(susam.net)
66 points by susam 2y ago|59 comments
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by susam 2y ago
Thank you!
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Tell HN: Five random IndieWeb blog links on your terminal
54 points by susam 2y ago|12 comments
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by susam 2y ago
I feel that many of the comments here that are claiming the IndieWeb hasn't "taken off" are either stating the obvious or, if that's not the intention, completely missing the point. It's like saying that gardening h
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by susam 2y ago
Thank you for creating this project. I was delighted to find my blog in the list! However, my blog appears twice in your list: 1) https://susam.net/feed.xml 2) https://susam.net/blog/feed.xml The sec
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The Great Linux Distribution Timeline(upload.wikimedia.org)
3 points by susam 2y ago|0 comments
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by susam 2y ago
Hello! This project, CFRS[], is an update of an earlier project named CFR[] which was originally shared in its own Show HN post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37956065 in 2023. While the earlier project supported
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Show HN: CFRS[]: Minimal drawing language with only 6 commands: C, F, R, S, [, ](susam.net)
1 points by susam 2y ago|1 comments
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LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: Rust kernel policy(lkml.org)
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How I read a research paper (2013)(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
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Why is there a screen that says "It is now safe to turn off your computer"? (2016)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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A Tutorial Introduction to the Lambda Calculus (2015)(arxiv.org)
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Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations(susam.net)
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by susam 2y ago
One travel technique that has worked very well for me takes place the day before my trip: using a pre-travel prep-and-packing checklist. I created this checklist about 15 years ago and still refine it occasionally. This list has three sec
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One process programming notes with Go and SQLite (2018)(crawshaw.io)
2 points by susam 2y ago|1 comments

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