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by tannhaeuser 7mo ago
SGML has at least SP/OpenSP, sgmljs, and nsgml as full-featured, stand-alone parsers. There are also parsers integrated into older versions of products such as MarkLogic, ArborText, and other pre-XML authoring suites, renderers, and CM
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by tannhaeuser 7mo ago
Is that the whole story? Why isn't reddit overrun by bots then (or are they?), and why wouldn't basic proof-of-work techniques fence against bots? Since they started out just in January, isn't it plausible to assume they didn
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by tannhaeuser 7mo ago
> XML is fundamentally incompatible with commonly used programming data structures, namely lists/arrays and structs/maps. Another way to say this is XML is a grammar formalism that deals purely with serialisation rather than
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by tannhaeuser 7mo ago
The XML spec starts like this: > The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that
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by tannhaeuser 7mo ago
I get what Nick is trying to do (allow F/OSS to continue receiving security fixes while requiring commercial users to pay), even forwarded his call for help or other support last year. I'm not sure though relicensing MIT code unde
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by tannhaeuser 8mo ago
[1] describes the initial elements of HTML. Almost all were derived from an inofficial SGML folklore tagset with the notable exception of <a> and http URIs. [1]: https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp&#x2F
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PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd dies at 78(daringfireball.net)
2 points by tannhaeuser 8mo ago|0 comments
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by tannhaeuser 8mo ago
The term "AI" has changed in recent years but if you mean classic game logic such as complex rules and combinatorial opponents then there's plenty of Prolog game code on github eg. for Poker and other card or board games. Pro
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by tannhaeuser 8mo ago
Just interpret the code as English language instructions. What could go wrong?
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by tannhaeuser 8mo ago
The difference is the "algorithmic" timeline (meaning ads) you get with Facebook, Insta, and co compared to the strictly chronological timeline you get on the Fediverse equivalents (Mastodon, Pixelfed). That it's less addicti
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
Why are you leading your visitors to your channel on a monopolist site? To bring ad revenue? There's no need for video for your type of content in the first place. I get it - a 2026 "hackers" campaign for binging yt. And in c
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
Complaining about net neutrality in 2026 with yt videos. What a joke by pseudo-"hackers."
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Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"(arstechnica.com)
3 points by tannhaeuser 9mo ago|1 comments
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
When you had gone to a site using a deep link, Safari insists on autocompleting any URL in the domain to that link you used even if you just want to go to the top-level URL/index of that site. You have to type out the entire URL and ad
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
> Im guessing the answer is probably Java is why eclipse is out of favor. Dude, Eclipse has been out of favor for well over ten years now due to Jetbrains IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA).
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
FIY the Wikipedia article rightfully says SGML CONCUR usage is uncommon, but compared to the stated alternatives for overlapping markup, it's basically the only one that is tolerable to use as actual markup language for use with a text
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
> Opus 4.5 is really good at Prolog Anything you'd like to share? I did some research within the realm of classic robotic-like planning ([1]) and the results were impressive with local LLMs already a year ago, to the point that ob
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
> No standardized strings > ISO "strings" are just atoms or lists of single-character atoms (or lists of integer character codes) [...]. Code written with strings in SWI-Prolog will not work in [other] Prolog. That'
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
Out of my depth here. Is that the one Tahoe was introducing? What did it solve that was impossible before?
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
Thief pretty much defined the stealth game genre, at least it did for me, where it's game over basically if you try to go all out on enemies. I may be wrong but I don't believe cleaning a level of enemies is the way forward in lat
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
I guess you're replying to my comment because you were triggered by my last sentence. I wasn't criticizing you specifically, but yeah, in another comment you're writing > It probably didn't help that XHTML did not of
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
Guess what, you're not required to open <html>, <head>, or <body> either. It all follows from SGML tag inference rules, and the rules aren't that difficult to understand. What makes them appear magical is WHATW
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
Why would content farms split their content into bite-sized chunks to appease LLMs in the first place? LLMs aren't quoting/referencing web sites they've scraped to come up with answers (hint: maybe they should be required to?
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
This, plus after the Godot runtime, game assets itself have to be downloaded, often making use of ZIP-like archive formats that may have made sense with DLCs or physical media, but require huge downloads (like GBs) to access a single sprite
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
In other news, Tailwind had to layoff their team due to lack of spending on new web sites as Google Search AI is answering search requests from scraped data without sending visitors to origin sites.
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
> But the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business. Not a Tailwind user but I really appreciate the honesty. Is the brutal impact o
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
The syntax of Prolog is basically a subset of the language of First Order Logic (sans quantifiers and function symbols), it doesn't get any more minimal than that. What's special in Prolog compared to imperative languages includin
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
> A few decades ago XML emerged from the pit. XML [...] could be used for documents, data transfer, and a bunch of other things, and people genuinely liked it [...] They liked it so much that a concerted effort was started to take HTML
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
Any advance in JavaScript and outrageous browser complexity is cheered at here on HN, but waking up to the fact that their actual purpose is unskippable ads and browser monopolies is not so funny.
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by tannhaeuser 9mo ago
What's your suggestion to deal with Apple's current fail? Wait until Tahoe's successor(s) or leave for good? When Jony Ive left, Apple managed to listen to their customers and quickly got rid of the Touch Bar thing, reintrodu

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