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by wernsey 3y ago
I find myself marveling at how much stock the store at my local petrol station carries. There are shelves full of different varieties of chocolate bars, and each of those wouldn't be there if people weren't buying them. Yet if you
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by wernsey 3y ago
Veritasium had this video about the history of sewing machines recently [1]. I remember watching it and ended up in awe of how something that we take for granted took a journey of several thousand years to be get invented. While I'm th
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by wernsey 3y ago
I didn't see anyone mention Markdeep [0] yet. I started with a notes.txt file for the system I maintain. I found myself gradually adopting Markdown syntax because I need bulleted lists and headings to separate different sections. I als
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by wernsey 3y ago
My daily driver has been in for repairs, so for the past couple of weeks I've been using my Raspberry Pi 4-based "Hack-in-the-box" cyberdeck that I built in 2020. The more I use it, the more I love it: Everything I need is re
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by wernsey 3y ago
Thanks for this. I vaguely recalled reading that Magic Carpet featured a stereogram mode, but then never got around to checking it out. I remember that the DrDobbs' Journal once featured a stereogram program that ran excruciatingly slo
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by wernsey 3y ago
Any pointers on getting started? I was fascinated by the Amiga when I was young, but they weren't widely available in my country. Lately I've had an itch to do some retro programming work and was looking at the Amiga specifically.
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by wernsey 3y ago
Reminds me of https://thedailywtf.com/ . I read that site every single day before I discovered HackerNews
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by wernsey 3y ago
If you're at all interested in the technical aspects or retro computing, I highly recommend Fabien Sanglard's Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/ The technical wizar
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by wernsey 3y ago
Sheesh, me neither. How on earth would you create syntax highlighters and other tools for this language?
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by wernsey 4y ago
> The majority of Bitcoin mining is done exclusively using clean renewable energy sources. The problem with this argument is that if it wasn't for Bitcoin, those renewable energy sources could've been used for other activities.
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by wernsey 4y ago
Upvote for mentioning Subversion. Back in 2016 I briefly worked at a old, large corporation that was still using CVS. During that time management decided that company policy was now to be hip with the younger generation. One very senior man
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by wernsey 4y ago
The thought occurred to me the other day that assembly and BASIC share a lot of similarities in how you need to think of your program's flow, yet we ended with a world where assembly is considered respectable while BASIC basically (par
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by wernsey 4y ago
Growing up here in South Africa, my parents and their friends also had a tradition of watching this (recorded on VHS) on New Year's Eve. I always assumed it was just a thing among my parent's friend group
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by wernsey 4y ago
Yes, in Tcl everything is basically a string, but has Lisp-like recursive structures: An expression like `{foo {bar baz}}` evaluates to the string "foo {bar baz}" at first, but then that might be split into two strings "foo&q
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by wernsey 4y ago
There's a YouTube channel building replicas of the character's laptops. Lord Nikon's Laptop [1] is really what I consider a true _Cyberdeck_. P.S. Hackaday is running a Cyberdeck competition [2] if you're into that kind
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by wernsey 4y ago
Not exactly hypertext, but there's a company called Tin Man Games [1] that produces digital versions of Fighting Fantasy books. I've played some of them on my phone and it worked really well. [1] https://tinmangames.com
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by wernsey 4y ago
Always read the comments on HN. This is the way.
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by wernsey 4y ago
This technology might actually make The Stick of Jan Sloot [0], which I learned about on here recently, possible. The idea behind the stick was that you'd have a decoder next to your TV that would contain all the movies ever made encod
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by wernsey 4y ago
LFSR is in my vocabulary because of these two articles: * Fizzlefade by Fabien Sanglard [0] that explains the fade to red effect in Wolfenstein 3D * How Pitfall Builds its World [1] that explains how the original Pitfall on the Atari 2600 m
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by wernsey 4y ago
My mom once gave me a sign that reads "How can I think outside the box when I work in a cubicle"
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by wernsey 4y ago
It's also on Archive.org. I went there to check it out. Very nice. https://archive.org/details/cambridge-university-press-illus...
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by wernsey 4y ago
Thanks. Inspired by your comment, I went to see if it was available on archive.org. It was [0] I've been feeling nostalgic lately and playing around with Turbo C in DOSBox, so I'll definitely check it out. [0] https://a
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by wernsey 4y ago
Something else from the author that I recently stumbled upon: his LISP2 Mark Compact garbage collector [0]. I was in need of a simple garbage collector for a toy project of mine and settled on a copying collector based on Cheney's algo
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by wernsey 4y ago
whoops, yes, it was supposed to be (*) my script strives for compatibility with GitHub-flavoured markdown, so you could do things like extract the markdown in your code comments to, say, a GitHub wiki, and the markdown flavour stays the sam
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by wernsey 4y ago
If you'll indulge me for a moment, I have a story to tell: Many years ago, I had this idea of creating a documentation tool for my hobby projects that was based on Awk. I liked Doxygen, but it was a bit heavy duty for a small C library
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by wernsey 4y ago
Just last week I had a requirement where a user at our company needs to run some commands on an embedded system to configure it before it is sent out to customers. 20 years ago I would've opened up VB6 and knocked out a quick GUI for t
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by wernsey 4y ago
I really liked the simplicity of the older asciiflow. So much so that I keep a bookmark to the wayback machine for it [1] Not too long ago I had a project that was implemented as a complex state machine where the requirements kept changing,
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by wernsey 5y ago
I recently subscribed to https://8bitnews.io for retro-computing news and haven't been disappointed.
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by wernsey 5y ago
You can look at BOOTSTRA.386 https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386
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by wernsey 5y ago
Thanks for referring to Nitter. I didn't know about it, and Twitter's nags to log in got really annoying lately. I do however prefer to do this kind of thing through bookmarklets, so here's one I found in a quick search: htt

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