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by wkjagt 1y ago
It's weird to think that we need a mirror (or other means of imaging) to see our own face. We can see a large part of our own body directly, but we will never be able to directly see our own face like other people do (unless, I guess,
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I just learned about libcaca :-) https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca
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by wkjagt 1y ago
This one is quite fun: https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I had it running on something old (a zero I think) playing with old Word Perfect and dbase. I later wanted to do the same and it no longer supported the zero. Must be some update at some point that dropped support. Too bad, I wanted to put
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I'm totally unaware of anything related to Discord or its reputation, other than having joined a PicoCalc server (board? group) and it seems fine. What's up with Discord?
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by wkjagt 1y ago
Ohh interesting! And pretty cheap too! Shipping to Canada is more expensive than the actual watch, but maybe still worth it...
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by wkjagt 1y ago
It would be cool if someone made a mass produced "watch" that's all the hardware but none of the firmware. So a tiny computer on your wrist that doesn't do anything out of the box, and you can make it do whatever you wan
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by wkjagt 1y ago
In The Netherlands you can buy digital "stamps" online. They're nine characters you write in a square pattern on the envelope.
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I can see their email in their bio.
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by wkjagt 1y ago
My own accent doesn't sound neutral to myself at all. It sounds incredibly Dutch (which makes sense, since I'm Dutch).
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I know what I'll be playing with this week :)
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by wkjagt 1y ago
OOh nice, I am certainly going to try it then!
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by wkjagt 1y ago
This is super interesting. I kind of want to use this to turn one of my old laptops into a Scheme machine. But from the docs I think on bare metal it's only usable over serial.
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by wkjagt 1y ago
Very cool! Reminds me of a very similar project I did for my (almost) blind grandfather. I used NFC cards too, but to play audiobooks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177117
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I understood them on a superficial level when first learning about them, but it only really clicked after having done assembly.
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I remember the home phone number we had as a kid 40 years ago, but I often forget my cell phone number now.
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I think this would actually make me buy less stuff. Like, I can see the neighbors think, oh look, wkjagt getting junk from Amazon AGAIN.
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by wkjagt 1y ago
That would be pretty cool actually. Maybe I'm going to start marking them, to see if maybe it's always the same mouse :-)
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by wkjagt 1y ago
(not a very serious comment, feel free to skip) This is a funny timing. I was just discussing with my son this morning what the most efficient ways were to set free the mice we catch in our mouse friendly trap. One of the "options&quot
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by wkjagt 1y ago
Actually, when I saw the $5 price, my first thought was: thank you for not making this a subscription.
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I have a couple of nodes up, but not seeing a lot of traffic
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by wkjagt 1y ago
Oscar Toledo (nanochess) is one of my personal heros. And one of his books, Boot Sector Games, is one of my favorite books. Seeing him post something like he just did gives me a kind of joy that is becoming pretty rare on the internet these
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I got their Pico-8, and it really brought back the fun of programming for me.
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I wonder how doable it is to fork a browser and just remove functionality from it, like for example making "user-select" unsupported. Or whatever it is that prevents me from pasting my password in a log in form.
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by wkjagt 1y ago
But what if I am a robot
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by wkjagt 1y ago
Oh that certainly is interesting. And I've been looking at nim recently, so I'll give your project a look too! Thanks for sharing!
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I love these fantasy computers. This one looks very similar to Pico-8, which I've made a couple of games for. I wonder how TIC-80 compares to it. One obvious thing is that it's open source, which is very cool. From a quick search,
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I found that putting them on something soft helps a lot. It seems to be mostly vibrations that are transferred to whatever it's sitting on.
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by wkjagt 1y ago
Some of these, including one I had as a kid, produce sound through a small gramophone inside. No electronic amplification at all, just a needle on a tiny "record", mechanically connected to some kind of speaker shaped cone. Here&#
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by wkjagt 1y ago
I actually like the idea that it's always solvable. Like a sudoku puzzle. If a sudoku isn't solvable through logic, but requires guessing, it's considered an invalid puzzle.

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