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541.
by zem 1y ago
ugh, that more i hear about apple the gladder i am that i have never had to go anywhere near the whole slimy mess.
542.
by zem 1y ago
clearly proven needs to sue whoever initiated that lawsuit for "mockery produced for the purpose of humiliating plaintiff”.
543.
by zem 1y ago
"an alien light" (nancy kress) and "windhaven" (lisa tuttle and george martin) are two underrated gems. windhaven has long been my go-to recommendation for sf/f fans looking for good books they might not have encoun
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by zem 1y ago
I'd only heard of Prince Rupert because of his eponymous "prince Rupert's drops", but apparently he had not just one but several dazzling careers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert_of_the_Rh
545.
by zem 1y ago
the usenet thread was a fun nostalgic read - something about the character of discussions was different from the ones you get on web based fora like reddit today. (also i recognise your name from rec.puzzles, which was another nice nostalgi
546.
by zem 1y ago
I also think the gipf games haven't had enough time and volume of players to see if they are actually as long-term engaging as chess and go. my speculation is that the classic abstracts are the ones that turned out to have an almost ac
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by zem 1y ago
my vague memories of ~2000 were that postgres was acknowledged as the way to go if you wanted to do it right, but mysql would let you get set up quickly and easily so you could get on with your actual application, and postgres had the reput
548.
by zem 1y ago
I agree; I upvoted because the underlying content was still interesting, but trying to write it as an "i, pencil" pastiche did the author no favours. I would have rathered the article direct the reader to read "I, pencil&quot
549.
by zem 1y ago
pentominoes would be a nice one to add (players take turns placing pentominoes on the board until someone cannot make a move). probably one of the variants like callisto or blokus where everyone has the same set of tiles in different colour
550.
by zem 1y ago
the prince song reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_on_the_Moon
551.
by zem 1y ago
and illustrated text adventures have a venerable history; i still have fond memories of "twin kingdom valley" which was released back in 1983. (the graphics were necessarily crude, given the technology of the time, but surprisingl
552.
by zem 1y ago
might end up with something more akin to nethack than to colossal cave.
553.
by zem 1y ago
thanks! I'll have to play with it sometime, didn't find flutter that great on non-mobile platforms.
554.
by zem 1y ago
i am fairly sure chicken can do this (never used it on windows myself but the homepage lists all three major platforms). it worked great for building executables on linux and it had a good ecosystem of packages.
555.
by zem 1y ago
interesting, would love to read more about the experience of using compose multiplatform for this
556.
by zem 1y ago
yeah it's on my to read list! love scalzi's work.
557.
by zem 1y ago
you can view it as serving the same role as universal function call syntax, the latter being a feature in some other languages that rewrites `a.f(x)` to `f(a, x)` if `a` doesn't have a method `f`. in ruby you can just add the method to
558.
by zem 1y ago
I really loved the mechanism of time travel in singularity sky, namely that relativity doesn't suddenly cease being an intrinsic property of spacetime just because you have faster than light travel, and therefore traveling ftl will ind
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by zem 1y ago
I have, and it's a very neat feature :) it just feels like extra ceremony to define my own type the first time I need a custom glob, though it would probably pay off in the long run
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by zem 1y ago
the one thing i'd love to see added is an "extension" flag, equivalent to -g but which treats the provided arg as an extension (so `rg -e c,h` instead of `rg -g '*.{c,h}'`). 99% of the time I use glob patterns it&#x
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by zem 1y ago
cooper and niven's "building harlequins' moon" explores some of these themes
562.
by zem 1y ago
that's pretty awesome, a real labour of love. wonder how hard it would be to convert to a MUD so that people could wander around the world together.
563.
by zem 1y ago
which has historically been a very rich vein of marks for scammers to exploit
564.
by zem 1y ago
they may be self aware but if they're into blockchain they're unlikely to be scam aware!
565.
by zem 1y ago
as an aside to the last bit about monorepos, from a dev point of view monorepos are pretty awesome. you never need to deal with complicated merge commits and you always have a consistent state of the world, enforced by ci. i would imagine
566.
by zem 1y ago
which ones, and what is the mechanism to do it? from what I've seen of both linux and windows there is no good central way to toggle this efficiently, and evidently macs also leave it up to various applications to be well behaved.
567.
by zem 1y ago
this has a `$` - you can do (defvar output ($ some_command))
568.
by zem 1y ago
iirc folding spacetime was a separate (and unexplained) piece of magic; what the spice did was to let you navigate a ship through folded space, which unenhanced human perception could not do. but specifics apart, the main point is just beca
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by zem 1y ago
their operator precedence system was one of my favourite pieces of language design. the tl;dr was that you could group operators into precedence sets, and an expression involving operators that all came from the same set would have that set
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by zem 1y ago
opa, along the same lines - really nice ML based language for isomorphic full stack web development.

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