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by 3036e4 11mo ago
I posted this 24 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395479 "I have fond memories of some z-machine interpreter on the Palm that I found easier to play with than anything on my desktop computer. There were
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by 3036e4 1y ago
There is a chapter in the Blue Book about how the GW-BASIC byte code is structured, and from what I understand it used pointers to lines, not just offsets? But I did not look too carefully (guess the answer is in the source code: https:&#x
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I have fond memories of some z-machine interpreter on the Palm that I found easier to play with than anything on my desktop computer. There were lots of shortcut buttons and thanks to the stylus it was still easy to use those (vs a touchscr
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Sounds like it may eventually turn into an interesting replacement for Pandoc then, but I will stick to the latter for now.
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Live programming music using tools like SuperCollider is/was a (very niche) thing. Someone is on stage with a laptop and, starting from a blank screen that is typically projected for everyone to see, types in code that makes sounds (an
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Is it as good for generating EPUB or HTML for instance? Or just plain text?
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I guess if Pandoc adds Typst output support I will consider using that, but "LaTeX replacement" sounds like something that is too low level to consider for most usecases? It was many years since I used LaTeX for anything other tha
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Teams refused to let me copy text from the real-time captions, even showing a popup to say it wasn't allowed. But after the meeting in the posted transcript I could copy the same text anyway so not sure why it was so important to preve
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by 3036e4 1y ago
What I like about seeing a project support a long list of totally irrelevant old obscure platforms (like Free Pascal does, and probably GCC) is that it gives some hope that they will support some future obscure platform that I may care abou
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I vaguely remember GEM in MS-DOS because it was the only software I knew of (iirc) that supported the mouse we had. One of those early optical mice with a metal mousepad with a grid of tiny reflective dots. No one else I knew that had a PC
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Official Android with Google Play and all the things some apps require will almost certainly refuse to run if a hypervisor is detected. Maybe someone could get it to work, but it would be a struggle to stay ahead of whatever new security ch
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I sometimes bring a bt keyboard to use my phone as a tiny almost-laptop, but mostly happy with something just the size and weight of a phone. Used to have two phones ~10 years ago. A Jolla Phone was my primary phone with a sim card and ran
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by 3036e4 1y ago
SailfishOS also came (at least back in the day of the first Jolla Phone and Tablet) with an excellent terminal app and built-in sshd that made it work great with pretty much every Linux command-line and TUI application (only exception was o
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by 3036e4 1y ago
My next phone will almost certainly be two phones. One cheap and super standard Android phone to just run banking apps and similar that insists on Google Play etc. Locked down and boring, turned off most of the time. Then a second phone for
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by 3036e4 1y ago
About mobile app, I never used pass until today, but it seems great, and so far I only tested it by installing it on my phone in Termux. Can't think of a reason for me to use a special app when running it in Termux works so well. Was h
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by 3036e4 1y ago
It was running on Hetzner, but I did not like the idea of having to rely on some script to try to avoid a disaster as opposed to just be able to set a limit (that they do not support?). * Even if the risk is obviously very low, the value of
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I shut down my server the other day after people on HN were sharing horror stories about runaway bandwidth bills. I could not find a good (easy) way to ensure that my gemini server shuts down if hit by DDOS. I want to set it up again, but n
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Some clients have a setting to inline images, or/and a shortcut to do so on the current page. Most clients can display images when the user follows a link to one. So images are quite useless as decorations (as most will probably not se
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I have an old MeeBlip synth. It is basically a box with some knobs and switches and a cheap 8-bit Atmel AVR inside, similar to the processor in some old Arduinos. Source code is available (I think this repo: https://github.com&#x
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Also some XML parsers I used choked on UTF-8 BOMs. Not sure if valid XML is allowed to have anything other than clean ASCII in the first few characters before declaring what the encoding is?
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Good thing about Markdown is that the lack of a proper spec means you can pick one you like (when possible). Pandoc for instance treats input Markdown line-breaks in a sane way, allowing semantic breaks to not affect the output.
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by 3036e4 1y ago
There is a binary of the original 1989 Animator (but compiled around 2010 from BSD-licensed source code I think) here if you want to try it: https://github.com/AnimatorPro/Animator-Pro/tree/f5ed3/bin&#x2F
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Also this older clone: VGA Paint 386 ( https://www.bttr-software.de/products/vp386/ ) It runs in DOSBox, making it a bit easier (imo) to get running on most computers (and Android devices) than old Amiga software (e
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Great post! Pretty much all that is said about the user interface also applies to the ~contemporary Autodesk Animator for DOS (open source here: https://github.com/AnimatorPro ). It has the advantage of running in DOSBox. No
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Vanilla CDDA has a lot of entertaining endings, proper or not. I tend to find one within the first one or two in-game days. Great game! I like to install it now and then just to marvel at all the new things that have been added and then be
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Not the same thing, but in addition to binary file support as mentioned in other comment, fossil supports adding unversioned files to the repository that are not version-managed at all. Might make sense for some large files if you just want
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I was never part of the scene, but I did write code for a couple of demos and had friends in various groups. I just wasn't much interested in making non-games, and no one I knew were interested in making games. Made me sad later when I
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by 3036e4 1y ago
For C++ clang-format does things like that all the time as well. Of course it has no idea what semantically belongs together on the same line or not. I wish the C++ world had settled on some other standard linter.
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by 3036e4 1y ago
I want this to be true, but I do not know who this Aaron guy is and I do not have the time or skills to check the sources. Not sure what to do about that. Wait and see if this is something I see bubble up as some kind of accepted thing amon
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by 3036e4 1y ago
Sorry, but I don't think a preference for slow evolution is always because of laziness. What's wrong with wanting to keep improving on a skill instead of having to waste time relearning things every six months? Software is rare am

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