RodgerTheGreat

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by RodgerTheGreat 5d ago
There's loads of slop and slop enthusiasm on lobste.rs; the only difference is that they have a moderation policy which forbids the most egregious forms of advertising and astroturfing.
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by RodgerTheGreat 15d ago
Or being caught, but without sufficiently rigorous evidence to take to court.
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by RodgerTheGreat 1mo ago
Sounds fascinating. Is there anywhere we can read more about this preservation effort? Does the PB-2000C have an active user community today?
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by RodgerTheGreat 1mo ago
The standard problem with "just voting" to solve problems is that you can only vote for the options you're offered. If all the options on the market suck, voting for the lesser of the available evils will not address the fund
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
I don't have an extremely high opinion of sdl2-compat specifically because my SDL2-based projects have had several bizarre bug reports which originated in downstream packages presuming they could use this "compatibility layer&quot
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
The changelog for this project dates back to 2019, well before SDL3 was available. SDL2 supports some older platforms that SDL3 has deprecated. If you value running on those deprecated platforms and/or you don't need any of the fe
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
Not pictured: the walkman-sized box containing the rest of the TV that attached to the watch via a hefty umbilical cable.
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
The alert[] function prompts the user for input. The second "string" argument indicates the prompt will ask for a string, and return it. (alert[] can also ask for other datatypes, like a yes/no "boolean" prompt or a
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
In Decker, most of this example would be similar. The button's default script template would be: on click do end And filling it in with an equivalent script would be something like: on click do myname.text:
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
Decker heavily emphasizes the concept of "reified data", representing information as tangible entities within a deck. You can create "contraptions" as specialized data containers/editors for specific applications:
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
I use personal applications written in Decker on a daily basis. There are over 300 games, zines, visual novels, and toys built with Decker on itch.io: https://itch.io/games/tag-decker Last month saw the first game made
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
Decker prefers integral upscaling. On most browsers, "Decker -> Fullscreen" in the menu (or "app.fullscreen:1" from a script) will enable "stretching", but this feature is not supported by Safari on iPhones
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
Decker fonts are composed of fixed-size bitmaps. The included example "fonts.deck" has a variety of additional fonts to choose from in various sizes, and an editor: https://beyondloom.com/decker/fonts.html We
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
Asking for good-faith compliance, and failing that, simply waiting for slop enthusiasts to publicly brag about using LLMs to break the rules. All evidence suggests that it is impossible for slop enthusiasts to resist outing themselves for
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
http://beyondloom.com/decker/
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
LLMs are in essence an attack on the concept of written language, harvesting and dissolving the social contract that underpins it; it is no longer safe to assume that text has intent , let alone content , simply because it is grammaticall
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
A Quadra 700 could run A/UX 3.0 or higher, which would make it relatively pleasant for the macs and unix workstations to interoperate (provided you spared no expense).
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
The articles you publish are, in principle, a celebration of the cleverness in programming and hardware design behind video games; a vehicle for appreciating human craftsmanship and artistry. LLMs are the product of taking the creative outp
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
It's tremendously disappointing to see Fabien stoop to using slop for his research; completely antithetical to the love for software craftsmanship I had inferred from his previous work.
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
How many places do you have Bash, but not AWK?
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by RodgerTheGreat 2mo ago
I'd like to know more about how this is built. A stripped-down mac emulator? Does it leverage any of the existing libraries for decoding the HyperCard stack format, or something novel?
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Decker Fantasy Camp 2026(itch.io)
50 points by RodgerTheGreat 3mo ago|9 comments
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by RodgerTheGreat 3mo ago
Lisa and early MacOS are tremendously different in their details than the Alto operating system. While there was clearly a transfer of inspiration, Apple engineers like Bill Atkinson made countless small and large innovations to simplify th
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by RodgerTheGreat 3mo ago
I think the key thing is that nothing about Decker or Lil was specifically designed or tweaked for this use case; Everything I needed to build the hershey module and make it reasonably efficient was already at my fingertips. I considered bu
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by RodgerTheGreat 3mo ago
Here's another 8-page zine maker, built with Decker: https://micpp.itch.io/hybrid-zine-template-for-decker
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Vector Graphics in Lil(beyondloom.com)
57 points by RodgerTheGreat 3mo ago|6 comments
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by RodgerTheGreat 3mo ago
Measuring education in dollars spent is rather consistent with measuring the productivity of LLMs in lines of code excreted.
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by RodgerTheGreat 3mo ago
The point is that https-everywhere people have successfully pushed the majority of the sites that could previously be served over vanilla http to require https anyway. Now if you're on and old device you need an https proxy or else
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by RodgerTheGreat 3mo ago
"Accessibility" is an open-ended set of functionality, not a checkbox; it is never "complete", there is always room for improvement. Colorblind support (which ones)? High-Contrast mode? Adjustable text size? Screenreader
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by RodgerTheGreat 4mo ago
Not especially. Depending on where you set your standards for "holding a conversation" you can satisfy the requirement with a classical markov chatterbot, a well-trained parrot, a copy of Eliza, or a telemarketer flowchart drawn o

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