Solarsail

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by Solarsail 9mo ago
Not the GP, but I recall the KeePass password manager using xdotool for its autotype feature. I struggled to get xdotool to work correctly back in 2014 on a Debian 7 personal computer. Not familiar with 'x2x' or 'xev'
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by Solarsail 2y ago
Don't agree -w/all this cynicism... (Did I get a programmer's joke to work?) Your fastest open-cycle resource usage is water. If you can recycle your water, you've got much slower mass-growth per unit of time in free f
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by Solarsail 3y ago
I've wanted to do this myself... Tho as both an armchair engineer and an armchair programmer. If I'd gotten through engineering in university, (and studied programming language design) this would be an utterly tempting idea for
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by Solarsail 3y ago
Now I'm inspired to try to fill out this list... Pegasus (company's first try overall), Antares, all of the Minotaurs, Atlas 3 and 5 might count as new... Epsilon, H-2 (new?), Vega, Ariane 1, 3 & 4... And the Ariane 1 is both
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by Solarsail 4y ago
You could probably get even better walk-able integration by connecting together multiple floors worth of hallways, one above the other. That could approach a 3D city a little bit more.
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by Solarsail 4y ago
Isn't it rather precedented to do this? In most readings (that I've seen, anecdotally) of Timothy McVeigh's writings, or Hitler's Mein Kamph, people read these works specifically in the framing of a path to the atrociti
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by Solarsail 5y ago
Twitter has a mostly negative ROI for me; I wind up having mild panic attacks both when I visit it, and when I'm reminded of it in the rest of my day. Almost any reminder that people are having conversations there (especially politics
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by Solarsail 5y ago
Speaking of which, how learnable is Elm without any HTML familiarity? I more or less gave up on learning it once the (previous) Elm book started piecing together HTML tags in Elm syntax...
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by Solarsail 5y ago
(Apologies if this is too much a personal anecdote for HN) Honestly, this is one of the indicators that forces my distrust of the modern family of social discourse. My own suspicions have a specific conversation in 2012 spooking a few hund
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by Solarsail 5y ago
Similar issue applies on Windows with Visual Studio's C# compiler; Tho in that case it's a terminal with a non-default starting script that adds the C# compiler, so default and that non-default terminal point CSI or CSC at differ
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by Solarsail 6y ago
Sounds like the errors I got installing spacemacs. I think... I forced it to work by changing the access permissions on a folder that spacemacs itself had created.
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by Solarsail 7y ago
Well, the tutorial itself has received translations from m68k Turbo Pascal to x86 C : https://github.com/lotabout/Let-s-build-a-compiler
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by Solarsail 7y ago
While it wouldn't support fuel use akin to fuel burning electrical sources on Earth, there are endothermic methods to pull molecular oxygen out of C02. In addition to the water electrolysis already mentioned, C02 can be partially redu
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by Solarsail 8y ago
http://wren.io/ Has been around HN before, as has https://fascinatedbox.github.io/lily/ Were either of these two the ones you were thinking of?
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by Solarsail 8y ago
The word hypergolic doesn't mean that, but in spaceflight the term refers to a fairly specific group of compounds; Dinitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine or monomethylhydrazine (UDMH / MMH).
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by Solarsail 8y ago
Just a couple of asides, since I was reading about these very subjects (Am-241 RTGs and outer solar system photovoltaics) a few weeks ago; The UK's NNL prototyped out a process for volume manufacture of Am-241 in 2013. http:/&#x2
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by Solarsail 9y ago
As an aside, when I played that game I once made an octal data tape, capable of reading 3 bits of state from a single block in the tape (the "loop"). Used three read circuits next to the tape, which allowed it to detect an additi
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by Solarsail 9y ago
Well, there is Shen. Static typing, I think it can do dependent typing... Doesn't have the affine types of Rust tho. Not sure how it works out to use in practice. Discussed here, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by Solarsail 9y ago
Disclaimer: Going off memory of the presentations myself, not at all an expert, etc. Ivan Goddard's descriptions of the branch predictor sounds quite simple that I can remember; The predictor itself is completely detached from the com
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by Solarsail 9y ago
With the disclaimer that I don't fully understand Gamergate myself, and the following account sounds possibly incomplete, it seems like a workable summary of part of the subject. https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlik
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by Solarsail 9y ago
Well, for what it's worth, that is an impressive looking game from a solo developer. Looks better than a number of (enjoyable) games by small teams I can think of. Tho I suppose that's a small solace, against the low sales numbe
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by Solarsail 9y ago
While I do agree that the case highlighted shows a rather uncharitable reaction to said personal anecdote, I suspect your advice could be turned around itself in a number of circumstances. Live and let live. Somebody tells a personal stor
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by Solarsail 9y ago
I'm a bit curious about combining RAII or similar with dynamic types myself. It's been discussed at mild length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356925 If we assume some sort of object orientation, or
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by Solarsail 9y ago
Well, I've used an unmaintained almost-vanilla-Java REPL: https://github.com/jacktasia/java-repl
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by Solarsail 10y ago
Well, there's a couple of pieces of sample code on comp.arch in google groups / usenet. Sadly, I can't find any examples of genAsm anywhere, but a couple of fragments of conAsm. Maybe that's better, as conAsm is what&#
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by Solarsail 10y ago
Well, scriptcs sounds somewhat analogous. Similar REPL for C#, allows for packaged scripts, plays nicer with the filesystem than an IDE (which you'd expect for command-line apps). http://scriptcs.net/ Note: I'v
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by Solarsail 10y ago
Not the GP, but referring to the more broad anti-PC movement... Lets say The War On (the war on) Christmas. Fear of being PC in a context like that may work out as somebody avoiding the term "Hanukkah", even while speaking about
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by Solarsail 10y ago
Just replicated this bug in Firefox, IE and Edge. Can't find a way to debug the problem, tho.
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by Solarsail 10y ago
Brainfuck. That particular computer... Was an 8 instruction machine with a... very short data tape. It could increment / decrement numbers on the tape, move back and forth on the tape, use loop constructs to select instructions, and
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by Solarsail 10y ago
As it happens, there've been a bunch over the years. Including a hardware implementation of BF, I think a stack machine at one point... At least one that was pipelined, and since I largely stopped following the scene, a bunch built u

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