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by b-kf 2mo ago
Even more macabre (I should not admit to this publically...): I can't help but find this one (from your first link) quite... hilarious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reichelt.ogv Elaborate contraption, jumps,
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by b-kf 2mo ago
I vaguely remember amounts of lead exposure and IQ (as in lower) could be linked quite well and there was a map showing that for the US. Trying to find it I stumbled upon this https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.
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by b-kf 2mo ago
`Discussed at the time` and here I expected a link to a HN thread from the 1920s! But yes, `(of the article)`, guess my reaction was anticipated :)
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by b-kf 2mo ago
Obviously it's not a shell script, it's still C. It's fun though and being able to freely specify an interpreter/execution path using a shebang has led me to write some useful little command line utilities in unlikely pr
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by b-kf 2mo ago
Exactly #!/usr/bin/tcc -run #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf("Hello from C!\n"); for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i) printf("argument %d:
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by b-kf 2mo ago
"The year of the Linux desktop still isn’t upon us (in 2026), and part of the reason why it has taken so long to get to that point is fundamental: a lot of the people who use Linux love fiddling with configuration files to reshape thei
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by b-kf 2mo ago
thanks for the pointer, as I said I wasn't sure, good to know
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by b-kf 2mo ago
bit meta but can I just applaud the article? Descriptive title, immediately comes to the point, no elaborate fluff, factual... what a nice change of pace. 95% of other users finding this would have done much worse. This is not clickbait, no
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by b-kf 3mo ago
All games by Zachtronics can be highly recommended to this crowd here, obviously why his games have come up here https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Zachtronics - SpaceChem - Shenzhen I/O - ... - the funniest concep
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by b-kf 3mo ago
Not sure about the motivation behind the comment, but small donations help too and provide you with a good feeling. Almost anyone here can probably part with the equivalent sum of money of a mobile phone plan in their country and split it a
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by b-kf 3mo ago
Appreciate Odin, especially the batteries included approach (simple to use structure of arrays, matrices, array programming, the context system for custom allocators, ...). To be fair though: the heavy lifting in JangaFX is likely done by a
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by b-kf 4mo ago
Was my intention to specifically link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Shrine#Rebuilding_the_Shri... but the link automatically was converted to point to the main article instead
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Regular rebuilding of the Ise Shrine due to Shinto principle(en.wikipedia.org)
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