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@neauoire what computer do you use? I am kinda interested in super low power computer devices and how scarcity leads to creativity.  @neauoire I've been feeling it too, though I'm only on solar for USB devices right now. Phone and bluetooth headphones are zzzz sleepy. I think I might have written the first ever game in Fractran? Fractran is a OISC that has multiply as its only operator, it has no ram and a rewrite-style control-flow. It was invented by Conway in the 80s but has been left mostly unexplored. docs: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/fractran.html @neauoire I admire you and treasure your mysterious works. But also, seriously... Why are you like this? 😂   @neauoire Thanks. The forum for me is pull not push, so I'm not always timely checking in. Appreciate the push/poke. Spent two days implementing an interactive tic-tac-toe in #Fractran, feels like I'm exploring a new planet.  "The average person lives about 75 years, of 52 weeks each, totaling 3,900 marbles moving from the jar of the future to the jar of the past. " I have have as of today 1900 marbles left in the jar of the future. I like these round numbers.
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 @neauoire Happy 2000 marbles moved! Looks like I *just* missed that milestone too — I have 1,893 marbles left. @neauoire Happy marbleday. Devine. :) The jar of the past is clear glass: I can count every marble that lies in it. The jar of the future, however, is swathed in darkness and each time my hand reaches in I never know if it will grasp at another marble, or nothing. Drew a couple of extra glyphs for Chicago so I could support Latin2 extended utf8 in the music player.   having a blast diving into Modal [1] - and I'm just scratching the surface! cc @neauoire The Hand as Measuring Device  @neauoire Btw, if you want to work with real units, we've learned these approximations in school: 1cm is the height of a finger 1mm is easy to guess, but maybe the thickness of your shirt? a Hackernews said that the Reform is too slow to do "real work" and any time I hear someone say that I have to assume their job is five or six degrees of separation from "real work" and they've just completely lost the plot
Met some cruisers who made it all the way to Ocean Falls(?!), they said there's nothing left there of the overgrown soviet looking town except an electric dam connected directly to a massive bitcoin farm.
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 @neauoire I was there about 20 years ago for my grandparent’s 50th wedding anniversary (they met in Ocean Falls after WWII), and it was definitely getting overgrown, somewhat surreal even at that time. Bitcoin mine is pure wasteful destruction, but maybe better than the pulp & paper mill that was there before? When it’s a “HyperScale AI Processing Node” we may sigh wistfully and think of the good old early 20’s. In the book The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman talks about what he calls "Good Enough Arithmetics", which is a way of calculating results in your head when precision isn't important. The approximate answer is often good enough. I gathered a few notes on my website as a reminder, and plan to add more as I find them :neofox_book:
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 @rek some rough conversions I use pretty frequently: At this point I'm pretty sure I can already call Alcest's Les Chants de l'Aurore, my favourite album of the year.  @unlkfp compiler enforced stack safety is something ive wondered about a lot and its *very* exciting to see a practical implementation! So, what's next? I had wanted to create a Tcp device for Varvara for a while, so I'll probably do just that, and maybe work on a simple Gemini/IRC client to test it out. It'll give me another chance to work on Uxn GUIs. I also have my roguelike to finish... or begin, rather :) My strategy thus far has been to implement little bits and pieces until all the major "algorithms" are done, then create a very simple roguelike on top. Thus far A* is done, while Bresenham, FOV, and map generation remains. Maybe I'll start with Bresenham next, and use that for the FOV. After the Network experiments, that is. |
@neauoire hmm it looks different from the Latin font