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Seeing this game of Snake on automatic going up to 4160 points is mesmerizing.
https://gigamonkeys.com/snake/
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Interesting project on GitHub, by Jeremiah Cheatham: A game called "Yellow Snow", implemented in various languages. I was interested in the Gforth + SDL2 code but ended up unable to install it. I'm on Debian and sadly installing libsdl2-mixer-dev (which I need for this project) then decides to uninstall a bunch of stuff including some SuperCollider stuff that I want to keep. Very nice blog post on the hardware of the #CanonCat: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/05/refurb-weekend-canon-cat.html What I find interesting every time I read about it, is how close it’s conceptually to #Emacs.
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Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison. But he only served 9 months due to a sympathetic judiciary and massive public outcry from his political supporters. If that sounds uncomfortably familiar, it should.
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 "Hitler fue condenado a 5 años de prisión. Pero sólo cumplió nueve meses debido a la simpatía de un poder judicial y a la protesta pública masiva de sus partidarios políticos. Si esto le resulta incómodamente familiar, debería serlo."  @shoq And that was not just some missbooking of hush money for a porn star, that was an attempted coup, people died, leftists doing the same thing would have been executed. So more like January 6th.  @shoq @patmadigan Trump has many more indictments to go. Our Court system should get those trials over with before the election. Trump is a convicted criminal and liar, but is he the most corrupt American who ever lived? America needs to know.
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 @davidrevoy : Merci David, ce genre de post est essentiel. Et tu pointes bien les problèmes de Wayland que les geeks en console comme moi ne voient pas (je ne sais même pas ce que c’est la calibration d’un écran). Au fait, bienvenue sous Debian !   @davidrevoy loved this article. I also installed #debian12 with #gnome but I may switch after reading! so apparently kyoto university lets students wear literally anything they want to their graduation and its best thing any university has ever done  It takes 20 tons of earth to make one gold ring. In a handful of soil there are more than 50 billion life forms. There are 5,000 handfuls of soil in one ton. 100,000 in 20 ton. 5,000,000,000,000,000 life forms poisoned by mercury and cyanide to make one gold ring. 80% of gold is for vanity. 10% is for speculation 10% for industry. Gold mining is environmentally devastating lots of reform parts and expansions now available at crowd supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform incl very good deals on a311d processor upgrade (rcm4-bpi) and standalone keyboard My next laptop will be definitely a MNT Reform. I love the idea, the hackability, that's it's open... and the fact that I can have one with a trackball!  Visited the National Museum of Computing today. I've been to plenty of computer museums – but this one is special: Almost everything works! You can type on an Enigma, and then see how a bombe helped decipher it. It's *loud*!! They also have a computer from 1951, the "Witch", which still works! It had 340 bytes of RAM, could calculate five values per second, and punch them out on paper tape! This article explains a bit about why I realized that I don't want a more productive e-reader or a big tablet e-reader, if you are interested. https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/01/two-e-readers-that-made-me-reconsider-why-i-use-e-readers/ Today I learned that the .cbz file format used for digital comic books is just a zip file full of jpeg images with the extension changed from .zip to .cbz. I'm definitely going to start using that. Sometimes I zip up a bunch of images, primarily to keep them archived together, and later I want to poke around in the zip file to see if it contains a particular image. @munroe I'd never heard of that file format, but I can't help but wonder if cbz stands for "comic book zip"? I feel strange listening to a folder of 50 songs called Best of Madhuri Dixit – an actress. I think it’s movies from her movies ripped from a DVD and then I saved just the audio. Something to keep my thoughts from tumbling down. I suspect that many of these songs were all sung by the same singer. I need to find a Wikipedia page about the music used in those movies – and the singers.
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@NanoRaptor "This is Commander Jameson, en route to Lave Station. There is an unexpected item in the bagging area. Please wait for assistance."  This was my ICQ number: 98129982 #FlashbackFriday: My #InteractiveFiction "Whom the Telling Changed" (2005) retold the epic of Gilgamesh as a living story told around an ancient fire, with those in the crowd each hoping to sway the telling to their own purposes. Debuted the highlighted keywords system that later appeared in Blue Lacuna, and features a maybe-confusing but still cool idea in the early moves where you define your character via disambiguation messages. https://buff.ly/3yyQz4r @aaronareed This game was definitely among the stuff that gave me the confidence to make The Baron! Loved it.  @alex This Hacker News thread, with comments by the founder, may give some answers. "We developed our own custom epaper display tech we call LivePaper. We focused on solving the tradeoffs RLCDs traditionally have - around reflectance %, metallic-look / not Paperlike enough, viewing angle, white state, rainbow mura, parallax, resolution, size, lack of quality backlight, etc." Daylight Computer is a 60fps paper white thing display (but not e-ink?) for $729. Did anybody here give it a try or see a review? I like the sound of Public Benefit Company even though I'm not sure what the actual benefits for the public are. @alex This Hacker News thread, with comments by the founder, may give some answers. "We developed our own custom epaper display tech we call LivePaper. We focused on solving the tradeoffs RLCDs traditionally have - around reflectance %, metallic-look / not Paperlike enough, viewing angle, white state, rainbow mura, parallax, resolution, size, lack of quality backlight, etc." @johncarlosbaez "most of humanity is committed to business as usual" I'm not sure this is correct. Absolutely most of humanity scaled by their energy usage is, but this is a very different thing than most of humanity. Far fewer minds to change, much more entrenched opinions. |
