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Cosi1125on R: Introduction to Data Science (2019)

Why do you think that? (I'm legitimately curious.)

Cosi1125on R: Introduction to Data Science (2019)

It's not a DSL.

Cosi1125on What you've got is in fact a people problem

A people problem, or caching, or an off-by-one error. Or both.

Cosi1125on The curious case of the disappearing Polish Ś (2015)

Polish (personal) computing industry definitely had a great – and, sadly, largely wasted – potential, however Odra is the worst example to prove this point. A poster child of the Polish "engineering thought" in the 70s was K-202[1], whose creator's tragic story shows how the dreams of the "Polish Silicon Valley" were defeated by the communist reality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-202

Cosi1125on Winworld Software Archive

That's 8088, not 8080, unfortunately.

Cosi1125on SymbOS Z80 multitasking operating system

Maybe not 8-bit, but my HP 200LX runs months on 2 AAs and is only moderately bulkier (thicker) than a modern smartphone. With a CF card you can have hundreds of excellent DOS programs/games on it.

Cosi1125on "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

Yes, this is the original [Anton] Chekhov's gun :-)

Cosi1125on "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

[Off-topic] This is golden:

> Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III.

Cosi1125on Poland's Most Famous Dish: Pierogi

The latter is called "gołąbki" ("pigeons").

Cosi1125on Fortran 2023

- bioinformatics

Cosi1125on Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (2011)

Much is lost (and I learned this painfully reading the translation along with the annotations in APF), but also a lot is added by the translator. The translators had a lot of freedom – with Pterry's blessing – and some of them put it to good use. I love the Polish translation by Piotr Cholewa.

Cosi1125on Recoil – Retro Computer Image Library

The language has been created by the main author of RECOIL, Piotr 'Fox' Fusik – an offshoot of Ć (Cito) perhaps? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28805825

Cosi1125on Find bilingual baby names

It says that Vi is a "feminine English name that may also be a Polish word".[1] Now, if Emacs were a masculine English name, it would be a perfect match for evil twins ;-)

[1] Hint: it isn't.

Cosi1125on Do deepfake videos undermine our epistemic trust?

> Haven't read Anathem and couldn't find in any summary who the Ita are.

IT Administrators :-)

Cosi1125on Trabant

A man in a pharmacy:

"500 meters of advesive plaster, please."

The pharmacist looks at him, shocked. The next person in line pats him on his back and says:

"Sir, 100 meters is enough. I also have a Trabant."

Cosi1125on A clock where the time is in a song title

Came here to check if they have 2 Minutes to Midnight, but alas, no [1].

[1] https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/assets/songs.csv

Cosi1125on Core War, a very old game about programming

Especially "Enter". Adam Ryba, one of the "grandmasters", ran a Core War club there.

Cosi1125on Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

    Auctions, GPS,
    Postage stamp, video games,
    Public key cryptography,
    Shipping containers.
    
    iPhone, pencil,
    Clocks and contraceptive pill,
    Passports, batteries,
    Banking, antibiotics.
    
    Double entry book-keeping,
    Canned food, air conditioning,
    Razors, solar cells,
    Sanitary towels.
    
    Retirement, printing press
    And the Haeber-Bosch process
    Infant formula,
    Exchangeable parts.
    
    Light bulb, concrete,
    Sewing machine, spreadsheet,
    S-bend, cold chain,
    Insurance and dwarf wheat!

Cosi1125on Mad Pascal

It does.

Cosi1125on Mad Pascal

"Atari XE/XL" as in "Atari 8-bit". The XEs/XLs were way more popular in Poland than the 400s/800s.

Cosi1125on Mad Pascal

Maybe not TASM, but Mad Pascal has a sister project called MADS [1]

[1] https://github.com/tebe6502/Mad-Assembler

Cosi1125on MdBook – A command line tool to create books with Markdown

Also, Bookdown (https://bookdown.org/)

Cosi1125on A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB

This editor [1][2] supports Unicode.

[1] http://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Blochek

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20221113215247/http://laaca.sweb....

EDIT: VGA only, though :-(

Cosi1125on RePalm

http://www.jpilot.org/

Cosi1125on My Journey from R to Julia

    setMethod(myfun, signature = c("integer", "character"), ...)
    setMethod(myfun, signature = c("list", "data.frame", "logical"), ...)
    setMethod(myfun, signature = "foo", ...)

This takes into account as many arguments as you wish.

Cosi1125on Show HN: GPT Joke Writer

> A man had two daughters.

> He decided to name the first "Lavender." The second he named "Lavender 2: Electric Boogaloo."

Maybe I have a sense of humor of a 12-year-old, but this one made me chuckle.

Cosi1125on Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/ . It's surprisingly lively and they have lots of recommendations for beginners.

Cosi1125on Skribilo: Document Programming Framework

You'd appreciate this public bike service in Warsaw, Poland then: https://veturilo.waw.pl/en/

Cosi1125on Our Roadmap for Nix

Thanks for the advice! I'll probably give Nix another try, rather sooner than later :-)

Cosi1125on Our Roadmap for Nix

As I said, I've tried installing it from the Arch repo and using Nix's installer (+ the adjustments described here [1]).

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/879#issuecomment-4109043...