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davidjhall··on A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025
Yes! According to this post, someone tried to find the max rooms in Inform 7 and stopped at tens of thousands. Took long to compile (not run) and used a lot of memory, but not an issue. https://intfiction.org/t/i7-realistic-max-number-of-rooms/99...
davidjhall··on Harvey Mudd Miniature Machine
Excited at first ... until he sold you the hMMM machine, took your credits and flew away, only for you to discover that this machine only programs in little endian brainf*ck!
davidjhall··on Hungry Hungry Hippos Autoplay (2017)
Quick warning to not play the video in the room with an Echo. Now I have Alexa telling everyone in the house that green hippo is hungry!!

Which begs the question, how do they broadcast "Alexa, ..." on TV shows so that it doesn't set my Echo off?

davidjhall··on Ozzy Osbourne has died
Legend has it that he was handed a live bat at a concert and thought it was a prop -- was almost more surprised than the bat.

Also - animal rights were still gaining traction re: the arts. It was only in 1972 that the first "No animals were harmed in this film" was aired.

davidjhall··on Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list
SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) is awful; we tend to just have blocks of a few years of memories.

The only benefit is you can't be gas-lit intentionally because you are always gas-lit, so you believe nothing. :-)

davidjhall··on HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News
Very cute but wish there was a filter for the flavor of the week ... I feel 60% of them will have LLM because of this bias. Last month would've been "powered by rust."
davidjhall··on The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world
A wonderful atlas -- my favorite are her trail maps where she depicts a character's daily journey in the book.

The article (almost) footnotes her other work which was equally impressive:

* She also created atlases for the worlds of fantasy authors Anne McCaffrey, creator of the “Dragonriders of Pern” series, and Stephen R. Donaldson, who wrote “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant” series.

davidjhall··on Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic
Congratulations! What was the stack/language you used to make this [ didn't see it in your original post ]?
davidjhall··on 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation
Are there any other copies of this video out there? Since it's a bogus claim, the video should be able to be posted elsewhere --- YouTube can't be the only source of record.
davidjhall··on Ask HN: Recommend subs/products for hacker/developer? (Proton Mail, Kagi etc.)
*Fair warning -- I LOVE Obsidian.md ; not an evangelist, per se, but it's a great tool.

Free and practically future-proof ( all markdown; some extra flavor markdown but that's optional, extensions anyone can build in javascript )

Macros that help me do redundant things with a keystroke, a calendar that automatically populates with my custom template when I click on the date ( could set it to do it when I log in every day but not always in My-Day mode.)

I pay for replication because it supports the devs -- you can customize replication yourself with existent tools --- dropbox, syncthing, etc.

If you're an author, there are tools that make it more Scrivener-like. If you're a TTRPG player, there's tutorials on importing rules, rolling dice and autogenerating from tables, etc.

Anyway, I thoroughly recommend

davidjhall··on Ask HN: How to Resurrect a Site from Archive.org?
I have a similar one -- site just sent down a few days ago. A special library....
davidjhall··on Nurdle Patrol
I think they meant "not unlike" as - we didn't think asbestos was bad, then we thought it could be bad, then yes, after studies, this is really awful. Similarly, we might find that ingested plastics cause more damage than we realize now.
davidjhall··on Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork
Yes! We have it in Call of Duty : Black Ops https://youtu.be/QOgK0sV6RLU?si=5YdNNwbigBEvm9f6
davidjhall··on Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
Great work!

Noone's asked yet? What was your dev stack?

davidjhall··on Computing the Eclipse
I wonder if it would be easy to figure out, given a set of coordinates, if there would be a totality in the next 100 years there and when. I cant figure it from the examples but that would be a neat website.
davidjhall··on M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
In Connecticut - rattled the windows and shook books off the bookcase.
davidjhall··on Poor Charlie's Almanack
What are your opinions on the book? I started it, expecting a modern day Poor Richards, and couldn't shake the feeling it was a wealthy person giving advice from a vaulted position --- like "life tips from Bill Gates." CMO.
davidjhall··on Chosic.com – Discover New Music
With Spotify Wrapped, it identified genres for me that I'd never heard of. A quick search found this site which will analyze your Spotify lists more deeply and make recommendations and new playlists.
davidjhall··on The official website of Charles Atlas
It's in What the--? Vol 1, Issue 3 -- last page (36) edit: Here's a partial image : https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Sandman_(Earth-9047)
davidjhall··on Show HN: What to read after? Personalised AI book recommendations
I can only select 1 story attribute ( but multiple genres.) Is this intended?
davidjhall··on 'Atomic Energy' Book Signed by Einstein, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Enola Gay Crew
At the bottom, it says the book belonged to an amateur historian who went around collecting all the autographs. Cant imagine how easy/hard it would've been to get all if them.
davidjhall··on Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments
I thought this was neat and went to his repo - he's the lazygit/lazy docker person! Nice to see the prolificacy!
davidjhall··on Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?
What commercial classes did you take to level up? Were they Coursera, Udacity or university classes?
davidjhall··on Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
Missing "I can't view the site on my mobile phone."
davidjhall··on Metal Archives 20th Anniversary
Argh! No Pirate Metal category? They categorize them generically as Folk Metal but have a separate Viking Metal category.
davidjhall··on Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
Waited a while for this -- exciting! Uses Artistic License 2.0 license

The GUI isn't available until 3rd party developers release it in May --- currently it's command line only.

davidjhall··on Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5
Is the site down? I had a streak for a while but now I just have a blank screen ( on mobile and desktop).
davidjhall··on Ask HN: What Are You Up To? (April 2022)
I am here for your z-machine on Pico-8! I'm doing a z-machine in python 3.x this week (month? year?) as well.
davidjhall··on Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man) (2012)
Nor Connecticut
davidjhall··on Show HN: The Brutalist Report – A rolling snapshot of the day’s headlines
Like it - reminds me of a cleaner popurls.com. As someone else suggested, would love to custom add sites (via url).
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