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grimgrin··on I'm never buying another Kindle, and neither should you
probably because of android 11
grimgrin··on Not buying another Kindle
the only bit of the service i cared about was mailing my kindle address mobis/epubs (even the mobile kindle app receives these)

today i use a boox page, after a friend complimented his

https://shop.boox.com/products/page

grimgrin··on Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
okay so i'll be the sole commenter of: hex.ooo is an incredible domain name to me, maybe because i dig its UI, but certainly just in general

didn't know about ooo, maybe because it's not available on namecheap!

grimgrin··on Servo is now available on crates.io
when servo is ready i have plans to swap it into qutebrowser which ive been growing fonder of
grimgrin··on Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file
I wasn’t suggesting you open source it, for what it’s worth
grimgrin··on Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file
Publish yours un-minified like OP, so we can easily riff w/ or w/o an LLM ;)
grimgrin··on Generative art over the years
generated wallpapers are my fav

though really i just mean changing wallpapers, like https://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk/

my thing is a collection of public city webcams from around my state, that get applied to various displays on a cron. i add noise, saturation, etc. sometimes two displays get such a wallpaper that i find the combination lovely

( this is a top/bottom setup https://i.imgur.com/Xc8RdnW.jpeg )

now, this isn't really generative. but i've imagined and toyed with it. splotches of greyscale, or flip that and only splotches of color

i've imagined embedding secrets, whatever that means

grimgrin··on Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world
What happened to all of OP's comments? I swear they were scattered throughout here last night? Did they prune themselves out? :P
grimgrin··on Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world
I wouldn't consider the size of a MUD map by its pixels, really. You consider its size, in this case, by number of rooms

Though MUME is obviously large, a few ten-thousand rooms

grimgrin··on Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world
Always known of MUME, though wasn't a part of my mud history. I've wondered how the other tolkien muds compare, though most would be much smaller worlds I'm sure.

If you set the Genre here to Tolkien you can see a list of some: https://mudstats.com/Browse

> MUME is a free multi user role-playing game based upon J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Middle Earth' that has been continuously running since fall '91. The action takes place in the late Third Age, before 'The Hobbit' and after the loss of the One Ring by Sauron. The key of Erebor was just found by Gandalf and all the epic tales narrated in 'The Lord of the Rings' may take place. MUME covers 23'000+ original rooms from the mighty Dwarven Halls beyond the Gulf of Lh???n in the West to the fringes of Mirkwood in the East, and from the ruins of Fornost in the North to the fortress of Isengard in the South. In this meticulously crafted world where fantasy tales come to life players join... https://mume.org/

grimgrin··on Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
You can read the original here https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

There is also the rough draft. I've only read the wiki and the first draft of book

Oddly I gifted the actual book away before reading it (I can buy it again, I thought)

grimgrin··on One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking
I've had a bugshop bookmark for a while. Never to buy, merely curious. I like bugs

https://bugsincyberspace.com/about/

glad to say search shows no "queen" results, though idk if that means anything

grimgrin··on 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
it’s my signal for popular forks
grimgrin··on Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)
you just called rock 'n rye a boring flavor??

it's one of the regulars here i'd say. in my head i see cola/rye/cream as the "always available" at convenient stores etc

grimgrin··on JSLinux Now Supports x86_64
a bit cute that you interacted with the 1 AI thread. there are other threads!
grimgrin··on Building a new Flash
".fla / XFL import — This is the one I’m most proud of. You can open your old Flash files. As far as I know, this is the only open-source tool that functions as a full authoring environment and can actually import .fla files. Not just play them back — edit them."

as to when they share the source, idk!

grimgrin··on The happiest I've ever been
I'm sure we've all met an unhappy teacher. As well, ain't no way you're pulling me back into an office ;)
grimgrin··on Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
update the etymology then on wikipedia with your reference

that current etymology is what we’re all talking about obv

grimgrin··on Claude Code's compaction discards data that's still on disk
i use https://github.com/sirmalloc/ccstatusline and when im around 100k tokens im already thinking about summarizing where we're at in the work so i can start fresh with it

it is pretty rare for me to compact, even if i let it run to 160k

--

just realized how i wouldn't think about using ccstatusline based a quick glance at its README's images. looks like this for me:

https://i.imgur.com/wykNldY.png

grimgrin··on Lil' Fun Langs
idk how I haven't crossed a lisp with square brackets but dang I am sorta stunned at how I've never even envisioned it? thanks
grimgrin··on AI makes you boring
18, i'll stop. cheers
grimgrin··on Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)
don't little kids sometimes eat play-doh, bugs, crayons, etc? new experiences/curiosity i'd imagine
grimgrin··on AI makes you boring
it was up to 3 when I first posted

it's at 10 now. note: the article does not say "taste" once

grimgrin··on AI makes you boring
I land on this thread to ctrl-f "taste" and will refresh and repeat later

That is for sure the word of the year, true or not. I agree with it, I think

grimgrin··on Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
they explicitly had an opinion about true color, right in the article we’re discussing
grimgrin··on Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code
hi. i run "ocr" with dmenu on linux, that triggers maim where i make a visual selection. a push notification shows the body (nice indicator of a whiff), but also it's on my clipboard

  #!/usr/bin/env bash

  # requires: tesseract-ocr imagemagick maim xsel

  IMG=$(mktemp)
  trap "rm $IMG*" EXIT

  # --nodrag means click 2x
  maim -s --nodrag --quality=10 $IMG.png

  # should increase detection rate
  mogrify -modulate 100,0 -resize 400% $IMG.png

  tesseract $IMG.png $IMG &>/dev/null
  cat $IMG.txt | xsel -bi
  notify-send "Text copied" "$(cat $IMG.txt)"

  exit
grimgrin··on Monosketch
OFF TOPIC, but, on topic, I decided to goof with playscii yday. It is a powerful little thing, but will take some time for me to get comfortable.

"Playscii is an open source ASCII art and animation program. It runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS."

- https://jp.itch.io/playscii

- https://heptapod.host/jp-lebreton/playscii

Good little interview I found with the creator, JP LeBreton (legend, but I didn't know!)

https://cheesetalks.net/jplebreton.php

> As far as tooling limitations, GZDoom is not a bed of roses. Very little in the engine is runtime editable, so you have to reload the engine to see any of your changes. A rapid turnaround time for reloading changes is nice but it's far better to have as much as possible live-update. And ideally, in my opinion, you have the editor built into the engine itself, and you can do much of what you need from there without having to jump around to outside programs. Playscii was my first big attempt to build a little environment like that, something you can think in once you learn it well enough, like a musical instrument. Miles to go but that's always where I'm trying to get to.

grimgrin··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
amongst all the threads, it appears they are quite outnumbered lol
grimgrin··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
I will never use this platform. i didn't even click into it. pathetically, i did click to view comments

But I think commenting on someone's bio is the kinda harshness you only do in the moment. the kinda thing I'd approach differently in hindsight (one that isn't an attempt to be cruel)

grimgrin··on Thought-Terminating Cliché
That would work, but it has the problem of not terminating quickly enough. You see, the halftime superbowl show is on
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