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marjancek··on Txt: A fast, keyboard-driven terminal text editor for engineers
> curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ErikHellman/txt/main/insta... | sh

With the amount of new seemingly well polished personal projects being built (thanks to the help of LLMs) I feel increasingly concerned by how easy it is becoming to get a worm/virus/troyan to a lot of people.

marjancek··on The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof
> The proof — ... — is in some ways even more complicated than its predecessors.

Damn it in deed.

But perhaps it will open a door to new proofs? Perhaps in other areas?

marjancek··on I built a multiplayer version of the 4,500-year-old Royal Game of Ur
Beautiful atmosphere; a tutorial, ai-vs-ai, and a remote play that is a bit slow, but was a lot of fun.

Congrats!

marjancek··on MapQuest app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario
I'm not sure people actually understand why this is just sad.

It is not that I am against a nationalist and populist renaming, it is that these renames have a clearly negative impact.

They deny the identity of the local people who lived there before us (Ontario meaning "sparkling lake" in Iroquoian; Mexico being a Nahuatl expression).

They undermine the diversity and richness of the names we use. Do we really want everything to be "of America"?

That doesn't make America greater; it just makes it dumber, and boring.

marjancek··on The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)
Yet a lot of people forgot about the most important thing about them: that they must be independent.
marjancek··on Which country voted the best at Eurovision?
The referenced dataset[1] does not yet contain the results for 2026, and the calculated rating takes into account data since 2016 to 2025

[1] https://github.com/EurovisionAPI/dataset/tree/main/data/seni...

marjancek··on Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever
This is a very neat site someone shared with me: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

I liked it that it explains what Chat Control is, what is the current position of different countries and politicians, and suggests ways to contact your representatives to explain why you have one position or the other.

marjancek··on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu
Seams not all mustard oil is Banned in the EU.

I've got a bottle of Uncle Roy's cold pressed extra virgin "spicy" mustard seed oil at my local Spar.

The label reads "erucic acid free", so I'm guessing they somehow remove it?

It even has the awful pun of "The healthy Oilternative".

I understand they also remove (most of?) it from Canola Oil.

marjancek··on Raft Consensus Algorithms
Anyone else came thinking to find something on the Raft consensus library[1]?

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/raft

marjancek··on Whether having a baby ruins your life or not
> Its not worse just very very different and you can't go back.

But kids eventually grow up, and you get back most of your free time.

You might not have the same energy nor desires at that point though.

marjancek··on Show HN: I made a tool to send a letter now people use it to just print
We have printing kiosks, in places like public libraries, that are particularly popular with students. They are inexpensive (0.10€ a page in colour) and good quality (laser).

Who can afford to have a printer at home?

marjancek··on C programming language official site
Well, it does say so in the FAQ:

* Is this site official?

Yes indeed, it was greenlighted by unanimous consent after review of document N3408 during 72nd meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14.

marjancek··on Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?
Viruses are not super intelligent, yet one could kill us all.

The biggest danger I see is a widespread AI with a set of badly defined goals, not a particularly smart and evil one.

marjancek··on What's your favorite RSS feed reader?
I'm also on the free plan, and it has everything I need, in sync between all my devices and platforms.
marjancek··on Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks
Canadian humor always seamed very similar to British hunour, yet somehow different.

Kids in the Hall and the Canadian Air Farce are two great examples if it.

I particularly liked CAF's 'Literary stick up', if I recall the name correctly, though I have not been able to find it online anywhere.