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sras-me··on Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
Stuff that I made in 2005 is still there https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/267616
sras-me··on Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News
> Get the News part of Hacker News without the Drama part of Hacker News

https://sras.me/unireader/

Reddit and YIFY ones are defunct now. Sorry.

sras-me··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
> Outside of Scratch most programming has incredibly obnoxious environments to setup.

I am making a programming langauge and environment to address this. My target is to match the QBasic experience. A video screen capture of the old Paratrooper game running in the IDE..

https://vimeo.com/835347764

Linux executable: https://sras.me/releases/spade.run

Source: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/spade

sras-me··on Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines
I am on a similar quest with https://hackage.haskell.org/package/spade

But it is not bare metal yet and it is not BASIC.

sras-me··on Falstad Math and Physics Simulations
Thanks!

>You ever play SodaPlay?

Never heard until now. Looks interesting. Thanks for sharing, but is it available now?

sras-me··on Falstad Math and Physics Simulations
Reminds me of this [1] I made back in 2005 in Flash action script, thankfully bought back to life by Ruffle [2].

You can fix the ends of the string by pressing space. When both ends are fixed, you can you can drag the beads and release them.

No big deal, but hey I was quite happy with myself back then..

[1] https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/267616

[2] https://ruffle.rs/

sras-me··on Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?
A simple interpreted programming langauge and terminal IDE.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/spade

But it is not finished!

sras-me··on Recursion is lying to you
>Recursion is easier to write

And read..

sras-me··on Ask HN: What apps are you building?
I am also doing something similar here [1]. But I decided to NOT use BASIC as the language. Instead I implemented a new language with more modern features like foreach loops, closures and a less verbose syntax etc. But the focus is still on getting the same IDE experience as QBasic IDE as well as the graphics/sound capabilities as the good old QBasic. Another priority was the availability of built in documentation help with example, which was also a great thing about QBasic.

Not being able to run in the browser is a purposeful choice I made. I want the users to distance themselves from the browser (which I think is an abstraction that is best avoided in the context).

You can take a peek here [2] where you can see a video demo of the IDE loaded with the program for a partial clone of the paratrooper game.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/spade [2] https://vimeo.com/835347764

sras-me··on A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury
> I use ledger for plaintext accounting for both personal and business and sync of data is slightly annoying..

I made this to solve it https://sras.me/accounts/

Feel free to use it as it stores data on your browser's local storage only. For syncing between devices, you would be able to use Google firebase's free tier and export your accounts (after compressing and encrypting) there and import from another device. Let me know if you want to try it..

sras-me··on Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker
> I made one of these too, but a minimal/fast HTML/CSS/JS web app

Same story here. But not sure if yours had a backend. Mine did not have one and stored everything on the browser datastore, but could export it to some free json hosting service after encrypting and compression so that it can be synced to other devices and used from them as well.

Was not aware of anything that did the same, thought it would be useful (mostly because it would be totally free to use, could be accessed from multiple devices and respected user privacy) and shared here couple of days back.

Zero interest! Ha ha. At least I didn't spend a lot of resources on it and made it for my own use. It have been working well for me for many years.

sras-me··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
It might not be interesting, but it is true.
sras-me··on An investigation into egg prices
>"The big suppliers can ratchet up prices with zero consequences. What are you gonna do about it?"

I think one (uncomfortable) solution is this. Consumers should budget their expenses. So when the egg prices increase, they should consume less to maintain their budget for eggs, for example, a month.

This will mean that when the companies increases prices, more of their stock will remain unsold, increasing their expenses stocking them to go up. This could also cause disruptions on their supply chain. This should force them to reduce prices.

sras-me··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
>I’ve been told they are all paid

Surely he didn't mean all the people present there are paid. As far as I understand, when you want some initiate a political change, you pay influencers, and they actually go an convince/gaslight the masses about the need for change.

So all the people who were present there might not be paid, but a lot of prime movers and the require infrastructure might be paid by the interested party.

sras-me··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
>Somewhat surprisingly they are OK with Ukraine joining the EU [1].

So this makes sense to me. Basically I think it is US that Russia sees as a threat (because may be US seen Russia as a major threat and wants to break it up).

sras-me··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
But the argument is only based on publicly available, historic facts. That is my problem with painting it as propaganda.
sras-me··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
> This should be very easy to answer, but no one ever does.

I don't think this is very easy to answer. The fact that people think it should be very easy to answer this, shows how naive they are, because the reason why country x think country y is a threat could include a lot of information and context that is not available to an external observer.

sras-me··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
>Some of us have been following European politics for a long time, friend.

Oh yea, here is one guy that does exactly that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD_KEFpuIro

Transcript:

https://singjupost.com/transcript-jeffrey-sachs-on-the-geopo...

>Not for Crimea. Not for the Donbas. Nothing like that. This idea that Putin is reconstructing the Russian empire, this is childish propaganda. Excuse me.

>If anyone knows the day-to-day and year-to-year history, this is childish stuff. Childish stuff seems to work better than adult stuff. So no designs at all. The United States decided this man must be overthrown. It’s called a regime change operation.

sras-me··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
>STFU, if this place weren't a total delusional echo chamber,

Oh man, you should take a look at /r/worldnews, I mean, that really takes the prize when it comes to being a total delusional echo chamber.

sras-me··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
>NATO has never been a threat to Russia

This is a very naive take, I think. When you are responsible for the security of a nation, you can't just remain passive to the potential threats that shows up on your doorstep. I mean, it would be irresponsible his people if Putin did that and trusted NATO/US blindly to not cross the line, one way or another. (I mean, US could always make up some cooked up justification for the attack, like it has done so many times in the past), So if US is putting missiles near Russian border, even if that is on behalf of NATO, I think Putin is bound to do something about it..

I don't understand what part of that is "Russian propoganda"..

sras-me··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
Rejecting theories by labeling them "propaganda" with out any justification is not really helping here.
sras-me··on Buy European Made. Support European Values
Here is some "Russian misinformation" for you. Please watch it and come back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkl2XgZlw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgPJeYZaOU

sras-me··on TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
>His NATO excuse never made any sense. Don't invade anybody, and you have nothing to fear from NATO.

May be he is/was worried about USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkl2XgZlw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgPJeYZaOU

sras-me··on Buy European Made. Support European Values
So basically, I think at this point if you support this to go on, then you are really willing to face an all out war that possibly involves your country. So there is a real chance that you won't be able to limit how your pay will be affected. But things could get much worse if some country goes nuclear.

So what I am trying to say is that may be some people are acting from this point of view (which makes a lot of sense to me, if you are realistic), and is actually not unsympathetic to Ukraine.

sras-me··on Buy European Made. Support European Values
Ok, now let us also take into account that as this conflict continue, the chance of a nuclear escalation goes up, day by day.

Would you still support to fund this and make this conflict go on and on, possibly until someone becomes so desperate that they do something stupid?

sras-me··on Buy European Made. Support European Values
Fair enough. I suppose it is your decision to donate 1%.

But would you like your president to make that decision for you? Would it be okay with it you if they asked you to sacrifice like 60% of your pay towards this cause, that too indefinitely?

sras-me··on Buy European Made. Support European Values
Assuming you are not from Ukraine, how much of your paycheck are you willing to sacrifice for the support for Ukraine, like indefinitely?
sras-me··on Buy European Made. Support European Values
>Share of respondents who said Trump would be good or bad for their country..

No no, that is not what is being said here. To match with it, the poll should ask if they would like someone like Trump to be their leader, not if Trump in US would be bad for their country.

sras-me··on Buy European Made. Support European Values
>There is broad consensus in Europe..

How is this measured actually? By what the media and public institutions say?

Is there poll targeted at the common working man that says the same? I highly doubts so.

sras-me··on The Rise of the Brutal American
Which lie?
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