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tetris11on PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

Thats incredible, I had no idea Jak&Daxter was written with Emacs as the primary IDE!

tetris11on If you tax them, will they leave?

I do wonder still if the country is better off. Billionaires investing in an area tends to skyrocket rent, housing tax from greedy councils, and skews food and utilities upwards too.

The loss of the richest man in the village might mean the baker now has to kowtow his prices to his less well-to-do neighbours again

tetris11on Guix for Development

I think I tried with this flag, but either it was incompatible with a cross-compile target, or it did not support my target arch properly

tetris11on Guix for Development

No, it produces a tree of libraries that you have to untar on the host machine. If you dont have root, then unpacking to /gnu/store is impossible

tetris11on Snow Simulation Toy

I had to check if the author was Alphapapa

tetris11on Guix for Development

    nix build nixpkgs#pkgsStatic.emacs

So, it's not so much a static build from a flag, as it is a large corpus of statically defined recipes independent from the other packages that you can build from

tetris11on Guix for Development

I love Guile over Nix syntax, but the one killer feature Nix has that Guix doesn’t is making a single static binary of common programs and then deploying them elsewhere.

In Nix, this is a single flag. In Guix, you either deploy with all libraries on a custom /guix path, or nothing.

tetris11on New YC homepage

Vulture culture: always was, always will be.

At least we got some decent side discussions in the small spaces during the interim

tetris11on Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

I constantly get the impression that it's a yaoi manga dressed up as a shonen, and so from that perspective I can understand why women may not be the focus.

Naruto and Sasuke spend much of the entire series pining after each other, and when they do finally - uhm - "resolve their differences", the show tacks on two female counterparts to marry them off to like an afterthought.

I don't blame Kishimoto for this, I blame the shonen crowd more for shaping their expectations on what is clearly a yaoi story

tetris11on AI is a horse (2024)

It's also a big bloatey gas bag that needs constant de-farting to function

tetris11on Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

Same with Naruto. Naruto and Sasuke are both essentially nepo babies inheriting these amazing powers and breaking barriers on day one. They fall down, but get up like its a scratch.

Meanwhile, Sakura, born of no remarkable parentage and easily sidelined plays an initial supporting role to these two egomaniacs.

But, she uses what little power she has and finesses it to medical precision.

She still fails, but I care about her battles a lot.

tetris11on Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers

it does suggest lack of mature support though, and it breaks your configs if you want to rely on system libraries

tetris11on Show HN: Interactive physics simulations I built while teaching my daughter

This is pretty nice! I was quite impressed with the colour mixing one in particular

(At the same time I was reminded a bit by the subtext of the web series Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, especially when pumping the heart to deliver body's needed cargo, like aspic and white sauce -- but that's just my brainrot showing)

I can imagine this being pretty fun on a tablet

tetris11on Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers

I love tree-sitter+eglot but a few of the languages/schemes I work in, simply don't have parsers:

    > pacman -Ssq tree-sitter
    tree-sitter
    tree-sitter-bash
    tree-sitter-c
    tree-sitter-cli
    tree-sitter-javascript
    tree-sitter-lua
    tree-sitter-markdown
    tree-sitter-python
    tree-sitter-query
    tree-sitter-rust
    tree-sitter-vim
    tree-sitter-vimdoc

Where's R, YAML, Golang, and several others?

tetris11on Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday

It's a vampire economy. No one has any new ideas

tetris11on Ask HN: Which common map projections make Greenland look smaller?

https://earth.nullschool.net/

Scroll down and choose a projection

tetris11on Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher

Trebuchet (a "launcher", heh) is the stock Lineage one, and it is genuinely fine. App screen, home screen, nested folders. Nothing more you really want.

Unfortunately it's built/bundled with Lineage, and you can't find a standalone APK for it anywhere

tetris11on Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing

tetris11on West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination

Same. The fact that he stepped down harkens back to a time when officials took responsibility for their gaffs. Given the current pedigree of public officials, I'd rather that he stayed on, instead of being replaced by someone worse

tetris11on Ask HN: What's something you wished you started doing earlier?

Microcontrollers. I never quite got what electrical engineering was all about.

Then I picked up my first esp32, and - boom - sucked into the maker space, staying up all night reading up on the intracies of using i2c over UART

tetris11on Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK

People who vote for less government forget that it only empowers big businesses, whilst the protections for small business and individuals are muscled out

tetris11on Scott Adams has died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Personal_life

> He has described a method he has used that he says gave him success: he pictured in his mind what he wanted and wrote it down 15 times a day on a piece of paper

I somehow read about him doing this when I was 18, and it was something that I used to help me excel in my university exams. For 7 years I did this during my exam period, and each time I got the exact grades I wanted.

He gave immense focus to a kid with back-then undiagnosed ADHD, and helped me structure my life in general.

I am very grateful to him.

tetris11on Show HN: Boost social media CTR. Auto generate Open Graph images for website

I guess I dont understand the use-case either, but that's okay - it's not for me, and plenty of others get it

tetris11on Show HN: Boost social media CTR. Auto generate Open Graph images for website

It's not clear what this does to me, even after playing around with it

tetris11on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app

My job's SSO moved to provider that either required an unrooted phone or a reliable Voice auth.

For 2 years the voice authentication worked fine (they call me, I type in a number) on my regular rooted phone. Then one random morning I just stopped getting the phone calls. "Network said no".

Complete lock out, nothing I could do except go out and panic-buy an unrooted phone not running Lineage and using a modern Android version. (I tried my older unofficial lineage phones without root, and no dice.)

I opted for a good phone I could postmarket later, but gosh did it set me back almost 1/5 of my monthly salary.

tetris11on enclose.horse

Or turn the cherries into sugar lumps, and call the game My Lovely Horse

tetris11on Cycling Game (Mini Neural Net Demo)

Wouldn't the race progress > 0.9 be a good enough input?

tetris11on Children and Helical Time

Whilst I did more new things in my 20s, I do recall my perception of days as a child being much much longer. I have distinct recollection of feeling almost clinical depression when I was about 8 after being told that we would be going to the seaside tomorrow and not today. To a childs perception of time, it was an agonizing eternity.

tetris11on Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (2021)

the rtc clock can be told to wakeup at specific times from software, and the hardware buttons do usually.wake the device too

https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash/blob/c83842e7561340e9...

tetris11on Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (2021)

Serial might have been a bit unnecesary here, since there are USB hacks you can exploit to achieve the same over at mobileread.

You also might want to turn off some background scripts in /etc/init.rc/ such as the screensaver, unload the audio/mic, stop the window manager if you're not using it, and stop the webreader.

https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash/blob/main/src/dash.sh