omoikane · HackerLangs

12시간 전discuss

Looks like they illustrate the dual nature of how line intersections in the grid map to equilateral polygons in the tiles. It wasn't obvious to me until I read the "how it works" section.

https://github.com/aatishb/patterncollider#how-it-works

omoikane

그저께discuss

I don't think most browsers enable transliteration out of the box.

Lynx does[1], but it does that using iconv, which I think doesn't use UTS #35 transliteration rules.

[1] https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.9.3/CHANGES.html#:~:...

omoikane

그저께discuss

I like how retirement progress is tracked in a "freedom bar". I have heard that amount of money being described with a different f-word.

omoikane

4일 전discuss

I can't find any restriction on the submission language, maybe that should be explicitly spelled out. 1000 words in German would carry a different amount of information from 1000 words in English or 1000 characters in Japanese.

omoikane

5일 전discuss

A related concept in Chinese is 對號入座:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%99%9F%E5%85%A5%E...

An example might be some person A saying "only an idiot with this set of very specific negative attributes would do this thing". And then person B came out in the public saying they had been slandered by person A, thus indirectly admitting to having those very specific negative attirbutes.

Basically if person A invokes something like the small penis rule, it's often better for person B to stay quiet to avoid 對號入座.

omoikane

7일 전discuss

Also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwq-xr2fDBU

omoikane

11일 전discuss

It's not obvious if this is a wishlist or endorsement for a product that actually exists. The tone makes it sound like a real product, but if I search for "Windows Lite", I get Windows LTSC, or some downloadable Windows-like software offered by a mix of legit and sketchy looking sites. I am not sure if the author meant the latter.

omoikane

13일 전discuss

I have been making recordings for some of the code I wrote since 2011, mostly because I like the visual effect of how the code came together, but I guess it also proved that I wrote those code manually. A recent example can be found here:

https://www.ioccc.org/2025/yang1/making.html

omoikane

13일 전discuss

> U+2E3B three em dash

I had to look up why this exists, and apparently it was added in Unicode 6.1 (2012) because some style guide required it, and using consecutive U+2014 em dashes isn't sufficient because that might not render as one continuous line.

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10037r-longdashes.pdf

omoikane

15일 전discuss

Reminds me of this story about every app being sluggish on a relatively new machine, compared to equivalent apps running on a 20+ year old machine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983 - Fast machines, slow machines (2023-06-28, 346 comments)

omoikane

15일 전discuss

> https://hackernewstrends.com/who-is-hiring

Currently it says "no job-post mentions in this window" for everything. Transient error?

omoikane

16일 전discuss

Lua 5.3 (2015-01-12) added the bitwise operators:

https://www.lua.org/versions.html#5.3

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.4.2

Looks like LuaJIT is catching up, but calling these "syntax extensions" is confusing. Is the intent to hold LuaJIT fixed against some earlier Lua version (I guess 5.1) and adopt newer syntax piecemeal?

I welcome the compound assignment operators. Playdate's version of Lua also has that extension.

omoikane

19일 전discuss

> Programmer A sees duplication.

This step should also be parameterized by how many times the duplication has occurred. Refactoring preemptively may lead to poor abstractions, but not refactoring after seeing the exact same thing tens of times would also be weird. See also:

https://wiki.c2.com/?DuplicationRefactoringThreshold

https://wiki.c2.com/?ThreeStrikesAndYouRefactor

omoikane

21일 전discuss

I can't find any information on https://rtalabel.org/ to explain why that specific string, but I appreciate that the string being unique made it easy to find the official website, compared to something generic like "adult".

omoikane

22일 전discuss

> Only download the templates you need

This is going to save me gigabytes of space :)

omoikane

22일 전discuss

I would think twice before adding those type of features to Anubis. I like how Anubis currently does one thing and do that well. Once you make a captcha-like service that also does useful work, users will eventually perceive it as a useful-work-service that happens to have captcha-like function on the side, and that new perception will get a lot more people upset about Anubis.

We see this with Recaptcha where when it was first launched, some news sites praised it as making good use of what would have otherwise been wasted human effort. But eventually I started to see negative comments along the lines of how Recaptcha is just extracting free work to train self driving cars, nevermind the part about stopping bots. Since Recaptcha is now sometimes non-interactive, I am not sure if that data is still used for training, other than to improve Recaptcha itself, but the negative sentiment still holds whether that data is used or not.

omoikane

24일 전discuss

So that you would notice sites that are serving obnoxious ads, and remember not to visit them in the future.

Maybe you are saying "the whole internet is like that now, it's impossible to find good sites without obnoxious ads", but I don't think it's that bad yet (hacker news is a good counterexample). But if everyone keep visiting user hostile sites, the site operators will see no incentive to change.

omoikane

27일 전discuss

I find that you have to decide which direction to turn before the turn.

Once I got that figured out, it was mostly a race to catch pacman along the long straight path at the bottom edge with the ghost's superior speed.

omoikane

28일 전discuss

Is there a timeline for each of these bugs? I wonder if these bugs had been reported to ffmpeg yet.

omoikane

29일 전discuss

Looks like it outputs PPM and use ffplay as a display driver:

https://github.com/icitry/FPS.cob/blob/497867bb6827bcfc32d50...