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DerekL··on NIMBY No More: Gainesville, Florida, Moves to End Single-Family Zoning
How terrible, a dense urban jungle, with miles and miles of quadplexes. You can barely see the sun anymore, blotted out by gigantic two-story buildings.
DerekL··on “Games as a service” is fraud [video]
Title needs (2019).
DerekL··on Byte Magazine: LISP (1979)
It's “Pascal”, not “PASCAL”.
DerekL··on Surprising Mac Features That I Discovered Recently
> Alternatively, you can press CMD-OPTION-C to copy any file/folder’s path, which is really nice.

Also, you can just use “Copy” in the Finder, then paste in Terminal, and Terminal will use the path. You can also drag from the Finder into the Terminal.

DerekL··on Swift Proposal: Move Function
Read the “Alternative spellings” section of the article.
DerekL··on San Francisco Police to Start Monitoring with Private Cameras
The post title, “San Francisco Police to Start Monitoring with Private Cameras”, is incorrect. The actual title of the article is “Crime-Obsessed San Francisco Flirts With ‘Police State’ Crackdown”. Any change to the monitoring policy requires approval by the Board of Supervisors.
DerekL··on Fields Medal was never meant for ‘the greatest mathematical genius' (2018)
Title needs (2018).
DerekL··on SFO Int'l Terminal Evacuated After Police Find Bomb in Suspicious Package
The title is incorrect. The article doesn't say if the suspicious package had a bomb in it or not.
DerekL··on Can the 64 and 128 survive? (1988) [pdf]
That shows how bad PC clones were at some types of video games. It took a massive programming effort to do a side scroller, requiring machines that arrived six years after the Commodore 64 or Famicom.
DerekL··on Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody
The title doesn't match that of the article, “Former Japan PM Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody”. The word assassinated is incorrect, because that means that he was killed. (Maybe he is dead, but the article doesn't say that.)
DerekL··on New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws
*losing
DerekL··on Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)
Remember, it did have a sequel, U.S. Marshals in 1998, but it didn't do well at the box office.
DerekL··on New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
Lady Bird was set in Sacramento, not a small town.
DerekL··on How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive
Title needs (2015).
DerekL··on How fast can a 6502 transfer memory?
The Pac-Man cart was 4k, not 2k. But maybe it should have been 8k, like Ms. Pac-Man later was.
DerekL··on Show HN: I made a deceptively simple but hard sliding puzzle
The hard level is the same thing as The Nowotnik Puzzle, a ZX Spectrum game from 1983.

https://www.emulatorgames.net/roms/zx-spectrum/nowotnik-puzz...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTLeI5QS8Qw

DerekL··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
A space trading and combat game (like Elite or Wing Commander: Privateer), but set in the Star Wars galaxy. An addition thing you can do is search for new hyperspace lanes.

The same thing, but in the setting of The Expanse books and TV series.

DerekL··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
I've wondered if Car Wars would be much more fun if it were computerized, removing the tedium.
DerekL··on Sale of Orwell's 1984 forbidden in Belarus
Title is misspelled. Should be “Orwell's”.
DerekL··on All Those Celebrities Pushing Crypto Are Not So Vocal Now
Shill is the wrong word for this. A shill is someone who is paid to promote something, but pretends that they are neutral and impartial.
DerekL··on Extreme include discipline for C++ code
I'm just showing how a compiler could optimize files that have include guards. This doesn't do anything for files that are intended to be included multiple times.
DerekL··on US Army's Land Trains (2020)
The title needs “(2020)”.
DerekL··on Ask HN: Where to legally bulk purchase MP3 in 2022?
Yes, that's because Bleach, released by Sub Pop, is the only Nirvana album that's indie. The others were released by DGC Records.
DerekL··on Extreme include discipline for C++ code
The compiler would store the condition in memory, and reevaluate the condition every time the file is included again. If the contents of the file aren't skipped, then it would actually read the file again and parse it normally.

For instance, if the file was this:

    // my-file.h
    
    #ifndef MY_FILE_INCLUDE_GUARD
    #define MY_FILE_INCLUDE_GUARD

    void f(void);

    #endif
the compiler would remember the “#ifndef MY_FILE_INCLUDE_GUARD” part.
DerekL··on Lets talk about blockchains
It's also misspelled.
DerekL··on C++20 Ranges Algorithms – Non-Modifying Operations
You teach them how it works in Python. You don't take a detour to an entire other language.
DerekL··on The Man Who Accidentally Killed the Most People in History
In what way does this video contort the story to reach the title? Is it the word accidentally?
DerekL··on The Man Who Accidentally Killed the Most People in History
Maybe you should watch it instead of skimming, because your summary is incorrect. (The uranium enrichment was done by a different person than the other two things.)
DerekL··on The games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen
The Amiga did come with Basic, but in 1990, they switched to Rexx.
DerekL··on Seashore: Easy to use Mac OS X image editing application for the rest of us
> +shift+4

Macintosh uses “⌘” as a command modifier key, not the Apple logo. The Apple II series used the Apple logo. The only reason Mac keyboards used to have the Apple logo on the command modifier keys is because Apple once made keyboards that worked on both the Mac and the Apple II GS.

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