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eps··on Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++
Small nit, this - https://ryanjk5.github.io/assets/2026-05-14-GOLDE/torus.gif - is not what's conventionally referred to as a torus in CGoL. In torus left and right edges are also connected.
eps··on Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS
There's no source code? Why is it on GH then.
eps··on XS Programming Language
Well, great.

How does it compare to others?

Is it C with bells and whistles?

Is it C++ with blubber removed?

How is it different from D?

From Go?

...

Trying to fish out from a multi-page reference what makes your language unique and what gripes with other languages it solves is tedious, very few people would do it. It's on you to explain it.

eps··on delta time
Bug report - on iPad it's impossible to exit full screen mode, need to reload the page.
eps··on US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
There is a sub for that!

https://old.reddit.com/r/NominativeDeterminism/

eps··on Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
I can reciprocate -

When I was a pre-teen I found a book of Indian fairytales in a library. It was a translation, it was thick, the stories were few pages each, easy to read and beautifully illustrated. The content however was terrifying. So much violence, greed, poverty and suffering. The retribution when it was dispensed was as satisfying as it was over-the-top cruel. Eye-gouging was like an entry level option.

It was very long time ago, don't remember any details, but I still shudder remembering it.

eps··on IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
In the late 90s I moved from one country to another. As a part of a job hunt I applied to the local IBM office, because I had some OS/2 mileage. Then promptly got three offers from other places, accepted one and completely forgot about the IBM application.

Not 8 (eight) months later I got a call from their HR saying they'd like to interview me next Thursday. And then they got completely flabergasted when I said I was no longer interested. Don't know what they were smoking, but they were exceptionally full of themselves... while not even offering a good pay.

eps··on Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
Valid questions even if all of them are rhetorical.
eps··on FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger
They will also own CNN.
eps··on Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games
I find TW to be excruciatingly boring.
eps··on Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft
Zermatt is a ski resort for wealthy foreign tousrists, accessible only by train. But, yeah, it has no cars.
eps··on The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
... and last dot in the ellipsis.
eps··on Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
Slavery. It was meant to fix slavery.

Rasism was fixed by not using black- and whitelists on firewalls. Separate endeavour.

eps··on Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager
> Inspired by Midnight Commander

Norton Commander.

Know and respect your elders.

eps··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
> Why should journalism engage in the implied pro-active censorship here?

Because in this particular case it endangers subject's life.

eps··on Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example
When learning the Kalman filter, it clicks in place much faster when there are two or more inputs with different noise profiles. That's why it exists and that's what was its original use-case.

Yet virtually all tutorials stick to single-input examples, which is really an edge case. This site is no exception.

eps··on Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
The FBI is not a spy network.
eps··on An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests
A friend of mine went to a local mushroom picking course and among things they mentioned that morels are difficult to cook from fresh, because of the gastro problems. Apparently, the advice was to dry them before using in recipes.

What's up with that?

eps··on Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts
They did just that if we are to believe random reddit posts.
eps··on Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars
Especially in the rain, with a kid on a bolted-on backseat behind you and while sharing the road with cars that don't want you to be there.

Just throw in an electric motor and will suddenly become fun.

eps··on Conway's Game of Life, in real life
Conversely, it'd be cool to play it on an large empty office building.

One window = one pixel.

eps··on Conway's Game of Life, in real life
I saw one in a computer museum in Switzerland. It was a much larger field, it was just large orange LEDs (or were they tubes?), but it also cycled between a dozen of different cell automata games. Something about being able to see individual "pixels" made it really mesmerizing.
eps··on The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ
Classes. MF classes.
eps··on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

Way simpler than hnprofile from the sibling comment. This one used cosine similarity between user vocs - https://web.archive.org/web/20221126225241/https://stylometr...

eps··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
> 1 million deaths

Casulties, not deaths.

eps··on Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers
Got excited that someone made one of those 120v humming coil beauties do the numbers... alas, it's just yet another NN project :-/
eps··on Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32
They depricate some methods (very rarely and reasonably) and add new enums or struct versions to existing ones, but never change existing semantics, leave alone method signatures. As I said elsewhere, I invite you to find examples of actually destructive Native API changes.
eps··on Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32
I'm not confusing anything.
eps··on Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32
"Every document" notwithstanding, Native API is very widely used in practice and generally considered stable.

If in doubt, try and find examples of its breakage, semantic changes, etc.

eps··on Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32
> Microsoft are free to change the Native API at will,...

But they won't, because if there is one thing that Microsoft has always been extremely good at and cared for is backward compatibility. And changing Native API will break a ton of existing software, because even though undocumented it is very widely used.

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