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memalignon Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them

OP might be implying that from now on many engineers will use AI tools to write the first draft of their code so it’s smart to hire people skilled at correcting AI-generated code.

memalignon Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books

It can be more complicated than that (depending on your personal philosophy). Art can be standalone but it can also be tightly interwoven with cultural and political context.

There’s an interesting recent YouTube video from Wisecrack on the topic:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jVts8D1LzF0

memalignon Mexican jumping beans use random walk strategy to find shade: study

Interesting video. I can’t believe this guy is just live x-raying his fingers like this though…

memalignon The Broom Method

At the end of this blog post we are given the chance to buy little bits of used space shuttle.

memalignon A Web App for Noodling

This is new to me!

You probably figured it out from context, but “noodling” here is to play around with ideas, to mull them over, ponder, brain-storm.

A phrase in my part of the US is “Let me noodle on that”.

memalignon Show HN: 1Kb Webspace

Answer about the Google file: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34544351

memalignon Show HN: 1Kb Webspace

Google lets you prove ownership of a website by hosting a specific file with a unique name they provide. When you’re the owner, Google lets you see search analytics for your site.

Here’s the one for my site: https://memalign.github.io/googlefc60e159eedb4219.html

memalignon A Web App for Noodling

The author’s introduction, including link to git repo: https://indieweb.social/@Lobau/109571080359487085

memalignon Show HN: Realtime GPU-powered implicit function plotter in your browser

This project is so cool!

Please copy some of the UI ideas from my 2D graphing calculator (which itself copied nearly all of the UI of graphtoy.com): https://memalign.github.io/m/formulagraph/index.html

- Buttons to load examples

- Quick way to share a link to the current plot

- Buttons that show what functions are supported

memalignon Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

Yeah, it’s the map which is slowly revealed as you move between locations.

memalignon Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

Thanks for playing and sharing it!

Direct link to the game:

https://memalign.github.io/m/dungeon/index.html

memalignon Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

Counterfeit Monkey is my all-time favorite. I like it so much, I made a mobile-friendly demo:

https://memalign.github.io/m/counterfeitmonkey/index.html

memalignon Playscii: Open-source ASCII art, animation, and game creation

Some cool examples of Playscii creations:

http://playscii.tumblr.com/

memalignon Wobbly clock

Here’s the author’s original post about the clock: https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/items/wobbly-clock/

This links to a Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/christianp/status/1250454284581457923

Which has at least one other interesting clock idea, this one with floppier hands: https://twitter.com/kangaroophysics/status/12508031830451814...

memalignon A 116kb WASM of Blink that lets you run x86_64 Linux binaries in the browser

Very cool project!

Justine, how can I learn more about how disk access (reading/writing files) works?

Is there a blank virtual disk of some kind in memory? (Ohh I’m realizing maybe this is provided by emscripten?)

Does stdio work?

Would it be possible for ncurses to work?

memalignon Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made

TIL:

https://www.programmerhat.com/vim-zz/

memalignon Pico-8 Space Trader: explore, mine, trade, dogfight

I love the aesthetic and constraints of PICO-8. I came across this game which seems related/possibly inspired by the old Palm OS Space Trader game.

The mechanics here are different yet still my kind of fun.

If you’re new to PICO-8 and want to learn more, here’s a post with some of my favorite games:

https://memalign.github.io/p/pico8.html

If you want to play the original Palm OS Space Trader, check it out on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/palm3_SpaceTrader

memalignon Cybiko

Some relevant previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30485353

memalignon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://memalign.github.io/

Programming projects, little web games, miscellaneous other topics.

memalignon A secret message in a Colombian song gave hostages hope

The message:

“19 people rescued. You're next. Don't lose hope.”

More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Days_(Natalia_Gutierrez...

memalignon “Scale” by Greg Egan

“Learning to Be Me” has really stuck with me.

memalignon Bitmap Logic Simulator – Game

Doesn’t appear to work in iPhone Safari (I can’t seem to draw anything).

memalignon Alice’s Restaurant: An American Thanksgiving Tradition

While true, the Wikipedia article[0] has this to say:

“Alice's Restaurant of Sky Londa, California, founded in the 1960s, was originally founded by Alice Taylor with no direct connection to Alice Brock. Subsequent owners of the restaurant kept the original name as a homage to the song, eventually adding a "Group W bench," because the name had made the restaurant a tourist attraction that was "good for business."”

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant

memalignon Emacs on an iPad

It might be possible to run Emacs directly on iPad using iSH.

I run vim this way and love it.

memalignon Ask HN: How would I send 1 dollar to everyone on Earth?

It might also be important to verify that the thumbs are attached to a living body…

memalignon How roasted almonds become marzipan (2018)

It’s a video. Here’s a direct link that’s working for me right now:

https://pmd.cdn.turner.com/cnn/big/cnnmoney/2018/09/19/capti...

memalignon "Ducks,” the Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton’s new graphic memoir

I had to look it up, and wow… Charles Babbage really did hate musicians…

https://www.famousscientists.org/babbage-rage-musicians-reve...