robterrell

IIRC Swift Playgrounds goes pretty deep -- a full LLVM compiler for Swift and you can use any platform API -- but you can't build something for distribution. The limitations are all at the Apple policy level.

My immediate headcannon was: Dedra goes to prison for sedition and builds parts of the second Death Star; is liberated after the death of the emperor; as a (purportedly) rebel-aligned political prisoner is held in esteem (that Loni should have gotten!) She works for the New Republic and rebuilds the police state machinery that ultimately leads to the first order.

My uncle is Paul Terrell, the owner of that Byte Shop. He showed me the photo and told me who was in the window. But I don't have an independent verification of this -- dunno, maybe Captain Crunch is a lurker here?

Here's a fun fact: in the photo of the Byte Shop, the person in the window with their back to the camera is John Draper, the legendary hacker known as Captain Crunch.

I got a travel CPAP and it's been a huge unlock for me for international flights. Last flight I took to Europe I picked a 9 pm flight and had 6 hours of actual good sleep on the plane.

Dozens -- probably hundreds -- of games use this. There are case studies you can read at https://heroiclabs.com

(Not sure why it was posted today -- it was first posted on HN 8 years ago.)

Didn't FoundationDB get a clean bill of health?

In the game industry, "C-like C++" is the norm. Games often don't use modern C++ features like exceptions, RTTI, multiple inheritance, etc. for very good reasons.

Yeah, I get that this is a re-creation of an existing title focused on C64 (also published out of the same office as the one I worked in). What's odd to me is that there's no connection to the original magazine -- no IP rights acquired, none of the old writers or editors involved, just name-squatting on something people feel nostalgia for. But maybe it'll be great.

TI-99/4a was the worst for me, but I think the entire reason I was hired was that everyone else hated porting to the Apple //.

I worked for Compute! magazine when I was in high school (an excellent job, porting games for one PC to another) and so maybe it's just a me thing, but it seems weird to name this "Compute's Gazette" when there's no connection to the original magazine, besides fandom.

Come on. First place has gotta be the PowerBook 100.

"Chimes at Midnight" is a clever Orson Welles film that combines all of the Falstaff scenes from the various Shakespeare plays that he appears in.

Mimestream is a fantastic native app. Mac only though: https://mimestream.com/

If you look at the blinking LED sample, it's pulling in the freertos header:

  #include "freertos/FreeRTOS.h"

So presumably yes?

> The smarter you are the more elaborate a prison you can construct for your own brain.

Amazing one-sentence summary for so much of what is going wrong right now.

Brilliant, rich people trapped inside their own mind palaces, spending vast sums on remaking the world into something that matches their interior delusions.

What are you not getting imported? Strava does import activities from Apple Health and it's treated no differently than an activity recorded in the app. (Feel free to email me with details, my first name at strava dot com).

Nice. I appreciate that it's a loving recreation and not an emulator.

This is an incredible point. Instead of using this crisis to pressure Beijing to crack open the China market to US companies or even just get some concessions, Trump just folded to look like a champ.

The author is the creator of D, so he's probably fine with D. And D is something like 25 years old. Whereas Zig is just a toddler.

Strongly recommend this. I enjoyed "Master & Commander" (and read the first three books in the series, which are really one continuous story) before finding "A Sea of Words" and was astounded, on a re-read, at how much I didn't understand about sailing terminology, life onboard, the navy, etc.

But it's also a book that rewards knowledge of French, Latin, the history of science, music, geography... really an astounding book.

This has me hoping the Vesuvius prize finds an ancient Roman bond that needs to get paid out.

> analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)

Maybe not for the "reasonable person" but government data is available and if you are here you likely know some statistics, so go nuts:

https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

and

https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-report...

Re-reading Stanislaw Lem (i.e. The Cyberiad) in the era of LLMs has been a joy for me.

You don't see the majority of tokens it is generating.

I clipped it years ago but found it again here with google:

https://sites.google.com/site/cultoddities/home/carrie/carri...

Aaaand... there's actually a much more relevant set of quotes about The Shining, like:

There's a lot to like about it. But it's a great big beautiful Cadillac with no motor inside. You can sit in it, you can enjoy the smell of the leather upholstery -- the only thing you can't do is drive it anywhere. So I would do everything different. The real problem is that Kubrick set out to make a horror picture with no apparent understanding of the genre. Everything about it screams that from the beginning to the end, from plot decisions to that final scene -- which has been used before on "The Twilight Zone."

Directing a movie requires very different skills. Even on just a personality level: an author can be reclusive, but a director has to be extremely social, because a film is made by a large crew of people. And there's the obvious other skills too (this interview is from American Film magazine):

Stephen King: The movie is about all these vehicle goings crazy and running by themselves, so we started shooting a lot of gas pedals, clutches, transmissions, things like that, operating themselves. We had one sequence: The gas pedal goes to the floor, the gas pedal goes up, the clutch goes in, the gears shifts by itself, the clutch comes out and the gas pedal goes back to the floor again. We were able to shoot everything but the transmission from the driver's side door. The transmission was a problem, because we kept seeing either a corner of the studio of a reflection.

So I said: This is no problem, we will simply take the camera around to the other side and shoot the transmission from there. Total silence. Everybody looked at everybody else. You know what's happening here, right? I'd crossed the axis. It was like farting at the dinner party. Nobody wanted to say you've made a terrible mistake. I didn't get this job because I could direct or because I had any background in film; I got it because I was Stephen King.

So finally [cameraman] Daniele Nannuzzi told me I'd crossed the 180-degree axis and that this simply wasn't done, and although I didn't understand what it was, I grasped the idea that I was breaking a rule.

Later on, I called George [Romero] up on the phone and I said, "What is this axis shit?" and he laughed his head off and explained it, and I said, "Can you break it -- the rule?" He said, "It's better not to, but if you have to, you can. If you look at The Battleship Potemkin" (which I never have), "it crosses the axis all the time, and the guy [Sergei Eisenstein] gets away with it." Then I saw David Lynch and asked him: "What's this about crossing the axis?" and he burst out laughing and said, "That always gets me." And I asked if you could do it, and he gave me this startled look and said, "Stephen, you can do anything. You're the director." Then he paused and said, "But it doesn't cut together."

Literally a report from government experts:

"It is important to note that biofuel production and consumption, in and of itself, will not reduce GHG or conventional pollutant emissions, lessen petroleum imports, or alleviate pressure on exhaustible resources."

It's thanks to Judge Albright: https://www2.law.temple.edu/10q/how-the-west-became-the-east...

Plaintiffs file in Waco to get Albright -- if they filed in Austin, they wouldn't get him. Then they make a motion to move it to Austin, which he grants if he can based on schedules, and if it can move there, he still presides over it.

Removing just your data probably isn't enough?

Despite my curiosity, for privacy reasons I made the decision to not use 23andMe. (Basically - feels like information an insurer will inevitably want to use against me.) My wife did, however, and over the years our kids did too, for various reasons (an interest in genealogy, a kid with celiacs looking to trace the genetic component, etc).

Recently I was very surprised to look at the app on my wife's phone and see that they have a shadow account for me with a lot of details filled in, due to my wife/kids/siblings/cousins having used the service. I should not be suprised -- this is how they caught the golden state killer, after all.