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timonoko··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
You voted for this.

And there no mechanism you can fix it.

If you now vote for something else, they just cancel the results and make you vote again.

timonoko··on Nearly 1,400 live streams from Japan
Not many recreational boats in harbors. Same as in Northern Norway: Conditions mostly suck and there no particular places to boat to.
timonoko··on Olo (Color)
https://x.com/TimoNoko/status/2089598485347672323
timonoko··on Olo (Color)
Now I remembered how you see this color. You stare the some shape of 0xFF0030 and then close yores eyes and the inverted color appears.
timonoko··on Olo (Color)
Can I get note in Wikipedia for inventing this 40 years ago?
timonoko··on Olo (Color)
Goddammit. Now I remembered how you see this color. You stare the some shape of 0xFF0030 and then close yores eyes and the inverted color appears.
timonoko··on Olo (Color)
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timonoko··on Olo (Color)
I know that. In pure form that color it is both yellow and blue without being green. You sometimes see it in sunsets.
timonoko··on Olo (Color)
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timonoko··on Asus Bike Booster
I see winter version of this. You need custom roller with holes for a particular stud pattern. So there is no slipping and no tire wear. And maybe the roller is made of metal so the snow does not stick to it.
timonoko··on Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
Must be later improvement, because I whined about it in Usenet.

Originally you had to write inline assembly.

timonoko··on Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
I wrote Pascal for 8080 in 1976 and Finnish Army even paid some money for it.

I was truly disappointed that Turbo Pascal did not copy my handy PORT-metavariable. You can write & read IO-ports without any extra hässle:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qeJpYb94XzLBCE139

timonoko··on Symbolics Genera now available free for non-commercial use (inv-only early beta)
I had Symbolics for personal use.

But it was just a grey box running Maclisp of sort. Never understood the actual purpose, except Amerikka novelty -- for Russian visitors in Helsinki,

I think Lisp in big VAX was faster or at least more convenient?

timonoko··on FFmpeg 9.0
Only slightly broken already. Dont remember the details, but Gemini could not this to work just by reading the manual. https://github.com/timonoko/Skipperi
timonoko··on Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences
There is something fishy happening in Norway. Some Lapps suggested not to eat fish south of Nordkapp-island. Because of fish farms.

Insane, because this strait has always heavy current and nasty mælstrøms as half of Atlantic goes that way to east and back daily.

timonoko··on Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models
Everything else is doable, expect maybe "lossless". But then, alas, WAV is as lossless as can be and memory is cheap.
timonoko··on Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models
MP3-module from Aliexpress and some ESP-board with tiny display and micropython. Ten Euro.

You can make random search N in the MP3-module, because OFF/ON restarts and then you short NEXT-button wires N times.

timonoko··on The Birth of Prolog (1996)
Prolog was weirdly simple to make, once you managed to grasp the concept in its wholeness. Yes I made one in 1982 in Osborne-1. I even managed to include all numbers in the machine into search space, meaning 0 to 0xFFFF -- which real Prologs do not do.
timonoko··on The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
And yes. There was 8080-assembler in PDP-11, but it was just regular PDP assembler with extra macroes. It did not know those forbidden commands and thus produced undefined opcodes with random and entertaining results.
timonoko··on The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
Annoying part of 8080 was that the command set had holes in it and mystery restrictions. Which were hard to remember. And 12 undefined opcodes. Z80 solved all that.

However, you had to be a programmer Anno Dominii 1975 to fully understand what heavenly Joy and Jubilation Z80 was.

timonoko··on A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp
Adding and substracting 3D-objects was the same as in OpensCAD.

Strange they did not make OpenSCAD in AutoLISP-style.

I have to read the manual all the time, because I never learn the weird syntax of OpenSCAD for-statement.

timonoko··on Ask HN: Is HN comments used to train AI models?
Gemini knows exactly what this is about and volunteered to re-edit my texts to veer the mute downvoting team and [fagging].
timonoko··on Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck
You see from 3D-scan how tippy it is. Add guns on upper deck and it is dead https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/vasa-ship-137c0e1436e947e088...
timonoko··on QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
I blame micropython. Because it is reprogrammed by me myself. Original was much worse, because it always asked from China if it can open the door.
timonoko··on The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)
Only allowed color: vomit-green. Strangely repulsive. I do not think this is experience induced, because I loved my green XB3-bicycle from Kharkov Bicycle Factory.
timonoko··on QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
I want this. I have Wifi door lock too far away from base station. It was often stuck in a loop trying to connect to neighbours' Wifis. By try and error I managed to block those using metal foil, but it was hard work.
timonoko··on A road to Lisp: Why Lisp
I really do not understand this whining and downvoting.

In so-called real life somebody has to live with the malformed macro, whose only purpose is to beautify the code.

I even made un-macrofier, which deleted all macros and replaced instances with macroexpand, because slight adjustement of code resulted mysterious errors cause by nasty macroes.

And lets not talk about Common Lisp loop macro, which was probably scooped up from latrine of hell by the Devil himself.

timonoko··on Show HN: 18 Words
Know 6 languages and you will never get anything right. Search space too large.
timonoko··on A road to Lisp: Why Lisp
TLDR, but you are (probably) describing somekind of builtin property.

I am just saying that the end-user do not need macros for much anything, unless she has some specific optimization in mind. Bloody annoying when they start making cryptic macros to "extend the language".

timonoko··on A road to Lisp: Why Lisp
You do not need macros for anything. They are not the tool to "extend the language", but instructions for the compiler. And if the system does not even have a compiler, macros are useless, often incredibly stupid.
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