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New comment by 1313ed01 in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

1313ed01 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:58:13 +0000

Useless fact I just learned from Wikipedia: Ångström/Angstrom (in Sweden of course we still use the original spelling) has its own UNICODE symbol, Angstrom sign: Å (U+212B) not to confuse with the Swedish letter Å (U+00C5). Looks slightly different in my browser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom

New comment by 1313ed01 in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

1313ed01 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:43:49 +0000

The problem with C++ string slices is that after many years of C++ becoming increasingly memory-safe with std::string and smart pointers, now we reverted to something barely more safe than a C string.

I guess Rust can keep slices safe using some borrow checker magic or something, but C++ can't.

New comment by 1313ed01 in "Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?"

1313ed01 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:39:36 +0000

That's pretty much what git over https does by default (is it even possible to do read-write to a git repo over https instead of ssh?).

https://git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol

New comment by 1313ed01 in "I Love the Computer"

1313ed01 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:39:36 +0000

Except the one on the right is in Swedish.

New comment by 1313ed01 in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

1313ed01 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:57:17 +0000

And Ion Fury, from 2018, made with the Build engine: https://www.gog.com/en/game/ion_fury

New comment by 1313ed01 in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

1313ed01 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:53:11 +0000

There is 16-bit DOS support in Free Pascal these days (yes, added long after 32-bit DOS support). That makes it easier to get a pointer to video memory. Makes other things less easy.

Also some (more) free (open source) 16-bit C-compilers now, like the ia16 gcc port and Microsoft's C compiler included in the MS-DOS repo on GitHub.

Not that 32-bit extenders do not come with some advantages, but I enjoy the simplicity of 16-bit.

New comment by 1313ed01 in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

1313ed01 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:00:33 +0000

Same as for GitHub Copilot?

"For more on how Anthropic handles this data, see Anthropic’s commercial terms and data retention policy. Enabling the Claude Fable 5 policy constitutes acknowledgement of this requirement. Leaving it off keeps Claude Fable 5 unavailable to your organization."

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-claude-fable-5-is-g...

New comment by 1313ed01 in "Why Janet? (2023)"

1313ed01 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:29:12 +0000

There is also fennel, earlier language originally by same developer, that is similar, but compiles to, and is fully implemented in, Lua. No standard library of its own so missing many nice things like the parser library from janet, but it is good for writing scripts for things that embed Lua.

https://fennel-lang.org/

New comment by 1313ed01 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

1313ed01 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:52:27 +0000

I do the opposite and put all games together, with DOS BAT-files to launch the games. I boot up my virtual dream DOS machine by just starting DOSBox-X and then I launch the games the way they are meant to be launched, from the DOS COMMAND.COM command-line. And as I mentioned in another comment, all of that is in one big DOS git repo.

Nice thing with DOSBox-X is there is a built-in command to set config parameters, so for games that require special settings or to slow down etc that can be set up from its launcher BAT file. All games share the same dosbox config file with default settings.

New comment by 1313ed01 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

1313ed01 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:47:57 +0000

I never had any issues using WINE to install GOG games, but maybe running WINE on a Mac is not as easy now as it was back when I did that on a x86 Mac?

I always run the GOG installer in WINE and then copy the game into my git repo for DOS stuff, make sure the game works, git commit it, and then I know it will always just work and I will not have to think about that again (plus I can version manage all settings and save-games for all the games and also sync between my different machines without relying on any cloud service).

New comment by 1313ed01 in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

1313ed01 — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:59:56 +0000

Termux and DOSBox are great for running or writing software on a phone. I almost never resort to installing or writing apps anymore as that is just more cumbersome and has APIs that keep breaking (not to mention the threats from Google about making non-Play app deployment more regulated).

New comment by 1313ed01 in "The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years"

1313ed01 — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:53:41 +0000

Using a cache of outputs makes sense, but that is just an optimization. I don't mind if a site publishes generated texts, as long as they are clearly labelled as such and have no fake-writer human names attached.

New comment by 1313ed01 in "The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years"

1313ed01 — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:14:52 +0000

If I want to read a LLM's "opinion" on some subject I just prompt it myself. Inserting humans as intermediaries that pretend they wrote something is dishonest at best. Future generations will hopefully see through that and stop sign generated texts with fake human names.

New comment by 1313ed01 in "“I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT"

1313ed01 — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:17:48 +0000

Seems to render perfectly with NoScript blocking all scripts, even with images showing.

New comment by 1313ed01 in "Permacomputing Principles"

1313ed01 — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:11:15 +0000

Browsing that wiki in the past and two pages that resonated with me were on the topic of stable APIs (that is a topic in need of much more discussion overall). There are some good thoughts there.

https://permacomputing.net/software_rot/

https://permacomputing.net/bedrock_platform/

New comment by 1313ed01 in "Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC"

1313ed01 — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:44:11 +0000

I only use BASIC with line numbers, mostly GW-BASIC and pcbasic. Without numbers it just feels like Lua or python or any other scripting language, but worse? The line numbers BASICs come with their own almost-REPL (IDE?) that I find quite nice (or at least fun) to work in. Maybe mostly nostalgia, but it is the only reason for me to use BASIC at all. I have some basic-mode installed to edit BASIC code in emacs, but I only rarely edit the code outside of its natural built-in line-editor.

New comment by 1313ed01 in "Supercollider"

1313ed01 — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:49:45 +0000

I have not used SuperCollider in a long time, but there used to be a nice Clojure front-end (with some Emacs integration) and it looks like that still exists even if most recent commit was 8 months ago: https://github.com/overtone/overtone

New comment by 1313ed01 in "Ask.com has closed"

1313ed01 — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:03:09 +0000

Google did for a long time have a page documenting those features.

Picked a random date from around the time I know they had that. Clicked Adcanced Search, then a link near the top of the page to Advanced Search Tips.

https://web.archive.org/web/20041017053307/http://www.google...

New comment by 1313ed01 in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

1313ed01 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:10:59 +0000

https://lugaru.com/ They are still around. Most recent epsilon update was last month (but no real release since 2020?).

It was my first experience with emacs as well, but in MS-DOS, ca 1990. Did not know there was a CP/M version.

New comment by 1313ed01 in "SDL Now Supports DOS"

1313ed01 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:05:40 +0000

For making DOS games, there is also an old port of Löve2D. Löve2D normally uses SDL, but the DOS port has its own little (mode 13h VGA) graphics/audio/input library instead. Guess with a proper SDL port it might be possible to make a more complete port of Löve 2D (and of a newer version).

https://github.com/SuperIlu/lovedos

The original upstream version is archived and has not been maintained in 9+ years. The link is to a fork that has fixes as recent as 2025.