Hacker News: LuciOfStars

New comment by LuciOfStars in "I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button"

LuciOfStars — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:49:22 +0000

Ah, okay -- sorry, thought you were being dense.

New comment by LuciOfStars in "I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button"

LuciOfStars — Mon, 05 May 2025 12:56:00 +0000

I'm sorry, did you just unironically say "mouses"? -_-

New comment by LuciOfStars in "I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button"

LuciOfStars — Mon, 05 May 2025 12:55:34 +0000

I vastly, vastly prefer my Mighty Mouse to the Magic Mouse.

New comment by LuciOfStars in "The vocal effects of Daft Punk"

LuciOfStars — Mon, 05 May 2025 12:45:13 +0000

It's Daft Punk, are we really surpised? :-P

New comment by LuciOfStars in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

LuciOfStars — Fri, 02 May 2025 18:15:47 +0000

Moment of silence for Play Music. YT Music isn't any less awful now than it was a decade ago.

New comment by LuciOfStars in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

LuciOfStars — Fri, 02 May 2025 18:14:23 +0000

Electron is horrid, but as a user, I prefer bloated "apps" to no support at all.

As for your second point: [1]

1: https://snapcraft.io/

New comment by LuciOfStars in "Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral"

LuciOfStars — Fri, 02 May 2025 18:06:34 +0000

> So was Roman incompetent or... hoping to become the President of Finace?

Por qué no los dos?

New comment by LuciOfStars in "I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today"

LuciOfStars — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:12:41 +0000

Sorry, folks, I got COVID and haven't felt good enough for a couple days.

New comment by LuciOfStars in "I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today"

LuciOfStars — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:29:20 +0000

I do have some (surface-level) experience with GB/GBC assembly, but other than that I'm new. As for spell-checker, I've figured out how to rid myself of that. And the paper tape mix-up was just my inexperience.

All super interesting info!

New comment by LuciOfStars in "I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today"

LuciOfStars — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:25:17 +0000

I'll uhhhh. Buy a Bill Gates bobblehead. There, he has money.

New comment by LuciOfStars in "I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today"

LuciOfStars — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:24:45 +0000

I figured it out! Never using a Mac again. Hopefully my school gives me a different computer next year.

New comment by LuciOfStars in "Purple exists only in our brains"

LuciOfStars — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:27:26 +0000

Came here looking for this haha, Alec's videos are always a treat.

New comment by LuciOfStars in "Vibe-Coding Leader Replit in Talks to Raise $200M for $3B Valuation"

LuciOfStars — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:21:01 +0000

What even is "vibe coding"? From the looks of it, it's just a prettier way of saying "using ChatGPT to make my program, poorly."

New comment by LuciOfStars in "Transcribing the AltairBASIC source, by hand, ten lines at a time"

LuciOfStars — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:16:02 +0000

Double submission because I'm fighting with this laptop; I thought I deleted the old one, but I'm not sure.

New comment by LuciOfStars in "Transcribing the AltairBASIC source, by hand, ten lines at a time"

LuciOfStars — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:13:09 +0000

I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source released by Bill Gates for fun and preservation's sake. I'm starting out with ten lines a day, but I'll be increasing or decreasing that if I feel like I need to do less or more. Not to be taken too seriously; I'm just doing this for fun! I'm not a programmer, just a nubbin with too much free time.

Transcribing the AltairBASIC source, by hand, ten lines at a time

LuciOfStars — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:13:09 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/luciofstars/altairbasic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584516

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by LuciOfStars in "I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today"

LuciOfStars — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:07:42 +0000

I'm having a struggle with this computer, it loves to correct Altair to Alta and I keep forgetting to correct it. Whoops.

New comment by LuciOfStars in "I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today"

LuciOfStars — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:06:47 +0000

No AI or OCR here, just an idiot with too much free time. After seeing that the AltaBASIC source posted was a scan of paper tape, I thought having it in a digital document proper would be good for preservation and novelty's sake. I've never written Assembly, and I'm not a typography expert! Feel free to point and laugh at any silly mistakes. Let's see how many days it takes!

I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today

LuciOfStars — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:06:47 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/luciofstars/altabasic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584422

Points: 80

# Comments: 44

New comment by LuciOfStars in "Git without a forge"

LuciOfStars — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:39:10 +0000

SourceHut seems to be mostly what they're looking for. :-P