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New comment by blue1 in "The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement"

blue1 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:22:14 +0000

SPI does not exist anymore, but there are other publishers still doing it, although the market is much smaller now. The biggest one is probably GMT games.

New comment by blue1 in "Mahjong: A Visual Guide"

blue1 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:02:29 +0000

Interesting... However, ironically, EBGRIA is awful too, in its own way. The typography is rudimentary.

NASA's lunar Gateway space station is out. Moon bases are in

blue1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/nasas-lunar-gateway-space-station-is-out-moon-bases-are-in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509956

Points: 5

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New comment by blue1 in "The Perils of ISBN"

blue1 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:17:50 +0000

ISBN prefixes does not always indicate a country. They may be are indeed countries, but others are language areas (e.g. 0/1=English) or "regions" (groups of countries) or even other subjects.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISBN_registration_grou...

New comment by blue1 in "Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action"

blue1 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:09:45 +0000

High level programming languages were conceived by humans and for humans. Will AIs in future better use their own languages, or maybe even output machine language directly?

New comment by blue1 in "Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects"

blue1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:07:39 +0000

Unusable on iphone SE, the UI is cropped on the bottom and cannot be scrolled.

New comment by blue1 in "The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy"

blue1 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:25:03 +0000

I was basically thinking about investing in the “S&P7”. No forecasting.

New comment by blue1 in "The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy"

blue1 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:01:49 +0000

So a viable strategy would be to only buy the best 7 stocks? Like the Dogs of the Dow, but reversed? (The Gods of the Dow?)

New comment by blue1 in "$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer"

blue1 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 07:28:50 +0000

The Elgato Stream Decks, although not keyboards proper, come very close

New comment by blue1 in "Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp"

blue1 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:03:56 +0000

This project, which seems interesting, would greatly benefit from a better explanation of what it is, and some screenshots.

New comment by blue1 in "PuTTY has a new website"

blue1 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 07:51:09 +0000

I see no mention in this thread of KiTTY <https://www.9bis.net/kitty/>, no one uses this instead of PuTTY?

New comment by blue1 in "Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp"

blue1 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:40:09 +0000

I agree in general, but this project HAS releases; At least, it had until a certain date. So if you jump to the releases page, it gives the impression that the project is now dead. If they have abandoned that model, they should at least write it somewhere.

New comment by blue1 in "Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp"

blue1 — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 08:09:45 +0000

Latest release is from five years ago, unfortunately. The project seems mostly abandoned.

New comment by blue1 in "Fun with Telnet (2024)"

blue1 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 10:49:02 +0000

Correction: books.com became barnesandnobles.com, not Amazon. Amazon assimilated bookdepository.co.uk, but much later.

New comment by blue1 in "Fun with Telnet (2024)"

blue1 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:49:02 +0000

In the 90s, Book Stacks (books.com, eventually bought-and-destroyed by amazon), in addition (or before?) having a website, had a text-only online bookshop via telnet. I bought some titles that way. It was pretty cool!

New comment by blue1 in "Battlestar Galactica: Technical Manual (2005)"

blue1 — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 11:19:57 +0000

I remember enjoying it a lot until the end, which I found stupid and contrived.

New comment by blue1 in "Generating Mazes"

blue1 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:57:55 +0000

There's a whole book devoted to that, titled "10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));:GOTO 10"

New comment by blue1 in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

blue1 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 05:25:37 +0000

I don’t know in France, but at least in Italy companies are not a shield for penal responsibility; crimes are always committed by persons. If a company does something criminal, someone is responsible for that decision within the company, and that could be the CEO.

New comment by blue1 in "Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)"

blue1 — Sun, 05 May 2024 19:30:01 +0000

I don’t think that’a true. Too many years have passed so I cannot cite makes and models, but I worked in an IT magazine back then and there were mp3 players with a lot of buttons, not unlike those overcomplicated VHS recorders which sold on “features”.

New comment by blue1 in "Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)"

blue1 — Sun, 05 May 2024 18:44:33 +0000

Apple used to sell stuff that had “curated UIs”: few control, few functions, and excellent UX. I remember the cleanliness of the iPod vs the overfeatured and complicated competitors.