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New comment by cogburnd02 in "Show HN: 18 Words"

cogburnd02 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:21:44 +0000

1. You can have a button for both.

2. Yes

3. I got stuck and couldn't get past RILGUN -- it'd be nice to know what the word you were going for actually was.

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Dillo directory – Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo"

cogburnd02 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:58:08 +0000

Frogfind would probably be good.

New comment by cogburnd02 in "MonomaOS: A Python-based command-line OS-like environment (v0.0.1)"

cogburnd02 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:11:06 +0000

May be good to have a comparison/contrast with something like xonsh, or comparison of use cases.

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Show HN: Dosidicus – A digital pet with a simple neural network"

cogburnd02 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:10:00 +0000

You really ought to watch the Black Mirror episode Plaything. It’s about digital pets with a neural network interacting with a human played by Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who) and the outcomes that might result from this.

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Calypsi: A series of C compiler and assembly language cross compiler tool chains"

cogburnd02 — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 04:56:30 +0000

Not even open source. Bleghh.

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss"

cogburnd02 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:12:32 +0000

You should definitely watch the Doctor Who episode Partners in Crime.

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Manx is experiencing a revival on the Isle of Man"

cogburnd02 — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 21:40:05 +0000

But they left out the star marking the only location I want to know on any map of the Isle of Man: BigClive’s house.

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Termux on Android 5 or 6"

cogburnd02 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:19:24 +0000

Who is that, and why?

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)"

cogburnd02 — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 21:01:18 +0000

Can't distribution be archival?

Thomas Jefferson: "Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Intel Microcode Decryptor"

cogburnd02 — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:29:46 +0000

If it can't be done on a MC68000 (or thousands in parallel), then does it really need to be done?

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Text consoles and framebuffer consoles in Linux"

cogburnd02 — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 21:20:20 +0000

> What is GNU and what is not these days?

There is a definitive list: https://www.gnu.org/software/

> Is Wayland? Is GNOME?

Wayland never was. GNOME was at one point but isn’t any longer.

> Have you checked out Chimera Linux? Should I refer to that system as “the Linux kernel” or “GNU/Linux”? Neither makes sense.

Neither, but it would be both accurate and more specific to say that it is a Linux-based OS with BSD’s userland.

> whole “GNU/Linux” things has always felt desperate.

It’s now “desperate” to ask to receive credit for software you wrote? GNU wrote coreutils and gcc and early GNOME and those are part of pretty much any early GNU/Linux system and you think giving GNU credit for the work they put into building an OS is ‘desperate’?? No offense but screw that.

> It is a bit like the 70’s BSD guys says AT&T needed to call their software BSD/UNIX because so many people used BSD stuff on their systems.

But the BSD guys never said that..that I can tell. Unless you can provide specific examples, I can only assume this is a straw man and ignore it.

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Text consoles and framebuffer consoles in Linux"

cogburnd02 — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 20:59:48 +0000

The main advantage of sixel is probably the fact that it’s directly backward compatible with old DEC hardware, which I happen to like to use. I could have, say, a pdf reader that renders the pdf to the screen of an actual hardware VT330 by using sixels.

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Text consoles and framebuffer consoles in Linux"

cogburnd02 — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 20:02:17 +0000

I see no mention anywhere of yaft. Not an in-kernel framebuffer console, but one worth knowing about nonetheless, because it offers features like sixel support which probably won’t be landing in kernel any time soon.

[Also the title is ambiguous. While technically correct by referring to the kernel as Linux, I thought it originally meant GNU/Linux (the OS) because it didn’t say (e.g.) “consoles in the Linux kernel” or “consoles in GNU/Linux”]

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Textfiles.com"

cogburnd02 — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 19:11:47 +0000

This is funny in that despite it being hosted on textfiles.com it is an audio file... attempting to convince people to switch from binary formats to text formats.

http://audio.textfiles.com/basement/maketheswitch.mp3

New comment by cogburnd02 in "In Defense of NIR"

cogburnd02 — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 18:29:31 +0000

Near infrared??

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Beancount: Double-entry accounting from text files"

cogburnd02 — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 18:24:28 +0000

> PTA

Parent-Teacher Association??

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Big Time Public License"

cogburnd02 — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 23:16:46 +0000

Even more reason to not use it for anything.

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Big Time Public License"

cogburnd02 — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:56:21 +0000

Oh Holy God, not another one!

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

New comment by cogburnd02 in "Heartfuck"

cogburnd02 — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:54:59 +0000

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Trivial_brainfuck_substitution

New comment by cogburnd02 in "awkcc: awk-to-C transcompiler (1988, 2011)"

cogburnd02 — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:41:47 +0000

> What did I just read?

It can compile C into BF, too. So....that's a thing.