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New comment by fjfaase in "WikiMapped – 1.3M geolocated Wikipedia articles on an interactive world map"

fjfaase — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:01:11 +0000

How to correct errors? I found some museum with the name that matches a city (but not exactly) to be placed in that city while it is in a city at the other side of the country. I guess some AI has been used.

Also some markers refer to areas and they are just placed at the center of that area. The marker for a country just placed in some random field.

New comment by fjfaase in "Tell HN: I know I dislike a developer"

fjfaase — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:47:14 +0000

I dislike developers who make needless refractions such as changing the names of methods or moving parts of the code to different files all because then they understand it beter in that case.

New comment by fjfaase in "Scientists found a protein that drives brain aging – and how to stop it"

fjfaase — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:54:51 +0000

In mouse by artificially increasing it. I guess there are lots of proteins that do this when at higher than normal levels.

This says nothing about the effects of artificially reducing levels in humans.

New comment by fjfaase in "Maze Algorithms (1997)"

fjfaase — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:17:37 +0000

Interesting idea, but the problem is that being connected and being non-cyclic (properties you want for a perfect maze where you can reach every location and where there is exactly one route between every two locations) are global conditions that are difficult to implement with function collapse algorithm that are local.

New comment by fjfaase in "Maze Algorithms (1997)"

fjfaase — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:15:23 +0000

I maze that grows in one direction can be generated with Eller's or the Sidewinder algorithms (as also mentioned by the user John Tromp in one of the other replies).

New comment by fjfaase in "Maze Algorithms (1997)"

fjfaase — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:13:10 +0000

Great idea. However it is infinite in one direction. Could be made infinite in two directions (I guess) by extending along a diagonal line that get long with each step. Probably could also make it infinite in all directions with a square that gets extended with each step. However, that would mean that if one walks away from the origin, the maze has to be generated in all directions. For practical applications it would be nice to only generate the part of the maze that is 'visible' from a certain point of view (either from the top or while walking inside the maze up to a certain distance).

New comment by fjfaase in "Maze Algorithms (1997)"

fjfaase — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:29:54 +0000

Please explain how to deal with slightly overlapping tiles and still create a maze that has no cycles and locations that cannot be reached from any other location. These are properties that go tiles.

I do know of an algorithm with 'nesting' that generate mazes but results in very long walls and thus does not feel random.

New comment by fjfaase in "Maze Algorithms (1997)"

fjfaase — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:43:12 +0000

Are there also algorithms for (incremental) generation of infinite mazes?

New comment by fjfaase in "Trump signature to appear on US currency, ending 165-year tradition"

fjfaase — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:30:39 +0000

Another sign that the USA is changing into an autocracy?

New comment by fjfaase in "Daily Bible Verses Prayers"

fjfaase — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:29:07 +0000

Is there option to select another source, such as the quran, middle earth lore, buddism, athetist philoshopers or seculare wisdom quotes?

I am now ashamed that I once was deluded to consider myself a christian while science has sofar not shown anything beyond the standard model.

New comment by fjfaase in "Should a conscious AI be given Human rights?"

fjfaase — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:27:35 +0000

If one could prove that human like consciousness can be reproduced by electronic components (probably not possible), it means there is nothing 'super natural' about it and that humans should have the same rights as these kind of machines.

New comment by fjfaase in "Warfare in Dune, Part II: The Fremen Jihad"

fjfaase — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:26:35 +0000

I think Frank Herbert was not interested in how the Jihad could work out, but just used it in his plot. The science in Dune does not work. (One example are the stillsuits.) He is not a 'hard' S.F. author, but more of a political and psychology author. It is that what makes this story stand out.

New comment by fjfaase in "The No World Order: Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the War Beyond Iran"

fjfaase — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:49:46 +0000

We are returning to the pre WW2 world order and it is not due to some influential 'prophets' and leaders, but because history teaches us that we do not learn from history. The relative peace we experienced in the past 80 years was a response to WW2. Maybe only after another WW will there be a time of peace, of World Order again.

New comment by fjfaase in "Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it"

fjfaase — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:33:52 +0000

I use my own editor too. I modified an existing editor to my own needs. But I do use VSC as well for multi file projects. My editor can load images as well and has a scripting language to manipulate images. I primarily use it to edit my website, which is a static website in bare HTML. It also has some 'browser' functions in the sense that F5 opens a link including jumping to an anker if there is one in the link. It does have colour coding for HTML that also checks for matching tags.

New comment by fjfaase in "Put the zip code first"

fjfaase — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:03:30 +0000

The Dutch zipcode and the house number are unique. So, to mail something to the Netherlands anywhere from the world, it is enough to write something like: NL 1072CT 4.

New comment by fjfaase in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

fjfaase — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:50:02 +0000

Germany is one of the most pro-Israel countries and known for using excessive police voilance against pro-Palestina protestors and strongly denies that there is a genocide going on in Gaza.

New comment by fjfaase in "Build Your Own Forth Interpreter"

fjfaase — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:37:14 +0000

In the past years, I developed a forth like language as an intermediate language for a C compiler. For debuging purposes, I also implemented a memory safe interpreter, besides a compiler that generates assembly output.

See my profile for link to my github repositories and look under MES-replacement for stack_c

New comment by fjfaase in "Find where your face appears online"

fjfaase — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:19:24 +0000

I got the message: "face search is not available in your region", when I wanted to upload an image. I live in the Netherlands.

New comment by fjfaase in "Trunk Based Development"

fjfaase — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:32:24 +0000

Working without branches, except for releases, is the most effective way of working, using rebase instead of merge to get a single line of commits. Even release branches can be avoided with continuous deployment.

New comment by fjfaase in "Diffs"

fjfaase — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:40:31 +0000

It needs bun to install. Could not find how to install bun. I wonder if bun is free, because its website looks to fancy for a free tool.