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New comment by mepian in "KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer"

mepian — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:04:20 +0000

It's derived from Jedi Academy's source code which is licensed under GPL.

New comment by mepian in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

mepian — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:50:06 +0000

FreeBSD is definitely not a "GPL OS", the license is right in the name!

New comment by mepian in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts"

mepian — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:34:47 +0000

A/UX predates Xserve by 14 years.

New comment by mepian in "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"

mepian — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:18:18 +0000

I'm pretty sure this is just the mod SDK as well.

New comment by mepian in "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"

mepian — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:19:37 +0000

That repository is not the engine, it's just the code for the client.dll/server.dll binaries that contain game-specific logic and some other tools.

UK has 'no future' if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse

mepian — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:55:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/08/uk-report-ecosystem-collapse-national-threat-food-security

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884694

Points: 41

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New comment by mepian in "Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95"

mepian — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:53:28 +0000

Didn't Valve release a huge update to Half-Life in 2023 (i.e. 6 years after the linked comment was written)?

New comment by mepian in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

mepian — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:03:02 +0000

Is it Tasha?

New comment by mepian in "I keep bouncing off the Scheme language"

mepian — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:41:24 +0000

> I do wonder what a language with the same “taste” and minimalism as Scheme but embracing the actor model would look like.

There is Spritely Goblins: https://spritely.institute/goblins/

New comment by mepian in "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"

mepian — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:35:50 +0000

You haven't seen the Lisp subreddit then, there is a post complaining about having to learn Emacs at least once every week or so.

New comment by mepian in "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"

mepian — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:17:30 +0000

There is an explanation in the blog: https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/

> However, the above is a tall order for someone just wanting to dip their toes in, to see if they have any interest in Coalton or Common Lisp. A couple hours on the weekend is easily sunk into getting configurations right, and the right subsystems installed, and the right paths setup, just so the first line of code can be executed.

> mine is not Emacs. It aims to eliminate all of that, and be a Coalton/Lisp-first development environment, whose only job is to be a Coalton/Lisp-first development environment. But more than that, it needs to be accessible. A non-programmer should find it easy to download, install, and run mine with nothing more than a download link.

New comment by mepian in "Amiga Unix (Amix)"

mepian — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:53:05 +0000

OpenLook is nice but it's a bit of a shame it doesn't have its own version of Workbench.

New comment by mepian in "Germany joins European partners with troop deployment to Greenland"

mepian — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:27:39 +0000

A base becomes useless pretty quickly if it can't be resupplied, I suspect there is enough hostile AA around it to ensure that.

New comment by mepian in "GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '"

mepian — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:04:01 +0000

There is the Heroic Game Launcher that also interfaces with the Epic Games Store.

New comment by mepian in "Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep"

mepian — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:21:09 +0000

At least one of the lead developers of Étoilé moved on to CHERI.

New comment by mepian in "Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep"

mepian — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:14:55 +0000

Haiku is not related to Étoilé.

New comment by mepian in "Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab"

mepian — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:08:02 +0000

It's not technologically feasible unless plastic aka flexible ICs take off.

New comment by mepian in "The lost cause of the Lisp machines"

mepian — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:45:16 +0000

Azul Systems was making Java machines a while ago.

New comment by mepian in "An opinionated critique of Duolingo"

mepian — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:40:32 +0000

When did they add that? When I was trying to learn Japanese 6-7 years ago Duolingo didn’t have anything for either kana or kanji…

New comment by mepian in "Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)"

mepian — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:15:38 +0000

I remember reading or hearing somewhere that this was a one-off thing, but I can't remember where.

EDIT: Another comment mentioned Chet Faliszek, he was probably the source.