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New comment by mepian in "T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F"

mepian — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:33:59 +0000

I read the headline in Celsius and thought that they were a bit too hot.

New comment by mepian in "Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries"

mepian — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:22:56 +0000

Ancient Rome also had slavery.

New comment by mepian in "Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme"

mepian — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:09:26 +0000

What does it have to do with the Lisp machine?

New comment by mepian in "Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics"

mepian — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:15:04 +0000

Pretty much all of graphics research now revolves around machine learning, whether it’s neural networks or something like Gaussian splatting.

WTF is going on with R7RS Large? 2026 edition

mepian — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:34:52 +0000

Article URL: https://crumbles.blog/posts/2026-09-04-r7rs-wtf.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49565286

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by mepian in "When Russia Colonised California"

mepian — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:29:15 +0000

Starovery (Old Believers) maybe?

New comment by mepian in "NASA abandons orbit-boost attempt to rescue Swift space telescope"

mepian — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:43:48 +0000

Blogspam, here’s the source: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-updates-next-steps-fo...

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

# Comments: 5

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.