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New comment by pwiecz in "The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority"

pwiecz — Thu, 15 May 2025 19:22:34 +0000

Reminds me of a "Washing Machine Trategy" by Stanisław Lem. A short story that may be a perfect parabole of the today's AI bubble.

New comment by pwiecz in "Doomscroller.xyz"

pwiecz — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:12:05 +0000

Another cool example is Nexus One's trackball. It had advantage of being able to scroll in any direction.

New comment by pwiecz in "Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games"

pwiecz — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:39:45 +0000

I remember playing a pretty simple Basic game on my Commodore+4 called "Kubusiowe Litery" or "Kubusiowe Literki", unfortunately my cassette with the game got damaged, and I cannot find a source of it anywhere. I feel sad that the game may get lost in time like tears in rain. ;(

New comment by pwiecz in "Alpine.js"

pwiecz — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:54:51 +0000

I was expecting either the Alpine Linux, or a port to js of the mail client. :)

New comment by pwiecz in "Moving the Ctrl Key"

pwiecz — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:51:12 +0000

Unfortunately both Alts are not equivalent. The right one, the AltGr is uaef in many languages to type letters with diacritics. E.g. in Polish AltGr+Z is Ż, while AltGr+X is Ź. Still using both Ctrls itself helps a lot, and one may have a right Windows to remap as Meta.

New comment by pwiecz in "Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom"

pwiecz — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 10:06:29 +0000

Boom is "just" pure Doom + some static limits being raised, and a few new types of floors and lines (plus a few other smaller changes) :)

New comment by pwiecz in "Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom"

pwiecz — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:21:59 +0000

I've actually implemented the Game of Life in Doom engine. But I've used a significantly stronger "computation model" - Boom engine, which provided scrolling floors, and more actions being possible to be triggered by monsters.

It sound like an interesting exercise to make a vanilla-compatible variant of the map.

You can find the post about it here: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/131881-conways-game-of... and the code: https://github.com/pwiecz/conway.wad

New comment by pwiecz in "Godot 4 Beta 1"

pwiecz — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 08:04:58 +0000

That's why I loved The Witness devs who released an update for the game, with improved support for my crappy old integrated GPU on laptop. Even though it was not meeting tmhardware requurements of tge game.

New comment by pwiecz in "FLAC 1.4.0 released – added support for 32-bit audio"

pwiecz — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:50:38 +0000

"People" don't need just lossless, they need The Beatles to release all of their pre-master tracks to be released in lossless format, so they of them can create their own remastered versions of a the tracks.

New comment by pwiecz in "Google Search Results Plagued with spam “.it” domains"

pwiecz — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:54:59 +0000

On the other hand over last few months majority of post from sma few of private Google Groups, I'm member of, keep getting wrongly clsssified as spam.

I don't know if it's related either.

New comment by pwiecz in "OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful"

pwiecz — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:54:35 +0000

Yup. I really loved all the functional stuff I've learned there from OCaml to SML+Extended ML, to Haskell.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to professionally program functionally since the n. :(

It was all Java and C++. Though I like C++, maybe it's a Stockholm syndrome. ;)

New comment by pwiecz in "OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful"

pwiecz — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:31:46 +0000

Not the original commenter, but my first year course of Introduction of Programming 15 years age was also using OCaml. There were two groups of students, standard one was using Pascal, and the functional one using OCaml. I was studying on Warsaw University and the lecture notes are in Polish: https://mimuw.edu.pl/~kubica/wpf/wpf.pdf

New comment by pwiecz in "You can do a lot with an empty file"

pwiecz — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 08:09:26 +0000

I've misread the title as "You can do a lot with an empty life", and clicked eagerly hiping to learn how to deal with the feeling of emptiness in your life.

New comment by pwiecz in "The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading"

pwiecz — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:30:59 +0000

You can very well parallelise CPU-intensive problems. Look at e.g. "Embarassingly parallel" on Wikipedia. Intuitively if you can divide your work into chunks that are large enough, the scheduling overhead becomes negligible.

New comment by pwiecz in "Sailfish 4"

pwiecz — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:27:41 +0000

I can see several of the compact models here: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris#Sony

But e.g. not XZ1c

New comment by pwiecz in "Foldable Words"

pwiecz — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:17:58 +0000

I've once implemented a regular expression engine based directly on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzozowski_derivative – it's straightforward to implement both intersection and negation this way.

New comment by pwiecz in "Russian 'doomsday' plane's radio equipment stolen by thieves"

pwiecz — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:56:59 +0000

In Poland it's Polish, not Russian ;)

New comment by pwiecz in "Wittgenstein: The Young Man One Hopes For"

pwiecz — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 07:13:17 +0000

I'd call myself an ignorant as far as philosophy goes, but I found „Philosophical investigations” much more readable and influential on me than the „Tractatus”.

New comment by pwiecz in "The largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete, can power 1M homes"

pwiecz — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:29:22 +0000

I hope very few people will own electric cars in the future (or any car whatsoever). We don't need more cars on the road - we barely can squeeze them on our roads now. We need good, fast, ubiquitous public transport system.

New comment by pwiecz in "Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games"

pwiecz — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:09:26 +0000

You can find a somewhat playable early "prototype" linked from here: https://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_seque...