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ArchAndStarch

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About ArchAndStarch

student and a programming hobbyist

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    In my opinion, yes, more indirectly than directly. LLMs were trained to optimize their response for everybody, and lowest common denominator sentence structure is spaghetti writing…

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    Comment #47712630

    Actually, that was just recently merged into InstantSpaceSwitcher!

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    Comment #47711063

    Check out https://github.com/joshuarli/iss !

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    Comment #47711007

    Hey, author here, and cool project! I spent some time comparing Yabai's scripting addition to InstantSpaces' scripting addition. They seem to be doing the exact same thing, but Yab…

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    Comment #45956686

    Allocating heap memory on the screen

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    Comment #42612854

    Ya know, how sometimes your computer's internet is slow? What if... you could motivate it. Make the internet itself flow a lil' quicker. Since making the internet faster is a hard …

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    Comment #41331505

    I wanted to stay consistent with the 3-6 digits per number rule to make the challenge easier to figure out in general. There are only two numbers that are actually truncated, so ho…

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    Comment #41329202

    I'm a huge fan of both computer science and secret messages. If that's your cup of tea, I challenge you to decipher this secret message in under 30 guesses and test your general kn…

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    Comment #40165814

    Oh wow, I didn't actually know that. Thanks for the interesting trivia

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    Comment #40164977

    One curious idea my friends have entertained is to go one level even deeper and emulate the very transistors that make up the NAND gates on the web, too. It would certainly spell d…

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    Comment #40163520

    I primarily used the physical book to learn about the nand2tetris platform. I highly recommend it, it's an enthralling read

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    Comment #40162554

    I've inspected my code closely. Every clock cycle, the NAND gate is used 3,234 times :)

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    Comment #40162205

    A few nand2tetris fanatics have actually done this! And by a few, I mean quite a lot of people. Here's one such hardware project of nand2tetris: https://gitlab.com/x653/nand2tetris…

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    Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates

    I am proud to present my solo hobby project NAND. This year-long undertaking follows the completed Nand to Tetris course, but ported to the web with its own runtime, user interface…