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Good point, I should have said TTY driver (all my information is from half-remembered reading of https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php , any mistakes are my own). …

The terminal can optionally catch some characters and convert them to signals. By default, ^C sends SIGINT, ^\ sends SIGQUIT, and ^Z sends SIGTSTP. Programs can disable that for th…

Amiga icons really felt like they were miles ahead of the competition and I'm surprised more of their possibilities didn't take off in other OSes. - could change the icon for indiv…

Thanks! I'd actually been looking for that software rendering article for a while as well and couldn't find it.

Genuine question from someone looking at toying with graphics programming who had never heard of WebGPU before today: does this mean I should hold off on learning WebGL? How differ…

I didn't appreciate how big of a deal washing machines were until mine broke down and I had to do all my laundry in the bathtub for a couple of weeks waiting for a replacement. Han…

The problem is that this allows a neat loophole in which governments can sidestep any inconvenient civil rights obligations by privatisation of otherwise public space. For a real-l…

There are lots of fun ways to smooth out short-term variation in game randomness. This article shows a few used by various Tetris games, with one of them being your deck-of-cards a…

Depression has quite a few weird effects on memory, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overgeneral_Autobiographical_M...

Off topic, but in today's bitter and divided world, it's reassuringly wholesome that people can still get together to recite the alphabet in GitHub comments.

> cold showers can be dangerous for people with per-existing heart conditions I think cold showers trigger the diving reflex[0] ("most noticeable effects are on the cardiovascular …

Thanks! Recognizing and remembering tones is one of the things I struggle with most, so I'd use this a lot. A couple of comments: for 水果, it only accepts shŭi gŭo, not shúi gŭo. I …

> Shrooms seem to be the next wave of legalization an in some ways it seems like it is already partly legal. Weirdly, fresh shrooms were legal in the UK right up to 2005, when they…

May as well chip in: https://petedeas.co.uk Sometimes I wonder if I should do more with it, but I don't know what.

I hope you keep the pure-CSS version around somewhere, because that is technically amazing. I thought I'd accidentally disabled umatrix when I first saw it.

> App is currently live @ https://fluent.academy I'd love to try this but I don't have a Google account. Do you have any plans to add registration using an email address?

I've seen a similar accidental case where some internal cable in the PSU had gotten dislodged and was partially in the path of the fan blades, with the repeated contact making a ch…

Here's a strategy that might help. I mostly read HN logged-out on my lunch break. If I see something I want to comment on, I email it to myself for when I get home. Usually, by the…