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Sembiance

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About Sembiance

coder, gamer, geek

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    Comment #49228109

    Related, play Solitaire over gopher https://cosmicrealms.com/blog/2019/06/14/solitaire-over-goph...

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    Comment #48133742

    Neat. FYI your “home” links are broke. And here are 150,000 more unique RAR files if you need to test if your compressor produces the same byte-for-byte output if you unrar and the…

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    Comment #47901792

    Just tried with DeepSeek V4 Pro with OpenCode. It didn't do great. First attempt produced somewhat correct drawings for some of the original samples, but most were just a spaghetti…

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    Comment #47896320

    I gave 4.6, 4.7 and GPT 5.5 the same prompt and task to reverse engineer a collection of sample vector files from an obscure Amiga CAD program and create a detailed txt specificati…

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    Comment #40491114

    Here is a collection of 1.1 MILLION FILE_ID.DIZ files from back in the day: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?q=FILE_ID.DIZ&qfield...

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    Comment #39360569

    This does an “okay” job at converting the document: https://archive.org/details/KeyViewPro Here is the converted PDF: https://smallpdf.com/result#r=091f20f23de353fac21376a3a49a60..…

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    Comment #38415430

    The article mentioned using an 8bit ADC. Could a 16bit ADC be used on BOTH sides and achieve 112kbps?

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    Comment #38154980

    If you go to an earlier commit here, you can find earlier versions: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo

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    Comment #38154972

    I’ve made many a trip to the git repo to dig up older versions and copy down the old version ebuilds into my own overlay: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo

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    Comment #38029103

    Sodium and kitchen salt are not the same thing. https://youtu.be/CArZeDTwVh4?si=tdVHOPO-8QZhxrkS

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    Comment #34482378

    If you extend the range by 1px to be 87x30 to 88x32 you double the amount of results and get those images that are off by 1px: http://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?family=image&w…

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    Comment #33485854

    Here is the Call of Ktulu S3M: http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7499/arcadebbs.zip/arca... Another 58,644 MOD/S3M/XM files show up in DiscMaster: http://discmaster.textfiles.co…

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    Comment #33033759

    HTTP is decentralized. That’s actually worked out really well I think, no sarcasm intended.

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    Comment #32495030

    Midjourney is open to everyone now, no waiting, and is easily the 2nd best tool for this stuff

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    Comment #31878812

    I made solitaire for gopher: https://cosmicrealms.com/blog/2019/06/14/solitaire-over-goph... Why? Dunno. It was a fun weekend project.

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    Comment #31408664

    You can even play solitaire on gopher: gopher://worldofsolitaire.com/ Blog post about it: https://cosmicrealms.com/blog/2019/06/14/solitaire-over-goph...

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    Comment #27278924

    I’m making a website right now that only uses HTML, no CSS/styles and no JavaScript and it is a breath of fresh air :)

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    Comment #25384747

    I applaud an independent, new spider and search engine. Sadly, the name is pretty horrible. If you have to spell a domain out letter by letter when telling people in person, it’s n…

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    Comment #24605802

    Ahh, stack overflow. Hugely popular thread with a lot of engagement? Lets lock it. Wouldn’t want to encourage behavior that doesn’t match our narrow minded “vision” for the site. S…

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    Comment #24320947

    gopher://worldofsolitaire.com

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    Comment #23427263

    You should rip the CDs and upload em to archive. It’s possible that there is unique content on them that doesn’t exist anywhere else :)

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    Comment #23420800

    I thought this was about CSS Grid, but nope, nothing at all to do with that.

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    Comment #22674373

    All coronavirus articles should be FREE and accessible without registration. Any company doing otherwise is socially irresponsible.

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    Comment #21741852

    Greensock is by far the best JavaScript animation library I’ve used in the past 12+ years, and I’ve used a lot. It’s not react specific, but that shouldn’t really matter.