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Not the GP, but I recall the KeePass password manager using xdotool for its autotype feature. I struggled to get xdotool to work correctly back in 2014 on a Debian 7 personal compu…

Don't agree -w/all this cynicism... (Did I get a programmer's joke to work?) Your fastest open-cycle resource usage is water. If you can recycle your water, you've got much slower …

I've wanted to do this myself... Tho as both an armchair engineer and an armchair programmer. If I'd gotten through engineering in university, (and studied programming language des…

Now I'm inspired to try to fill out this list... Pegasus (company's first try overall), Antares, all of the Minotaurs, Atlas 3 and 5 might count as new... Epsilon, H-2 (new?), Vega…

You could probably get even better walk-able integration by connecting together multiple floors worth of hallways, one above the other. That could approach a 3D city a little bit m…

Isn't it rather precedented to do this? In most readings (that I've seen, anecdotally) of Timothy McVeigh's writings, or Hitler's Mein Kamph, people read these works specifically i…

Twitter has a mostly negative ROI for me; I wind up having mild panic attacks both when I visit it, and when I'm reminded of it in the rest of my day. Almost any reminder that peop…

Speaking of which, how learnable is Elm without any HTML familiarity? I more or less gave up on learning it once the (previous) Elm book started piecing together HTML tags in Elm s…

(Apologies if this is too much a personal anecdote for HN) Honestly, this is one of the indicators that forces my distrust of the modern family of social discourse. My own suspicio…

Similar issue applies on Windows with Visual Studio's C# compiler; Tho in that case it's a terminal with a non-default starting script that adds the C# compiler, so default and tha…

Sounds like the errors I got installing spacemacs. I think... I forced it to work by changing the access permissions on a folder that spacemacs itself had created.

Well, the tutorial itself has received translations from m68k Turbo Pascal to x86 C : https://github.com/lotabout/Let-s-build-a-compiler

While it wouldn't support fuel use akin to fuel burning electrical sources on Earth, there are endothermic methods to pull molecular oxygen out of C02. In addition to the water ele…

http://wren.io/ Has been around HN before, as has https://fascinatedbox.github.io/lily/ Were either of these two the ones you were thinking of?

The word hypergolic doesn't mean that, but in spaceflight the term refers to a fairly specific group of compounds; Dinitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine or monom…

Just a couple of asides, since I was reading about these very subjects (Am-241 RTGs and outer solar system photovoltaics) a few weeks ago; The UK's NNL prototyped out a process for…

As an aside, when I played that game I once made an octal data tape, capable of reading 3 bits of state from a single block in the tape (the "loop"). Used three read circuits next …

Well, there is Shen. Static typing, I think it can do dependent typing... Doesn't have the affine types of Rust tho. Not sure how it works out to use in practice. Discussed here, f…

Disclaimer: Going off memory of the presentations myself, not at all an expert, etc. Ivan Goddard's descriptions of the branch predictor sounds quite simple that I can remember; Th…

With the disclaimer that I don't fully understand Gamergate myself, and the following account sounds possibly incomplete, it seems like a workable summary of part of the subject. h…

Well, for what it's worth, that is an impressive looking game from a solo developer. Looks better than a number of (enjoyable) games by small teams I can think of. Tho I suppose th…

While I do agree that the case highlighted shows a rather uncharitable reaction to said personal anecdote, I suspect your advice could be turned around itself in a number of circum…

I'm a bit curious about combining RAII or similar with dynamic types myself. It's been discussed at mild length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356925 If we assume some…

Well, I've used an unmaintained almost-vanilla-Java REPL: https://github.com/jacktasia/java-repl

Well, there's a couple of pieces of sample code on comp.arch in google groups / usenet. Sadly, I can't find any examples of genAsm anywhere, but a couple of fragments of conAsm. Ma…