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Close, it's MinGW/msys - different pathname semantics and under-the-hood approaches.

TIL that Knuth made a Literate Programming port of Adventure in 2002.

This reminds me of the 9/11-era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Analysis_Market ...which was shut down in 2003 "after multiple US senators condemned it as an assassination and…

Considering the amount of random hate he’s conjuring up from green HN usernames, he must be doing something right that’s upsetting to some community or another. :-D

Similar technique was used in Daisy Dot II https://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n3/daisydot2.php

Reminds me of an excellent paper I just read by a former Google DeepMind Ethics Research Team member https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/114/1/4 - Reinecke, Madeline G., et al. "The dou…

Does your source .pdf material have FlateDecode'd chunks or did you fully uncompress it?

Harry says: What are you waiting for?

Checking in - it's not possible to disable from the app anymore, is it? The preference setting is still there, but ignored, afaict.

Today I learned: The creator of Chose Your Own Adventure is currently 94 and has a website at https://edwardpackard.com/ Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Packard_(write…

Huh. Posting a screenshot of the tweet just got my FB account suspended.

Bonus: They leak! https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-04-et-quick...

Viewing it under Chrome, as soon as the scrollbar reached a certain point, it started progressively zoom-increasing the text size. Weird bug.

I'm waiting for BoringX or OpenX or, well, any other fork. Search for 'xorg drama'.

Mentioning the licensing up front would be nice.

Feels. Not gonna blow condescending garbage your way. Your feeling is not unique but not in the majority, and it’s exhausting to hear the ‘have’ ppl with no actual ability to relat…

It's right there in the URL, along with #ZDGAF

That's a fun coincidence, I just learned about Myrtle last Friday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T-8E-dEbwc

I'd always wanted to see a physical copy of the $5,000.00 'Deluxe Distribution' - https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/16/gnu_bulletin_23.... > The FSF Deluxe Distribution cont…

It'd be a privilege to be able to disconnect from the feeds, but trying to rebuild in-person social interactions when you're old and have no family or local friends really sucks. F…

I guess B1FF@BITNET posts are gonna come from an LLM now. Context: https://web.archive.org/web/20030830105202/http://www.catb.o...

I registered my copy. I also remember that in the Help->About, if you clicked Khaled Mardam-Bey's nose it would squeak.

Game Developers Conference Classic Gaming Postmortem: Zork (2014) "Dave Lebling, co-author of Zork and co-founder of Infocom, gives a postmortem talk on the classic text adventure.…

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