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beefburger

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    Comment #49122876

    Wooden prototype: https://seriot.ch/resources/computiles.jpg

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    Comment #49019741

    Search is working as intended, but the demo only covers Switzerland. It's a bake of the Geofabrik Switzerland extract. Try "Zermatt" or "Basel". You can bake any region yourself fr…

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    Comment #48841422

    No, standard transliterators like Latin-Katakana are designed to always terminate. What the article demonstrates is that the underlying rule language is powerful enough that one co…

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    Comment #48829798

    I've been wondering for a while if anything in Unicode could accidentally compute. It turns out that UTS #35 transliteration rules are Turing-complete. I show how to compute Collat…

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    Comment #48270870

    Indeed. The Jira rules implement test-then-decrement correctly, but the notation was ambiguous. I’ve fixed the pseudocode so that the test explicitly precedes the decrement. Thanks…

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    Show HN: RFC Esolang – RFCs as executable programs

    RFC Esolang is a programming language in which the specification document is the source code. Requirement levels like MUST, SHOULD, and MAY act as control flow. Section numbers def…

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    RFC Esolang is a programming language in which the specification document is the source code. Requirement levels like MUST, SHOULD, and MAY act as control flow. Section numbers def…

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    Comment #45502899

    How to install a Tic-Tac-Toe game on your printer by copy-pasting a few lines in PostScript.

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    Comment #45502876

    Solvers and visualizers in Python, C and PostScript

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    Comment #43647533

    I've been experimenting with PostScript programming over the past two years, creating several small games (Tic-Tac-Toe, Chess, Sokoban and Tetris) all running in Ghostscript or dir…

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    Comment #43258727

    How I shrank Takashi Hayakawa's 33 years old tiny ray tracer by 33 bytes

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