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If you use Firefox (and will pardon me plugging my own project), you might be interested in a version of this I made a while ago as a browser extension: https://github.com/jstrieb/…

Wow, I'm seriously impressed! Questions for the author: I haven't had a chance to read the code yet, but how does this actually adjust the text? I get that it uses Knuth-Plass to c…

I agree with the spirit of what you're saying: that many aspects of this post seem unnecessary. But I do think there are reasonable answers to your (admittedly probably rhetorical)…

This is awesome! I do want to point out that the data in that ClickHouse playground only seems to go as far back as April 6, 2024 according to the query below: SELECT * FROM hacker…

The best exploration of this that I have seen in media is one of my favorite movies: Nightcrawler (2014), starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie doesn't touch on the government/democr…

I like currying because it's fun and cool, but found myself nodding along throughout the whole article. I've taken for granted that declaring and using curried functions with nice …

Thanks! I also told Aga via email in the thread where I submitted my article. Worth noting that the HTML tag in the title was stripped from the PDF table of contents as well, so th…

The article I submitted has an HTML tag in the title, and seems to have broken the web viewer :( Note that you can link to pages in a PDF with a hash like #page=64 (for example) in…

Wow, this is jam-packed with interesting information. Thanks for writing it! (Also thanks for all of your other great open source work!) Are there plans to upstream this into the Z…

If those announcement posts don't take off, how do you end up finding a community of users/players?

I consider Recursion by Blake Crouch to be similar, even though I liked Antimemetics much better. I haven't read Crouch's other books, but have heard that Dark Matter is better tha…

Nice fork! (I am the person who wrote the original.) My version is still working well for me, so it's been hard to find motivation to update it. Also, I've been using my increasing…

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