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mepian

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About mepian

You can contact me at outlook.com by adding ".hn" to my HN username.

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    Comment #49162532

    It's derived from Jedi Academy's source code which is licensed under GPL.

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    Comment #49148726

    FreeBSD is definitely not a "GPL OS", the license is right in the name!

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    Comment #49072976

    A/UX predates Xserve by 14 years.

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    Comment #49043222

    I'm pretty sure this is just the mod SDK as well.

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    Comment #49041709

    That repository is not the engine, it's just the code for the client.dll/server.dll binaries that contain game-specific logic and some other tools.

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    Comment #48497514

    Didn't Valve release a huge update to Half-Life in 2023 (i.e. 6 years after the linked comment was written)?

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    Comment #48439034

    Is it Tasha?

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    Comment #48257638

    > I do wonder what a language with the same “taste” and minimalism as Scheme but embracing the actor model would look like. There is Spritely Goblins: https://spritely.institute/go…

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    Comment #47909478

    You haven't seen the Lisp subreddit then, there is a post complaining about having to learn Emacs at least once every week or so.

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    Comment #47905127

    There is an explanation in the blog: https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/ > However, the above is a tall order for someone just wanting to dip their toes in, to see if the…

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    Comment #46845888

    OpenLook is nice but it's a bit of a shame it doesn't have its own version of Workbench.

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    Comment #46625539

    A base becomes useless pretty quickly if it can't be resupplied, I suspect there is enough hostile AA around it to ensure that.

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    Comment #46624348

    There is the Heroic Game Launcher that also interfaces with the Epic Games Store.

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    Comment #46490654

    At least one of the lead developers of Étoilé moved on to CHERI.

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    Comment #46490590

    Haiku is not related to Étoilé.

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    Comment #46183192

    It's not technologically feasible unless plastic aka flexible ICs take off.

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    Comment #45990876

    Azul Systems was making Java machines a while ago.

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    Comment #45426075

    When did they add that? When I was trying to learn Japanese 6-7 years ago Duolingo didn’t have anything for either kana or kanji…

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    Comment #45002705

    I remember reading or hearing somewhere that this was a one-off thing, but I can't remember where. EDIT: Another comment mentioned Chet Faliszek, he was probably the source.

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    Comment #44994865

    Juniors usually learn on the job.

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    Comment #44961869

    Intel demonstrated a RISC-V chip called Horse Creek two years ago.

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    Comment #44961184

    Probably directly from Arm? https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1614/...

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    Comment #44725313

    > higher than Qualcomm That’s a pretty low bar for a software company.

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    Comment #44616351

    The laid off employees will move on to a new full-time job, your fork will have to find maintainers somewhere else.