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psuter

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About psuter

https://psuter.net

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    Comment #40693414

    Also in that vein is Island & Trains [1], though the release date may be further out. [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1957760/Islands__Trains/

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    Comment #40646038

    Great investigation and excellent production value! Brings back good memories too, as 10 years ago my first contribution to lichess was to improve the PGN notation for disambiguati…

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    Comment #31880641

    Härkingen is well-known for being at the crossroads of important highways, FWIW. It is definitely a very relevant location for logistics.

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    Comment #30437199

    Facebook reportedly was using Bittorrent to distribute their own application across their servers. I remember outreach presentations where they mentioned this over 10 years ago, an…

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    Comment #28161062

    “huis clos”? It’s commonly used in French at least. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/huis_clos

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    Comment #21176128

    I described some of the process in a previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567549 There is also a presentation we had prepared for an informal talk: https://gi…

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    Comment #21167857

    Congrats! We tried something similar a few years ago (also at the TC Disrupt Hackathon [1]), but had to take a lot of shortcuts to get to something working. I'm impressed you had t…

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    Comment #20382163

    There you go: https://psuter.net/images/z-index-fig-1-alt-preview.png

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    Comment #19568056

    That's correct. If you're curious about the architecture: the vision part detects a chessboard, then corrects the perspective and restricts the image to just the square of the boar…

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    Comment #19567549

    We built a barely working version of that during a hackathon a while back: https://github.com/chesseye/chesseye (README has a link to a video). It takes a lot of shortcuts, works w…

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    Comment #18145196

    A friend+former colleague of mine is the lead author of ReactiveML, a synchronous extension to OCaml: http://rml.lri.fr/ We worked on a hackathon together where we built a physical…

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    Comment #17540473

    It was definitely a little confusing, as there seems to be many ways of exiting. From the QBasic docs in the IDE: END: Ends a program, procedure, block, or user-defined data type. …

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    Comment #17540438

    It is my understanding that QB64 [1] compiles through C++, although I haven't tried it myself. They in theory support a superset of QBasic, and you could compile the C++ generated …

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    Comment #17540394

    Thank you! On a "warm" invocation, almost all the time goes into DOSBox + QBasic. Not precise measurements but: on my MacBook Pro, running the QBasic interpreter from within DOSBox…

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    Comment #17540308

    Thanks, this is great!

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    Comment #17430019

    I think you mean 'guinea pig' :)

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    Comment #17419498

    > Do you foresee an enlargement in the total number of speakers? Why? In total number of speakers, it's possible, and I think it's been the case historically (just by general popul…

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    Comment #17419370

    MX3 is a platform curated by the national radio stations in all four languages. The playlist by Radio Rumantsch would be a good start: https://mx3.ch/p/2ev (not all the songs are i…

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    Comment #17419069

    I speak Romansch (although poorly, by now), AMA. (Or even better, out yourself as a fellow speaker!)