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davidjhall | 2 years ago | on: 'Atomic Energy' Book Signed by Einstein, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Enola Gay Crew

At the bottom, it says the book belonged to an amateur historian who went around collecting all the autographs. Cant imagine how easy/hard it would've been to get all if them.

davidjhall | 2 years ago | on: Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments

I thought this was neat and went to his repo - he's the lazygit/lazy docker person! Nice to see the prolificacy!

davidjhall | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?

What commercial classes did you take to level up? Were they Coursera, Udacity or university classes?

davidjhall | 3 years ago | on: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

Missing "I can't view the site on my mobile phone."

davidjhall | 3 years ago | on: Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

Argh! No Pirate Metal category? They categorize them generically as Folk Metal but have a separate Viking Metal category.

davidjhall | 3 years ago | on: Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source

Waited a while for this -- exciting! Uses Artistic License 2.0 license

The GUI isn't available until 3rd party developers release it in May --- currently it's command line only.

davidjhall | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5

Is the site down? I had a streak for a while but now I just have a blank screen ( on mobile and desktop).

davidjhall | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What Are You Up To? (April 2022)

I am here for your z-machine on Pico-8! I'm doing a z-machine in python 3.x this week (month? year?) as well.

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man) (2012)

Nor Connecticut

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: The Brutalist Report – A rolling snapshot of the day’s headlines

Like it - reminds me of a cleaner popurls.com. As someone else suggested, would love to custom add sites (via url).

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: The Manga Guide Series

I was going to reply "so worth it" but I checked my subscription - $399/year (legacy) now $499/year. I had gotten it when I was starting consulting and needed to read books per client projects, and could write off the expense for taxes.

Now, I'd have to say no. I read maybe one book a year. ( I "could" read hundreds, but in the end, I don't) I could buy the physical book, which I prefer, and 7 or so others and keep them, instead of a virtual library. Or get them from my public library. Or from archive.org.

The only advantage was the unlimited library and the auto-update of books from revision to revision. But your question has caused me to cancel the subscription.

If you can get it from library or university, I'd say it is -- but not unless you read a lot of books per year.

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: The Manga Guide Series

If you have a safari books online subscription, the manga books are available through them --- I think all of them.

https://learning.oreilly.com/

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Play Zork with your friends via SSH

Very fun indeed and easier than a sockets-based impl that covers all versions. I'm only doing v3 so far and it's a long haul! Congrats on this!

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Play Zork with your friends via SSH

Yes! It's practically my bible now -- I even printed a copy through printme1.com so I can have a bound copy to flip back and forth through ( and dog-ear, tag pages, etc.) I reference other implementations and z-tools to gain insight on changes in memory, objects, etc.

I'm writing blog posts on my journey - detailing each instruction and any nuance with each one, as well as the object structure, z-text and misc. I hope to post it here one day.

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Play Zork with your friends via SSH

Did you write a z-machine with sockets or is this piping to an existing one (frotz, etc?) I'm curious about the internals because I'm working on my own z-machine implementation too (not ssh though!)

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all your Discord servers?

Are folders just on the phone app? I don't see how you can do that on the desktop app?

Edit: Ok - RTFM (or rather Google Search ). There's no folder create per se but if you drag a channel over another and wait a second, it turns into a folder.

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: Magic Realm (1979) epic review (2018)

Me too! I had Magic Realm as a kid and tried reading the manual dozen of times but couldn't get it to stick. They simplified the rules over at boardgamegeek[1]

Actually, there's lots of files and tutorials there[2] -- I lost my copy to a hurricane years ago but I may have to pick up a copy and play online[3]

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/130110/magic-realm-third-...

[2] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22/magic-realm/files

[3] http://realmspeak.dewkid.com/

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: Implementing Infocom's Z-Machine on an FPGA

Very interesting -- sadly, it doesn't look like he finished. By episode 6, it looks like he got OR running -- but his overview in the first video is spot on!

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP

Didn't see this question asked, but how long did it take you to put together. Not people-hours but between when you first put code down to when you were done -- 6 months? 2 years? Thnx

davidjhall | 4 years ago | on: TFTC (TIE Fighter Total Conversion) v1.0

Interested in knowing your top 3. I'm guessing Wing Commander is up there?