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pwiecz | 9 months ago | on: The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority

Reminds me of a "Washing Machine Trategy" by Stanisław Lem. A short story that may be a perfect parabole of the today's AI bubble.

pwiecz | 1 year ago | on: Doomscroller.xyz

Another cool example is Nexus One's trackball. It had advantage of being able to scroll in any direction.

pwiecz | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games

I remember playing a pretty simple Basic game on my Commodore+4 called "Kubusiowe Litery" or "Kubusiowe Literki", unfortunately my cassette with the game got damaged, and I cannot find a source of it anywhere. I feel sad that the game may get lost in time like tears in rain. ;(

pwiecz | 3 years ago | on: Alpine.js

I was expecting either the Alpine Linux, or a port to js of the mail client. :)

pwiecz | 3 years ago | on: Moving the Ctrl Key

Unfortunately both Alts are not equivalent. The right one, the AltGr is uaef in many languages to type letters with diacritics. E.g. in Polish AltGr+Z is Ż, while AltGr+X is Ź. Still using both Ctrls itself helps a lot, and one may have a right Windows to remap as Meta.

pwiecz | 3 years ago | on: Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom

Boom is "just" pure Doom + some static limits being raised, and a few new types of floors and lines (plus a few other smaller changes) :)

pwiecz | 3 years ago | on: Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom

I've actually implemented the Game of Life in Doom engine. But I've used a significantly stronger "computation model" - Boom engine, which provided scrolling floors, and more actions being possible to be triggered by monsters.

It sound like an interesting exercise to make a vanilla-compatible variant of the map.

You can find the post about it here: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/131881-conways-game-of... and the code: https://github.com/pwiecz/conway.wad

pwiecz | 3 years ago | on: Godot 4 Beta 1

That's why I loved The Witness devs who released an update for the game, with improved support for my crappy old integrated GPU on laptop. Even though it was not meeting tmhardware requurements of tge game.

pwiecz | 3 years ago | on: FLAC 1.4.0 released – added support for 32-bit audio

"People" don't need just lossless, they need The Beatles to release all of their pre-master tracks to be released in lossless format, so they of them can create their own remastered versions of a the tracks.

pwiecz | 3 years ago | on: Google Search Results Plagued with spam “.it” domains

On the other hand over last few months majority of post from sma few of private Google Groups, I'm member of, keep getting wrongly clsssified as spam.

I don't know if it's related either.

pwiecz | 3 years ago | on: OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

Yup. I really loved all the functional stuff I've learned there from OCaml to SML+Extended ML, to Haskell.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to professionally program functionally since the n. :(

It was all Java and C++. Though I like C++, maybe it's a Stockholm syndrome. ;)

pwiecz | 3 years ago | on: OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

Not the original commenter, but my first year course of Introduction of Programming 15 years age was also using OCaml. There were two groups of students, standard one was using Pascal, and the functional one using OCaml. I was studying on Warsaw University and the lecture notes are in Polish: https://mimuw.edu.pl/~kubica/wpf/wpf.pdf

pwiecz | 3 years ago | on: You can do a lot with an empty file

I've misread the title as "You can do a lot with an empty life", and clicked eagerly hiping to learn how to deal with the feeling of emptiness in your life.

pwiecz | 4 years ago | on: The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading

You can very well parallelise CPU-intensive problems. Look at e.g. "Embarassingly parallel" on Wikipedia. Intuitively if you can divide your work into chunks that are large enough, the scheduling overhead becomes negligible.

pwiecz | 4 years ago | on: Sailfish 4

I can see several of the compact models here: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris#Sony

But e.g. not XZ1c

pwiecz | 5 years ago | on: Foldable Words

I've once implemented a regular expression engine based directly on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzozowski_derivative – it's straightforward to implement both intersection and negation this way.

pwiecz | 5 years ago | on: Russian 'doomsday' plane's radio equipment stolen by thieves

In Poland it's Polish, not Russian ;)

pwiecz | 6 years ago | on: Wittgenstein: The Young Man One Hopes For

I'd call myself an ignorant as far as philosophy goes, but I found „Philosophical investigations” much more readable and influential on me than the „Tractatus”.

pwiecz | 6 years ago | on: The largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete, can power 1M homes

I hope very few people will own electric cars in the future (or any car whatsoever). We don't need more cars on the road - we barely can squeeze them on our roads now. We need good, fast, ubiquitous public transport system.

pwiecz | 6 years ago | on: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

You can find a somewhat playable early "prototype" linked from here: https://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_seque...