Thoreandan
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Comment · 1 month ago
Had to go look it up ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_(novel) ) but now the 'upgrade pak' joke in the next comment makes sense :)
Comment · 1 month ago
Huh, small world, I'm the one who submitted that to Slashdot.
Comment · 5 months ago
Close, it's MinGW/msys - different pathname semantics and under-the-hood approaches.
Comment · 5 months ago
TIL that Knuth made a Literate Programming port of Adventure in 2002.
Comment · 7 months ago
This reminds me of the 9/11-era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Analysis_Market
...which was shut down in 2003 "after multiple US senators condemned it as an assassination and terrorism market".
Comment · 8 months ago
Considering the amount of random hate he’s conjuring up from green HN usernames, he must be doing something right that’s upsetting to some community or another. :-D
Comment · 8 months ago
Similar technique was used in Daisy Dot II
Comment · 9 months ago
Reminds me of an excellent paper I just read by a former Google DeepMind Ethics Research Team member
https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/114/1/4 - Reinecke, Madeline G., et al. "The double-edged sword of anthropomorphism in llms." Proceedings. Vol. 114. No. 1. MDPI, 2025 Author: https://www.mgreinecke.com/
Comment · 9 months ago
Does your source .pdf material have FlateDecode'd chunks or did you fully uncompress it?
Comment · 11 months ago
Harry says: What are you waiting for?
Comment · 1 year ago
Checking in - it's not possible to disable from the app anymore, is it? The preference setting is still there, but ignored, afaict.
Comment · 1 year ago
Today I learned: The creator of Chose Your Own Adventure is currently 94 and has a website at https://edwardpackard.com/
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Packard_(writer)
Comment · 1 year ago
Huh. Posting a screenshot of the tweet just got my FB account suspended.
Comment · 1 year ago
Bonus: They leak!
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-04-et-quick...
Comment · 1 year ago
Viewing it under Chrome, as soon as the scrollbar reached a certain point, it started progressively zoom-increasing the text size. Weird bug.