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Re:1D Chess on Saturday April 11, 2026 @03:33PM (#47733330)
I don’t think it is a bug, the enemy king can’t move back to X because the knight is attacking that space. Traditionally you can’t move into check in chess.
Re:Umbrel – Personal Cloud on Monday December 15, 2025 @09:11PM (#46283895)
There's a Github link for the os, but it is under some strange not-quite OSS or Free Software license... https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel
Re:Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth on Saturday March 02, 2024 @12:25PM (#39574052)
Neat name. It’s probably just a coincidence, but “konilo” means “knowing machine” in Esperanto.
Man, this is really cool!
Damm high level programming languages. Just go back to assembly, that'll fix everything.
Seems like it’s been hugged.
This game is damm fun. I had no idea you were playing.
Thanks
Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Released on Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:09AM (#34127836)
Maybe you should try Julia? That might still be too much like Python. https://julialang.org/
Re:What's Great about Julia? on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @08:18PM (#33902849)
I love Julia, for reasons mainly covered in this post. The functional features are also fantastic.
Re:Loopr: A Loop/Reduction Macro for Clojure on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @07:13PM (#33888992)
Depending on what you're going for, you could use GraalVM.
Good.
Re:US judge blocks $2.2B Penguin Random House merger on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:29PM (#33415849)
Good. This is one step to stop the future from looking like that Internet Archive thing they did for their 25th anniversary: https://wayforward.archive.org/ia2046/.
Re:Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @06:39PM (#33350563)
End of an era