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Re:Show HN: Classical Latin TTS on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:29PM (#50237092)
Latin poetic meter didn't employ rhymes, it used interplay of long and short vowels. Poetic evidence is how we know the vowel quantities of many words. Much of how latin pronunciation was reconstructed comes from comparative reconstruction of the Romance languages, and loans from and into other langauges.
Re:Muse Spark 1.3 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:24PM (#49543985)
I have not tried Muse Spark for code, but I've been using it for a while to write Latin. I find it's one of the best at it, alongside Gemini. For example, I've recently been using it to translate the subtitles of the show I'm watching into Latin, to provide me with a bit more input. (I'm learning Latin, for context)
Re:Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @06:12PM (#48301475)
You can also use an indented (code) block

    - Remove AI from your editor completely.
    - Start a project which is easy and fun for you, something you did when first learning to code. Text-based adventure game, or some silly little app that is just for fun.
    - Or take a new language or some aspect of coding, that you have only brushed over, but want to learn better, and learn it properly by doing coding exercises or some silly project that teaches you the syntax etc.
    - Most importantly relearn how fun coding is
For fun, for personal projects.
How so?
Not exactly, that's more due to the projects. Let's say I want a music player with scrolling lyrics, I have a greater desire to have and use that music player than I do to build it. If there was a music player that already did exactly what I wanted I would use that. I think that might be a good way to put it: What I may be looking for is a project that I would build even if it already existed.

  1. I don't have AI in my editor in the first place, mostly use web chat with a bit of gemini CLI
  2. Good ideas; worth considering
  3. I'll pass
  4. That is my goal
I think the last time I really tried to code by hand was a temporal clock. I thought it would be simple but I bit off more than I could chew math-wise. The last time I was sucessful (as far as I can remember) was a small PR to a game mod manager.
The conflict between wanting the result versus wanting to program. The result tends to win out. Instant gratification, in short. If I want something enough to not lose interest when programming it myself, I usually want it enough to forego programming it myself in favour of having it earlier.
Re:Leviathan on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:52PM (#47445916)
It is easier to see in other fonts, but yes, I am aware of that. However as far as I am aware, it was never used to join an e and t that were not the latin et.
Re:Leviathan on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:16PM (#47433558)
&c as an abbreviation for etc was very common historically. For example, look at the OP. It would not normally be used for an et that is not the latin et (and), as in et cetera. Its use for an 'and' in latin carried over to english, for some reason, and that usage has stayed with us.
Re:How far back in time can you understand English? on Saturday February 21, 2026 @06:27PM (#47106161)
Same here, pretty much. I was able to get to 1200 without much difficulty but 1200 took a lot of effort to decipher.
Re:The Tulip Creative Computer on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:38PM (#46624869)
As well as micropython, there is also a port of ulisp. http://www.ulisp.com/show?4JAO
Re:The Tulip Creative Computer on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @09:48PM (#46611660)
I have used the T-Deck with tulipcc for coding and writing, although these days I mostly use it as a calculator. I wrote a GUI text editor for it, which you can find here:

https://github.com/coolcoder613eb/notepad

I haven't done too much coding with it, but I have on occasion fixed bugs in the text editor on the T-Deck itself.

Re:Maybe the default settings are too high on Saturday December 27, 2025 @06:07PM (#46406408)
Not celtic, germanic, i.e. Anglo-Saxon derived words.
I believe the username is from the AI simulation of HN in 10 years.
Re:In the Beginning Was the Command Line on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:31PM (#46282507)
Indeed. The influences are prominent, but it is BeOS modernised, not BeOS reimplemented.

It's hardware requirements are little, even overlapping with BeOS on the low end. I have personally run Haiku beta5 on a 666Mhz Pentium 3 with 256MB of RAM (normally, I run BeOS on that machine, with 512MB of RAM). I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here, besides a general call to give Haiku a try on that old thinkpad, in a VM[0], or anywhere else really.

[1] If you're using virtualbox don't give it more than 1 cpu, virtualbox has a bug which makes haiku slow with multiple CPUs.

Re:In the Beginning Was the Command Line on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:20AM (#46272572)
Well at this point the BeOS (binary) compatibility is incidental. It is it's own system, and daily drivable for a great number of people. (admittedly not for gamers, but there are working nvidia drivers (not public (yet))), Firefox and derivatives have been ported, as well as most of the big name foss apps (libreoffice, etc) have been ported.
Re:In the Beginning Was the Command Line on Sunday December 14, 2025 @07:33PM (#46268828)
Have you tried Haiku recently?
Indeed, the only winning move is not to play.
I use lemurs, seems pretty similar.
Re:Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator on Monday November 24, 2025 @06:17PM (#46040573)
Re:Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:04PM (#45997706)
This is very impressive! When I saw the title, I thought it would be classicube, but no, it's actual minecraft.

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