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Re:Visual Analysis of Binary Files
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @11:49AM (#49490888)
Who remembers seeing PSQR everywhere in .COM files?
Re:Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass
on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:15AM (#46987833)
What an incredible idea! Love it, will spend some monopoly money on it!!
Re:New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researcher...
on Thursday November 14, 2024 @09:51PM (#42143568)
Question: is the apple reboot seriously displaying a dmesg log?
Re:Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
on Thursday August 29, 2024 @11:35AM (#41391901)
another perthian! w00t
Re:A New Kind Of Dance Science (combinatorics of social dancing)
on Saturday June 22, 2024 @12:47PM (#40760343)
https://furius.ca/salsa-book/ is a previous attempt!
Re:Hoot, on Boot (Scheme-to-WASM)
on Sunday May 19, 2024 @04:35AM (#40405331)
Woot. JavaScript will be moot.
Re:Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
on Monday May 13, 2024 @12:29AM (#40339796)
You fight like a dairy farmer.
Re:Bytecode VMs in Surprising Places
on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @10:44AM (#40211478)
also: Delphine software Another World.
Re:Swiss Maps Are Full of Hidden Secrets
on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @10:44AM (#39525407)
https://map.geo.admin.ch/
Herewith the map site.
I have to admit, the maps (at any zoom levels) are quite beautiful. Much much better than the likes of Apple or Google!
Re:Lindenmayer Systems
on Monday October 30, 2023 @06:50AM (#38067810)
Oh saw a lot of these when dabbling with fractint. Never could figure out how and why, but they were beautiful nonetheless on my mighty VGA!
Re:Reconciliation Is a Knapsack Problem
on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:13PM (#38008342)
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/stable/gnucash/gnome...
This is something I'm familiar with! I refined the above algorithm to reconcile statements according to the statement end balance. It works well, and yes it's knapsack.
Re:GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
on Friday October 20, 2023 @09:08PM (#37963205)
You could and should discuss on the mailing lists. Agree scheduled transactions are not visible from bindings, and it could be a feature request. If you wanted to so depreciation of assets you could easily do your own calculations via scheme or python.
Re:GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
on Friday October 20, 2023 @09:25AM (#37955656)
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1794
Note the full API may be accessible via a cli interface.
The above work will be merged hopefully soon.
Re:Hackers warn University of Manchester students’ of imminent data leak
on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @11:05AM (#36419413)
Stopford Building!
Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness
on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:24PM (#35477266)
while (t++ = s++)
;
You're assigning a char to another, relying on the return value being 0 to detect end of string.
You're performing the copy while also increasing the pointers with ++ in the same expression.
You're using the cryptic ; empty statement to signify nop, thereby confusing newbies.
Etc
Re:Retiring a Favourite C++ Joke
on Friday March 17, 2023 @10:27AM (#35197558)
Yes I get that, didn't quite understand why this switching of error message is relevant to the code...
Re:Retiring a Favourite C++ Joke
on Friday March 17, 2023 @10:11AM (#35197311)
Why is it funny, please explain?
Re:GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
on Monday July 18, 2022 @12:09PM (#32139916)
It orders transactions by (1) Transaction Date (2) Split Action (3) Transaction Num (4) Entry Date (5) Description
Re:GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
on Monday July 18, 2022 @10:04AM (#32138508)
Huh there's a Balance Forecast report which does exactly this. It considers the Scheduled Transactions applicable to your accounts, and shows the forecasted balances.
Re:GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
on Monday July 18, 2022 @10:02AM (#32138478)
You'll like https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/1371 then :)
Re:GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
on Monday July 18, 2022 @10:01AM (#32138468)
There's also a heavily worked-on upgrade to the importer. Just saying the developers are users too, and want an easier time for data entry.
Re:GNU Nano 6.3
on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:32AM (#31192923)
So much fun in this editor. I'm surprised it is getting so much regular development. A breath of fresh air, it has helped edit many config files on remote shells.
Re:Beancount: Double-entry accounting from text files
on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:35PM (#30143838)
There's an upcoming UI to input stock transactions and will explicitly request capital gains, so, there will be fewer opportunities for error.
Re:Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite
on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:09PM (#29902181)
There's the EPC QR code standard in Europe which is underused...
Re:Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like langu...
on Sunday November 28, 2021 @08:37PM (#29375306)
Us old-timers may remember a PC one called PCROBOTS sent to UK to participate in tournaments in the early 1990s (30 years ago!)
http://www.pscs.co.uk/pcrobots/index.php https://programminggames.org/PCRobots
Re:Brain implant provided immediate relief to a severely depressed pat...
on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @03:14AM (#28770129)
While I usually abhor reductionist conclusions, I find this comment refreshing and hopefully useful to others. Depression isn't simply "lack of serotonin" nor "a series of unfortunate events".
There's a theory of a strong association between clinical depression and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness and hopefully society will move forward to enable people to live better lives.
Re:Father-son hacker duo is helping people crack into their lost Bitcoin
on Monday September 20, 2021 @02:18AM (#28590808)
you could monitor the bitcoin address and watch if the funds deplete.
Re:Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux sy...
on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:04AM (#28272483)
> Can somebody let me know why one cannot just take the assembly version of an existing compiler and carefully review its code to be happy with it and then build everything from that verified compiler? Why does it need so many steps?
Because your current OS to load the assembly code may have been poisoned to present you with a sanitized version on the compiler.
Re:Show HN: Connect your bank account to Google Sheets
on Friday July 09, 2021 @04:06AM (#27781472)
Thanks for mentioning GnuCash - it has a mature scheme backend.