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Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:24AM (#50153590)
My religion (smug Saskatonian) prevents me from wilfully going to Regina or Winnipeg. Sorry. :(
Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:30AM (#50119650)
Yeah, I regularly drive from Saskatchewan to BC in the winter.

I'm generally enthusiastic for electric vehicles, but batteries and FSD don't really work in a 12 hour blizzard at -40. Doesn't match my use case. :)

Re:Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05% on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:53AM (#49788883)
My dude, you are in luck. Check out Unicorn Overlord!

It is absolutely a love letter to March of the Black Queen and Ogre Battle 64. As usual for their games, Vanillaware's art is outstanding.

Re:Grok Outage on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:24PM (#49552622)
Sure you can. It'll just take a little while to shake the rust off. It's like riding a bike.

Or maybe it's all gone forever and we're all brain damaged now. Spooky! I think there's a pretty low probability of that, and even if it was true, worrying doesn't help!

Re:French musician Kavinsky found dead on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @03:28PM (#49101897)
Certainly we should celebrate Morodor here too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpW3C_k0WMY

Re:I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station on Monday June 08, 2026 @01:22PM (#48448214)
https://cfcr.ca/

Lots of community radio still out there! I assume bigger cities would have a solid live music and radio community too.

Re:Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:24PM (#48284695)
For me the height of the 16-bit era was Final Fantasy VI, but wow was Phantasy Star IV great. The intro, the savage twang of those Genesis basslines, the aesthetics, it was really something special.
Re:Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:19PM (#47938325)
I think we all deserve a little break right now.
Re:Afrika Bambaataa, hip-hop pioneer, has died on Friday April 10, 2026 @10:44AM (#47718928)
I saw DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's Afrika Bambaataa tribute and it was just outstanding. One of the best shows I've seen and some seriously talented people. Then I learned more about Afrika and how his misdeeds were mostly ignored.

When I open up a famous author / musician / athlete's wikipedia page, it feels like it's a coin flip over whether there's some horrible thing they've done and largely gotten away with it.

I'm still upset about Neil Gaiman. I connected deeply with a lot of his work in my youth and now I don't know what to think...

Re:What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:09PM (#46995208)
A disc looks like a disc, and a disk doesn't look like a disc.
Re:The appropriate amount of effort is zero on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:42PM (#46281864)
Re:Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco on Saturday December 06, 2025 @06:29PM (#46177591)
Frank Zappa made his (similar) feelings pretty clear.

https://genius.com/The-mothers-of-invention-who-needs-the-pe...

I watched Home Alone last year and the characters call each other names constantly. It's funny for sure, but no wonder me and my friends had such filthy mouths as kids. You grow up on that and sitcoms where the characters just rip on each other. It's so strange to watch as an adult.
Re:Valve is about to win the console generation on Friday November 14, 2025 @11:52AM (#45928726)
Very very cool! Every time I look at building a hot gaming PC I think to myself that I'm just going to play SNES games and Elden Ring, so what's the point? Something like this would be great.
I still have the 2600 issues before and after 9/11.

At the time it was pretty clear that the federal government was going make a large and permanent power grab.

Re:The Elegance of Movement in Silksong on Monday September 08, 2025 @11:31PM (#45177086)
I might be overstating it, but here's what I see at my company. "Sell" is very different in all of these situations.

- Sell to the champion. - Sell to the rest of the org. - Sell to procurement. - Sell to the implementation project team. - Sell to the users and get adoption up.

Then constantly demonstrate that you're providing value in whatever terms that department / org thinks is valuable that year.

Easy!

Re:The Year of Peak Might and Magic on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:07PM (#44609842)
Love to see some Might and Magic articles.

Earlier this year I found a boxed copy of Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen on Marketplace. Everything is in the box and it's all pristine. It goes very nicely with my boxed copy of Might and Magic III that I bought (used!) to play on my first computer, my 386.

I think I'm going to get these maps framed.

Re:Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:19PM (#44379008)
The Beatles had it right with Eleanor Rigby.

"All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?"

There are a lot of sad people out there. And some of them are at the nunchucks, bongs, and throwing stars store.

Came here for the Uniform function call syntax link. This is one of the little choices that has a big impact on a language! I love it!

I wrote a little pipeline macro in https://nim-lang.org/ for Advent of Code years ago and as far as I know it worked okay.

``` import macros

  macro `|>`\* (left, right : expr): expr =
    result = newNimNode(nnkCall)

    case right.kind
    of nnkCall:
      result.add(right[0])
      result.add(left)
      for i in 1..<right.len:
        result.add(right[i])
    else:
      error("Unsupported node type")
```

Makes me want to go write more nim.

Re:Christianity Was Always for the Poor (2024) on Sunday April 20, 2025 @03:27PM (#43745917)
Robert Heinlein really nailed it in the 50s with the Fosterite Church of the New Revelation in Stranger in a Strange Land. Totally prescient vision of what Christianity + America was going to produce.

https://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2013/01/15/a_triu...

Re:Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety on Saturday April 19, 2025 @02:52PM (#43738552)
Or play Wizardry and be so full of despair. :)
Re:Garfield Minus Garfield on Thursday April 10, 2025 @03:07PM (#43647100)
That was a thing! Boingboing had an article about it, but it looks like the original tumblr is no longer around.

https://boingboing.net/2014/03/09/garfield-without-garfields...

Re:Garfield Minus Garfield on Thursday April 10, 2025 @03:05PM (#43647088)
I'd like to submit Time is a Flat Circus as well

https://www.tumblr.com/timeisaflatcircus

Re:Ask HN: Do you still use Search Engines? on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @04:58PM (#43626393)
I got a few months of free Kagi with a Pragmatic Engineer newsletter subscription and I'm enjoying it. It reminds me of old Google before it got polluted. Kagi can't do anything about the web itself being polluted, but the search experience is good. I use Gemini a lot as well.

I'm very disappointed in Apple that changing the default browser in Safari requires you to install a Safari extension. Super lame stuff.

Well, it is difficult and a lot of work.

Maybe _you_ can help.

Re:How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:05PM (#43431144)
The box it came in probably tastes better.
Re:Long division verified via Hoare logic on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:24PM (#43190987)
Sometimes I read a paper or see some code that makes me think that wizards are real and that they walk among us.
Re:I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs on Monday February 17, 2025 @05:16PM (#43083827)
After my (closed) gaming laptop started making annoying Windows noises earlier today, I'm led to believe that it doesn't work properly on Windows either.

It seems like it's basically hardware whack-a-mole at this point. The only reason Apple does it reasonably well is they control more of the stack and they support less hardware. The only reason Windows does it better than Linux is they have more eyes on it.

Re:Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today on Thursday January 23, 2025 @01:47PM (#42806754)
Big congratulations!

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