silverfrost
Re:Boriel BASIC
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @06:56AM (#48106494)
18 years ago! I haven't used it myself but I know there are plenty of people who love it.
Re:Learning the oldest programming language (2024)
on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @03:21PM (#46305003)
Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language...
Re:Why xor eax, eax?
on Monday December 01, 2025 @09:08AM (#46107602)
Back on the Z80 'xor a' is the shortest sequence to zero A
Re:The History of F1 Design
on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @04:26PM (#44817353)
unusable for me
Re:New dwarf planet found in our solar system
on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @05:58PM (#44056707)
26000 year period and yet it has still been around the sun 2000+ times since the dinosaurs went extinct. Make me feel a bit insignificant and awed at the same time.
Re:A single line of code cost $8000
on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @03:22AM (#43829574)
In other news a screen recorder app is a 250MB (presumably compressed) download...
Re:Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @04:49PM (#39984085)
Proposed - not discovered. He put it forward as an explanation, he didn't make the actual discovery.
Re:Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine
on Friday May 19, 2023 @09:46AM (#36001895)
404 for me
Re:Conway's Game of Life digital clock
on Friday April 21, 2023 @06:56AM (#35652021)
Witchcraft
Re:Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island
on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:14AM (#35568624)
returns an empty page for me
Re:France's Long Distance Trail
on Saturday April 01, 2023 @01:29PM (#35402139)
In my experience the French are very tolerant provided you are not making a nuisance of yourself.
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:49PM (#34069458)
Red Gate's SQL Prompt for SQL Server Management Studio. Saved countless hours in very small increments: https://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-prompt...
Re:Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)
on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:56PM (#30821786)
Error 512, website is down for me.
Re:How much did VHS tapes cost in the 80s?
on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:37AM (#30640421)
They tried adding a tax in the UK but it never got there: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/09/endless-cycl...
Re:How much did VHS tapes cost in the 80s?
on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:45AM (#30639784)
In the mid 80s I bought some 720KB 3.5" disks at the (what seemed) cheap price of £25 for five. At the time that would have been around $40.
Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app
on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:56AM (#30443171)
mb and MB - beings out the pedant in me...
Re:Polaris Program
on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:40PM (#30337991)
A constellation is a pattern of stars in the sky -- all of which were determined with the naked eye. Polaris is a triple star -- appearing to us as a single point of light.
Re:Polaris Program
on Monday February 14, 2022 @12:03PM (#30334415)
"Polaris, a constellation of three stars more commonly known as the North Star...". Nope. It is a triple star system, something completely different.
Re:Shader School - An introduction to GLSL shaders that runs in your w...
on Sunday September 26, 2021 @08:13AM (#28660255)
7 years old?
Re:A Summary of Fortran [pdf] (1992)
on Monday August 09, 2021 @05:08AM (#28114182)
and Fortran 77 is compatible with Fortran 66
Re:ZX Spectrum Next: The Evolution of the Speccy
on Sunday January 31, 2021 @06:24PM (#25983677)
I think it sold out a while ago. There was a kickstarter and then some cancelled orders were put on the shop.
Re:Tiny Emus: 8-Bit emulators
on Monday November 19, 2018 @07:15AM (#18485848)
How do I load a game into the 48K Emulator - I notice there are some in the github repo.
Re:21.co: Replace your public email with an inbox that pays you
on Friday July 28, 2017 @11:31AM (#14874959)
The website seems very light on information about its own service