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you are absolutely right, it is motion-sickness inducing. how did this make it in to production?
This is a reference I think to the Charlie Kirk murder.
I learned this trick writing shellcode - the shellcode has to be null byte (0x00) free, or it will terminate and not progress past the null byte, since it is the string terminator. of course, when you xor something with itself, the result is zero. the byte code generated by the instruction xor eax, eax doesn't contain null bytes, whereas mov eax, 0 does.
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wildlogic on Monday October 13, 2025 @05:55AM
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Hey HN,I got badly hurt a couple years ago when I fell 20 feet directly onto a 3 inch PVC pipe and got impaled. I was stuck in bed for 6 months, lost my job of 8 years and my wife of 12 years. I gave up the house to my spouse in the divorce, and moved into a van which was pretty quickly and unceremoniously stolen from me at gunpoint. I've been living outside on the street for the past nearly 2...
Thanks for the feedback. I'll give this a try.
Hey, this is my first font design, constructive criticism welcome! Thanks.
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wildlogic on Friday October 03, 2025 @09:24PM
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My kundalini awakened when I fell 20 feet onto a 3 inch PVC pipe in more or less a seated position and got impaled - it smashed right up through my tailbone, sacrum, and spinal vertebrae, severed a ton of nerves, and whatever energy was coiled up in the base of my spine shot straight up out the top of my head!
The levels are in order of difficulty per grid size, sorted by the number of backtracks it took a solver to complete (some of the harder levels on the biggest sizes took hundreds of thousands of backtracks, though I didn't really code any heuristics).
Gameplay is on a grid from 5x5 to 12x12 in size. Each level has a number of "depots", from which the player lays section of "pipe" to Von Neumann neighboring tiles. Pipes cannot cross each other, and a tile cannot have more than 1 pipe. Pipes cannot be placed on depots. Click a depot to "activate" it, and then place the pipes from that depot. There are 3 ways of placing pipes - clicking on the adjacent square, dragging through adjacent squares, or clicking several tiles away in a straight line from a placed pipe or activated depot to lay pipe on each tile in the line.
Thanks for giving it a try - I would appreciate any feedback!
Posted by
wildlogic on Monday June 02, 2025 @06:00PM
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Sorry, I'll add some instructions, the game is to lay pipes from the depots to fill the entire grid.
Ah, its a bug, thanks for pointing that out (you should be able to path to a square that was previously pathed but is currently empty), working on it now.
Yes, in this game you lay "pipes" from "depots", and must fill the entire grid with pipes.
Thanks for the feedback, adding some text with the basic rules now.
I initially had the first "tutorial" level a 4x4 grid with a [3] in each corner, but the 4x4 levels were trivial and I removed them.
Not doing so well lately, but I managed to hack out this little puzzle game. I've spent a lot of time thinking about simple games appealing to a wide audience that can be played with no more than paper and pencil, and haven't come up with that many great ideas, but I think this one checks out. Feedback welcome! Not that I think I can sell this to the NYT for their puzzle section, but interested in ideas monetizing this outside of adwords. Thanks for looking.
Posted by
wildlogic on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:09AM
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Hi - any documentation regarding actor registration? Is there a conventional way to inform a remote actor about a new actor? Would this be sent in a message? How does the actor.register('name') work? Maybe could be a useful addition to the documentation. Thanks.
Posted by
wildlogic on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @06:13AM
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Hey HN,A few years ago I was impaled in a climbing accident - I fell 20 feet straight onto a 3" PVC pipe (https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/13201216284). I couldn't walk or take care of myself for most of a year, and the recovery was extremely difficult. A fantastic 15+ year systems development career to came to an abrupt halt after my company was acquired while I was on...
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Hey HN, hoping to get some traction o my home mushroom growing kit.. thanks!
Posted by
wildlogic on Sunday July 02, 2023 @01:50PM
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HN,I'm reaching out, hopeful to find some assistance during a challenging time in my life. This past year has been bad. I suffered a serious climbing accident that destroyed my tailbone and sacrum (the fused vertebrae above the tailbone) and severed many nerves in my left leg. This ordeal left me bedridden for four months, requiring me to relearn basic tasks such as walking and using the...
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wildlogic on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:24AM
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Wow, been lurking for 12! Feels like a few lifetimes... Getting old... Thanks for everything.
FBI file here also for hacking in middle school... later added onto for messing around making tesla coils and mixing up rocket fuel.
Looks good, half-life builtins would be great, thanks for sharing.
This is a random tangent, but if are visually impaired and you look through a pinhole in your hand, you can see clearly!
I almost used Coldfire last year for a life-critical application.
Realy wild to me that horse and zebra are so different that one can be domesticated and the other cannot.