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Neat. FYI your “home” links are broke. And here are 150,000 more unique RAR files if you need to test if your compressor produces the same byte-for-byte output if you unrar and then re-rar these: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?format=rar&dedup=ded...

Just tried with DeepSeek V4 Pro with OpenCode. It didn't do great. First attempt produced somewhat correct drawings for some of the original samples, but most were just a spaghetti messs of lines. Some prodding got it to do a little better, but still not right. A third prod and it went down a wild rabbit hole and was much worse. I gave up.

I also tried GLM 5.1, it's first attempt was such a disaster I didn't bother working with it any further. It also took by far the longest and wasted a bunch of time/tokens trying to find other converters online (and failing) instead of just reverse engineering the format from the sample files given.

I gave 4.6, 4.7 and GPT 5.5 the same prompt and task to reverse engineer a collection of sample vector files from an obscure Amiga CAD program and create a detailed txt specification and a python converter that converts to SVG and produce a report so I can visually verify.

4.6 did very well. 90% perfect on first try, got to 100% with just a few followups. 4.7 failed horribly. First produced garbage output and claimed it was done, admitted it did that when called out, proceeded to work at it a lot longer and then IT GAVE UP. GPT 5.5 codex was shockingly good. Achieved 90% perfect on first try in about a fourth of the time. Got to 100% faster and with fewer follow-ups.

I’m impressed.

Here is a collection of 1.1 MILLION FILE_ID.DIZ files from back in the day: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?q=FILE_ID.DIZ&qfield...

This does an “okay” job at converting the document: https://archive.org/details/KeyViewPro

Here is the converted PDF: https://smallpdf.com/result#r=091f20f23de353fac21376a3a49a60...

The article mentioned using an 8bit ADC. Could a 16bit ADC be used on BOTH sides and achieve 112kbps?

If you go to an earlier commit here, you can find earlier versions: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo

I’ve made many a trip to the git repo to dig up older versions and copy down the old version ebuilds into my own overlay: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo

Sodium and kitchen salt are not the same thing. https://youtu.be/CArZeDTwVh4?si=tdVHOPO-8QZhxrkS

If you extend the range by 1px to be 87x30 to 88x32 you double the amount of results and get those images that are off by 1px: http://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?family=image&widthMin...

Here is the Call of Ktulu S3M: http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7499/arcadebbs.zip/arca...

Another 58,644 MOD/S3M/XM files show up in DiscMaster: http://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?family=music&formatid...

HTTP is decentralized. That’s actually worked out really well I think, no sarcasm intended.

Midjourney is open to everyone now, no waiting, and is easily the 2nd best tool for this stuff

I made solitaire for gopher: https://cosmicrealms.com/blog/2019/06/14/solitaire-over-goph...

Why? Dunno. It was a fun weekend project.

You can even play solitaire on gopher: gopher://worldofsolitaire.com/

Blog post about it: https://cosmicrealms.com/blog/2019/06/14/solitaire-over-goph...

I’m making a website right now that only uses HTML, no CSS/styles and no JavaScript and it is a breath of fresh air :)

I applaud an independent, new spider and search engine.

Sadly, the name is pretty horrible.

If you have to spell a domain out letter by letter when telling people in person, it’s not a good name. You also don’t appear to own common misspellings, like mogeek.com or moejeek.com or mojeak.com or at least they don’t redirect to the main website.

Still, I hope it gains market share and usage and I hope in a few years you may have the funding necessary to rebrand it into a more user friendly name.

Ahh, stack overflow. Hugely popular thread with a lot of engagement? Lets lock it. Wouldn’t want to encourage behavior that doesn’t match our narrow minded “vision” for the site. Still though, an improvement over the early years where they just outright deleted countless pages with countless contributions. In the end it’s their site and they can run it however they want, but it’s sad to see such massive potential squandered through a policy promoting deletionism. Hindsight is 20/20 though and it’s not like I’ve gone and coded a better one, so I should probably just delete this comment and move on.

gopher://worldofsolitaire.com

You should rip the CDs and upload em to archive. It’s possible that there is unique content on them that doesn’t exist anywhere else :)

I thought this was about CSS Grid, but nope, nothing at all to do with that.

Greensock is by far the best JavaScript animation library I’ve used in the past 12+ years, and I’ve used a lot. It’s not react specific, but that shouldn’t really matter.

60 different solitaire games, 5 different ASCII background patterns. Keeps track of score and moves. Full rules.

Best gopher client to use: lynx Other verified gopher clients: cgo, VF-1, gophwr

Doesn't work with web based gopher proxies (it relies on extended ASCII charset and 70 character width lines)

Amazon Web Services and other cloud vendors. The amount of traffic and processing power a single dedicated server can provide is astonishingly cheaper than the cloud.

I understand that the cloud provides additional software products, services and flexibility to scale quick, but you pay for it.

Can I ask why you chose to leave namecheap for Google?

Aren’t these the folks that spammed every github repo with a spam pull request to integrate their system into your code? I kinda lost all respect for this project and their developers after that incident.

Today I learned that Go does not support the ternary operator. that's sad :(

Ditto. Would buy for my Gentoo system!

I love and use PlatformIO, but I've dumped their library system because often the libraries in the pio db are a version or two behind what I can get from github.

I feel that advancements in quantum mechanics will solve the communication problem.