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There was this beautiful little time period where async/await was basically just that: resumable functions. I abused it to implement generators.

Do you happen to still have a link to this software?

Not plate, unless at very close range and at a very favorable angle. Mail, sure.

A traditional roguelike, in the line of TGGW/Cogmind/Nethack/Brogue/DCSS, would probably be nice. Not really a "slow strategy game", granted, but the fact that animations/colors aren't necessary makes it a good fit IMO

A FORTH gui would be an interesting project as well

Nope, since Self is a declaration and not a field it won't take up memory.

The original article is here: https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2018/10/how-to-make-a-rog...

The author is the creator of the popular commercial roguelike, Cogmind.

I don't think this is the place to air out all the dirty laundry from the past two years, so I'll just say this: since the time I've joined the site (three years ago), I haven't seen a single ban that wasn't warranted, be it due to a single incident of flouting the site rules or a pattern of behavior.

It is true that the moderators are fairly strict regarding behavior that wouldn't be punished here (such as abusing flags to down vote), but I don't see that as a necessarily bad thing.

Regarding the thread you linked, I'll agree it was the admin's fault for writing the passive-aggressive banner that led to that (well-respected) user leaving.

He apologized: https://twitter.com/croloris/status/1568704125826748416

Shelob is not a primordial being. She is one of the children of Ungoliant, who is herself a fallen Ainur.

Barrow-wights are Bombadil's servants? Ridiculous. Tolkien made it clear that they were the spawn of the Witch King, sent out to ensure that no men could settle in that particular area. This is reinforced by the fact that Bombadil himself destroys one of the wights while rescuing the hobbits.

https://archive.ph/uU5eR

Imagine all the adult toys that would be dug up. Fertility cult or something.

I’m beginning to wonder whether the entire article and response was sarcasm

Since we're talking about roguelikes, Brogue[0] is awesome as well.

[0] https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE

Indeed, I passionately hate programs where the order of the options and files/arguments matter just as much as the options themselves.

I like to use forlater.email[0] for this.

[0] https://forlater.email/

(Author here.) Fair enough, I should have done my research on that. I had barely touched Myrddin, was just beginning to look into Zig, and hadn't heard of (or felt the need for) that feature in Rust at the time I wrote that post.

It was public but unlisted, so you won't find it from the frontpage. (i.e., the same level of secrecy Hare's website had before the release.)

(Author here.) Yeah fair enough, it's not really a complaint worth making. I was more just listing things I noticed in general than faulting Hare for it.

Yes, it is indeed outdated, however some of the criticism/praise is still relevant. I'll see if I can take a second look at the language in the coming days.

Author here.

Fair enough! Since writing that I've done a lot of Zig code, which has labeled loops, and I can say it's definitely made a lot of code clearer than it would be otherwise.

Many folks I know use "they". Works well enough, I think.

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

I agree. But please don't group all accusations into this bucket -- take a look at OP's comment history, they do have a tendency to make these kind of comments.

Read from "this weeks musing" down to the section on book recommendations.

I believe it calls into Clang/LLVM to do so.

Very few insurrections planned on LinkedIn

Ho hum.

Calm down, he took down a few websites. He didn't take down their entire internet, as the article notes a few times:

As rare as it may be for a single pseudonymous hacker to cause an internet blackout on that scale, it's far from clear what real effects the attacks have had on the North Korean government. Only a tiny fraction of North Koreans have access to internet-connected systems to begin with, says Martyn Williams, a researcher for the Stimson Center think tank's North Korea-focused 38 North Project. The vast majority of residents are confined to the country's disconnected intranet. Williams says the dozens of sites P4x has repeatedly taken down are largely used for propaganda and other functions aimed at an international audience.

While knocking out those sites no doubt presents a nuisance to some regime officials, Williams points out that the hackers who targeted P4x last year—like almost all the country's hackers—are almost certainly based in other countries, such as China. “I would say, if he's going after those people, he's probably directing his attentions to the wrong place,” says Williams. “But if he just wants to annoy North Korea, then he is probably being annoying.”

For his part, P4x says he would count annoying the regime as a success, and that the vast majority of the country's population that lacks internet access was never his target. “I definitely wanted to affect the people as little as possible and the government as much as possible,” P4x says.

Bennan has since repudiated 8chan and has fought for it to be taken offline. Let's not judge him too harshly.

I use it as a daily driver on my Raspberry Pi. Since the community is small the package repositories are a bit small as well, and I occasionally have to build stuff by hand (painful on the Pi). Add musl to the ARM platform and most binaries in the wild won't run. However, musl and apk means the Alpine is a lot faster than, say, Raspbian or Arch.