stevekemp

Good luck learning Finnish without understanding the grammar.

I did once write a text-based adventure game in C, however I only did that to work out some of hte "plot" and the layout/objects I was going to work with. My actual aim was to write a s…

The one that gets me the most is English people suddenly saying "fall" instead of "autumn".

Interesting that you picked out the use of different API calls for writing to terminal, printer, and the tape. There was at least an attempt at unifying that with the "IOByte" configuration…

Thanks! One of my biggest frustrations with the retro-scene is having to deal with old compression-formats, and disk-archives, so that was very much a design choice. Many of the recent/modern e…

Years ago I wrote/maintained a modal console-based email client. It was written with some UI primitives in C++ and the UI actually maintained and controlled by lua. Viewing a list of folders? L…

I "recently" wrote a CP/M emulator, and I have a lot of love for the kinda vintage software out there that still runs on it. https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/ …

There were some, short-lived, projects/groups trying to run their own processes. DWF is one that I recall, though it is dead again: https://lwn.net/Articles/851849/ …

We're gonna go "No true Scotsman", on irn-bru? That takes some doing! I get what you're saying, and I kinda believe the best Irn-Bru was the stuff in a glass bottle, delivered to…

They do. Sometimes I see individual cans in K-supermarkets, but otherwise: https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/327752/Irn-Bru-virvo... …

They're very similar to look at, but the chocolate is wrong and the consistency of the "foam" part differs too. Close, but sadly not close enough! (I enjoy both, but the Tunnock'…

Dangerous indeed. They come in boxes of six, which I always treated as a single-serving. I moved to Finland so I can't get them here, but at least I'm consoled by the availability of Irn-Br…

That's fair, thanks for taking the time to look and giving the feedback.

My parents moved home just before Christmas, and we had to spend a lot of money on short notice replacing windows, etc. As a result of low cash for the first time ever my parents bought my sisters and…

I put together this example after reading the article: https://github.com/skx/simple-vm Simpler than the full gomacro codebase, but perhaps helpful.…

I used it for scripting routers, more than anything else. I guess expect became something almost popular enough to be considered external to TCL in the end, too.

I've got a terminal open on my desktop, running a copy of ZORK from 1983, which is 42 years old. Yes there are modern ports, and newer versions, but these kind of retro games, and utilities, are …

I'm living in Finland, and my Finnish language skills are .. not great .. but even I can spot spam messages easily. There are some appalling auto-translated spammy/scammy SMS and WhatsApp me…

I have a similar story about our child, at a similar age! He waited until I'd left the room before dragging a chair away from the dining table and then climbing it, in order to reach a toy I…

Sure, and I accept that happily enough for "small" snippets. But I had to page down multiple times and it really felt like too much content.

Did you really need to share 108 lines of code, inline, rather than a link to gist/similar? The chances of people reading this discussion running NixOS are small, and of those I'm sure the o…

You could be inspired by FORTH and not have an AST at all ..

Those are basically string-replacements. Add those lines to .vim/vimrc, and when you type "dtt" or "dts" that text gets replaced with a time/date stamp. Kinda useful if …

I just replaced two OSRAM LED "bulbs" in my bedroom, and paid 15 euros each for them. 30 euros for two lights feels insane, and yet I know I paid something similar for the previous ones abo…

A86 was the assembler I used too, with a well-thumbed set Ralph Browns interrupt list printouts. It's kinda fun to go back to writing code in assembly for CP/M systems nowadays, even simpler…

I keep setting all my preferences *everywhere* to English, yet 50% of the time google search results are 100% Finnish. With a helpful "change to English" link that does not work. Worst stil…

At some point the food-tax dropped from 10% to 5% which I guess is good for people who need to eat! I still do a fair bit of z80 programming for myself, and I'm very familiar with the Spectrum so…

These days even Tinder (website version) has a boss-key. But yeah I remember a lot of games had boss-keys that would let you pretend to be working.

I can see why you'd choose it, but if picking a standalone "Small Gods" is the one I'd always choose. (To be honest I'm lying, the standalone book I prefer myself is Pyramids,…

I think your comment just goes to show we all have different tastes - I love Moist, and his chain-smoking girlfriend. There's only one Discworld book I don't like, and it is unseen academica…