PortableCode's comments

On: Modern 6502

[PortableCode]

> I ended up mounting one of them on the side of the door at the entrance to my house for spiritual protection.

[aaronbrethorst → PortableCode]

Cute, basically a Mezuzah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah

[dhosek → aaronbrethorst]

Oh definitely a Mezuzah. Right down to the angling (although the Sephardic practice is to position it straight up and down).

[vardump → PortableCode]

I think you're fully protected from Terminator and Bender.

Neither will dare to attack your residence.

On: GNU Screen 5.0 Released

[PortableCode]

looks like this command was removed in 2015, so, almost 9 years ago, and now they cleaned up the documentation

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=9109...

On: Pinnacle – a modern tribute to the 1986 classic, The Sentinel

[PortableCode]

I am getting the same error, but was able to download the game from: https://viperfish.com.au/downloads.html

[ok123456 → PortableCode]

Thank you.

People get too cute with what should be a link to a file.

On: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

[PortableCode]

https://codeexplainer.wordpress.com/

My attempt of explaining confusing and/or obfuscated code snippets in various languages.

Example: heart-shaped proposal in obfu Perl https://codeexplainer.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/anatomy-of-th... (she said yes)

On: Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde

[PortableCode]

The alphabet itself and a sample text on Omniglot: https://omniglot.com/writing/adlam.htm

On: HTML Application

[PortableCode]

"On the other hand, an HTA runs as a fully trusted application and therefore has more privileges than a normal HTML file; for example, an HTA can create, edit and remove files and registry entries."

On: User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

[PortableCode]

Apparently, posting this link gets you banned: https://github.com/diefarbe

[Havoc → PortableCode]

Ironically named. DieFarbe = "The Paint"

[ginko → Havoc]

I don't exactly see the irony here.

And it also means "The Color" which is probably a more apt translation in this case.

[mijoharas → Havoc]

I read it as colour.

[Havoc → mijoharas]

Both are correct. You'd use a tin of paint/"Farbe" to paint a wall, but saying the your favorite colour/"Farbe" is red is also correct.

On: Ask HN: What's the strangest place you wrote code?

[PortableCode]

You might find this interesting, a story about the development of a popular ZX Spectrum emulator Warajevo:

"The grenades fell everywhere, there was little electrical power (at one time even the hospitals didn't have power for two months!). When we had electricity it was only for 2-3 hours during the night."

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/warajevo/Story.html

On: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]

[PortableCode]

Looks like she extended her Amiga with Microbotics Starboard 2 (2MB RAM and RTC, visible in 2:36): http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=...

[Jaruzel → PortableCode]

oooh, I would love one of those for my Amiga 1000.

On: No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter

[PortableCode]

I usually subscribe postmaster@(domain) to the newsletter as RFC822 requires the account to be active ;)

[codazoda → PortableCode]

I doubt it's actually active on most domains even though the RFC asks for it to be so. I would even guess that admin@(domain) might be more effective. Just a guess on my part though.

[korethr → PortableCode]

My initial thought is that signing up abuse@(domain) would be a clever irony. My next thought is that abusing the abuse inbox is probably a dick move to the sysadmin who's job it is to keep things working.