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codetrotter commented on Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)   magazine.uc.edu/editors_p... · Posted by u/ajuhasz
9rx · a month ago
There are still plenty of pirates around to this very day; a "significant issue" according to your own link. Despite that, the aforementioned statement doesn't make me think it has anything to do with today. What, specifically, makes you think it has something to do with the time leading up to 1900 CE rather than 1900 BCE?
codetrotter · a month ago
> What, specifically, makes you think it has something to do with the time leading up to 1900 CE rather than 1900 BCE

Normally when someone says "1900" they are referring to 1900 AD. Unless BCE had already been mentioned, which here it had not. And if they were referring to 1900 BCE they normally would specifically say 1900 BCE. That's why.

And furthermore, the parent comment above the one talking about "pre-1900" was talking about modern passports. Why would anyone immediately jump from modern passports to 1900 BCE? That don't make no sense at all. Jumping to 1900 AD however, that does make sense. You see?

codetrotter commented on Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)   magazine.uc.edu/editors_p... · Posted by u/ajuhasz
9rx · a month ago
> It sounds squarely like it's referring to 1900 AD to me.

What part of "If you moved from one place to another, you were mostly at the whims of thieves and pirates." suggests 1900 CE to you? Have you never looked at a history book?

codetrotter · a month ago
There was plenty of pirates around still in the 1800s AD. Aka "pre-1900" AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy

codetrotter commented on Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)   magazine.uc.edu/editors_p... · Posted by u/ajuhasz
9rx · a month ago
> What kind of tech do you imagine is needed?

Agriculture, at very least. Before we created that tech you'd be way too busy trying to find something to eat to have time to stand around defending artificial borders. 1900 BCE mightn't be perfectly accurate, but close enough for a stupid comment on the internet.

codetrotter · a month ago
> 1900 BCE

Nothing in the comment that we are talking about indicates that "pre-1900" is referring to 1900 BCE. It sounds squarely like it's referring to 1900 AD to me. Which is why people are saying it's ridiculous.

codetrotter commented on Lossless video compression using Bloom filters   github.com/ross39/new_blo... · Posted by u/rh3939
rh3939 · 3 months ago
Author here. The repo is a complete mess but I do have some some code in there to generate graphs and whatnot if you're willing to dig through the code. I will make this much more concrete with lots of proper testing. Its very much still a messy work in progress.
codetrotter · 3 months ago
I applaud you for uploading even if it’s a bit disorganised still, and I do the same. It’s better to have something than nothing. Sometimes I see people talking about something but they don’t want to upload their code yet because they have to clean it up first. And then either they don’t get around to ever cleaning it up the way they wanted, or by they time they do it will have fallen off everyone’s radar and be forgotten. At least with a messy repo it’s possible to poke around, and not the least to star it and maybe check back later to see if they cleaned it up.
codetrotter commented on Show HN: SVG Animation Software   expressive.app/expressive... · Posted by u/msarca
marcodiego · 3 months ago
You know, a "made with" blender film just won an Oscar. I bet Blender devs also have to make a living and I doubt they work for free.
codetrotter · 3 months ago
Blender is amazing and I love it. That doesn’t mean that replicating their success is an easy feat or for everyone.

If it was easy to get the required funding, wouldn’t Synfig be in a position to rake in funds and hire people to improve Synfig?

codetrotter commented on Using the Apple ][+ with the RetroTink-5X   nicole.express/2025/apple... · Posted by u/zdw
lejoko · 3 months ago
Because Apple itself wrote it with square brackets.
codetrotter · 3 months ago
But did they actually mean literally to use ][ as square brackets. Or is it merely an approximation that is meant to be read as Roman numeral two. And then people in that time writing it as ][ because Unicode didn't even exist yet. And then people stuck with that.
codetrotter commented on Using the Apple ][+ with the RetroTink-5X   nicole.express/2025/apple... · Posted by u/zdw
codetrotter · 3 months ago
One thing, off topic kinda, that I always wonder when I see mention of said computer.

Why people don’t use the Unicode symbol for Roman numeral two?

Apple Ⅱ+

codetrotter commented on Show HN: Photoshop Clone Built in React   github.com/chase-manning/... · Posted by u/chase-manning
Brajeshwar · 3 months ago
codetrotter · 3 months ago
https://github.com/chowderman/chowderman.github.io looks to be the original repo for https://github.com/h53d/xp-paint then.

And the other is a clone of that repo which was reuploaded manually instead of using the “fork” UI buttons of GitHub. Which is fine and all. But better to link the original as the repo anyway.

codetrotter commented on Stereogram Solver   piellardj.github.io/stere... · Posted by u/codetrotter
codetrotter · 3 months ago
Came across this on a recent LGR video on YouTube: “How 1990s Magic Eye 3D Images Were Made”

https://youtu.be/uvXY99HysrU

The GitHub repo of the linked stereogram solver is https://github.com/piellardj/stereogram-solver

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