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actionfromafar
6 days ago
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We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a ...
Postscript is pretty neat IMHO and it’s Turing complete. I really appreciated my raytraced page finally coming out of that poor HP laser after an hour or so.
aidenn0
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I once sent a Sierpinski's Triangle postscript program to a shared printer. It took 90 minutes, and pissed off everybody else trying to print.
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anthk
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PostScript can emulate the ZMachine (Zork text adventures and all of infocom) with "zmachine.ps". Look it up at DDG/GG.
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zahlman
5 days ago
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How does it do I/O?
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actionfromafar
5 days ago
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A monad. It’s just a class of abstract Endor Moon or something. Probably you have to send all commands up to the current state to it. :)
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hinkley
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One of the very first SVG documents I encountered was a port of the PS Tiger to SVG. It loaded a lot faster than the PostScript Tiger.
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bigfatkitten
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Sounds almost like a fun crypto mining opportunity.
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