alt Hacker NewsI think the title undersells the accomplishment.
He made an animated button gif that scrolls the entire text of Moby Dick.
4.2 Mb, 19 hours long.
Top quality useless proof of concept. 10/10.
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emil-lp • today at 1:18 PM
Then I know what I'll do tomorrow!
19 hours. Don't blink.
Zobat • today at 2:04 PM
Yep, but I'm inclined to say he went full "Jurassic Park" on that one.
Man, few things have made me feel like more of a philistine than reading Moby Dick earlier this year. I read a lot, but I've never considered myself a "literature guy" and wow Moby Dick cemented that. I did finish it, but I thought it was just an awful read, absolutely boring from start to finish. About halfway through I was just skipping pages and pages and pages of filler descriptions and incomprehensible 20-page-long speeches. I absolutely hated it, among the worst books I've ever powered through to the end.
It's definitely a "me problem," obviously people who are into literature and analysis get a lot out of it. But in future I'm gonna stick to my dumb sci-fi books where people talk in comprehensible sentences and things blow up, lol.