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by DerekL 6y ago
The Atari 2600 has no BIOS or any other built-in ROM. Maybe you're thinking of the 5200 or 7800?
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by DerekL 6y ago
> Both are digital, of course. By the way, it annoys me that the word digital is used to mean “downloaded over a network”.
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by DerekL 6y ago
Yes. In fact, Dr. Nim uses the same mechanism as Digi-Comp II, which is also mentioned in the blog post.
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by DerekL 6y ago
Explained in the article: > Cambridge-based Arm uses intellectual property originating from both the US and of non-US origin, a staff member told Yicai Global at the Arm Vision Day.
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by DerekL 6y ago
The Atari 7800 used the same idea of making everything a sprite and having no dedicated tilemap layer.
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by DerekL 6y ago
It was 66%. Most adults, but less than “almost every”. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/
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by DerekL 6y ago
An Amiga outputs either NTSC or PAL, depending on the region it was made for. So with the right cable, you can just plug it in to a TV made before the mid-2000's. Later models also supported VGA. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by DerekL 6y ago
> if I recall correctly, while it had standard 3.5" diskettes, it couldn't read/write DOS disks. The Amiga floppy drives took standard 3.5" media, and they could read MS-DOS disks, but the software for this wasn'
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by DerekL 6y ago
I'm confused. What does this comment have to do with the article?
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by DerekL 6y ago
The title on HN uses the word slavery . The actual tweets do not.
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by DerekL 6y ago
There's a new formatting library in C++20. Unlike printf, it's type-safe, and it's extensible to new types.
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by DerekL 6y ago
The title should have “(2017)”.
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by DerekL 6y ago
> It's the same kind of thing as computers and calculators switching from decimal hardware to binary hardware 100 years ago. Not quite. ENIAC, for example, did calculations in decimal, and it was finished in 1945. There may be more
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by DerekL 6y ago
Title should be “Uber will charge 25% more …”
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by DerekL 6y ago
The Apple Neural Engine is separate from the CPU; it's not additional registers and instructions for the CPU, like a vector unit. You go through the Core ML framework to use it, just like you go through Metal or OpenGL to use the GPU.
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by DerekL 6y ago
The title is misspelled. It's “AT&T”, not “ATT”. Also, that's not the title of the article, though it is factually correct.
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by DerekL 6y ago
Even though their early work sounded like everyone else at the time, it was brilliant. It wasn't just hype.
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by DerekL 6y ago
You're comparing one of the best, most-influential games on the NES with a rush-produced cash grab on the Atari 2600. There were many better games on the 2600. Also, the NES came out six years later than the 2600, so it's way easi
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by DerekL 6y ago
But expansion packs are usually sold inside the game. The term in-app purchase is imprecise.
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by DerekL 6y ago
This was the subject of the first episode of MythBusters. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768480/?ref_=ttep_ep1
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by DerekL 6y ago
> Nintendo consoles have never had powerful hardware though. Not quite. Their last three consoles (Wii, Wii U, and Switch) were about a generation behind their competition, but the first four (NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube) were c
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by DerekL 6y ago
Of course, it's not just San Francisco, it's practically all cities in the Bay Area that strictly limit housing development but allow office construction.
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by DerekL 6y ago
I don't think that die faces are emojis. They range from U+2680 to U+2685. Let's see if they work here: Edit: No, they were filtered out.
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by DerekL 6y ago
Yes. Normally, motorcycles aren't that loud, compared to cars. The owners specifically modify them for that.
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by DerekL 6y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24817594
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by DerekL 6y ago
Yeah! Whatever you do, never eat pretzels! They dip them in oven cleaner before baking, then they sprinkle them with those crystals they use for removing ice from roads!
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by DerekL 6y ago
By the way, the abbreviation of advertisement is ad , not add .
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by DerekL 6y ago
“I was talking with Dvorak at the Vloggercon party this evening, and he started telling a story about how he deliberately pisses Mac users off to get flow for his stories…” – Dave Winer http://scripting.com/2006/06&#x2F
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by DerekL 6y ago
By the way, it's sow . So and sow are homophones.
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by DerekL 6y ago
> Through AREXX any application could control any other application, which is something Windows and OSX still don't really do. I mean to some extent it's sort of possible now, but not as easily as it was with Amiga OS. AppleScr

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