Shawnj2

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by Shawnj2 3y ago
In order to get Celebi legitimately in the Japanese version of Crystal, you have to connect your GBC to a phone and use an online service that hasn’t worked for decades. In the VC version they patched the game so that you can get it with a
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
I mean yes that would work but that kind of goes against the spirit of the whole thing The point is that a real human has actually gone through the level and beat it. If a run an AI against a gameboy game and it wins I wouldn’t consider it
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
In a month from now Splatoon 1 will basically be unplayable on an original unhacked Wii U. Sure you can do the single player story mode, but the main multiplayer mode is going to be gone by then unless you use Pretendo. I think the Switch i
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Honestly I think they just don’t want to deal with it especially since those endpoints are a massive security flaw in their network. In practice this is another “abandonment off to the community” moment like when Rebble spun off of Pebble t
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
It was trivially easy to set up Yuzu or Ryujinx to play switch games that haven’t even launched yet without even owning a switch. That definitely has some sort of impact on Nintendo’s business. More importantly Yuzu was known to essentially
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
I’m guessing the future of the Yuzu codebase is being self hosted in China or another country that doesn’t care about IP law and all contributions being anonymous.
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
C++ is kind of a “language of last resort” type thing where you use it if there isn’t another good option for what you want to do. Eg. Most desktop development was done in C++, but now C# and newer languages have killed off C++ for most des
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
At least in aerospace we use C++ because we need a bare metal language and C++ is the most full featured/widely used one. Rust is great but toolchain support just isn’t there yet and ADA/Spark aren’t widely used anymore for new de
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Yeah people are happy to post and use social networks and forum sites (eg Discord, here, etc.) when those sites don’t make intrusive changes a significant amount of users dislike or do shady things like the Meta Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Sure but why does Grandma want it? She has an iPhone so this isn’t an unanswerable question
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
My problem with the vision pro is that it doesn’t do enough new, the iPhone and the MacBook Air let you use a computer in an area where you previously couldn’t and made it accessible to normal people. The vision pro isn’t that much better i
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
I think it might be a culture thing but at where I work no one actually uses the break room to eat lunch, everyone eats at their desk. With that said a lot of people do so by skipping the lunch break time
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Simple, it’s designed to launch a payload into lunar orbit and starship isn’t. To move something using starship into lunar orbit you need to move an entire starship there while the Ariane 5 is designed to do it in 1 launch at the expense of
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Launching JWST on Starship would still be incredibly expensive because JWST is at the Lagrange point on the other side of the moon and 1 starship needs like 30 other starships to fuel it to get there
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Also a lot of the complexity comes around doing new things like any sort of cleansheet design. SpaceX has absurdly good reliability launching Falcon 9's because of how many they launch and have launched while they've crashed a ton
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Not the same as reading the source material but the youtube channel Overly Sarcastic Productions has great overviews/retellings of mythology/legends/ancient stories and they have a great ongoing series on Journey To The West
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
I bet a lot of text generated content you see online is LLM generated and I'm not sure how exempt HN is from this. Probably more than most but in 2024 it is trivial to generate something with an LLM that could be assumed to be written
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
You can’t stop public use but you can make it so that any account posting AI porn of someone without their consent gets auto reported to the police or at least automatically filtered out. Also I think it’s a recency thing, in a few years no
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Yeah android phones all have a 0 security mode and no one is saying Android devices are security nightmares.
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
AI porn trained off of a dataset of people who are fine being in an AI porn dataset vs. AI porn of celebrities who understandably go to great lengths to protect their image rights are different categories.
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
The pebble (and some Garmin watches) is phenomenal at this because they have a non backlit AOD so you can always read the time like a normal watch. The main other bonus for most people right now is health tracking.
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
I don’t think the fossil style hybrid watch is going to survive, I think the hybrid watches we still have are ones which completely lack screens or only have extremely basic screens for showing health info and lack a user interface for chec
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
My problem with Garmin is that the software is shit. The hardware is phenomenal, easily everything I could have wanted in a Pebble successor except that the design isn’t quite as fancy, but the software is absolute garbage compared to the P
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Yeah I don’t see why really any non approved electronic device wouldn’t immediately be treated as a tape recorder in a classified environment.
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Something I would point out is that this is more of a conceptual proposal than something real NASA is planning on doing. This mission as described here will never happen. With that said it’s still a useful exercise because we will do space
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
If I trained an LLM on code I wrote and had it write things I would probably be able to copyright it though
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
No it should go towards a recall to fixing the cars that are now in the world that violate emissions standards and then to federal green transportation or vehicle initiatives.
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
Where I work they were considering using an FPGA over an MCU for a certain task but decided against it because the FPGA couldn’t reach the same low power level as the MCU
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
In most cases I’ve never actually run into this as an issue. For example the 3DS only officially supports SDHC cards so up to 32GB of data but if you format a larger card as FAT32 it works perfectly fine.
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by Shawnj2 3y ago
China has an actual growing middle class at this point so that’s not that unexpected from there, OTOH the Middle East is basically modern day feudalism

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