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by dleslie 5mo ago
And that was almost _never_ the case for 16-bit era gaming, outside of the Arcade. Certainly not for the Genesis.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
The video I linked is taken of a CRT and is not a screenshot of an LCD. This is an excellent deep dive on the issues I spoke of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC-8y2R6IxI
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by dleslie 5mo ago
There's a bunch on Youtube. The art has the typical issues of modern 16-bit and 8-bit games where the designers and artists are not targeting the full hardware stack of the era. Rather, they're targeting simulated machines (emulat
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by dleslie 5mo ago
Minimalist and consistent UX, incredibly responsive applications, simple and logical organizational structure, with _excellent_ documentation and developer tools for the era. You boot straight to a desktop, and there's no ads, alerts,
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by dleslie 5mo ago
Be made inroads in radio and sound production; though I don't think they knew it.[0] There was a market starved for a stable, high quality and responsive operating system that would run on the x86 hardware that was abundant everywhere.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
Per the BeBook: > Returns the temperature of the motherboard if the computer is currently on fire.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
In the simplest way. More interesting is the result for is_computer_on_fire() https://github.com/VitruvianOS/Vitruvian/blob/0e4c6e33ab235b...
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by dleslie 5mo ago
It's one of the last single-user focused operating systems. Its design from kernel to UI is intended to make the system accessible to the user sitting at the desk. It was _extraordinarily_ fast and stable on even modest hardware of the
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by dleslie 5mo ago
There's an interesting fork that recently cropped up. It takes the Haiku user space and places it atop the Linux kernel. Vitruvian OS: https://v-os.dev/
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by dleslie 5mo ago
Not just frustrating, it's a security hole. Stealing focus means a user may expect to be typing a password but find it's inputted somewhere they did not expect.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
Cash is more private than Monero. It is possible to engage in untraceable transactions through drop sites and post, whereas Monero wallets can reveal transaction participants when view keys are available. I don't need to connect to any
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by dleslie 5mo ago
Monero is only as private as its entry and exit wallets and the availability of the appropriate keys. This can be done with cash delivered via post with no return address. Observers cannot know who sent the money or even that the receiver i
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by dleslie 5mo ago
Mistral is competitive and useful. And Anthropic is famous for putting guardrails on their models, and yet continue to lead. We don't have to, and shouldn't have to, tolerate tools that easily produce csam or similarly undesirable
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by dleslie 5mo ago
European models are competitive, despite the concerns you raise. I don't need a model that can easily produce CSAM or reproduce copyrighted works verbatim in order to be productive.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
It would have been as easy to write a valid answer as a non-answer; _unless_ there is no valid answer.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
Ok. Where is crypto currency used in a way that fiat currencies cannot be, and is adding value to the world? I can think of nothing.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
Most common fault would be hitting eject before stopping the tape, causing the cassette to eject and mangle the tape in the process. As usual, this is a UX concern. Better tape players did not allow eject to work when the tape was engaged.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
Outside of the USA it would not look like a wealth transfer to an oligarch. Not every country is in a crypto-libertarian race to hoard power and wealth.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
This is where government funding can play a role. Sometimes there are things where the public good is best served with public expenditure.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
I have been converting old tapes to digital and they do sound both different and better. I think there's an aspect of this format having been a target for professional mixing. But there's also the background hiss and the warping o
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by dleslie 5mo ago
Opus 4.6 handles elisp just fine. But I suppose YMMV.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
They make it quite clear that these layoffs are in response to adapting to using AI at the company: > The way we work at Cloudflare has fundamentally changed. We don’t just build and sell AI tools and platforms. We are our own most deman
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by dleslie 5mo ago
What genre takes more than 5m to find any indication of enjoyment from it? 4x, city builders, deck builders, RTS, RPG, etc; these can all be fun in short order, if the games are well designed.
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by dleslie 5mo ago
If a game takes more then five minutes to become fun then return it. I've returned plenty of games with under five minutes of play time, because I don't have the patience to purchase boredom. Two hours is far more than enough to d
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by dleslie 6mo ago
All skill degrade with disuse. For example, here in Canada we have observed a literacy and numeracy skills curve that peaks with post-secondary education and declines with retirement.[0] Use it or lose it, as it were. 0: https://
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by dleslie 6mo ago
The Phoenix contract predates the more recent efforts to switch to FOSS. But also, Canada loves to burn money on American suppliers. It's probably why the recent interest in _Buy Canadian_ has the American administration annoyed.
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by dleslie 6mo ago
This was written by AI, wasn't it? I feel like it said a whole lot without giving me much to take action on. Like great, you summarized the current state of affairs but it doesn't make clear what I am to do about it.
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by dleslie 6mo ago
> Other companies, including Microsoft (Hyper-V) and Proxmox, have also been aggressively courting disgruntled VMware customers. I think I'm among the few in my peer group who hasn't yet started running Proxmox on their home se
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by dleslie 6mo ago
Canada has been using and developing FOSS for a while now. 0: https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-governmen... 1: https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads&#x
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by dleslie 6mo ago
Everything is designed for phones now. Apparently it's a Millenial trait to insist on doing things with a "big screen".

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