eleveriven

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by eleveriven 6mo ago
Back is one of the best candidates, but unless coins move or some cryptographic proof appears, this remains a well-argued theory, not a resolution
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by eleveriven 6mo ago
But that's also kind of what makes it impressive in a different way. Even if the game was larger on disk/tape, they still had to stream it in tiny chunks and make it run within those constraints
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by eleveriven 6mo ago
I think you're right about the waste, but I'm not sure it's entirely "accidental"... a lot of it is traded for different kinds of efficiency
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by eleveriven 6mo ago
It really puts into perspective how different the constraints were
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by eleveriven 6mo ago
When companies are spending that much capital, they almost can't help becoming unreliable narrators about what the technology can do right now versus what they hope it will do in two or three years
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by eleveriven 6mo ago
You still need rhetoric, timing, emotion and narrative. But I'd say the lesson is "good ideas need good communicators" not "good ideas need lies"
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by eleveriven 6mo ago
Sometimes good ideas just have to fight habit
38.
by eleveriven 6mo ago
Lots of things succeed after early hype not because the lies were necessary, but because the underlying idea was good enough to survive them
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by eleveriven 6mo ago
It is a bit overstated as a universal rule, but as a practical heuristic it is excellent
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by eleveriven 7mo ago
Feels like a nice middle ground between what the article describes and something more tangible
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by eleveriven 7mo ago
The value isn't just in the recorded content, it's in the ritual
42.
by eleveriven 7mo ago
What makes this example land differently for me is that the intent stays human all the way through
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by eleveriven 7mo ago
Normally, memory work is you pulling things out of your mind. Here, it's the system pushing things back at you
44.
by eleveriven 7mo ago
This hits a really compelling middle ground between journaling, genealogy and lifelogging
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by eleveriven 7mo ago
Small temperature difference, potentially large difference in watts
46.
by eleveriven 7mo ago
I think both points can be true at once
47.
by eleveriven 7mo ago
Identical twins is a neat idea, but it still feels like a very small sample size for drawing broader conclusions about "a century of innovation"
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by eleveriven 7mo ago
I imagine some of the original devs would be surprised anyone is still digging into their work at this level of detail 20+ years later
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by eleveriven 7mo ago
What stands out to me is that they explain not just what changed, but why it was hard in the first place
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by eleveriven 7mo ago
The most interesting part to me is how often emulator development turns into discovering that the original games were doing something deeply strange but completely intentional
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
Similar to alcohol, the system doesn't prevent all underage access
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
As soon as age-gated access depends on a government-issued credential, you're implicitly tying participation to state identity infrastructure
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
We've spent 30 years telling people "don't share personal info online" and now the compliance path is "upload your ID or face so you can browse memes"
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
Yeah, it creates this weird dead zone where the machine is perfectly capable of running the newer OS, but the built-in path to get there is broken
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
Modern UI trends seem to optimize for neutrality and content-first minimalism, which is nice in theory but often ends up feeling generic
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
How modern computing quietly depends on this constantly-maintained layer of trust infrastructure
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
That era of macOS had a kind of clarity and restraint that’s hard to describe
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
It says as much about how conservative and stable Wi-Fi standards have been as it does about Apple
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
The debate just gets louder when geopolitics gets layered on top of an already controversial model
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by eleveriven 8mo ago
Blocking trackers is a reasonable self-defense move today, but it also highlights that the system isn't aligned with users anymore

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