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by ndiddy 5mo ago
The article says that according to a survey of Princeton seniors from 2025, 29.9% admitted to cheating on an assignment and 44.6% admitted to knowing of cheating that they chose not to report. I guess they could continue acting as if they w
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> Also, Irix would be nice to get — although I don’t recall if SGI had much in the way of custom vibes for their window managers, they certainly had amazingly cool 3D demos. IRIX used the 4Dwm window manager, which is a lot more polished
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I imagine the actual reason why Cohen didn’t answer the question is that he would have to admit that if the combined entity issued enough shares to pay for the acquisition, it would substantially dilute existing shareholders.
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Having a fun game bundled with every Windows install was really something special, so thanks for working on the game and selling it to Microsoft. Without it, we wouldn't have been able to have a Pinball league in my middle school typin
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With game modding or decompilation, a lot of people do stuff that's probably illegal but whoever owns the rights doesn't care so they do it anyway. Microsoft is fairly hands off with old stuff like this that doesn't do any ma
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Nintendo first demonstrated the Super Famicom hardware in November 1988: https://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/SFC_1988Q4.html . If you look at the hardware specifications listed, the only thing they changed between then
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The PC Engine's CPU is probably its strongest aspect, Hudson did a great job here. Going with a really fast 8-bit CPU makes much more sense than Nintendo's choice of going with a slow 16-bit CPU, especially when the screen is 256
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by ndiddy 5mo ago
Basically every shared webhost that uses cPanel works like this. The security mechanism they use is called CageFS ( https://cloudlinux.com/getting-started-with-cloudlinux-os/41... ), which makes it so users can't se
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Yeah I was wondering how long it would take for a browser company to do something like this. It lets them scrape data without having to deal with anti-scraping provisions on websites, since now their training data collection gets spread acr
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The OS did, but the disk driver for the Lisa ProFile hard drives (which was distributed as part of the OS) did not. All existing emulation only supports the ProFile drives, not the DataTower. If you're actually interested, I think it w
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Microsoft actually does a fairly good job with this. Here's a part of a talk that goes over a single feature in PowerPoint (a slide animation that morphs the contents of one slide into a different slide) and demonstrates how this featu
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> but for some reason I think the us govt or anyone else will have a harder time getting to my data from them than the CCP will any chinese company. US tech companies voluntarily give their data to the US government. Don't you remem
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Apple hooked up the Lisa to a much larger larger external hard disk, the Priam Datatower. It could hold ~84 MB. The Datatower is extremely rare and AFAIK nobody with the skills to figure out how it works for emulation or cloning has a worki
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Yeah from a technical perspective it's really impressive for its era. OS written in a high level language, preemptive multitasking, memory protection, stuff like that. I just wish there was more software available for the Lisa. It&#x27
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by ndiddy 5mo ago
The other day I read this piece on how AI is already being used in schools, and it left quite an impression on me. https://archive.is/IW4B3 > The Chromebooks, which the students use in every class and for homework, came
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The same person who did this project also worked out how to compile the Lisa Office System code Apple released: https://github.com/alexthecat123/LisaSourceCompilation This took a lot of work because Apple didn't r
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What are they having you work on now that they’re shutting down search?
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Yeah there's not really a purpose for advanced calculators anymore (apart from the niche market of people who just enjoy using them). Calculators are basically only a thing now to make it harder to cheat on exams. If you don't hav
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by ndiddy 6mo ago
From here: https://www.cemetech.net/news/2026/4/1062/_/ti-84-evo-calcul... > 3x Processing Power - Matching one of the speculated options, the calculator appears to use an ARM Cortex CPU, finally
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by ndiddy 6mo ago
Have you seen this? http://krimsky.net/patchers/scx.html
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If there's legal problems with releasing the Nintendo console ports, would it be possible to just release the code for the PC/Mac versions?
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Yeah the simulation also seems to have some bugs. I saw a person get stuck waiting for an elevator for hours when all the elevators were idle. He got more and more pissed off until he eventually despawned overnight. I agree that you need to
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> It was only a surprise to the president (IMHO) who believed he could do a repeat of a Venezuelan decapitation strike. But Iran unlike Venezuela has suffered under reprehensible and unjustifiable sanctions and military adventurism by th
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> Killdall viewed it as a serious question, at the least. The best source I've seen for Kildall's viewpoint is his chapter in the book They Made America . It quotes sections on this dispute from his unpublished memoir (his chi
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This has never been a serious question. People have looked at DOS for years and never found any stolen CP/M code. Tim Paterson has written about how DOS was designed here: https://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/2007/09&
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by ndiddy 6mo ago
> Claude code itself is a trade secret, and it is not open source, so its own copyrightability is moot till you get your hands on a copy of it with clean hands. In this case Anthropic published the Claude Code source map file on npm them
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> Short-term this smells like the US is either behind this break or at least approves of it. The idea is probably for the UAE to increase production in an effort to stabilize oil prices. This administration has also shown a complete disr
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GPT-5.5 prompt for Codex tries to make it not talk about goblins(twitter.com)
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In general the way people make money off emulation is by selling it to iOS/Android users. In this case, it's free on PC and the Android version is $3. The emulator needs to be closed source for this business model to be feasible.
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The visual enhancements the emulator is capable of doing (high-res Mode 7, texture replacements, shaders, that sort of thing) wouldn't run well with software rendering. The emulator uses Unity so they don't have to do all the low-

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