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by nicole_express 3y ago
The English T-V distinction seems to have originated after the Norman Conquest, where French became the language of the aristocracy; wouldn't be surprised if that was exactly the source.
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by nicole_express 3y ago
The eth/thorn distinction was fairly arbitrary in actual written Old English, with thorn being more common. The modern distinction between eth and thorn being based off of voice originated in Icelandic, I think? That's the only la
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by nicole_express 3y ago
I wouldn't call it a happy accident; JPEG was carefully designed to look good for single-frames with the limitations of the human eye taken into account. WebP is based off of a video format, and tradeoffs there are very different.
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by nicole_express 3y ago
When I wrote that I assumed it was a physical possibility but I didn't realize people actually did that. It would actually probably work pretty well for a Pong system, since the discontinuity would be when the paddle was off-screen. Bu
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by nicole_express 3y ago
I'm going to keep using quick insecure PRNGs for my NES games rather than write a 6502 implementation of a CSPRNG... I guess this isn't something that's safe to assume for all game development by any means, but in my case if
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by nicole_express 3y ago
Refusing to promote? I had to leave my employer entirely because I didn't want to work from an office where none of my team was.
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by nicole_express 3y ago
I remember this email chain! I didn't realize you were asking for help, sorry about that... I don't really have any connections when it comes to controllers. Glad I didn't accidentally discourage you
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by nicole_express 3y ago
For various reasons autism is often under-diagnosed in women, so I wouldn't be surprised that if this effect holds up it's not actually gender-specific. That's a bunch of big "ifs" though.
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by nicole_express 3y ago
The Game Boy ran at 5V logic and the GBA 3.3V; my understanding is that there were some technical hurdles to supporting both on the GBA which Nintendo was happy to be rid of-- the Game Boy Micro, the last model in the Game Boy line, also on
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by nicole_express 3y ago
In the US it generally seems to end up being natural gas; still a pretty big emissions improvement but not zero carbon by any means.
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by nicole_express 3y ago
I believe the Atari 8-bit computers' CTIA/GTIA chips generate their video output through pins in much the same way as the TIA, with digital luminance and a color output, so it makes sense that S-Video (or I guess I should say &quo
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by nicole_express 3y ago
It seems like the key thing here is that Johnson & Johnson ditched the consumer brands, so it wants to ditch the consumer image. Everything else is just marketing puffery. I wonder which side of the split, Kenvue or J&J, maintains t
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by nicole_express 3y ago
Phenylephrine did its job of convincing people to accept restricting access to pseudoephedrine, since there was a substitute that could still be freely available. Now it'll be taken off the market, but pseudoephedrine that actually wor
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by nicole_express 3y ago
They were required to put in USB-C by regulations; makes sense that they wouldn't actually handle anything more than Lightning could, that's definitely what they'd be using if they were still allowed to. Honestly the surprisi
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by nicole_express 3y ago
The big change I'd like to see in the MacBook Air line is the return of the 11" option; I realize that's too small for a lot of people but for me it was the perfect carry-everywhere form factor for a laptop. (Of course, I als
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by nicole_express 3y ago
So, uh, is this bad? I mean, it doesn't sound good on the face of it and we should probably try to avoid, but have microplastics been implicated as responsible for any specific environmental harms we know of yet?
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by nicole_express 3y ago
There's definitely a "suburban Boston accent" where you have most of the terminology and vowel inventory of a traditional Boston accent, but since it's rhotic the speaker thinks they don't have an accent.
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by nicole_express 3y ago
It seems like the primary purpose of the IARC Group 2B list is to identify targets for additional study; from that perspective, and thinking about how widely aspartame is used, it makes sense to want to remove as much doubt as possible. Rea
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by nicole_express 3y ago
I hope this questionable categorization doesn't result in aspartame being removed from sodas; I much prefer it to other artificial sweeteners. Can definitely tell when Diet Coke is formulated to include them.
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SG-1000 Smörgåsbord Cartridges and RGB(nicole.express)
2 points by nicole_express 3y ago|0 comments
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by nicole_express 3y ago
If you're interested in seeing a Turing machine in action, I really enjoyed this YouTube series where the creator builds a pure Turing machine that can simulate the Apple ][: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hP4BTWvrGw
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by nicole_express 3y ago
Have you heard of the FCD Railbus? An experiment by the New Haven Railroad in the 1950's to do just that... In the end, it was more cost-effective for the New Haven to just go bankrupt
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by nicole_express 4y ago
Only the TMS9928/9A can output component; all NTSC SG-1000 consoles use either the TMS9918A or the VDP mentioned here. It is still pretty much the same as the MSX1. Different sound chip, less RAM, and some ports are different I think.
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by nicole_express 4y ago
Unfortunately the site is broken over IPv6, which seems to cause some issues. Honestly since it's just a static site I should probably just blow away the server and restart it, but I'll do that at some point I'm not on the fr
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by nicole_express 4y ago
I'm sorry that wasn't more clear-- the automatic launcher is an analog knob, so it can be turned to any position and that determines the strength of the shot.
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by nicole_express 4y ago
It's pretty easy to get a breakout cable for chrominance and luminance separately into an S-Video port; at that point I just plugged in the Apple II's output into luminance and left chrominance unconnected. This works particularly
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by nicole_express 5y ago
I'd love to support this use case, but I don't know how? I mean, this is about as plain-text as a site can get without just being text, if there's some tweak I need to make to the site generator to make it work though I'
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by nicole_express 5y ago
I've seen a port of the unreleased SegaSonic Bros., so it's definitely possible. Possibly more work than the Atomiswave ports? Not sure, but the System C is "farther" from the Mega Drive than the Atomiswave is from the D
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by nicole_express 5y ago
Please let me know if you find the issue; I don’t think I’m running anything complex, it’s a wholly static site.
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Neo Geo Genesis 1 1/2: The Alpha 68K-V(nicole.express)
2 points by nicole_express 5y ago|0 comments

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