photonerd

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by photonerd 3y ago
You appear to be highly confused. None of what you said is accurate
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by photonerd 3y ago
Ehhhh… while there’s no particular decimal cut off, “closer to 1” is always going to be a higher minor version. It’s not incorrect as such
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by photonerd 3y ago
Yeah, they’re originally laserdiscs so a bit of a special case, but same basic idea. However it famously doesn’t support Dragons Lair! Not properly (it can play the video but that’s about it). Tho work has been ongoing. Daphne is the only e
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by photonerd 3y ago
Basically hdd arcade games are PCs or similar (occasionally customized console hardware) with HDDs attached. Pretty much anything made post 2002 is that. It started a few years earlier tho. Before that: custom roms (or at least some custo
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by photonerd 3y ago
It’s 2.5tb for the software archive alone. But for games 1tb is roughly correct. Assuming no deduplication
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by photonerd 3y ago
Their idea is that v1 is when all machines they support are perfectly emulated. So… it’s asymptoticly approaching v1 you could say. Of course they keep adding more machines… so…
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by photonerd 3y ago
It’s usually got the “best” everything emulator. As long as by best you mean most accurate. It may not be the fastest (usually never is) and may not be the most compatible (because it may not be complete vs hacks in other emulators) but wha
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by photonerd 3y ago
That’s par for the course for the Long Now. It’s basically a bunch of rich folks circle jerking themselves as a hobby. Don’t get me wrong: love the goal. Practically tho it’s basically just nerd hobby projects
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by photonerd 3y ago
They did. The long now used it about a decade ago.
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by photonerd 3y ago
We’re not ignoring them. We’re patiently waiting for them to be proven to exist & have a demonstrable mechanism of action. Believe me, I’d be the first to suggest they be considered if we had that. We don’t. It would be great if we did.
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by photonerd 3y ago
> limiting yourself to neurological phenomena I’m fine with including other phenomena. As I said in my original comment though: those phenomena need to be demonstrated to exist , first. Until then it’s absolutely unscientific, and medic
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by photonerd 3y ago
Congratulations, you’ve discovered a very very old thought experiment & demonstrated that proponents of qualia are no further on than they were decades ago in providing anything even approaching proof of their conjecture. The “substan
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by photonerd 3y ago
> "hey, it's the feeling that they feel that's making them better" That’s called “the placebo effect” and it’s one of the most studied & controlled for factors in ANY medical testing.
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by photonerd 3y ago
One day this tech will be available to regular people. The LongNow used it for some random codex & then seems to have dropped it. Last I saw it was mostly used by one single jeweler, bizarrely.
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by photonerd 3y ago
If qualia are not different that our “neurological machinery” (and all available evidence shows this so far, not least the incoherence of definitions of qualia that try to exclude such) then medicine is already considering such as a major
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by photonerd 3y ago
Some systems & software treats rendering of spaces/whitespace as a special case. Can lead to messed up rendering. IRC clients in particular were notorious for collapsing spaces That said, I found it wasn’t super common until it was
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by photonerd 3y ago
So apple wins on overall experience then? Because it’s impossible to separate the experience of a physical device from its hardware OR a device from its network of services & products. All you’re really saying here is you can make and
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by photonerd 3y ago
Yet swipe interactions themselves were first implemented—generally speaking that is—in the iOS UI.
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by photonerd 3y ago
Not true at all. Examples: If you value extensive user customization of the UI? Android is the only real choice. If you value privacy & security at all then an iPhone is the only real choice. You can do this with many more things. The
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by photonerd 3y ago
That’s needlessly reductive. It’s also wrong. While Android absolutely started that way it’s definitely doing its own thing now. The problem is that Apple has never really cared about being first with something. That’s a plus, and they’d lo
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by photonerd 3y ago
They really should have it use a pass phrase. Much easier to remember
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by photonerd 3y ago
You have to give them permission. No different to any RDP session
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by photonerd 3y ago
Europe != EU. A few European countries NOT in the EU: - Albania. - Azerbaijan. - Georgia. - Liechtenstein. - Montenegro. - Serbia. - Turkey. … and many many more.
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by photonerd 3y ago
That’s not true in this case. It would still be 1200 dpi but the approximation of one curve is off by 1 dpi in some dimension. If all the lines were off, then yes, kinda. Ish.
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by photonerd 3y ago
I stand corrected! Polynomial..ly
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by photonerd 3y ago
I get the sense you’re proud of this story, and do not realize how negatively it paints you
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by photonerd 3y ago
Torries gonna Tory.
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by photonerd 3y ago
Observable is pushing it. Technically observable, sure, but ~1dpi misplaced is… unlikely to be noticeable. Plus, if that level of accuracy is required simply adding more nodes improves accuracy exponentially. Not least, the “standard” appro
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by photonerd 3y ago
It’s also worth noting that it wasn’t exactly uncommon to have messages like that on exit. Apogee games did it a lot I seem to remember. Lots of DOS/4GW stuff too. So the memory is… primed, so to speak.
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by photonerd 3y ago
That’s just basic capitalism

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