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691.
by wk_end 3y ago
IMO the 8-bit ones - while fun - are somewhat primitive and often a little too "NES hard". So I'd say start with Mega Man X - it's timeless; still one of the most perfect games ever made.
692.
by wk_end 3y ago
Given that the universe is unfathomably vast and almost all of it is extraordinarily hostile to - and so far as we know, entirely devoid of - life, I can't say I agree.
693.
by wk_end 3y ago
TBF you can’t exactly begrudge Nintendo for wanting to end up with SM64 instead of Croc.
694.
by wk_end 3y ago
It's not a "donation", because it's not NOMPY (Not On My PropertY); we're not talking about expropriation here. NIMBYs are opposed to other people/companies/the government doing what they want with thei
695.
by wk_end 3y ago
Any hope of getting more software onto these? I'd love to play around with some ancient versions of proto-XCode.
696.
by wk_end 3y ago
That's the exact opposite of what I'm saying.
697.
by wk_end 3y ago
It is entirely possible that for that particular sugar shack they had an unusually long and productive season with it still being an unusually short and unproductive season in general.
698.
by wk_end 3y ago
For someone as wealthy as he is ("Forbes lists Bechtolsheim's net worth at somewhere north of $16 billion"), a (less than) $1M fine seems more than gentle enough for "a lapse of judgement" and "not the most hei
699.
by wk_end 3y ago
2D fighters, as well. The port of SFA3 on Saturn trounces the PS1 release, for example.
700.
by wk_end 3y ago
Saturn emulation is very solid at this point. But yeah, for a long time it was quite poor.
701.
by wk_end 3y ago
It wasn't just the Saturn (though issues surrounding its release definitely didn't help) - Sega already looked kind of like bunglers after neither the Sega CD nor 32X really caught on.
702.
by wk_end 3y ago
Given how long it's been since EB was at the peak of its commercial and cultural import, it's hard not to worry that this isn't just another example of Vampire Capitalism looking for a way to enrich itself while sucking a onc
703.
by wk_end 3y ago
I assume you program in assembly language, then? Can’t trust those structured programming types to know best how to manage your instruction pointer after all. “Functions”, “loops”, “conditionals”, all just fancy words for straitjackets.
704.
by wk_end 3y ago
This is hard for me to imagine. Where in Paris were you? Which big western cities specifically do you feel like it resembled?
705.
by wk_end 3y ago
I guarantee the industrial-food-complex is paying scientists to identify potential benefits of ultra-processed food.
706.
by wk_end 3y ago
Israel wasn't founded by Britain. The UN is effectively what created Israel. Britain acquired the region ("Mandatory Palestine") after WWI as a temporary measure to govern it until it was self-sustaining; that never happened,
707.
by wk_end 3y ago
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake isn't particularly significant - especially not in a nation as seismically prepared as Japan.
708.
by wk_end 3y ago
The printing press and TV did ruin the societies that preceded them. The new societies they produced were better (in the case of the printing press) or arguably better (in the case of TV) - by some subjective metric of goodness. But there
709.
by wk_end 3y ago
Knowing nothing about Swift or SwiftUI, is there a reason the children of the VStack couldn’t be a list/array?
710.
by wk_end 3y ago
> On the nes, snes and sega machines the same platform engine was reused in 1000s of games. No, this isn't true. Almost all games were bespoke back in that era - the machines simply weren't powerful enough to allow for competit
711.
by wk_end 3y ago
I'm pretty sure Normality ran on the in-house Gremlin Interactive engine that powered the excellent Realms of the Haunting.
712.
by wk_end 3y ago
To be honest, in the appropriate context I will contradict myself and say that that you should think of TypeScript as a separate language. There's a lot of dynamic things you can do in JavaScript that will interact poorly with attemp
713.
by wk_end 3y ago
No, CoffeeScript doesn't have the same semantics as vanilla JavaScript; not in any meaningful sense I can think of, certainly not in the way that TypeScript does. Most CoffeeScript will simply syntax error if you feed it into a JS inte
714.
by wk_end 3y ago
TypeScript isn't really a "compile-to-JavaScript" language in the same way that, say, Rescript is. Modulo a few corner cases (e.g. enums) which are now considered anti-features, TypeScript has the exact same runtime semantics
715.
by wk_end 3y ago
There's BigInt [0]. Probably less useful for this specific case, but possibly useful as well, are typed integer arrays [1]. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... [1] h
716.
by wk_end 3y ago
In A Silent Way for me. What a brilliant musician.
717.
by wk_end 3y ago
The universe of good - or even seemingly good - ideas may or may not be infinite, but it probably thins out as you get further away from the centre. It's unsurprising that the field would coalesce around certain demonstrably great idea
718.
by wk_end 3y ago
“Unfortunately”. As someone knee-deep in the process of learning the J in CJK, I have a perverse fondness for the 漢字, but that largely must be Stockholm syndrome.
719.
by wk_end 3y ago
I think it’s more that the React team’s way of articulating their idea of what a “side effect” is changed than that their idea of what useEffect is for changed. The examples of “side effects” in the old docs are all cases of “external synch
720.
by wk_end 3y ago
The 68000 has it too (DBRA).

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