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by wk_end 3y ago
Yeah, the Master System was huge in Brazil. Sega was willing to license the design out to Tec Toy to manufacture locally, which got them around the massive import tariffs that made other systems unaffordable. It was also very popular in Eur
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by wk_end 3y ago
Sega was known as a games company then, too. They've always been a games company - the name Se-Ga stands for SErvice GAmes, because their original business was importing games for American servicemen stationed abroad to play in their l
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by wk_end 3y ago
Genesis (MD), Sega (Mega) CD, Saturn, Dreamcast. The Master System was kind of a bust in North America so I don't carry very much nostalgia for it. I love each of these consoles in their own way, by some combination of their own merits
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by wk_end 3y ago
As a Sega nerd and a Prolog nerd, this is insanely cool to me. Even if it seems like the Prolog relationship might be some kind of marketing gimmick - it's not clear to me to what extent the games really are written in Prolog.
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by wk_end 3y ago
Pie menus are often used in 3D modelling programs (Maya, I think Blender and SolidWorks). The situation seems to be: "I'm a professional in a kind of flow state, I frequently need extremely quick access to a fairly small subset of
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by wk_end 3y ago
This isn't an accurate accounting of history. Zionists were living in the area long before British Mandatory Palestine or the Balfour Declaration - they bought land and legitimately immigrated there while it was under control of the Ot
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by wk_end 3y ago
Would a 68k on a modern node running at a fraction of its potential max speed burn through very much power? Apple managed to get multiple hours of battery life out of 68k chips on classic MacOS PowerBooks...
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by wk_end 3y ago
Can you elaborate? As an outsider, most of the time I hear people say some variation on "Clojure would be great but I stay away because of Java".
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by wk_end 3y ago
I think you're getting some causality twisted - websites started getting more brittle (if they did?) when they started getting more complex, and they started getting more complex precisely because better dev tooling enabled it.
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by wk_end 3y ago
Biggest reason is that there weren't any decent competitors around as Unity built momentum. At the time it was Unity, a (difficult-to-work-with, difficult-to-gain-access-to, expensive) proprietary engine, or something vastly less featu
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by wk_end 3y ago
Based on the age of your account, you're new here, so...for better or worse, things that aren't "News" regularly are popular on Hacker News. Even if it's not new, it's can still be new to one of the lucky 10,00
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by wk_end 3y ago
You can argue that Emacs is a "Lisp machine", in that it's an environment you could conceivably think of as a kind of virtual "machine" in which you can run a particular Lisp (although arguably Elisp isn't what
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by wk_end 3y ago
Both the Java and .NET ecosystems are monumental (in every sense of the word) engineering accomplishments, but they don't strike me as very similar to the ultra-dynamic, introspective Lisp Machine experience. Can you elaborate on that
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by wk_end 3y ago
I'm used to that headline format when the achiever is super-young or super-old. Is the codebreaker's age really that noteworthy here?
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The Source Code of Defect Process(lambdabytes.io)
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by wk_end 3y ago
The article explains this: > For computation, radix R = 3 would be more economical than R = 2 because the “optimal” radix would be R = e = 2.718, according to a demonstration presented in [1]. Where [1] is "S.L. Hurst, “Multiple-Val
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by wk_end 3y ago
> This is what is already happening with people using sandboxed-runtime containers (like Flatpak) and webapp wrappers (like Electron). Desktop UX is becoming a hodgepodge of siloed runtimes and inconsistent interface paradigms. Flatpak a
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by wk_end 3y ago
> I'm a bit surprised Typescript never added them TypeScript's pretty insistent on not adding features to the language that can't be "compiled" just by stripping types away. There was a little bit of slack around
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by wk_end 3y ago
Pretty sure MTA (NYC subway) ticket machines were running OS/2 into the mid 2010s and maybe still are.
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by wk_end 3y ago
This is great, thanks for posting this. OP - are you interested in pull requests adding support for other languages?
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by wk_end 3y ago
`==` and `!=` are still quite handy when you don't want to deal with the distinction between `null` and `undefined`, which is almost always what you want.
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by wk_end 3y ago
OT: wasn't it less about the tax per se and more about "taxation without representation" (and also a culmination of a long list of non-taxation related grievances)?
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by wk_end 3y ago
Last night someone was streaming Steamboat Willie on Twitch, with captions in the sidebar winkingly gloating “This is completely legal! I am profiting off of Steamboat Willie without Disney’s permission!” I was amused. And then as I watched
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by wk_end 3y ago
No personal offense intended, but Netscape was crushed by its own technological problems and missing business model as much as anything else. By the time IE4 was out, it was unquestionably the better browser - the Communicator suite was bug
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by wk_end 3y ago
It’s a shame, because records and tuples are enormously helpful when trying to optimize React, given how it uses reference equality on objects to bust memoization.
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by wk_end 3y ago
Technically I guess "too little too late" is a way to describe it, but the MSX was a pretty big success in its home country - and at least as big a success worldwide as the Amiga was - so you might alternatively describe it as &qu
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by wk_end 3y ago
Apple controls the JS sandbox in Safari, whereas they don’t control the ScummVM scripting sandbox. In theory it’d allow the execution of arbitrary scripts that can do anything native code can do, although I don’t know - maybe ScummVM checks
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by wk_end 3y ago
Yes, but those game engines are - on iOS especially - locked in to running bundled scripts that drive the specific game you’ve purchased from the App Store. ScummVM is running externally provided scripts.
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by wk_end 3y ago
It’s got interpreters that lets it execute arbitrary (?) code, which I thought was verboten. TBH I’m not sure how this got through Apple’s censors…?
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by wk_end 3y ago
Very often when I’m digging around GitHub Issues because of some bug or quirk or insanity in the JS ecosystem (which is often) I see someone spout the worst possible take - often being kind of a jerk about it - and when I look to see who’s

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