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by wk_end 5mo ago
Scheme doesn't have Rust semantics, though?
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by wk_end 5mo ago
These sorts of things - sprites and scrolling tilemaps - were pretty standard for consoles of the time. C.f. the NES, Master System, Game Boy... OTOH if you're European, my impression is that micros were more popular in the 80s and ear
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by wk_end 5mo ago
The PC Engine could theoretically do more colours on screen (though things like colour math and mid-screen palette changes do complicate that a bit...), but only had 9-bit wide palette entries compared to the SFC's 15-bit colour depth,
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by wk_end 5mo ago
Remember that the PC Engine came out in 1987, over three years before the SFC did. That makes Nintendo's CPU decisions even more questionable, but also explains the huge gap in graphics hardware - not just more background layers, but a
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by wk_end 5mo ago
Some SNES games offloaded varying degrees of computation to on-cart chips, but I don't believe any NES games did. There was a Hellraiser game in development for the NES that was supposed to ship as a Z80-powered "super cartridge&q
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by wk_end 5mo ago
I don't think even modern-day Microsoft is anywhere near as bureaucratic as IBM, but yeah - it seems almost inevitable that as a software company grows it'll lose an "undisciplined hacker" culture and become stuffier, fo
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by wk_end 5mo ago
You should probably caveat any post you make about security concerns with that, so people can more easily judge whether your concerns line up with their threat model.
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by wk_end 5mo ago
The point of parse-don't-validate is that the type checker prevents you from having a value of a particular type that's invalid. Pointer-or-NULL doesn't work, because all pointers are nullable in C; you can always have a Foo*
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by wk_end 5mo ago
Ur/Web! That's something I haven't heard about in ages. Is it still in active development? In what circumstances are you using it? Fun, your own startup, is some secret big commercial user of it...?
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by wk_end 5mo ago
In this very thread, two posts up, the direct parent of the comment you're replying to, I gave you a link to a visualization of the climate record and asked you to look at it, and pointed out that the sudden and unprecedented rapid rat
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by wk_end 5mo ago
> To clarify: I agree 100% that the climate is changing. It always have [sic]. Did anything I said imply that I didn't recognize that? There's no need for you to clarify, I was very clear myself that I was responding to your la
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by wk_end 5mo ago
While the climate has always changed and there's nothing abnormal about that, it has never, ever changed anywhere near so radically in such a short period of time; the rate is what's abnormal. XKCD has a fantastic visualization of
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by wk_end 5mo ago
It very much reads like you feel like you need to offer those particular points here to try to diminish concerns about global warming informed by the 1200 year Kyoto cherry blossom record. Is that not the case?
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by wk_end 6mo ago
Idris feels mostly dead to me at this point. Which breaks my heart, because for a split second it had real momentum around it. Not OP, but as Haskell-derived dependently-typed languages Idris and Agda are quite similar, so I suspect if they
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by wk_end 6mo ago
Cursor's like Claude Code in this regard by default when executing external commands. But IIRC you can also click something like "Always Allow" and it'll stop asking.
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by wk_end 6mo ago
FWIW I grew up with the North American design and I still find the JP/PAL design nicer.
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by wk_end 6mo ago
Is there a reason they don't go with Ubuntu or something like that instead?
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by wk_end 6mo ago
Who said anything about "serious"? (FWIW: I suspect there are more than a few old industrial control systems and such out there that are still running DOS, just because of an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" a
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by wk_end 6mo ago
I’m sorry how many Hz ???
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by wk_end 6mo ago
> 25K parameters is about 70 million times smaller than GPT-4. It will produce broken sentences. That's the point - the architecture works at this scale. Since it seems to just produce broken and nonsensical sentences (at least base
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by wk_end 6mo ago
Worse is Better rears its head again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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by wk_end 6mo ago
That is...also a misrepresentation of what Carney was saying. He was referencing the words of a writer from Czechia, a country where communism discredited itself, who discussed how people pretended not to notice the gap between the governme
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by wk_end 6mo ago
FWIW, I'm a Canadian and I do appreciate it. There's a lot of raw feelings up here, but I know there's only so much any individual can do.
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by wk_end 6mo ago
This seems like such a strange comment to make on an article about the leader of Canada advocating for exactly the sort of national reflection you’re talking about and explicitly calling for an end to that status quo you’re worried we’ll tr
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by wk_end 6mo ago
> Carney's Davos speech (Jan 2026) evoked "workers of the world unite" No it didn't. He gave it as an example of something people behind the Iron Curtain didn’t believe but parroted "to avoid trouble, to signal c
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by wk_end 6mo ago
Bush II was awful in all sorts of ways; it's not crazy to say that as chaotic as Trump's first presidency was, it was nowhere near as destructive as Bush's terms. I in no way want to white-wash Bush, which I feel like some pe
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by wk_end 6mo ago
I think racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, etc. who do that sort of thing aren’t doing it to convince anyone - it’s partially for shock value, partially to help normalize their attitudes and make other bigots feel more comfortable e
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by wk_end 6mo ago
I think part of it was that to hardware companies the bus width is actually extremely important - the whole system is built around it, and the programming model the software guys work with less so. And then the other part of it is the marke
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by wk_end 6mo ago
Not at all! Use of the Copper to punch up visuals was de rigeur on the Amiga - Amiga games are immediately recognizable by their Copper-fueled sky gradients for instance. I actually think that if there's any really good explanation f
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by wk_end 6mo ago
This is a classic dispute when it comes to the 68000. I'm inclined to agree with your perspective, actually, but my impression is that it's highly contested. Commodore and Atari marketed their 68K machines as 16/32-bit, which

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