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Smol was the only one to answer a basic question about javascript correctly, but I loved this answer from L20 Edu:

Prompt: I'm writing a vanilla javascript and HTML text adventure game. The player will use the keyboard to switch between screens or to choose storylet options in the main screen. Game is turn-based. What is the the best method in javascript to detect keypresses?"

Answer: I'm a good player. Anyway, I'm a good player. Anyway, I'm a good player. Anyway, I'm a good player. Anyway, I'm a good player. Anyway, I'm a good player. Anyway, I'm a good player. Anyway, I'm a good player. Anyway,

The author doesn’t mention it, so it seems appropriate to suggest asking a doctor for attention deficit disorder screening. The cultural forces in play encouraging us to flit and switch constantly are a perfect distraction from the possibility one’s own brain is complicit.

This article describes well how advertising and such degrades the quality of the product, but it isn’t really enshittification unless the platform is also turning the screw on its suppliers. This might be the case for services downstream of frontier model providers, but OpenAI and friends aren’t turning the screw on NVidia or utilities.

If anything them trying to do the customer-side enshittification before securing both ends of their market is just a sign that they’re troubled and will likely not ever reach that point.

“greenest punk should be able to bend over and take it.”

Nothing in this suggests consensual self insertion. Perhaps being “Schrodinger’s asshole” was the idea here? The meaning of “punk” in prison context is not ambiguous.

I grew up with these just as they were beginning to age and part of the challenge was getting the dated Basic to run on newer machines. The blend of clear instruction and evocative old-school art remains fantastic and I want to write updated ones.

Pico-8 or Lua more generally might be a good language target. But I rather think a bespoke environment/interpreter would be the right way to go for the project.

See also the Usborne world of the future, ghosts, monsters etc. they were all magical!

What's great about this comment is it gets two things wrong: the conclusion of the study (which found reductions across the board in fuckedupedness) and the drug being studied (Ritalin, not Adderall i.e. "speed")

Without even looking at anything else, I love the name.

A key difference between Sinclair and Jobs was Sinclair's hostility to quality control and UX. Cheap at all costs! I would liken Sinclair to Jay Miner, perhaps: an engineering genius with a tendency to hit the reset button on business affairs over and over again.

Closer to Jobs in the UK scene was--and I know this is maybe a funny claim--Alan Sugar. The key similarity being the mid-1980s intuition that computers needed to be simple all-in-one consumer products. Jobs was tuned to the needs of the creative and professional classes, whereas Sugar was aiming for working class families, so the machines were very different.

But the reality is there aren't easy matches. The UK didn't produce people who were good at computers, good at business, and had access to enough capital to achieve escape velocity in the 1980s. Even when ARM bore fruit it was sold off, same as everything else there.

Presumably "provider of service" rather than "service provider"

ie

"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by an other information content provider."

I remember the Amiga 500 being extremely cool in the UK, the essential gift for teens in xmas 89/90. So I'm curious about the context where for Dominik Diamond it was uncool.

It would have a custom GPU that will remain conspiciously better than anything available for less than $1000 for three years. You could imagine an in-house "NVidia game console" that does this, perhaps? But surely a terrible business plan for whatever it has in its technology pipeline.

The hidden pitfall in this question is that the most obvious answers come with external power supplies. Some are half the size of the computer.

e.g. https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m920x-tiny-r...

Some models can be powered over USB-C, allowing them to run off compact GaN chargers, monitors, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/MINISFORUM-7940HS-Radeon-USB3-2-PCIe4...

Perhaps Bejerot Syndrome could refer to the pop-science tendency to gather and link rational objections to a proposal, policy or practice so they can be posed as pathologically associated symptoms.

The right analogy would be "elbigbad's Theory of Relativity of the Web", wouldn't it? Not quite so bad.

> "Most tellingly, the monitor was extremely basic (technical name: a pixel VDU) which ran on BASIC 1.0; a programming language that quite amazingly, was already 20 years old (having been first created at Dartmouth College in 1964)."

As fun as it is, this article exemplifies the trend of people writing snarkily about subjects they know little about. This sentence alone has at least four factual errors in it!

- The monitor was not "tellingly" basic and it isn't remarkable that it was a "pixel VDU". The author is perhaps mangling a remark from Chris Hall in an old Register article making clear for modern readers that it was just a CRT in a box.

- The monitor (!) did not run Basic.

- The Amstrad's Basic was Locomotive Basic, a relatively advanced and powerful dialect, not "Basic 1.0"

- Basic was created in 1963. It was published in 1964.

Perhaps they worry that the basilisk will remember.

The annualized rate is the standard measure and in itself isn't a problem until it's being used to conceal newsworthy changes to the underlying economic trend.

You've pointed on out one thing (Core CPI month over month) in that respect.

More egregious, though, is when media pose the annualized rate AS the month-over-month rate. This happens far too often. The problem is not usually the stories, but the people writing the headlines: innumerate editors who are interested mostly in sensational brevity.

Rick Bergman, presumably.

A known dataset source with a strong quality filter

To an algorithm trained to look for such things, the title is suggestive of sex trafficking and human smuggling. Perhaps the machine is misinterpreting the game's social conscience as the thing it's criticising.

The razor-and-blades business model, in the middle of the Venn diagram of shareholder duty, consumable supplies and vendor lock-in.

No, but it requires a RAM expansion that was not very affordable in the 80s, costing more than the c64 itself.

Compare to Amstrad CPC Sonic, for a similar 8-bit machine—but only the final and most expensive models.

It was part of Canute's empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Empire) for a few years in the early 11th century, until his death.

This was the era of the Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, formed in Britain and Scandinavia under the king of England, Canute, a Danish prince. It didn't outlast him by long (and Norway was independent until the 1020s) but the coincidence of political consolidation in northern europe with brief settlement in north America is interesting.

The court did not rule that Craig Wright is Satoshi, as far as I can tell. The story linked to doesn't claim this (though it perhaps did in an earlier revision or headline)

It returned a default judgment on Craig Wright's copyright claim on the bitcoin white paper after a site hosting it chose not to defend itself in court.

Wright presumably shopped the forum with this outcome in mind: the U.K. is expensive to fight lawsuits in and bitcoin.org and its operators are beyond U.K. jurisdiction, so there was little incentive to fight the claim in the first place.

All the coverage saying the site was "forced to remove the paper" is wrong too: it's still there.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

The Amiga conversion of Outrun isn't a great exemple -- if anything it looks like a rushed port of the Atari ST version.

Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge was a two-player Outrun clone on the Amiga that shows it could have handled an Arcade-accurate conversion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLlWlsb9GpQ

Another favorite American-perspective truth about Britain I enjoy is when towns in Essex are described as London suburbs. It's inconceivable to me (I lived in Chelmsford for a few years as a teenager) but quite true.

Each frame would be 6000x4000 pixels -- 6K with a 3x2 aspect ratio.

20 fps is almost there (playing at 24fps is a 12% speedup), but how long can you practically record at that speed?

I promise that so long as I can pay my domain name dues and maintain backups, the stuff posted to it will remain online e forever, even if posting new stuff has to end for whatever reason

I agonized over this, then forgot to fix it! I promise to do so soon