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That and if you need to hit the back of an auditorium without a mic.

another thing I like is stuff like "lambda" where you can run a function instead of a whole server application for every api request! Wait, I think I've seen this before.

    functionname.cgi?param1=val&param2=val

(replace "cgi" with your favourite php/pl/py/cfm/whatever)

Ah yeah the boston 'r' will do the same thing - appearing as needed to separate two vowels.

There very much is a 't' sound in 'often,' but it depends on how you talk (whether or not there was before, language changes). If you're saying native speakers are saying it wrong, then I don't know what to tell you.

The waiting tends to only be about 5 minutes in my experience (10 on the really uncommonly used lines, and only if you just managed to miss one). I've been in worse traffic jams.

That and the scheduling is so unbelievably strict that if I leave at the same time every day, I can make the transfers in my sleep.

itch.io is kindof nuts - IIRC the creator is also responsible for lapis and moonscript, basically building a whole lua-based stack just for itch.

I was a paying flickr pro customer for years but when they basically tripled the price on me for zero extra service I could no longer afford it.

Which sucks, because it was one of the few photo places that actually respected the users a little bit. Now I just don't/can't share photos.

All of this depends on the good graces of the company that wrote the software, and I don't see how they can be trusted over good ol' physically removing a card and putting a different one in. Especially when they have a track record of being abusive to customers.

I can't understand why anyone would want this. Being able to physically swap sims so I don't ever have to deal with carrier customer service is a /good/ thing, especially when it's in the carrier's interest to make this as difficult as possible.

I'm pretty sure that's itch.io, which looks like a game site but it was originally (and still is) just a way for you to sell zip files.

how is recreation not part of culture?

If TeraTerm would add sixel I'd be really happy since it does almost everything else I need perfectly.

For me, it's that it's almost guaranteed a C++ compiler is available for the platform I'm targeting. This could be for various reasons, but it's usually either:

1. The chip isn't supported by LLVM (which most new languages use)

2. The platform owner /requires/ the use of their C++ only SDK and will not approve any other compilers for use on their app store, so C++ becomes the "machine language" of that platform.

My kingdom for a windows terminal emulator that supports both [xyz]modem and sixel and can connect to a physical serial port.

2. those that start out as 0, but become 1 when it turns out their software they hoped would be useful winds up /costing them/ in some ill-defined way.

Man I really wish people would stop writing javascript to load in images only as a scroll to them. It makes web browsing so much slower.

Holy shit that's a really big clover

We had a lot of SCSI devices in my house, and I think maybe like, 2 devices had the same connector. Even ZIP and JAZ, both by iomega, couldn't agree. The Atari ST in my place also has an ACSI connector, which is my guess, SCSI but yet more different somehow.

At that point I didn't even want plug'n'play or hotplug because getting something set up once was enough for you to never desire to change it.

Maybe, but 3DMF is a 90s QuickTime/QuickDraw3d file format from Apple. Since this is /also/ a model format, you wouldn't want that.

'they' is generally always appropriate to use especially when it's a person you don't know personally. Heck, we use it for companies which are grammatically singular (in american english)

You are mistaken that they have a choice.

I think nintendo consoles, by virtue of being the most popular of the era, and therefore the most nostalgia, have probably the best debugging/tools of the lot. Personally I'm not a fan of the 6502 as a general-purpose CPU, but it's just fine for single-tasking games and global variables (there's almost no stack space).

I'm starting out on z80 since I have an MSX and I hope to move to Sega Megadrive/Genesis later since I hear nothing but good things about the motorola 68k. The z80 seems pretty easy to understand (though it's not always consistent).

It's worth checking the limitations of the video and sound hardware to see what you like as well. I'm partial to FM synthesis so Sega consoles make sense to me. 8-bit stuff is going to land you with really tough colour restrictions (often about 3 per 8x8 square, tops). You may want to start with the "16-bit" era, which generally used 4-bit colours (16 for the whole screen, easier to create assets for).

There is that most desktop UI frameworks don't appear to be built with programmatic creation in mind. Most webdev I've done involved a text editor to make my UI, while native (debatable, it's been Qt, Java Swing, WinForms, and waaay back when HyperCard) almost always involved a UI designer that would make hooks I could write plumbing code for. I definitely prefer desktop dev with a UI designer over webdev any day, but the webdev API (if I have to use an API to create my UI) is generally better.

I'd never write desktop UI toolkit code by hand. I tried with Java Swing and it sucked, and the one time I was forced to use Qt Quick via code it was just JSON/JS anyway.

Signal has demonstrated to me that they don't give a shit about privacy, but they care a lot about security. I'll take it, but I wouldn't confuse the two.

Intro to assembly using an arduino? :P

My strategy has been to get into 80s game consoles where assembly programming was expected but the platform is small and standard enough that I can use emulators with memory views/debuggers & see everything going on.

heck at the end I might even have a game!

As far as the gameduino goes, I believe there was one iteration (perhaps the first) based on the FTDI FT800 chip. the FT810 series can do up to 800x600, but they output as parallel digital data so you gotta feed the R,G,B bytes into a resistor ladder dac or something. I finally got one but I haven't managed to make it work yet.

The other Gameduinos were FPGA based.

I mean that's a weird way to describe Tokyo but it does work. Your last point still stands though & I'm not sure where the tipping point is.

Sure, but I'm the one writing software for this computer and I do /not/ trust myself to be efficient.

Of course I haven't tried banking in anything over 48KB yet so I don't even know if my circuit works, but it boots!

Welp, excited to not be able to buy one of these.

One thing that's been interesting is that despite the 2x markup of anything pi related where I live, the pi pico was available almost immediately at about $6. I guess I'll be going a bit lower level then.

Shoving 128kb into my 6502 build right now like "that oughta do it"