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ceph_··on Pixel Art: Common Mistakes (2020)
It doesn't. I was using it as an example of it being done right, without actually following the limitations of the NES. But you can see from the article linked by one of the other replies the dev team put in a lot of effort to make it as close to authentic as possible.
ceph_··on Pixel Art: Common Mistakes (2020)
For the same reason people like the hiss and pops of a record, film grain, or even VHS tracking artifacts. Yesterday's technical limitations become today's aesthetic.

But the real answer is they aren't inherently bad. People don't actually need it to conform to the past limitations. More that they want it to feel authentic to the nostalgic memory they have in their head.

For example, games like Shovel Knight go for an 8bit style, but they're not limited to an 8 bit color space, NES sprite limitations, etc.

ceph_··on California expects a record $97.5B budget surplus
Better yet, the cattle ranchers.
ceph_··on Deploying Kubernetes clusters in increasingly absurd languages
I understand where they were coming from, having to look at a pink/rainbow bm ui while debugging a page didn't make it any easier. But it was also one of the greatest April fools jokes of all time.

RIP My Little Borgmaster: Production is Magic

ceph_··on SF Conservancy now accepting copyright assignment for any GPL software
Non-profits can absolutely sell assets to for-profit institutions. See: Every non-profit that sells things.

Or for a nefarious but legal example, see the attempted selling off the rights to the .org TLD rights by ICANN. https://thenextweb.com/news/hurray-the-org-tld-wont-be-sold-...

ceph_··on Exit interviews are a trap
Using someone's name in a story is not doxxing. Just stop.
ceph_··on Ask HN: Google employees do you have a better version of Google internally?
Former employee. The internal search, Moma, is actually much worse. Although it was made much better when it was reworked a few years ago. Internal sites can't be ranked in the same way as external ones.

But the truly loved search service within Google is codesearch. And that's great

ceph_··on Ask HN: How do Google/Facebook/Twitter/Netflix/Spotify determine my location?
You can change what DNS resolver you use. Google used to do their own geoip location database by measuring average latency of users on /24 of resolver addresses. (Not the anycast resolver address, the actual dns server you hit.)

There's also always google.com/ncr for no country redirect

ceph_··on US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
Under that same argument, those people should avoid goods transported by truck because trucks kill thousands of people per year and they would be complicit.

You're just trying to keep up the lie that it's about religion at all. There are plenty of people in this thread openly admitting it's not about that, and they just don't feel like they should have to get the vax.

ceph_··on LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage
They did at one point but not anymore. But either way any password filling is as secure as plaintext since it's pasted as plaintext, and you can just edit the DOM after it's filled.
ceph_··on Ubisoft’s first NFT plans make no sense
The full image isn't embedded. Only a link to the image.
ceph_··on Democrats Push for Agreement on Tax Deduction That Benefits the Rich
> families earning less than $400,000, they can take a complete [SALT] exemption, but not families earning more than that

A 5 year temporary exemption that excludes the top bracket sounds fine to me.

ceph_··on CNN goes first two weeks of October without any program reaching 1M viewers
If you think CNN is in the same league of bias as Fox News, you are in a deep state of denial. Let alone OAN!
ceph_··on We've spotted a planet surviving its dying star
They mention in the article that a handful of previously discovered planets orbiting white dwarfs are believed to have arrived after transition due to their orbits.
ceph_··on Tether Fined $41M for Lying About Reserves
> 442 million

Current market cap is up to 70 billion! 90% of which has been printed in the last 2 years, and wasn't even covered by the report. Looks like they're going on a last ditch printing spree

ceph_··on U.S. declares more than 20 species extinct after exhaustive searches
> Lots of these species have been long gone. But the landowner of that 1944 sighting probably couldn't turn over a rock on his property without fines and lawsuits coming at him, at least until now.

Citation? Oh I see further down the chain you just made this up.

ceph_··on YouTube's CEO says free speech is a 'core value' even after removing videos
I thought they pulled their engineering offices. And there were still sales/other employees there.
ceph_··on Japan breaks world record for fastest internet speed
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but DOCSIS over coax isn't full duplex. It's multiplexing send and receive over the same wire. Since download bandwidth is more important they provision their network design to maximize the amount of downstream bandwidth available. They also have an extreme level of oversubscription.
ceph_··on Toxoplasmosis: An important risk factor for acquiring SARS-CoV-2 infection
You make a strong argument for recreational cat use, but I can't say I'm fully convinced.
ceph_··on Uber and Lyft surge pricing drives SF customers back to taxis
You walked to a busy street and hailed one. I remember trying to phone in a cab from Nob Hill pre-lyft, they said one would be there in 45 min and we should be waiting outside because they will not call you.

Also when uber first implemented the uber-taxi option before uber-x, I tried it and would regularly have multiple cabs cancel en-route to me because they just picked up a closer fare.

ceph_··on Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work
> often fall into a depression (though not as deep as someone who has clinical depression or BPD, unless that's a separate symptom) after nearly every success.

Echoing this point. I struggled with depression for much of my life. Being diagnosed with ADHD at 25 and taking medication for it on a regular basis (5-6d/week) has done more for my depression than any depression medication I've tried.

ceph_··on Apple shut down my iCloud account for five days, no warning, no explanation
Not excusing apple's poor drive performance, but just to point out some of the differences.

Youtube has extensive global caching infra, both on the edge of Google's network and offnet within ISPs networks, to make sure videos are served from a location close to the user.

Also most of the videos people are gonna watch will be popular ones. I.e. they may already be filled in the cache. Compared to your icloud files which may only be accessed by you.

ceph_··on Covid deaths plunge after 75% of town's adults vaccinated
You really trying to say it isn't the vaccine. When vaccine availability is the only positive thing that changed?
ceph_··on Treasury Calls for Crypto Transfers over $10k to Be Reported to IRS
Apps like venmo and cashapp have a threshold of around $20k/year, where if you exceed it they are required to report your transactions to the IRS.
ceph_··on Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire
Under the harms section first bullet for things to end: "Programs, mentoring, and classes only for people with a certain gender or race"
ceph_··on Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire
That is nothing like the programs at Google. More like "increase outreach at historically black colleges".
ceph_··on Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire
His doc repeatedly said programs that are aimed at a helping women and people of color should be ended. And that diversity of gender and race should not be a goal. I don't think it's a big leap.
ceph_··on Cloudflare on the edge
8chan had all that gore and isis executions you object to. What's your disengenuous complaint again?
ceph_··on YouTube will start deducting US taxes from creators who don’t live in the US
You're suggesting that content creators should have to file taxes in every country they have viewers? That's absurd.
ceph_··on AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship
You believe there's a conspiracy against racists and promotion of racist ideas in science?
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