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You’d also get CEO optimization, getting them to talk about <buzzword> and how the entire company is now a <buzzword>-first business.

Like cigarettes, simply ban the advertising.

>They believed their thoughts and bodily sensations were controlled by a machine that defied their technical comprehension and secretly influenced them from a distance, often claiming that it was operated by a group of people who were persecuting them.

That also describes data centers ;)

In a fit of 90s nostalgia I’ve also been going back to software rendering, though I’m doing a hybrid of 2D style CLUT banks with a more modern binned triangle and barycentric technique. Since I’m sticking to a fixed pipeline look, I’ve been amazed at just how many triangles one can push even with a fairly naive draw function.

Ditto the ST equivalent STOS. Amiga owning friends preferred Blitz BASIC though. Unfortunately, due to one Dijkstra quote about it, people tend to be quite snobbish about BASIC.

Blue needs to be paler, and the dot smaller ;-)

A subgroup of MAGMA, for owners of secret volcano lairs.

“Designed in California, for Californians” was too long.

Interesting. I was on PlayStation so I only heard about N64 dev at lunch. Factor5 were much closer to Nintendo than we were, and also known to be a bit good. Plus SDKs change over time. Take PS1 for example. We didn’t get GTE register details and inline functions initially, just libraries, and the more open it became the more we wrote in assembly.

They’re called off ramps for a reason right?

Yes, 2nd party privileges.

Probably more accurate to say the custom microcode tools were not given to third party developers. From what I remember, you had to list the microcode used on your submission form, and Nintendo checked for it in your ROM. Did some third parties make custom microcode? Highly probable, but I do not know how many were able to ship with it.

Why do they do it? To make money. How do they make money? Advertising. Designate them broadcasters and hold them to the same advertising standards.

Which, despite the VCR-like appearance, meant no faux wood detailing ;-)

I wish they’d bring back the original PlayStation logo though, not just on anniversary editions.

Their presumed lack of regression testing.

For big games, it’s a legal thing. Ever since the Hot Coffee debacle, we are not allowed to hide content, all of which has to be approved by legal.

I have been in the situation of standing outside an after-hours pick-up only window at a McDonald’s in the UK, able to talk to the staff, but unable to order because they only accepted app orders and I only had access to the Canadian app.

Or pasta as a cereal, in a bowl with milk.

In space, no-one can ... serve you warrants.

How long before a phrase is found that causes a predicted birthdate of 1970/01/01 ?

I'd imagine that at most [e: of their] stores the loss from theft is less than that of spoiled goods.

Can PowerToys remap it?

Sometimes it does seem like they’re just showing off how much data they’ve gathered on you.

It was a smash & grab.

Wikipedia doesn't list any honours awarded by the French Government. Nor do I see anything from ACM. Definitely overdue some official recognition.

Then your social media & newsfeeds are buzzing about salted coffee, and your work has mandated salt in the coffee, insisting that it increases productivity, and if you’re not partaking you might fail your next performance review.

100 fuses for $1, awesome! ;-)

For me MIPS is the best ISA for “stream of consciousness” assembly, you can just write it then tidy up the register usage and pipelining after.

That would be the PS2’s VUs which had an upper and lower pipe and it was easier to write instructions for each in separate columns. Then in one SDK we received program called vcl which took a single list of instructions, doing all the pipelining for you, as well as optimizing loops and assigning registers automatically. It was a godsend.