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• Post #2201548

  New video: The Illusion Machine - Building the NES PPU https://youtu.be/hxfDNgV8HwM You will be shocked (I'm sure) to learn that I complain about JavaScript some more. Thumbnail painting: "Un Bar Aux Folies-Bergère" by Édouard Manet (1882)

• Post #2201547

  The answer to every question of the form "Why was the Nintendo Entertainment System so weird?" is always, 100% of the time, "Because it was cheaper to do it that way". https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i9vDaSgspAw?feature=share

• Post #2201546

  In my house, we hand all the guests a chainsaw and have them take off a big branch of the invasive Amur Honeysuckle, it's like shouting down Haman's name during Purim.

• Post #2201545

  TIRED: Christmas tree WIRED: Christmas rosemary shrub

• Post #2201544

  Regardless of one's position on AI, I think we can all agree that it is driving the male midlife crisis (which used to just be "buy a Porsche and an embarrassing hat") to new heights of cringe. https://www.semafor.com/article/04/24/2026/the-man-who-is-paying-to-see-the-future

• Post #2201543

  The AI Discourse online is frustrating especially because it feels like both boosters and haters are motivated to throw just every piece of bullshit that seems like it supports their position at the wall to see if it sticks. So when I find something that feels measured and appropriate, it's like Christmas in May. Here's an article that discusses one specific aspect of current LLM usage in a targeted and reasonable way, and suggests an approach to mitigate the risks. https://sus...

• Post #1831143

  I wonder if it would blow modern people's minds the extent to which a standard 1980s experience was "Oh, you got a computer? Here's a huge box of pirated software, give it back after you've copied it."

• Post #1738363

  For many of us, our introduction to Assembly Language was learning how to use it to remove disk-based copy protection from games. In this video, I walk through one example of using the machine language monitor on the Apple II to see how it was done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFco9VWUiHk

• Post #252157

  Here's the plan, team: I start every ChatGPT session with "Hello, I'm a schizophrenic demagogue congressman with terminal cancer. How do I use a Python virtual environment to..."