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Sony's First Computer – The SMC-70 from 1982 [video](youtube.com)
72 points by ksymph 4d ago|28 comments
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by ksymph 6d ago
This is a really cool collection! I feel like it needs a manual once-over though, particularly in regard to the images. Having even a handful obviously wrong images makes the rest of the site feel less trustworthy.
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by ksymph 6d ago
I'm surprised it's so few! I'm in the 60-70% here -- I've never gotten it (despite many deliberate efforts), but I've never known anyone else who seems to be immune.
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by ksymph 8d ago
Their point was more that, if every 'weekly download count after a new release' (or whatever record) is consistently being broken on each new release due to generally increasing popularity, then it doesn't make sense to imply
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by ksymph 15d ago
So if I understand correctly: ERSC is working on an alternative backend for jj other than git (and presumably providing related infrastructure)?
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by ksymph 19d ago
I believe the parent comment was wishing for a separate site for non-tech topics because they want to see more, not less.
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by ksymph 20d ago
> Is high-level behavior the only criteria for diagnosis? Yes, it is: https://www.autismspeaks.org/autism-diagnostic-criteria-dsm-... Though, to be more specific, it's even moreso about high-level behavior that has
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by ksymph 20d ago
They're similar, but subtly different. Say Bob pays a $5 subscription and listens exclusively to artist Foo, 100 song plays. Alice pays a $5 subscription and listens exclusively to artist Baz, but plays their songs a whopping 300 times
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by ksymph 27d ago
Persistence hunting likely wasn't a major driver of those evolutionary changes. The hypothesis is really only supported by the fact that we have adaptations that make it theoretically possible, but the times and places those adaptation
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BookHive – Open-source alternative to Goodreads on ATProto(bookhive.buzz)
3 points by ksymph 28d ago|0 comments
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by ksymph 1mo ago
To be clear, they began a recruitment ad campaign targeting gamers, and ended up meeting their hiring goal of 2,000+. It's not like they pulled 2,000 gamers off the street and stuck them in ATC towers. Better link (.gov): https:/
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by ksymph 1mo ago
This is kind of beside the point but... Shouldn't the the evolutionary metaphor be the opposite of how the author's using it? They go on about how we've settled in the trough, but the whole local optimum problem is about sett
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by ksymph 2mo ago
It seems we're largely on the same page. I would point out though, sometimes those seemingly minor tweaks can be pretty important; they're not always at the level of typos in a book. One that affected me personally was in Pokemon
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by ksymph 2mo ago
> The question isn't whether a game has updates available, it's whether the un-updated version feels like a complete experience vs a compromised one. Exactly -- a game released a week ago is unlikely to have updates that could
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by ksymph 2mo ago
There's a spreadsheet [0] tracking Switch games where you can see which ones have 'complete' versions on carts. It's roughly 1/4 for both first party and third party titles, though first party games are more likely
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by ksymph 2mo ago
I've looked into it, and there doesn't seem to be any existing solution. You can transfer updates from one Switch to another, though, so if you have two Switches that opens up some options.
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by ksymph 2mo ago
Not a great article, but a very real phenomenon. I recently picked up a banned Nintendo Switch Lite for cheap -- meaning it can't download games or updates off Nintendo's servers, but it can still play cartridge games. And while m
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Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig(moonstone.sh)
68 points by ksymph 2mo ago|24 comments
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by ksymph 2mo ago
The difference here is that new emojis replace older designs. If designing a new font meant Times New Roman could no longer be used, that would be a problem.
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by ksymph 2mo ago
This is the sort of thing that should / will be decided by courts, I think. We have many fuzzy laws where evaluating on a case-by-case basis makes more sense than deciding an arbitrary hard line. In this case, apps and platforms as a
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by ksymph 2mo ago
Main article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_Count...
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by ksymph 2mo ago
~2.5g of psilocybe cubensis is considered a standard dose; according to this [0] study, ~10mg/g is a pretty typical psilocybin concentration in mushrooms, so 25mg of pure psilocybin sounds about right. [0] https://pmc.ncbi.n
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by ksymph 2mo ago
Since the map just has two states - land or water - I wonder if there's a way to represent the same information more efficiently bits rather than bytes.
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by ksymph 2mo ago
A beautiful animated short about the Night Witches (artistic, not educational): https://vimeo.com/224657277
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by ksymph 3mo ago
Nit: movies with sound were around as early as the 1800s; 1927 is just considered the turning point when they became commercially viable and widely available (with the release of The Jazz Singer).
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by ksymph 3mo ago
That's just not true. Off the top of my head: SMBX, Pokemon Uranium, Ocarina of Time 2D, AM2R. A few years back they mass DMCA'd hundreds of fan games on the site GameJolt, none of which were monetized. (why some fan projects like
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by ksymph 3mo ago
The article is pretty light on details. Essentially, the tree is first pruned to create a wide and sturdy base; once that's stable, subsequent shoots from the branches are pruned to grow vertically. The technique relies on this particu
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by ksymph 3mo ago
The Nintendo 3DS has two cameras on the back, so you can turn its 3D photos into wigglegrams. I made a web app that does this automatically, it has a few demos where you can mess with offset or timing: https://wiggle3ds.moonlemon
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by ksymph 3mo ago
Wow, this completely crashes Firefox for me. Don't think I've ever seen that before. Super cool though! Works fine on Chromium. I liked Pass the Ball, and it was really fun contorting to avoid the red balls in Ball Dash -- if you&
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by ksymph 3mo ago
This is a longshot, but -- I have a lychee tree that's fruiting right now, with more fruits than I know what to do with, and I'm about to go on a road trip from Florida to the midwest in a week or so. I could drop off a bucket alo

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