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by nicole_express 20d ago
My hope is that this reduces the relevancy of Twitter; a lot of people who consider it a moral reason not use X.com proper end up still using Nitter/Xcancel to keep an eye on discussions, which has helped reduce the reason to leave the
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Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game(nicole.express)
60 points by nicole_express 1mo ago|12 comments
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by nicole_express 1mo ago
I think the point is exactly that just because someone is smart in one area doesn't mean they know anything about other areas, and yet we constantly assume that's true. We probably shouldn't be treating Nobel prize winners
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by nicole_express 2mo ago
I'm always surprised how many people who read my blog do so over RSS. It's probably one of my biggest traffic sources. (Definitely due to my niche topic and small reach, but still) I don't really use RSS myself anymore, thoug
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by nicole_express 2mo ago
Questionable acronym choice; immediately made me think of arbitrary code execution (which, you know, I would hope any processor would be capable of)
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by nicole_express 2mo ago
Nothing is actually rendered on the pre-render scanline, though?
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by nicole_express 3mo ago
Was not able to use the name of the blog post in the title, it's actually " How a Konami Cabinet Stays on Target: Target Panic!" but the "How" got stripped by HN
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A Konami Cabinet Stays on Target: Target Panic(nicole.express)
2 points by nicole_express 3mo ago|1 comments
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by nicole_express 4mo ago
Personally I prefer having a smaller screen on my laptop, because I can plug it into a monitor when I need a large screen but it makes it more portable. Still miss the 11" MacBook Air, what a great form factor.
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by nicole_express 4mo ago
It seems like a fine offer to have exist, but one that a pension fund with low risk tolerance wouldn't want to take. So everything seems reasonable with the world. Similarly I don't understand why indicies are rushing to change th
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You Need a PC for PC Games: Sunsoft's Shanghai(nicole.express)
16 points by nicole_express 4mo ago|2 comments
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by nicole_express 4mo ago
I would say the center-left didn't, but the left did. Not particularly relevant to SpaceX, though, since the left doesn't run many defense contractors.
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Sprite Scaling on the Master System: Building the New on the Ruins of the Old(nicole.express)
2 points by nicole_express 4mo ago|0 comments
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by nicole_express 4mo ago
The Signetics 2650 found its way into a bunch of arcade games by lieu of British company Century Electronics. I have a conversion kit of theirs installed into a Donkey Kong Jr. board, which outright replaces DK Jr.'s Z80 with a daugh
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by nicole_express 4mo ago
The PC Engine CPU is highly underrated. People like to go "haha, it was the TurboGrafx-16 but its CPU was 8-bit" like that makes it a joke, but that clock speed boost on top of the 6502 architecture is a big deal. (The S-CPU on th
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by nicole_express 4mo ago
I find programming for the 6502 to be a joy in a way that the Z80 isn't. I'm not quite sure why that is; I guess maybe because 6502 feels so stripped down, the amount of context you have to keep in your head is extremely low?
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by nicole_express 5mo ago
It's an odd thing here, because I don't really understand why this is LLM-specific at all. If someone came up to me and asked "who's the 6 Nimmt world champion?" I'd google it and probably find the same result,
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by nicole_express 5mo ago
The "Arduina" comment definitely made me think it might be at least a little satirical in nature
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Blitting the Night Away: Nichibutsu's Mahjong Koi No Magic Potion(nicole.express)
2 points by nicole_express 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nicole_express 5mo ago
Honestly I believe there's a puritan streak in the aspartame controversy; you don't deserve to experience sweet taste if you're trying to avoid sugar, you need to suffer for your diet, and it's unfair to have a zero-ca
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by nicole_express 6mo ago
I can definitely see why the Asus CEO would want to put it in that box, though.
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by nicole_express 6mo ago
Well sure they didn't do the dance, but you don't have to do the dance. The reason to do it is that it's a good defense in a lawsuit. Like you say, all of this is a legal minefield. So my understanding was that the original c
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by nicole_express 6mo ago
Of course, the problem with this interpretation is that all modern LLMs are derivatives from huge amounts of text under completely different licenses, including "All rights reserved", and therefore can not be used for any purpose.
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by nicole_express 6mo ago
I mean, Blanchard was the longtime maintainer of chardet already, and had wanted to relicense it for years. So I think that complicates your picture of "squatting an existing successful project". Honestly it's a weird test ca
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by nicole_express 6mo ago
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is: In theory, copyright only protects the creative expression of source code; this is the point of the "clean room" dance, that you're keeping only the functional behavior (not protected by
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by nicole_express 6mo ago
Interesting that your takeaway is "capitalist South Korea doesn't exist" when I also said the 38th parallel held? Also I guess now we're discussing the Repugnant Conclusion, which is a bit out of scope
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by nicole_express 7mo ago
New Coke is a very interesting counterpoint to the brand focus, but on the other hand, they did at the time make a very big push of it being "New" Coke. Hard to tell what would've happened if they had just swapped out the for
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by nicole_express 7mo ago
In theory, this is why there should be competition in industry, because it removes the capability of a single large actor to be able to control the government's access to things. Oddly, though, it seems like that should solve this prob
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by nicole_express 7mo ago
> You can sum this up with: Producing stuff without polluting the environment in most cases is impossible. Reducing the pollution costs a lot of money, and can make your product non-competitive. I mean, the true reason here seems to be t
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by nicole_express 7mo ago
They just now changed how they enforce the rules. Of course they have a legal pretense for their action; everyone has a legal pretense. These rules have generally not been enforced this broadly because the expectation is that they wouldn&#x

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