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by plasticbugs 3mo ago
Fable solved a long-standing bug in a Coleco Vision game that I have been working on with a small team of people. Fable did what both Claude 4.8 and ChatGPT/Codex could not do after many hours of attempts. Fable talked me through debug
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by plasticbugs 6mo ago
I personally know two of the three people named, and trust me, they are going to be livid about this.
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by plasticbugs 1y ago
Not giveaways, but it was instead a "name your own price" discount that allowed you to pay as little as $1399 and as much as $9999 (your choice) for an OP-1. What's bizarre is throughout the month of July, the OP-1 Field was
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by plasticbugs 1y ago
I traveled across the country promoting Comcast@home for the summer of 1998. We visited malls near major cities where the service initially rolled out -- places like the Irvine Spectrum and the Smith Haven Mall. For each mall, the local cab
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by plasticbugs 2y ago
https://archive.is/Ep9sV
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by plasticbugs 2y ago
Yes, I believe it’s a fork of VS Code, so all your favorite extensions and settings are portable. It will even ask to import your VS Code settings on first launch.
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by plasticbugs 2y ago
It definitely depends on what language you’re using and the complexity. But Claude 3.5 and now 3.7 are far superior in my experience for coding tasks. It’s like the difference between ChatGPT 3.5 and 4. It’s far and away more useful and le
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by plasticbugs 2y ago
I briefly worked for Crunchyroll, which began life as an anime pirating service with subtitles. The contracts with the Japanese anime publishers came later. Now they vigorously protect their content from "pirates".
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by plasticbugs 2y ago
This comprehensive film series from PACE is how I learned (and lots of practice) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIT4ra6Mo0s
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by plasticbugs 2y ago
So saddened by this news. I worked with Gordon. He had a wonderful sense of humor. Was a true believer, die hard technologist, uncompromising, witty and honest. Will be having a drink here in his honor shortly.
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by plasticbugs 2y ago
If anyone is interested in modding an Atari VCS (2600) for similar high quality output, Tim Worthington's excellent Atari RGB mod kit is an easy and affordable way to upgrade it. https://etim.net.au/2600rgb/ A sc
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by plasticbugs 2y ago
Tom7 is my favorite content creator. Each of his projects feels like a ~master’s thesis~ video dissertation. If you are not familiar with his work, please take some time to watch his other videos. They are all outstanding so I won’t recomme
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by plasticbugs 2y ago
There is a new VirtualBoy emulator that runs on the Nintendo 3DS so that you can play these games again in 3D. And yes, you can adjust it to play in a different color than red. Some of the games, especially Wario deserve another look from r
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by plasticbugs 2y ago
Several years ago, after finishing a coding bootcamp, I created this little web app that turns YouTube channels into an XML podcast feed. Might need to dust it off. https://github.com/plasticbugs/podcasty
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
It really was! I interviewed with them (didn't get the job), but ate a delicious pizza during their interview process. Their dream was to have the pizza cook on the way (like in Snow Crash). The only automated part was the pizza was ma
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
In the video, they show that some videos got more than 1k views, but most around a couple hundred. YouTube requires 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time. So definitely no money earned yet on the channel they created. Unless they ha
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
I can pile on to this. I had to rename my employer's Microsoft Teams app because it doesn't autocomplete the app's name after an apostrophe is typed in the Microsoft Teams app (both native and web). For example, typing "
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
Siri: "Here's Snow (Hey Oh) by Red Hot Chili Peppers" :smacks-forehead:
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
Sorry, I did actually ask for Snow White in the car! And it played a song called "Snow". Haha, reproducing it here at my desk I mistakenly said "Cinderella"
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
It's a striking condemnation of the current state of things that my $1K+ mobile phone does not do anything close to what's in this demo. I would pay $200 just to have a voice assistant that isn't totally incapable of playing
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
I believe this as well. My co-worker will have no problem getting another high-profile role in tech. His embezzlement will be seen as go-getter material.
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
I should add my former co-worker is easily found in Google. He is not a low-profile kind of person. He is best known for owning expensive cars and bankrolling “cannonball run” record attempts.
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
I was more speaking to the audaciousness of it all. I expect many employers will still do their due diligence and with high profile cases like these it’ll be impossible to hide. So I guess the perpetrator ultimately has to own their actions
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
A former co-worker of mine ran nearly this exact same scheme. As an executive for a cable network, he bilked his company out of 8 million dollars. He invoiced the company for video production work that never happened. $25k here, $20k there.
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Karakuri Mechanical 3D Prints(youtube.com)
2 points by plasticbugs 3y ago|1 comments
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
The algorithm presented me with one of these videos and now I’m binging on them. Each video presents an intricate mechanical 3d print. Some of my favorites so far: Mechanical 7 Segment Display https://youtu.be/r02oNu5t4Bs N
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
Some older consoles can output RGB natively if you have the correct cable: including most SNES models (not the ‘mini’), every Sega console, Atari Jaguar and the Neo Geo home system. Interestingly, the SNES mini has the cleanest video signal
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
I have RGB modded my Atari 2600 with the Tim Worthington mod mentioned in the article. It’s one of the easier RGB mods in the retro games hobby scene. If this kind of thing sparks your interest, check out retrorgb.com where they’ve cataloge
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
Yep, there is a flash cartridge called the Harmony Cartridge. It’s great for playing Atari home brew games which in many cases are better than anything available on the original VCS. Pac-man 4k is a great example. https://harmon
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by plasticbugs 3y ago
After scrolling down past dozens of photo collages, this appears to be a visual diary by a prolific artist. The search box at the top performs a text search on the captions below each image. Somehow I stumbled on his Five Ketchups book - so

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