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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
Fair enough, but I enjoyed the talk as is. I tried to give sources in defense of UncleMeat but I can only overcome my own bias so much. I'm not interested in getting suckered into believing some randall carlson gobbledygook, the type I
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
The use of the phrase "a lot" by me in this context isn't really helping. I should have at least said "for a powerpoint." Unfortunately as far as I can tell, we don't have a circuit of public intellectuals, who
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
The Jstor article that wikipedia cites as evidence of Petrarch "being the first to develop the concept of 'the dark ages'" https://www.jstor.org/stable/2707236?seq=1 The same wikipedia article says
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
I think UncleMeat's wife probably knows a hell of a lot more than I do about history, and contextualizing whatever horseshittery that has been propagated about the notion of the dark ages. The problem is rather than provide a link to a
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
I honestly don't see how you can't see how the text in you provided response to Jonathans talk, which he obviously put a lot of time and research in, no matter how misguided and poorly executed in your or your wife's estimati
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
No worries if you didn't catch that I was the same person. Your catch proves that issue is not remotely settled, and to my mind, indicates that more rigorous counsel with historians will only add depth to debate, rather than resolve it
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
I think you've just committed a sort of armchair dilettante history off the top of the dome with lack of reference to a scholarly source of History you accused Jonathan of doing. meheleventyone has demonstrated how easily even just ref
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
These historians of science that technologists avoid consulting in your estimation, are they going to refute the dark ages? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) "The term employs traditional li
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
Yes you grokked my point quite well. I wrote a long rant about how I've never had access to Amiga hardware, but I think I owe your pithiness some pithiness in return.
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
I think Godot has only recently become mature enough to be remotely comparable with unity etc. From the Godot download page: "Godot is currently not code-signed for macOS. See the last section of this page for instructions on allowing
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
Fair enough. I think you've called me out reasonably there. I still don't think you've addressed my core point, and it's quite probable I wasn't clear enough to make that possible. My white pixel example was referen
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
You're right, but most speakerphones still aren't even properly full duplex, much less utopian zoom software for apex cyber virtual orchestras. The amount of times I'm tripping up on my own words because the last thing I said
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
And how is that meaningfully different or better than using unity to ship an executable? I thought your whole point was that everyone already has a stable browser, and shipping games as some bare metal or in some half bare metal form is rea
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
Bad software and bad UI corrupts usb drives all day long in 2021.
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
Does anyone seriously write games for the browser anymore? Can Jonathan target the browser to make Braid, and seriously expect any commercial success? Maybe you'll think "What about Celeste?" at which point you'll have o
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
I don't make the argument that they were more reliable now or then than today's PC, they almost weren't and aren't. The problem is how we got more reliable pcs today is in the context of people who had access to both. So
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
I think I know what you meant, but in America Anglo-American would either imply White non Hispanics (as opposed to White Hispanics or White descendants of French first speaking people who were white) or it would mean virtually anyone born i
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
In the example of your Amiga, your hard drive failed, but it probably would still boot right into any game from any floppy that didn't require workbench to have been booted from floppy or HD. The game could very well have been written
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
I'm not a musician, but I interpreted it like this: Lets say the delay is 15 seconds, you hear the composite, including your part delayed, and you "think, cool, I played the right thing at the right time, I'll keep going with
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
I agree, and I think this talk and HN post make a good compliment to the Retrocomputing article and discussion on HN a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25714719 Jonathan does a better job than I did explai
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
It is interesting as many times an angle on this subject comes up in the last 5-10 years, no one has been able to dig up a copy of the original versions and boot them and take screenshots. I assume Vygr has at least a working copy of a Taos
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
Allow me to steelman Grustaf's position as I understand it relative to zacmcloud who seems to think Grustaf shares roughly the same view as theirs. Grustaf is the type of person who would not refer to anyone as "trailer trash&quot
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
Who is they? Me? I can't answer a question directly when you don't ask it directly. At least Grustaf and I have the fortitude to post with an account that wasn't created on the same day as the comment. Grustaf didn't add
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
Using words in a non racial way will not automatically deploy egalitarianism and meritocracy throughout the universe.
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
You say that like it is going to be written once and for all with an instruction manual. America uses a common law system and case precedent over time. You seem rather concerned with college admissions, where is your concern for the fact th
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
The legal limits of what? Market segmentation relative to race in a retail environment?
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
Yes it is illegal to block someone from a coffee shop based on their race. When we say "Black Church" in America, we don't mean a church for Blacks only, we mean churches that historically arose because other races would not
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
If the investment precluded any participation by Caucasians (which it doesn't) can you think of a way that investing 100MM in "Black and Brown businesses" actually delivers returns well in excess of 100MM? It's almost as
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
In what way does Apple giving 10MM to Harlem Capital restrict people who are not Black or Brown people from the opportunity to pitch their fund. https://harlem.capital/pitch/ The first of their five pillars: "We i
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by ziaddotcom 6y ago
Maybe a fee waiver for oss with certain licenses and dev accounts for .edu addresses with a couple other ID requirements would be a good start.

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