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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&…

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…

Questionable acronym choice; immediately made me think of arbitrary code execution (which, you know, I would hope any processor would be capable of)

Nothing is actually rendered on the pre-render scanline, though?

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

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 gre…

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 understa…

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.

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…

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 arch…

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 …

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 goog…

The "Arduina" comment definitely made me think it might be at least a little satirical in nature

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…

I can definitely see why the Asus CEO would want to put it in that box, though.

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 …

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 th…

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&q…

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 t…

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 …

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 happe…

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, i…

> 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 …

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 becaus…

A big part of my annoyance is that in the past, something like Phantasy Star Fukkokuban would not really be worth lying about; people need a reason to lie.