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I have two ready to go

https://youtu.be/qn_1dwIxvs8

https://youtu.be/VgDA9iCbkow

I've been working on MCP integration with Minecraft so that you can build with AI.

It's silly and useless but I'm having fun.

Another suspected issue is dodging the draft during WW2 by pretending to be too old. In rural areas with shoddy record keeping you can get away with pretending to be your dead uncle.

The US (as well as other countries) has weird hangups because there's not a lot of granularity in prescription rules and insurance won't cover things unless they require a prescription.

So patients and doctors fight to have things continue to be restricted so that their workplace insurance will pay for it.

They said they were going to release actual cartridges in 2026. I'm not sure if it has happened yet.

Does anyone have a video of it on an actual CRT TV? Looking at the youtube gameplay, it looks like it would have some problems with text on the overscan getting cropped.

I am curious how some of the effects look on a CRT.

So I had an idea for a music app that tries to minimize the amount of music theory needed to play as a group.

Basically you pick a key, then it's just 7 buttons that play the notes in that key. Actually 21 because there are three octaves.

This has some neat effects. You can play thirds by just hitting every other button.

I wanted kids to get started playing as a group without having to worry about wrong notes. Everything is in the same key so it never sounds too bad.

There's not much to look at, I just started it last Friday. https://github.com/wmill/EasyMusic

I'll throw on some screenshots if there's any interest. I could actually use some feedback from someone who knows a bit about music, my knowledge is pretty minimal.

Its big weakness is that they didn't realize how much multilayered backgrounds made things pop.

The sprites look really good, but the single background layer makes things look flat compared to the SNES / Genesis. Devs started working around that by updating some of the background tiles on each frame or using some of the sprites.

The SNES also could do layer blending effects. So while all of the input data could only be 256 colours, the PPU was spitting out a high colour signal after the effects were applied.

CD drives were still expensive and a bit flakey at that point. It might have worked by packing in extra games.

Sega of America was just really good at understanding the US market.

Sega did a US launch (August 29, 1989) of the Genesis 9 months after the JP launch. They had EA releasing sports games on the console in 1990.

The TG-16 came out in 1987 in JP but they waited 1 year 10 months to do a US release, so it came out after the Genesis. They didn't get any US developers on board.

A 1988 release of the TG-16 combined with some decent sports games probably would have been a success.

It was actually a big success in Japan. NEC America completely botched everything in the US market.

In Japan it came out in 1987, two years before the Sega Genesis. In the US it launched a few weeks after the Genesis. The pack in game was based on an anime that didn't come out in the US.

It's big weakness was probably that putting button batteries on HuCards was awkward, so it didn't really have many longer slower paced games with save systems.

So for anyone looking into old school graphics programming, bit planes are pretty confusing when you don't understand why they exist.

Two big reasons. First, it's about running memory chips in parallel to increase bandwidth. Image data was hard to get to the screen fast enough with hardware in that era.

Second it allowed for simple backwards compatibility. Programs were used to writing directly to video memory, and in an EGA card the start of the video memory was valid CGA data. The rest of the colour data was in a separate bit plane.

Cell carriers sell geofenced data about cell phones in an area at a given time to anyone. There's zero privacy.

KYC laws mean that his carrier has his name and email address and the feds probably got that without anyone informing the customer.

Window management is one thing that MacOS has long been weirdly bad at.

I think there's a conflict between the users who use it on studio displays and users who use it on 13 inch laptops. The Mac team at apple won't pick a side or come up with two solutions.

That's not completely true, they've been pushing swipe between fullscreen apps for a while.

But that doesn't make any sense on an iMac.

So the recommendation from pro users is to use Alfred to manage windows.

Reporters for The Times of Israel get a lot of death threats. I doubt this was the author's first one.

So it's common and hard to prosecute because the person threatening is most likely in another country.

You should be able to use chrome://gpu/ or about:gpu to tell if Chrome is doing software rendering.

The difference is that the server gives a description of the api it understands in enough detail that the llm can make use of it.

MCP is still going to be handy enough for iot type devices, where an llm can discover what's actually supported by that device without needing to query about the specific version.

Swagger / OpenAPI just aren't detailed enough to use without other documentation.

Skills & instructions will always have the limit that they run locally, so if they don't match the server there is a problem.

The younger generation discovering TUIs has been amusing.

I'm getting 503 errors.

There are other establishments they track...

Freddies Beach Bar, the closest gay bar to the Pentagon is reporting below average traffic.

The nearby sports bar, Crystal City Sports Pub is reporting below average traffic.

The closest open Papa Johns is reporting slightly above average traffic.

The danger is mechanical, not chemical. Think small sharp needles that you can breathe in.

Chemically it's just silicates. So you can melt it at high temperatures or do various other processes to get rid of it.

I'm not sure what they actually do.

No tolerance for people trying to live in the country without going through the legal process.

Public policy discussions always get boiled down to some simple wording that isn't strictly accurate.

In the spirit of brining down the level of intellectual sophistication here, I have a few recommendations I've enjoyed.

- All 18 Expeditionary Force books by Craig Alanson

- The first 5 Starship's Mage books by Glynn Stewart. UnArcana Stars (book 6) went in a direction that made the government look extremely incompetent.

- Jacques McKeown series by Yahtzee Croshaw

- Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

- Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor

What's truly infuriating is how awful the tagging on Audible is. "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is tagged sci-fi.

Andy Weir does a tight well placed adventure better than most.

I can see that you wouldn't like him if you're more into characters than plot, but that's not what everyone wants.

Interestingly, that was due to the top editor at a major sci fi publisher being really into psychics.

It's likely that they didn't have the rights to use the original fonts or icons.

Are you implying that having both String.prototype.substring and String.prototype.substr is somehow confusing?

JS is in general better because by the time it came out people knew what to expect from a scripting language.

CSS didn't really have a lot of earlier styling and layout languages to copy. Also the original vision was much more limited.

That's incredibly arrogant phrasing by both you and the author.

Here's a better explanation of the hostility towards CSS.

Nested flexbox had bugs in IE11, which wasn't end of lifed until 2022. The nested CSS in the article came out in December 2023.

CSS first came out in 1996.

The current state is much improved, but don't pretend there wasn't a solid 20+ years of sucking before that.

I'm curious what happens if you throw something like Ulysses by James Joyce at it.

When compared to it's contemporaries the 7-zip GUI is noticeably worse. Back in 2004 WinRar and WinZip were both clearly superior.