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DerekL··on Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered
That's about the decompilation. This article's about the original source code.
DerekL··on Yes, the Apple II MouseCard IRQ is synced to the VBL
It also supported smooth scrolling.
DerekL··on 2.5D Rendering on PlayDate
Title is incorrectly capitalized, should say “Playdate”.
DerekL··on Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment
Tesla doesn't even call it that, there's “(Supervised)” after that. That's like calling it “Full Self-Driving (Not!)”.
DerekL··on I made a college punching bag for rejected highschoolers
Title is misspelled, should be “high schoolers” (two words).
DerekL··on 'Cosmic radio' detector could discover dark matter within 15 years
*well-being
DerekL··on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June 5 at $449.99
After searching, I've found some news articles that say that. But Nintendo's site (https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/featured...) says “$79.99 MSRP”, but that doesn't say whether it's physical or digital. Weird.
DerekL··on Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch
Why would there be a new Zelda? There were two new games in the past two years.

Yeah, it has been 8 years since the last new 3D Mario game.

DerekL··on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June 5 at $449.99
What game is $90?

Also, there's been inflation, so $60 in 2017 is $76 today. So an $80 game is about 5% more.

DerekL··on Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir
The title is misspelled, should be “Super Bowl”, two words.
DerekL··on Urbandead MMORPG (zombies and humans, made by 1 person) dead to moderarion laws
Title is misspelled, should say “moderation”.
DerekL··on GameBoy retro games to play online (on IPFS to stay there forever)
Sometimes the maker of the game offers a ROM for download, either for purchase or for free. There are USB devices that'll dump a ROM cartridge, such as the Retrode.
DerekL··on U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine
I don't think he would care. He was opposed to the USSR because he wanted to halt the spread of communism and socialism.
DerekL··on The number line freaks me out (2016)
But such a program can't visit every real number in the interval, because there are uncountably many, but the program will only run for countably infinitely many steps.
DerekL··on The San Francisco stadium that fog killed
That wasn't from Twain. He quoted someone else making the same joke about some unspecified place.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/and-never-the-twain-shall-...

DerekL··on New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
I think you meant “brakes”.
DerekL··on Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them
I meant that every palindrome number with an even number of digits is divisible by 11, not that they're not prime.
DerekL··on Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them
Sure, you could also look for primes of the form 123…(n-1)n⋅n(n-1)…321.
DerekL··on Prime Numbers So Memorable That People Hunt for Them
No, that doesn't fit the pattern. The number in the middle can't be repeated.
DerekL··on Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them
> Interestingly, there are no four digit palindrome primes because they would be divisible by 11.

In fact, this holds for any even number of digits.

DerekL··on It's time to make computing personal again
You said

> you can only run CC that sends all your images to them

It doesn’t send all your images to Adobe, it only sends the ones you choose to save in the cloud.

If you want to complain about having to subscribe to the software instead of purchasing outright, then do that. Don’t complain about something that isn’t happening.

DerekL··on It's time to make computing personal again
What's this about Photoshop? As far as I can tell, using cloud storage is an option in Photoshop, it's not required.
DerekL··on Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer
Actually, f(0) is well-defined. If q is positive, then gcd(0,q) = q, so f(0) = 1.
DerekL··on McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality
Title needs (2020).
DerekL··on Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems?
That’s a myth, it was never Microsoft’s policy.
DerekL··on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force
* Lightning (no e)
DerekL··on Tcl TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads
Title is miscapitalized, should be “TCL”.
DerekL··on "A major blocker to free and open source multimedia is isostandards"
How? ISO membership isn't limited to EU countries.
DerekL··on [dead]
> No StarLink. No SpaceX.

No Boeing. Instead, they have Airbus.

DerekL··on "Safe" C++
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186475
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