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The lyrics are deliberately humorous. Also, that video is clearly a parody of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-qI62gNJM

The song was released in 1986, which is years before the Video Toaster and the LightWave 3D software were released. They might have used an Amiga 1000 for some of it.

Note that creating an arcade game at that time wasn't writing a computer program, it was designing a finite state machine out of discrete logic chips.

Title should say “SF”, not “SFO”. SFO is the code for the airport.

That was announced on Monday, with the new iMacs.

A previous news story claimed that the system used 5.25-inch disks, instead of 3.5-inch, which would have been strange for a system that was purchased in 1998. It turns out that it actually was 3.5-inch disks.

The correction is in this article: https://sfist.com/2024/08/07/muni-to-update-train-control-sy....

Also, the logo is all-caps.

“Muni” isn't an acronym, it's short for “Municipal Railway”.

The title is misspelled. It should be “Muni”, like the article's title, not in all caps.

When playing draw poker, you only need to select 10 cards from the deck, because the other cards will never be played. So that's 52⋅51⋅…⋅43 = 57,407,703,889,536,000, which needs 56 bits.

Title needs (2022).

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41618685

Also, the actual title uses “discover”, not “define”.

A scientific outpost on Mars is actually feasible, but such an outpost would be funded by grants from the government or private foundations.

It's a self-sufficient colony that's not possible right now or anytime soon. You'd have to spend so much to create an air-tight and heated environment that could generate air, water, and food. How are you going to pay for, especially when anything you can't make yourself has to be rocketed in from Earth? Is there anything on Mars that you could sell back to Earth?

This is entirely wrong. Instead, you should do routine performance testing on low-end machines, and do your work on reasonably high-end machines.

> In the most recent Program for International Student Assessment tests in math, or PISA, U.S. students scored lower than their counterparts in 36 other education systems worldwide. Students in China scored the highest.

On PISA, the US results are from the entire country, while the Chinese results are only from selected provinces.

Title needs (2023).

* brakes

It looks like page 79 of that doc has a typo. It says mercury in sample 1 is 113 µg/L. Maybe they meant 0.113.

Title is misspelled, should be “black hole” (two words).

Gavin Newsom won't be picked. If both the presidential and vice-presidential candidates are from the same state, then the electors from that state can't vote for them.

It shouldn't be called a “Jet Ski”, because that's a trademark of Kawasaki.

I was wondering the same thing about making macros optionally recursive. Because if they were recursive, then that feature and `__VA_OPT__` would be enough to make them Turing-complete.

Also, Down's syndrome causes all sorts of additional health problems. Maybe they let the kid starve at age 6, or the kid got sick and died anyway.

The original chip set (OCS), which debuted with the Amiga 1000 in 1985, could display 320 by 200 in four colors, or 640 by 400 in 16 colors, and the colors selected from a gamut of 4096. This is non-interlaced in 60 Hz. A PAL display would have higher vertical resolution in 50 Hz.

It could go up to 16 colors in high res or 32 in low res, but this could slow down other operations.

*shtup, or schtup

I wonder why uninstalling the hard disk and installing it in a different computer was the best solution.

Were the files so big that it would have used too many floppies? Did the two computers use different sizes of floppies? Could he not afford blank floppies (but he could afford damaging his hard disk)? Did he not have the right software to split a file into pieces to fit on multiple floppies?

Here's the previous discussion of the original Twitter thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40472226.

Spelling nit: though the logo is all-caps, the company is called “Visa”.

This part is relevant to Hacker News:

> A Northern California sheriff accepted bribes to grant gun permits to political donors.

That was Laurie Smith, sheriff of Santa Clara County.

Title needs (2014).

On Atari 8-bits, the filesystem ran on the computer itself. There was an MOS 6507 processor in the drive, but that was for communicating on the SIO bus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_1050