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Tuesday's game was definitely the highlight of the series in terms of good baseball. Monday's game sucked ass, and I missed the first two, but tonight was like Tuesday lite. Tuesday night was some of the best baseball I have watched. I wish Tampa Bay had won a couple of more to give us a full series, but it was clear by the 7th that this game was over.

Context: I'm an adult fan of baseball that didn't like sports at all as a kid, so I developed no team loyalty. I'm all about good, exciting baseball whoever wins.

what

Art historians invented the word “modern”?

There exist uncensored, unregulated models. Many of them are available for local use, sidestepping any third-party checks that could be present.

Other emulators exist that do more for performance. This is more of a simulator.

I feel like that matters less the slower the simulation runs. Simulated RF interference would operate at a much slower timetable than the host system, and I don't really think the host system's RF matters so much until you're at speed parity with the original system and hoping to interface with hardware peripherals.

But copyright and a "copyright license" are two different things. If B doesn't have the legal right to sublicense C's IP, and Meta scrapes it anyway, then B could be liable for breach of contract, and Meta could be liable for copyright infringement

I was an Amiga kid, so Directory Opus was my Norton Commander. I still use Directory Opus on Windows to this day

Hundreds of years ago, nothing was easy to copy, until the printing press. Early copyright surrounding that wasn’t about “IP protection” but rather who had the right to operate a printing press at all

Nobody but you mentioned “eliminating” IP rights. Stop being disingenuous

> Example: if Fallout 76 is shut down, Bethesda giving you their source would essentially be giving you the source to Skyrim also.

That’s kinda bullshit to different degrees with different games.

Reynard exists for those who can sideload or jailbreak iOS:

https://github.com/minh-ton/reynard-browser

Real Gecko on iOS

Only if you're limited to knowing exactly how the actual cryptography works. If you understand exactly how the key derivation works, and know how that is seeded, then you can very much get inside.

His last name was spelled Swartz, for the record

Only in the modern day. Up through the SVGA days, cards supported true character-mapped text modes.

The signature can certainly be copyright protected, I would think?

Windows 98 did introduce the gradient title bars. Maybe even IE4’s desktop update added it to 95, I can’t remember.

In fact, the PC Engine provided a very 16-bit type of experience with an 8-bit 6502-based CPU

Not letting you backup and restore saves from local media also deprives modders of potential attack surface

The “perfect” timing window in Festival is +/-5ms from gem position (10ms total afaik). Harmonix has always been exceptional with their beatmatching code. There are physical limits to the black magic of latency compensation, however. If your input has to travel over the wire before the game can see it, then it’s unavoidable without heavy compensation

IBM PC design philosophy was the furthest thing possible from “open architecture”.

The PC only became “open” when the industry basically strongarmed it open. Prior to clean-room BIOS cloning, IBM did pursue legal redress against early clones.

The PC pivoted to open architecture despite IBM.

The Nintendo black boxes were still mock-ups to a significant degree. They often depicted situations nearly impossible (or actually impossible) to achieve in-game, the graphics often exceeded NES color limits, and often the pixel art itself was completely wrong (check out Mario on the Donkey Kong or Mario Bros boxes).

Forgot to add this earlier. Later versions of AmigaOS that support non-15kHz rates will promote all screens to the lowest screen mode that can suppprt all visible screen resolutions. So, if you drag a NTSC:High Res Interlaced (640x400@60i) screen down in front of a Multiscan:Productivity (640x400@70p) screen, then the front screen will also display in Prpductivity mode.

It’s worth noting that this is not actually explicit in the standard so much as it is just a natural consequence of not including the half-line. Since the raster is continually moving across and down, including during all retraces (until the actual blanking pulses reset them), the presence of the half-line means that the horizontal retrace doesn’t reset at the end of the half line, it just continues scanning horizontally while the vblank pulse resets the vertical deflection to the top of the screen. Similarly, all scan lines are actually very slightly tilted down on all CRTs unless there is compensation for it. The vertical deflection is consistently moving across the length of the horizontal trace.

Edit: if you have a set that is miscalibrated or worn out, you can end up actually seeing the retrace lines during what should be blanking

JavaScript itself would be fine as long as browsers didn't present certain capabilities to the running script. Modifying the DOM and rearranging elements? Go ham. Intercepting input and hard-forcing viewport sizes? Fuck outta here.

Edit: I've been getting the "slow down" thing on HN for the last couple of weeks after like five or six messages within a half hour. Not connected to HN through any VPN or obfuscation. It's annoying because it seems to take a solid hour or two (haven't measured) to unlock.

We're not talking about DOS here. This is AmigaOS, a fully preemptively multitasked OS from day one. No memory protection, but unless your code is running on bare metal like demos and games, there are other tasks running.

Top parent of this thread is talking about a package for AmigaOS being run on a bespoke emulator (as the Unusable Amiga Emulator of the 90s wasn’t really a thing that could be used for that)

AmigaOS does indeed enable the extra half line when any visible viewports are interlaced. Fortunately that just works because the individual “non-interlaced” fields are still legible when shifted back and forth by a half line.

> Flock isn’t an automated tool though; you don’t give it a crime, and it gives back an automated package saying “this is who the criminal is”.

Please tell the police that, then, under penalty of being blacklisted if they ever violate it. They're the ones treating it as such.

Piles of evidence that humans tend to treat AI as infallible, just like the police did here. They didn't use this as a point for further investigation, they saw the match and said "let's go get her" without so much as looking at the damaged vehicle for paint transfer, which should be remedial-level police instruction.

Modern AI was and is a mistake. It's only going to get worst before it gets better.

Unfortunately, our current government in the US is hard AI-pilled (oh, sorry, "super-intelligence-pilled"). They use it every day to present propaganda to the public via social media.

Ban AI use in all branches of government, and in policing. At least until there are ethical standards put in place that are very heavily punished when violated.

Also, state and federal level politicians should be prohibited from using social media in anything other than a purely personal basis without mention of political office or without speaking on the topic of politics. Want to post cool pictures of your family? Go for it. Speaking to your constituency? Must be strongly vetted for ethical violations, and punishable by immediate removal from office and a 10-year blacklist.

The problem is that they're treating the output of the AI algorithm as 100% fact. Countless examples of Flock matching incorrectly or police otherwise using the match found by Flock as "here's who to go arrest" and not "here's a starting point for further investigation".

Partial matches, correct matches but no investigation into things like paint transfer, it's happened way too many times (hint: one is too many times for things that can incarcerate people).

It's like they're speedrunning unworthiness to hold the monopoly on violence. This is how you get riots and revolutions. Sadly, today's Western world is complicit and complacent. Nobody who is pro-surveillance state will change their mind until it affects them or someone close to them.