nicetryguy

It's my understanding that "hacking" involves breaking into or altering an existing system or piece of software, as opposed to "development" or "engineering" which is the creative process of addending or creating new systems or software. This article discusses neither: it's just a rambling life story and social critique sprinkled with light misandry and self loathing.

I assume you won't change your views until some sort of personal tragedy happens. That's a shame. I'm imagining you as the gentleman being intubated on the ventilator with the "Don't Fauci My Florida" novelty T-shirt. I can't respect or level with that my dude. I'm sorry. GL HF

It is clear to me that the people closest to you will pay dearly for your immature selfish lack of awareness and consideration for anyone else but yourself on planet earth. You are a time bomb and i pity those caught in the inevitable explosion. Good day sir.

> if I am permanently disfigured or mentally damaged I hope that If I'm unable to on my own that my wife would help me put a swift and terminal end to my misery

What about her misery? That will be permanent. Did that ever occur to you?

> You cannot possibly legislate the risk out of life.

You can sure as hell hedge against it. Does waiting at red lights and following traffic signals infringe your freedom to get from point A to point B faster? According to your infallible view of the rules and regulations of society we should just have four way free-for-alls and accept the risks of piloting tons of steel at unregulated speeds hurling towards each other and accept the inevitable consequences of mass death on a daily basis. I cannot prescribe to your worldview. I believe in road signs, traffic lights, and people being punished for breaking these rules with my tax dollars. I believe i am entitled by the government to a right to travel to point A to point B without legitimately fearing for my life on a daily basis.

"Well some accidents happen so that means that traffic lights and road signs are completely useless. It's just the government infringing on my ability to hit an accelerator whenever i damn well please." Give me a break. You are narrow headed, selfish, foolish, and wrong.

> I prefer to let people make their own choices being fully aware that it could cause some amount indirect harm to others.

Some indirect harm? This is life or death for older and immunocompromised people. You are a monster. I can't fathom your inhumanity.

Neither. You should consider other people for a change.

Ok. Say you do crash without wearing a seatbelt and smash your head against a windshield and sustain a head injury and survive. You're going to use additional medical resources and require months of physical therapy. You're going to drain the time and money of your family who has to now support your incapicated state. You may never be able to talk or walk again and become a drain on society for the rest of your days. The world has more people in it than you and your selfish decisions affect alot more people than just yourself.

Why bother locking your doors if a criminal can just carry a crowbar and pry it open anyway? Gray areas exist.

If you decide to drive drunk and hit me while i am driving while i'm wearing a seatbelt you could kill me. If you decide not to wear a mask in public and are an asympomatic carrier of COVID and i am immunocompromised you could kill me. This has nothing to do with personal choice or liberty, it is a legitimate public health and safety concern. Your selfish tunnel vision is truly disgusting.

What an awful argument. Your black and white thinking is unfathomably ignorant. I'll take a separated shoulder and a broken rib over death or a permanent head injury thank you.

> .equals()

That's an atrocity.

It's like an NES with a Z80 heh. Cool project!

This article is at best naive and at worst dangerous and deadly. Addiction is visceral and affects the ancient parts of the brain, the best you can do with consciousness and reason is outsmart it at every turn. Can you rationalize being hungry or in love? It's more like a natural reflex that is described: That's what it addiction feels like. Unfortunately you never get to "eat" or "fall in love". It's at best annoying and at worst crippling, and such is the rest of your life to some degree. I wish you luck brother.

Yes: but it's messy. You spin in a loop with a BIT instruction polling the PPU_STATUS register and a BVC instruction pointing backwards waiting for bit 6 to be set. Besides the fact that you're stuck doing this, the main problem is synchronization, this little loop takes 7 CPU cycles (with each CPU cycle taking 3 PPU cycles, or 3 "pixels" of distance) leading to an 21 "pixel" variance. When dealing with the very short horizontal blanking period between scanlines, it leaves very little time to do anything meaningful with the PPU in that window.

If you've ever noticed some "weird flickering" near status bars in NES games, this is probably the culprit: Few very skilled developers were able to pull it off cleanly.

Yes a hanging tab black box SMB in good condition is very rare but 2 million is just absolutely ridiculous; and most likely fraudulent.

I remember when Nintendo World Championship carts were selling for $40,000+ a few years ago (before these WATA scammers got involved) and that was by far the most rare and valuable cart... Super Mario Bros is a game that sold 30+ Million copies in various NES cart forms. This reeks of fishy dishonest speculation.

This is a small group of investors selling and making these ridiculous purchases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toN5NFr48T8&t=31s

I'm looking forward to this platform being expanded to facially ID against more databases such as criminals, political dissenters, or anyone with an undesirable opinion so that SWAT teams can barge into the homes of false positive identifications to murder them and their dogs.

Gaming Historian did a great video on Mario Paint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54bXwb5DfRI

> Rust is "Safe"

I'm tired of this meme. It's not true. Any Rust code that goes low level liberally uses unsafe{} blocks. There are also debugging and test modes in Zig that will sniff out leaks for you.

Gamecube GBplayer was a godsend. Great memories of Metroid Fusion / Zero Mission. I still have my disc!

In a sense that reality is "nothing but atoms" you're correct =p

These are the main shapes from a user standpoint =)

> Why these 4 forms?

It has to do with Voltage Control Oscillators, or VCO's, and actually controlling Voltages with physical components: These are the shapes you can actually make. Modulation is applying a waveform to another, so, if you apply a Triangle wave to a Sine wave you'll get another more complex wave that looks and sounds like neither of the two. You can theoretically make infinite shapes by modulating these forms with each other again and again. This is the bread and butter of analog synthesizers.

I don't think a square, or any wave, is measured in groups of two pulses. "Pitch" is just how many times the pattern repeats per second, the same as how many times a string would vibrate back and forth on a guitar when you pluck it.

Harmonics is a deep rabbit hole that i don't quite understand myself, so, i don't feel comfortable speaking to that.

> But I'd really like to have some basic idea of how to put together rudimentary sounds with intent.

There are really only 4 main waves: Sine, Square, Triangle, and Sawtooth. The "complexity" comes from using these waves to modulate and transform each other. Apply Volume: labeled as Attack, Sustain, Decay, and Release; and you have yourself a patch! Find any synthesizer plugin, load up some of the patches, and start twiddling knobs: Disable things and break each patch down to it's individual components. You can get a feel for how complex sounds are built with "digital VCO's".

Music isn't an exact science: You just have to play with it until it sounds good to you. Have fun =)

It's like inverted Survivorship Bias.

> The reason he was carrying them around was that NOTHING WORKED.

You are confusing the advancement of technology with the legal right to modify the things that you own. Completely false equivalence.

I'm pretty excited for the Linux kernel to take three weeks to build.

Which is more bloated? Rust or the egos of its holy crusaders?

Is === really necessary for Javascript? Type checking seems like overkill?

Const / static allows for "immediate" ASM instruction generation: which means the value is known at compile time so it can compare it directly inline as opposed to the overhead of comparing it to a labeled memory address. It's generally good practice whenever possible.

"Nevermind We're Actually Evil Now"

They didn't chew up as much power so you did find them in lower budget laptops like the one in the article.