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Oh he absolutely cared about the programming and process of game development, don't get me wrong. It's that Nintendo (corporate) needed something for the NA market and he was eager to fill that gap with already used characters (such as Mario). Anything else is corporate propaganda they have been telling as a creation myth to make it sound more fairytale-like than it was. They were going broke. They needed money. North America was ripe for the picking. The risk paid off.

+10 points for giving it context that it's nailed to a plaque. -10 points for using Amazon Bedrock instead of a local conversational model that can run on the Pi without a subscription fee.

Replace the bedrock setup for a gemma-4 E2B one.

Nintendo wasn’t even trying, it was all their old sprite characters from Japan market that didn’t do well smashed together in a rushed title for an NA launch. It surprised them.

You’re absolutely right! /s

Avoid Amazon

you never heard of HTTP request smuggling or XSS then... Let alone being able to fingerprint and dump all your browser history and session data, cookies, etc.

The Internet is a cesspool of scams now

yeah the more information that has been leaked about what has transpired, the worse this whole situation gets. Apple has a ton of evidence in this case.

oh but it is... oh but it is.

Like every pcmag article, there’s a corporate sponsor

No, it used to be a shuffled timeline of the posts and likes your connections/friends have made but I guess when half your platform are bots, you don’t want to store that metadata anymore.

Aww so sad! Too bad they are locked into the ecosystem and Microsoft isn’t listening.

I too have spotty educational credentials and for a while it was fine but once you hit mid 30s it becomes an issue for some people in executive power. Then there are jobs and companies that won’t even speak to you without a masters degree. I’ll admit the spectrum is wide but in the last decade more and more emphasis has been on where you went to school, not what have you done.

In the US, college is considered a privilege for those who can afford it or are poor enough to be granted it from poorly designed taxpayer funds. Then we set the bar for hiring to requiring a degree making it so that if you want anything above minimum wage, you’re going to have to get a degree. This is how the predatory lending prior to 2008 started with student loan debt. Glad to see that 20 years hasn’t taught us anything.

Other countries where University and Education are rights or are provided via better taxpayer systems don’t understand the pure chaos the US system is.

And then you pick it back up. Yes, you will get rusty or need to train up but that’s better than lacking the technological capability.

Only for a time until the market conditions improve. Humans are incredibly talented and we have a knack for picking up skills.

One sounds incapable from a skill perspective, the other is incapable from a market perspective. I’ll take the later over the former any day.

The end of the world is always just out of reach. It’s the perfect carrot on a stick for people who are conditioned to be afraid.

When espionage was your goal all along...

Heirloom is just corn passed down from your pop-pop ;) (though the category now stands for rare varieties of corn that came from family farms or from the years long since passed).

Corn is amazing. My favorite use of it is for alcohol though.

You didn't learn about the Delaware Indians? Ohio valley? Cherokee or Tuskarora? How they fought for the British side as they saw American settlers as wanting to take their land (which was correct). The stamp act? The tea tax of just 0.02 that Boston decided, nah, and dumped into the harbor. It started with grievances and ended with the Spanish Fleet. It changed the world, not just founding America. (I got public education in the 80s/90s so YMMV).

There are 4 types of corn. Dimple/dent corn, pop corn, sweet corn, and flint corn. Each variety can be eaten. Prepared differently of course as they have different starches and flavors but the vast majority of corn fields in the United States grow dent corn for feed and biofuels.

We will look back on this experiment with the same ilk that we have for early screentime for smart phones and tablets as a profound mistake in early childhood development.

Kids learn most from peers and structure up until they are 10. Social queues and behaviors not taught by screens, AI, or your parents.

Yes, and they are all edible. But not all are palatable.

Now now, not everyone got a well rounded public education.

The corn grown that’s not for human consumption is only because it’s earmarked for feed or biofuels. Corn is corn. Where I live, 1 in 4 fields is “for human consumption”

I’m American but I know truths that aren’t taught in white washed Christian schools.

Our founding fathers would be licking their lips

Make no mistake, America was founded on greed. Our cries for Democracy and Liberty were only so we wouldn't have to pay the King's taxes. We wanted the western native lands that the British promised to protect with hired native americans. The notion that "All men are created equal" only applied to virtuous white men.

Also, France was eager to give hell to the British and the Colonies were a mere spat in the global theater once France entered chat.

The job market is completely out of whack

What are you going on about? I was saying that they didn’t write any code it was all Claude. Obviously using Claude code.