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There's a generation of developers who have never used bare-metal hardware, and have never built a simple server-generated website.

Ewwww...

Did you always play with a light? 4-6 hours is closer to GameGear territory.

The Gameboy Pocket certainly had the shortest battery life of the GB/Pocket/Color trio due to using 2 AAA batteries. My experience with the original is that the batteries last a long time.

This is one of my favorite moderate-level projects for playing with different programming languages.

The original in C: https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/kilo

Go: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/gilo

Rust: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/rs-kilo

And the more rusty tutorial version (Hecto): https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/hecto

PHP: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/php-kilo

...and Typescript: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/scroll

I lean conservative in many respects, and voted for a 3rd party.

I don't like the state of the Republican party, but I'm also sick of this stereotyping and strawmen.

I think many, if not most, Americans agree that the tariffs are excessive and are going to cause issues.

The hypermedia constraint is crazy magic itself. It's not like HATEOAS is fewer steps on the application and server side.

My late 2011 Macbook Pro's keyboard is certainly way nicer than my M1 Air's keyboard.

The real pain with the (well at least the earlier) plastic Macbooks (especially along with their short support life) is the 32bit EFI, and some even had 32bit-only Intel CPUs.

Funny you should mention SNES carts...the only way I can use a Super Game Boy portably is with a Supaboy, which looks very silly :D

I realize you don't have the resolution needed for such a thing on your project, but it would be interesting to see a full SGB setup via FPGA.

I'm sure it makes the gear ratios easier to calculate for the power-frequency-synced gearing on those old electric clocks.

But now? It's pretty much just an implementation detail.

The problem is that people are really bad at that kind of precision.

Or Windows Control Panel vs the Settings App.

While this is mostly true, with how much software is web based, and how web browser support is essentially only on supported OSes, OS support does matter.

This is less of an issue for DOS and Windows 95/98 because software in that era was offline-first.

That's what Netscape was...especially after the release of Firefox.

How many of those developers really use Javascript, and not a transpiling abomination?

Oracle's gonna Oracle

Unless it's an old AC-motor clock

I can only hope if this happens, that Honda calls the shots.

Yeah, Centaur was behind the WinChip, and Via's x86 CPUs. They were bought out by Intel fairly recently though.

Wordpress is the BAD PHP. PHP itself isn't that bad.

The many lead-in paragraphs are a bit abrasive, even if true, and I think they make it difficult to get to the meat of the argument. The lede is quite buried.

That said, engineers don't always get as much choice as they should either. Often there is pressure to pick a popular technology because it is popular, over a more 'boring' technology. There is no perfect choice, and it isn't always just a matter of the best technology fit.

I would put 'picking the right technology' up there with 'naming things' and 'off by one errors' for these reasons.

An abominable default, sadly.

CVTs are fine.

Every Boehm keyed woodwind (most all of them) is a compromise of holes and mechanism. There is no perfect tuning without embouchure.

There may also be tuning adjustment available with the amount of cover for a hole, depending on the instrument.

Come to think of it, it's also kind of the primal musical 'resolution', from scattered frequencies to a practical unison/octave.

I wish the screen on my car's infotainment system was transflective. The backlight is bright enough for most situations, but with sun directly behind you can't see anything on the display. This is somewhat important for, say, navigation with Android Auto.

The closest Gameboy to a transflective display was the original Gameboy Advance SP, but that was a front-lit reflective display.

My problem with your take is that the largest danger of driving a car comes from other drivers. Zero fatalities is a pipe dream, yes, but there is still room to prevent more collisions.

I would like to see more consistent enforcement against reckless driving, personally. Drivers who weave at high speeds in small gaps to change lanes, for example. Speed in general is one of the biggest factors of collision fatalities.

Yeah no, this has happened too many times to be just incompetence. It's malicious, plain and simple.