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Wow the ModRetro units are really polished... Look great with more than a nod to the original system designs. Anyone know what Nintendo's stance is on the companies making these ki…

> their mods often seem directed to inflicting their cars on everyone else Flies in the face of all the talk about consent. I did not consent to this...

The number of people here defending AI cheating as an alternative/clever form of "learning" is eye-opening. Also the people saying it's not the students fault they cheated, it's th…

Regarding shaming: A new strategy I've noticed recently is that my organization randomly deploys emails from time to time that are basically "fake" hacking/phishing attempts. Somet…

I'm a fan of separating the trusted compute levels for commercial and non-commercial uses/sides of the internet. I think we have to move in this direction. As it stands today, doin…

1985: Austrian rock singer Falco records Rock Me Amadeus!

> I think it is fair to argue that basic libraries don't support trig on common fixed point sizes. Its not that hard to roll your own support for fixed point trig. CORDIC is your f…

I use the term "programmable people" for people like this, in that they believe what the screen tells them to believe and they do what the screen tells them to do. It bothers me th…

This is like maximum 80's cringe... I say that as a child of the 80's... I'm half tempted to cut this up and try and build some sort of vaporwave track. Seems tailor made for vapor…

This is awesome! Thanks it made my day!

Watching it from time to time over the years I've noticed all the little 2001 A Space Odyssey references. The Dark Star universe is some sort of "low budget" version of the 2001 un…

> I dont know why people would want to be in a community where they arent wanted. This is standard predatory behavior. Child abusers hanging out with kids, weirdos hanging out near…

From my point of view I don't see anything wrong with knowing a little bit more about the person behind the app I'm trusting to do my personal compute on my personal device. Person…

It's not illegal to do business with whom you want to (freedom of association etc)... but if my business provides you with tools to systematically avoid a protected class (say, bla…

Interesting, the Wikipedia article has this to say Mere customer satisfaction, or lack thereof, is not enough to justify a BFOQ defense, as noted in the cases Diaz v. Pan Am. World…

Law is in flux.. Employee or contractor, it's basically not settled law yet.

Sex is a protected class under Title VII of the civil rights act. And the supreme court recently said that even majority classes (men) are protected by this. Since Uber involved in…

> I've always been fascinated by nostalgia. It is such universal source of both positive and negative feelings for people. I read somewhere that nostalgia is just bitterness toward…

Is this true? My understanding is that for extremely large black holes the tidal forces are negligible near the event horizon. So things should function pretty much the same other …

From a product standpoint, we're beginning to look at lot more like Europe did to us in the last few decades. The EU couldn't manufacture a cheap consumer item no matter how hard i…

I'd definitely buy one! Back in around 2007 I went to the Chevy dealer and said "What's the cheapest car you got" and he said you want a Cavalier... I got it with air conditioning …

Thank you for the link. Amazing article, and 29 years old at that.

Sam Altman complaining about mercenary behavior from competitors... Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Guess he's unhappy he's not the one being mercenary in this situati…

In many ways Chris is ending things just as his dream is about to come to fruition. His vision was just 40 years ahead of the technology. If only he could stay engaged another 10 y…

I love this. Thank you.