Viewing profile — mr_johnson22

The NES' own sound chip didn't have a sawtooth channel, but some games had an onboard sound chip that added one, like Konami's VRC6: https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/VRC6_audio

If the incentives of private business are what got us in this health crisis, why should private business be trusted to get us out of it?

Thank you for this insight!

Does Japan have those values, though? Last I heard, Japanese mostly don't travel (not abroad at least); strongly promote monogomy / long-term relationships; abhor the notion of adu…

“There is, however, more evidence for a health risk from eating too few vegetables. That is really the risk of a high-meat diet, those meat calories are displacing vegetable calori…

Maybe the secret is fish-based diets.

Honest question: why did TypeScript succeed while ActionScript 3.0, another ECMAScript-superset language with typing and OOP (and predates TS by a few years), is all but a distant …

Meanwhile, whenever I try a drag-and-drop today, Excel complains that "Something has gone wrong with the clipboard". So much for progress...

Yes I have. And my quip was not to criticize his views, but his frequent bluntness in expressing them.

The real surprise is that Stallman restrained himself from telling the dev that having children is unethical.

Self-hosted Matrix servers still incur the risk of leaking metadata to whatever other servers it federates with (which of course isn't a problem if you don't federate, but that kin…

Thankfully, Matrix is working towards supporting a non-HTTP low-bandwidth API. It already has experimental support: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/06/10/low-bandwidth-matrix-an-i...

A solution to that attitude is to do things not in a race to please others, or for the sake of doing something impressive, but for their inherent value. Doing so might require a ch…

Perhaps the real distinguishing factor of Matrix isn't its technology, but its governance. Instead of an extensible, plugin-based approach like XMPP, Matrix has just a single "offi…

Launching with bridges to already-encrypted messengers, then immediately admitting this has to MITM them to work, doesn't make a good first impression...especially since users of t…

Matrix doesn't (yet), but Jitsi does, even without accounts for joined users. All you need to start a Jitsi chat with any number of people is a URL. _Integration_ with Jitsi is a s…

a) Agreed; the fact that spaces aren't in the spec is annoying when trying to stay spec-compliant and not realizing you also have to search through various GitHub issues to be full…

> - New tabs do not inherit current container Middle-clicking or Ctrl+clicking the New Tab button does inherit the current container. It also opens the new tab to the right of the …