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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_N "Nickname for Nintendo" I remember it being frequently used as far back as the 80s by Electronic Gaming Monthly

I see "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" when zoomed in all the way. "Gulf of America" when zoomed out.

This is a first step towards "the holodeck". You describe a scene and it exists. Imagine you could jump in and interact with it. That seems like something that could happen in 10-2…

Does this mean I can write a print function and be able to print"hello world" without parentheses again, like in python 2.x ?

https://www.ztree.com/ a clone of the old DOS Xtree. Quite the learning curve, but very powerful.

"Apple announced that its board had authorized $110 billion in share repurchases, a 22% increase over last year’s $90 billion authorization. It’s the largest in history, ahead of A…

Does the heat treatment damage electronics? Can you leave your computers in the house while your house is baking?

If "the singularity" is a real thing that can happen, it seems like there is an incentive for species that fear "the singularity" to preemptively wipe out any civilizations they fi…

How good is error handling on USB 4? The rare times I've had data corruption it was almost always when transferring lots of data using USB (this happened to me on multiple drives, …

Video's description : "Sep 15, 2023 -- In 2021 the FORCEDENTRY sandbox escape introduced the usage of NSPredicate in an iOS exploit. This new technique allowed attackers to sideste…

As a kid I always admired AVATAR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Attribute_Termi... ) and wondered why more people didn't use it for art. It was far more efficient. …

The first Pi (2012 release) was $35, this release is, when inflation adjusted to 2012 dollars, $44. So in the same ballpark-ish

I am sad because Paul Reiche III has left the project, though it seems he did write a story before leaving -- https://pistolshrimpgames.com/2023/09/uqm2-update-summer-202... From F…

I've been using computers since I was a pre-teen, it wrecked both my forearms (and later, my neck) in my early 30's. There was NO WARNING, the issues just happened out of nowhere. …

Al Lowe (the game's author) is still kickin'! https://twitter.com/allowe/ https://allowe.com/

Re: #2 - The UEFI bloatware/rootkit checked the Windows version: if you used Windows 8 or up it used the "feature" called "Windows Platform Binary Table", but Windows 7 didn't have…

This space is moving so fast my jaw drops every time I read something about it. For example this line: "... has discovered empirically that the capability for moral self-correction…

I remember watching one of the final episodes of Connections 3: With James Burke, and he casually said we'd have personal assistants that we could talk to (in our PDAs). That was 1…

This is not about ACH. It's about ACATS: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=381060&