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Rapid development of a cycle accurate Intellivision emulator, much of it unsupervised. (four part series) https://keanw.com/2026/03/a-diary-of-an-agentic-retro-gamer-... https://ke…

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Ok if you say so he's not racist, but you can keep him nonetheless.

It's a myth that US income tax is always lower than in Canada. I worked in the US for a bit when I started out. I paid more income tax in CT than in Toronto on the same salary. I j…

Ok, but how does your hypothetical scenario apply to Canada though?

And anytime programmers start to discuss anything in detail, you know just when it's getting interesting: "Can we take this 'offline'..." See also this song: https://www.youtube.co…

I remember when computer magazines were aimed at programmers and had code listings in them. Then there seemed to come a time when all they talked about was the IBM vs. Microsoft la…

Back in the day when it came out, I gotta admit, Docker sort of got my my nerves as yet another thing coming to 'disrupt' how things are done. (Half assed NOSQL 'databases' with po…

> "hey, why do mathematicians keep changing rules on the fly, they just told me square of minus one doesn't exist Mathematicians aren’t chasing numerical solutions, they’re chasing…

I like to hang around at my local skate park. I'm not very good on a skateboard, better on a BMX. In any case the vibes are usually good. Sometimes you think people aren't even not…

[...] send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.

You know this part of the problem! Politics is now consumed as entertainment, and ask any writer of books or screenplays and they will tell you _conflict_ makes for good entertainm…

It also looks hopelessly Gen Z to want all communication to be asynchronous and ignorable. If you guys have your way, we’ll all be connecting via API like 1U machines in a rack som…

I disagree. I feel there is a genuine insight at the core of it.

I still don’t buy the “slasher movie” framing of nature at all, and the only function 'pleasant lies' serves here is just low effort dismissal. :shrug: Alas, I'm ceding ground by e…

Come on you can't come up with a single five minute period when observing animals where they seem to be calm? That does not fit the evidence. And besides you can read thousands of …

>then flee at maximum speed because a well-fed 200+lb apex predator is passing by, it sure looks like work and effort. I think the 'effort' being described in the article—despite u…

> it was the worst debugging experience one could have. Hard disagree. I'm not going to argue that Java debugging was the best, however: 1. You could remote debug your code as it r…

Prediction: Non-determinism will become acceptable in areas we used to expect accuracy. For example we will accept 'probabilistic bookkeeping' because it's cheaper than requiring l…

> elections be damned. Isn't the current administration more culpable on this point? (viz. the last time Trump lost an election) And in terms of norms I mean that there isn't a str…

>Don't you see? They would give the exact same speech about the other side and absolutely believe it, and in fact so would many other people. Of course I see, and like in a chess m…