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Fair enough, but I enjoyed the talk as is. I tried to give sources in defense of UncleMeat but I can only overcome my own bias so much. I'm not interested in getting suckered into …

The use of the phrase "a lot" by me in this context isn't really helping. I should have at least said "for a powerpoint." Unfortunately as far as I can tell, we don't have a circui…

The Jstor article that wikipedia cites as evidence of Petrarch "being the first to develop the concept of 'the dark ages'" https://www.jstor.org/stable/2707236?seq=1 The same wikip…

I think UncleMeat's wife probably knows a hell of a lot more than I do about history, and contextualizing whatever horseshittery that has been propagated about the notion of the da…

I honestly don't see how you can't see how the text in you provided response to Jonathans talk, which he obviously put a lot of time and research in, no matter how misguided and po…

No worries if you didn't catch that I was the same person. Your catch proves that issue is not remotely settled, and to my mind, indicates that more rigorous counsel with historian…

I think you've just committed a sort of armchair dilettante history off the top of the dome with lack of reference to a scholarly source of History you accused Jonathan of doing. m…

These historians of science that technologists avoid consulting in your estimation, are they going to refute the dark ages? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)…

Yes you grokked my point quite well. I wrote a long rant about how I've never had access to Amiga hardware, but I think I owe your pithiness some pithiness in return.

I think Godot has only recently become mature enough to be remotely comparable with unity etc. From the Godot download page: "Godot is currently not code-signed for macOS. See the …

Fair enough. I think you've called me out reasonably there. I still don't think you've addressed my core point, and it's quite probable I wasn't clear enough to make that possible.…

You're right, but most speakerphones still aren't even properly full duplex, much less utopian zoom software for apex cyber virtual orchestras. The amount of times I'm tripping up …

And how is that meaningfully different or better than using unity to ship an executable? I thought your whole point was that everyone already has a stable browser, and shipping gam…

Bad software and bad UI corrupts usb drives all day long in 2021.

Does anyone seriously write games for the browser anymore? Can Jonathan target the browser to make Braid, and seriously expect any commercial success? Maybe you'll think "What abou…

I don't make the argument that they were more reliable now or then than today's PC, they almost weren't and aren't. The problem is how we got more reliable pcs today is in the cont…

I think I know what you meant, but in America Anglo-American would either imply White non Hispanics (as opposed to White Hispanics or White descendants of French first speaking peo…

In the example of your Amiga, your hard drive failed, but it probably would still boot right into any game from any floppy that didn't require workbench to have been booted from fl…

I'm not a musician, but I interpreted it like this: Lets say the delay is 15 seconds, you hear the composite, including your part delayed, and you "think, cool, I played the right …

I agree, and I think this talk and HN post make a good compliment to the Retrocomputing article and discussion on HN a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25714719 J…

It is interesting as many times an angle on this subject comes up in the last 5-10 years, no one has been able to dig up a copy of the original versions and boot them and take scre…

Allow me to steelman Grustaf's position as I understand it relative to zacmcloud who seems to think Grustaf shares roughly the same view as theirs. Grustaf is the type of person wh…

Who is they? Me? I can't answer a question directly when you don't ask it directly. At least Grustaf and I have the fortitude to post with an account that wasn't created on the sam…

Using words in a non racial way will not automatically deploy egalitarianism and meritocracy throughout the universe.

You say that like it is going to be written once and for all with an instruction manual. America uses a common law system and case precedent over time. You seem rather concerned wi…