Slack on a SNES

#1

Post by bertrandom » Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 4:24 PM UTC

Slack on a SNES
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Re: Slack on a SNES

#2

Post by sitkack » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 7:14 AM UTC

Wait, so I can finally run Slack in a browser! SNES emulator targeting WASM.

Re: Slack on a SNES

#3

Post by afraca » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 7:56 AM UTC

I got distracted by the > const pad = require('pad-left');

Just curious, not much has changed since the left-pad issue a while ago? Not saying it's wrong though.

Re: Slack on a SNES

#4

Post by joshschreuder » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 8:07 AM UTC

On a similar note:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/pokemon-plays-twitch-...

Re: Slack on a SNES

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Post by _v7gu » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 8:20 AM UTC

joshschreuder wrote: post #4

On a similar note: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/pokemon-plays-twitch-...

that TAS isn't THAT impressive, given that the same techniques can be abused to produce this: http://tasvideos.org/5384S.html

Also, the detailed rejection response to TASbot plays Twitch, remarks that actually running the Twitch client code on the SNES is possible (with SNES having web connection peripherals) rather than just streaming the chat output video through a controller. The submission and the responses are located at http://tasvideos.org/4947S.html if you want to check them.

Re: Slack on a SNES

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Post by gildas » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 10:39 AM UTC

afraca wrote: post #3

I got distracted by the > const pad = require('pad-left'); Just curious, not much has changed since the left-pad issue a while ago? Not saying it's wrong though.

It has been standardized meanwhile, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Re: Slack on a SNES

#7

Post by AnssiH » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 11:13 AM UTC

To have Slack on an actual SNES, you could put a modem/NIC in the cartridge, like XBAND did in the 90s.

Re: Slack on a SNES

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Post by pavel_lishin » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 1:31 PM UTC

gildas wrote: post #6

afraca wrote: post #3

I got distracted by the > const pad = require('pad-left'); Just curious, not much has changed since the left-pad issue a while ago? Not saying it's wrong though.

It has been standardized meanwhile, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Hm, at first I thought that they went with "padStart" instead of "padLeft" to address RTL languages, but the documentation still says

> The padding is applied from the start (left) of the current string.

I wonder if they just didn't want the "pad-left" stigma.

Re: Slack on a SNES

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Post by JoshTriplett » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 3:12 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #8

gildas wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has been standardized meanwhile, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Hm, at first I thought that they went with "padStart" instead of "padLeft" to address RTL languages, but the documentation still says > The padding is applied from the start (left) of the current string. I wonder if they just didn't want the "pad-left" stigma.

Many current programming languages and libraries go with start/end rather than left/right precisely because of RTL languages. Clarifying "start (left)" doesn't seem unreasonable to help readers of English documentation understand, though it should probably say "start (left in left-to-right languages)".

Re: Slack on a SNES

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Post by khanan » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 3:29 PM UTC

I got all excited and thought it was about running Slack(ware) Linux on a SNES, then its this crap sobs ( ;) )