@maxoakland they had to stop somewhere. The C64 was already more advanced on that front than any other personal computer. I do think it's unfortunate we didn't get new capabilities in the 128. It's basically the same graphics as the 64. And, the 80-column mode was not usable for games (except a rogue-like, maybe, or maybe for an information display for the game on the 40-column display, since you could have both at once).
@hipsterelectron@clayote@shoofle@mtrc also merriam-webster dot com doesn't have a definition for "sinophobia" which I found out just now because I wanted to double check the spelling since I'm talking to smart people, and merriam-webster dot com not having a definition for "sinophobia" is absolutely sinophobic and honestly a lot more immediately problematic
@hipsterelectron@clayote@shoofle@mtrc "this john guy seems racist" was the other main conclusion I came away with, though for my own happiness I decided to assume the unfortunate framing was a clumsy attempt to at a setup for the second part to wherein he is circumstantially illiterate and a structured set of rules processed without requiring his understanding does not empower him to understand the text, but the thought experiment doesn't improve anything and makes him seem sinophobic
@aeva@clayote@shoofle@mtrc related possibility might be a similar construction of time-based "feeding" input, but with some sort of not-too-complex transformation that makes it possible to produce predictable output if you can guess the relationship. it would be cool to try to "feel" the response of the machine and to grasp the way it "understands" my input by intuition
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briankrebs@infosec.exchange this is what I absolutely love about the AP dev space.
There's so much trust in other servers not reporting absolutely bogus numbers, that it's literally a surprise when someone does something like this... or that time I posted something with a timestamp one year in the future and had my post stuck at the top of "recent" in perpetuity.
It reminds me of a simpler time when we trusted things sent via protocols because malicious users wouldn't abuse it... Pretty please!
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