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New comment by nekooooo in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

nekooooo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:04:19 +0000

joysticks only had one fire button.

New comment by nekooooo in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

nekooooo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:24:27 +0000

they should have referenced Rebirth - that one was spot on (i never owned a 303 though, just got access to one occasionally)

New comment by nekooooo in "Segagaga Has Been Translated into English"

nekooooo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:48:09 +0000

the end product is incredibly stilted, missing in-jokes, has misnamed items and ruins like half the puns and wordplay in the game. it also switches past/present/future cases and is really inconsistent with indefinite articles.

New comment by nekooooo in "Segagaga Has Been Translated into English"

nekooooo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:12:21 +0000

ai translations of japanese still miss the point and screw up / hallucinate articles and subjects between passages (switching genders, for instance, 3 times in one paragraph)

New comment by nekooooo in "Segagaga Has Been Translated into English"

nekooooo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:22:23 +0000

i don't think the translators had any first hand experience with akiba culture of that time period, nor did they know how to speak japanese to actually research it (and most of those ezweb.ne.jp / imode sites are long gone)

New comment by nekooooo in "MacBook Air with M5"

nekooooo — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:11:11 +0000

what is this, slashdot? 

New comment by nekooooo in "Japanese Death Poems"

nekooooo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:42:15 +0000

my imagination when reading 散り紅葉 is an enka song lol

New comment by nekooooo in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

nekooooo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:23:57 +0000

because it's fun

New comment by nekooooo in "The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)"

nekooooo — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:53:16 +0000

if you're talking about the train booking site going down -- struggling elders are still using the face to face or phone support. they probably have never made an online reservation.

New comment by nekooooo in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

nekooooo — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:37:34 +0000

i no longer use luxurious wood, linen, and metal textures. these did serve a purpose at the time, though. skeumorphic design was a guidepost for a far less digital-literate user.

New comment by nekooooo in "Removing macOS 26 Tahoe's unwanted menu icons"

nekooooo — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:35:32 +0000

Tahoe's menu icons are incredibly badly implemented. SF symbols are not meant to be viewed at this size and they actually don't provide any useful context or hierarchy when they're littered next to a dozen other incomprehensible glyphs.

New comment by nekooooo in "There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him"

nekooooo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:18:57 +0000

modern engineering is launching an electron to-do list app that uses 2gb of ram.

New comment by nekooooo in "There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him"

nekooooo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:18:08 +0000

true. woz made a $900 universal remote in 1987. it could control 256 devices via IR and was programmable via PC at a time when you probably had 1 device in your house (with 7 channels.) Maybe 2 if you had a tape player. He clearly made it for himself and his sick component system.

New comment by nekooooo in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"

nekooooo — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:40:15 +0000

not sure if you mean sonic and knuckles or the company that made king of fighters or something else.

New comment by nekooooo in "Can you slim macOS down?"

nekooooo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:53:19 +0000

when i read threads like this i remember the ancient slashdot meme: this is surely the year of desktop linux

New comment by nekooooo in "The State of AI Coding Report 2025"

nekooooo — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:25:00 +0000

i'm a designer and even i know not to measure 'lines of code' as meaningful output or impact. are we really doing this?