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New comment by someperson in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

someperson — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:50:53 +0000

As open-source hardware they are on AliExpress no problem

New comment by someperson in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

someperson — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:49:09 +0000

I wonder the dropoff for launch titles versus on-going new releases.

New comment by someperson in "When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)"

someperson — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:40:39 +0000

On this topic, I highly recommend the New York Transit Museum

New comment by someperson in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

someperson — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:18:56 +0000

I feel like the best Beatles songs are yet to be written.

Or alternatively best classic Simpsons episodes are yet to be made.

New comment by someperson in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

someperson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:02:47 +0000

A better designed system could be driven by warrants issued by courts, without (or at least minimal) access to individual officers.

It requires better access controls.

Even invasive ideas like automated license plate scanning city-wide can have its data only accessible to an API to eg, track a stolen car across the city to avoid a dangerous high-speed chase in populated areas.

I think to throw the baby out with the bathwater around networked security cameras is failure around designing robust and secure APIs and systems (including audit trails).

New comment by someperson in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

someperson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:52:23 +0000

Are there any privacy-first security camera provider where it's the city that manages data access and uses it purely for local law enforcement purposes?

New comment by someperson in "Long March-10B first landing [video]"

someperson — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:38:34 +0000

Sounds like the second stage delivered a payload to orbit (of unknown mass).

Recovery of first stage is therefore very impressive.

Though in context it's 11.5 years after SpaceX achieved a similar feat with their Orbcomm OG2 mission in December 2015.

New comment by someperson in "Biohacker Bryan Johnson reveals he has incurable disease"

someperson — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:46:44 +0000

I understand it's a mild autoimmune disorder, manageable with diet and blood tests.

It's not a terminal illness or anything.

They'll be a Mandela Effect from this story I'm sure.

New comment by someperson in "Is there a Mario Wii Web port?"

someperson — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:48:11 +0000

This sort of discussion is more suited to Reddit, but lookup the Dolphin emulator

New comment by someperson in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

someperson — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:43:05 +0000

In 5-10 years, incremental cloud tokens will be far cheaper (likely but not guaranteed).

New comment by someperson in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

someperson — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:58:58 +0000

The EV supply chain in the US back in say 2007 certainly had far fewer key parts sourced from China than recent years.

As far as US EVs being subsidized early, if you take state and federal tax incentives, DoE grants and loan guarantees as subsidizes then that's true.

It's debatable (I think incentives applied to all suppliers not just US ones) but a reasonable statement.

New comment by someperson in "International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply"

someperson — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:21:57 +0000

The US also drastically stopped constructing new houses after 2008

New comment by someperson in "Anthropic has hired an economist with interesting views on human survival"

someperson — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:23:01 +0000

A machine that can perfectly selectively weed eliminating the need for herbicides would be significant.

New comment by someperson in "SpaceX raises $25B in debt sale less than two weeks after IPO"

someperson — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:40:45 +0000

This is a debt sale. Are you saying the SpaceX bonds will be part of a widely used bond index?

New comment by someperson in "SpaceX raises $25B in debt sale less than two weeks after IPO"

someperson — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:07:51 +0000

Fantastic decision: striking while the iron is hot (high market cap and market appetite) to build an investment war chest.

Even if they don't grow into their valuation and it drops substantially, they are well capitalized for a great business.

New comment by someperson in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

someperson — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:05:50 +0000

But it's not somebody who directly lived through it. Even the father's account was well after the war.

New comment by someperson in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

someperson — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:04:26 +0000

OP isn't OP's father, and wasn't alive during WW2

New comment by someperson in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

someperson — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:44:01 +0000

Yep Meta Portal is very very nice industrial design

New comment by someperson in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

someperson — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:00:42 +0000

Hasn't SpaceX achieved that though?

And Saudi Aramco before they IPO'd

New comment by someperson in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

someperson — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:40:59 +0000

I meant that news sites should provide an API for Internet Archive to scrape their articles at all times to catch changes, but not provide any public access for an indefinite period of time (as an escrow) but eventually release it once the AI scraping issues blows over.