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This seems very naive, since afaik the mods also deal (thru 3rd party apps or extensions) with the large amount of spam that reddit gets. And, of course, who is going to deal with those reports?

I mean, sure, Reddit could close everything but the top 20 or 30 most popular subreddits, hire some offshored mods, and start the content moderation speedrun[1] anew. But, why? And how bad will it get before the IPO? Reddit has spent the past two decades washing their hands of any moderation tasks, as their first party mod tools show. Starting now, with a pissed off power user base, seems suicidal.

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They did, originally. They released a $10, no microtransactions Mario game (Super Mario Run) in 2016. The general consensus is that the game did not live up to Nintendo's commercial expectations[1], and I think that's true. Nintendo entirely switched to the more standard App Store game model for its later mobile titles, and they print money.

As for "tarnishing the brand," Nintendo still hasn't really put a "full title" on mobile, with the maybe possible exception of Mario Kart. It feels like they are still keeping their distance, but who knows what would have happened if the Switch sales were more like the Wii U than the Wii.

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> However, an additional control was undertaken where colour contrast thresholds were measured in the morning and then re-measured 3 h later without exposure to 670 nm. This comprised of ten subjects (six Females and four males). To determine if there were significant shifts in colour contrast sensitivities across the day that were independent of 670 nm and might undermine outcome measures for their exposure, six subjects were repeatedly tested at 0, + 3, + 6 and + 9 h (four Females and two Males).

Figure 2 shows the (lack of) effect in the no-light control group at T0 and T+3hrs. Interestingly, they don't compare to baseline like in figure 1 with the AM light group. However, Figure 4 does show a lack of training effect when repeating the same test 4 times throughout the day within the same subject.

(Also, interesting that your first response to a paper in Nature is that they don't have a control group...)

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They are rearing for another battle in the gay rights culture war.

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The wonders of C constants. Sometimes IDO can do the conversion at compile time, and sometimes it can't. But, the compiler will treat things "0.0f" and a compile-time "(f32)0.0" as different constants for code-gen purposes.

I thought his snark wasn't too off the charts in this video. I'd bet it's more a cultural thing. If you were working on the N64, you're probably like two decades above Kaze's target audience for his youtube videos haha. Like, he said that you can either be a weirdo who spends all day optimizing nearly 30 year old source code, or someone who "touches grass"[1]. He, of course, was referencing his own lack of life, not Nintendo's programmers. But, you'd have to pretty familiar with current online memes and insults to get his joke.

> I have not seen the Mario 64 source but I imagine some of the lowest level code was written in mips assembly but has been decompiled into C.

No, we only decompiled C code back into C code. The decompilation matches 1 to 1 with the released ROM images.[2] iirc, the only, non-libultra ASM code was the decompressor[3]. The C code was pretty obvious due to "wonders" of IDO -O0 optimization. We were forced to get surprisingly close to what Nintendo wrote. We were stuck with an `f32 [3]` 3-vec instead of a `struct`...

> I suspect the debug flags in gameplay code were to avoid compiler bugs.

As far as we could tell, this wasn't an issue. IDO 5.3 had no issues that we could find when compiling at -O2, but then again it was decompiled code. I personally subscribe to the '-O2 -g' IDO meme, but Giles Goddard thought it was out of fear of the unknown. So, I'd trust him.

We had the `mulmul` patch for IDO. I don't know the chronology for the release of that patch to devs, though. We also haven't been able to find any N64s that have the mulmul issue.

> An NTSC tv runs at 60Hz, you either hit 60fps or 30fps, anything in-between results in horrible tearing of the screen or your frames bounce between 60 and 30 and movement feels horrific.

I wonder what Kaze is doing. I know that there was work on a variable framerate mod/revamp for SM64. I'd guess it'd be outputting at the N64's 60 fps mode with duplicated frames, but you'd have much better luck asking one of the modders/coders who were working on that a couple years ago.

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