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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_N

"Nickname for Nintendo"

I remember it being frequently used as far back as the 80s by Electronic Gaming Monthly

Comment · 1 year ago
I see "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" when zoomed in all the way. "Gulf of America" when zoomed out.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is a first step towards "the holodeck". You describe a scene and it exists. Imagine you could jump in and interact with it. That seems like something that could happen in 10-20 years.
Comment · 2 years ago
Does this mean I can write a print function and be able to print"hello world" without parentheses again, like in python 2.x ?
Comment · 2 years ago
https://www.ztree.com/ a clone of the old DOS Xtree. Quite the learning curve, but very powerful.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Does the heat treatment damage electronics? Can you leave your computers in the house while your house is baking?
Comment · 2 years ago
If "the singularity" is a real thing that can happen, it seems like there is an incentive for species that fear "the singularity" to preemptively wipe out any civilizations they find which seem close to achieving AGI
Comment · 2 years ago
How good is error handling on USB 4? The rare times I've had data corruption it was almost always when transferring lots of data using USB (this happened to me on multiple drives, computers, usb ports or cables. this was in the early USB 3 days)
Comment · 2 years ago
Video's description : "Sep 15, 2023 -- In 2021 the FORCEDENTRY sandbox escape introduced the usage of NSPredicate in an iOS exploit. This new technique allowed attackers to sidestep codesigning, ASLR, and all other mitigations to execute arbitrary code on Apple devices. As a result, Apple put in place new restrictions to make NSPredicate less powerful and less useful for exploits. This presentation will cover new research showing that these added restrictions could be completely circumvented in iOS 16, and how NSPredicates could be exploited to gain code execution in many privileged iOS processes. This technical deep dive will be a rare instance of iOS security that anyone can comprehend without years of experience."
Comment · 2 years ago
As a kid I always admired AVATAR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Attribute_Termi... ) and wondered why more people didn't use it for art. It was far more efficient. I'd use it wherever I could, and it would feel like my modem got a 2x speed boost. But I'd never seen any BBS software convert ANSI art into AVATAR on the fly...

Also, displaying ANSI with ANSI.SYS was completely unsafe, as there were codes to redefine keyboard input (i.e. turn F1 into Format C:)

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