Q*Bert Reynolds

I think they’re giving you shit for using github.

https://youtu.be/Limpr1L8Pss

Top notch content. Right up there with his popcorn button on the microwave video.

This is just a crude early version. Eventually the tiles will be significantly smaller, quieter, and less prone to ripping toes off.

Even simple lies like this stress me out. My method is to just abruptly say, “sorry, I’ve got to go” and hang up. If asked about it later, “I’d really rather not talk about it.” They pretty much never ask about it later though. Zero lies, zero stress, and you don’t have to keep talking on the phone.

“Engineers have been circulating an old, famous-among-programmers web comic about how all modern digital infrastructure rests on a project maintained by some random guy in Nebraska. (In their telling, Mr. Freund is the random guy from Nebraska.)”

That’s not quite right. Lasse Collin is the random guy in Nebraska. Freund is the guy that noticed the whole thing was about to topple.

Becoming a Nintendo developer and using their SDK is free. It’s just the hardware that costs money.

Each dev kit is $450. Being able to test on an emulator is free. Sure, you ultimately want to test on hardware, but indie dev teams aren’t going to shell out that kind of money for each developer. Who gives a fuck about indie developers though, right?

Says 1-bit then goes on to describe inputs as -1, 0, or 1. That’s 2-bit. Am I missing something here?

Signal playback doesn’t require anything extra. I love that their docs have a giant warning to not use it on new cars though.

Those videos are staged. The signal playback trick doesn’t work on newer cars because the code changes every time you lock or unlock your car. You could probably replicate the functionality of a key fob on your Flipper, but it would need to be registered with the car’s computer the same as any other key fob, which means you’d already have to have to access to the car.

Only 30+ year old cars, but a coat hanger can do that too. Soooo…

Monkey’s paw curls… you no longer exist because you were stillborn.

It’s probably based on Q learning, which has been around for 30+ years, and I’m guessing the star is a nod to A* because it’s an optimization of some kind.

The Game Boy was not powered by a Z80. It was a Sharp LR35902. It was similarly modeled after an 8080, but you’re not going to be able to run Z80 code on a Game Boy.