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Sleep is the bottleneck.

Reminds me of this overpass in Lynnwood Washington.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CKrJFsAjcTd6wbYn6?g_st=ipc


Oh, that's fun. It's even got a ghost ramp - I wonder what the original plan was there.


I call my personal methodology PDD, Pain Driven Development.

Fix the thing that is causing the most pain. Or is likely to cause pain in the near future.


I also was bit disappointed when it wasn't smart wheels. Then I got impressed to see it handle the drops and stairs.


I’m a fan of authentic retro hardware. That sounds like an awesome cabinet, I would love to spend hours and pockets full of quarters playing on it.

This post caused me to go down a rabbit hole about CRT simulation.

Looks like it is a thing.

https://github.com/blurbusters/crt-beam-simulator


> That sounds like an awesome cabinet

Why, yes! Yes it is. :-)

If it sounds good, you should consider one of your own. My goal was not the retro nostalgia of my recreating my parent's shitty 1970s living room TV but instead creating a cabinet that would allow me to explore these games each in their authentically correct resolution and frame rate and at the maximum quality and fidelity possible. That's why I chose an analog RGB monitor and the last, fastest GPU ever made with a native analog RGB signal path (R9 380X). I run a special version of the MAME emulator called GroovyMAME made just enable technically correct native display via analog signals on a CRT. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/board,52.0.html

I created this cabinet over ten years ago, before emulation pixel shaders were a thing. If you don't want to go to the effort, expense and time of acquiring and calibrating a high-end CRT, good pixel shaders can now get you >98% of the way there much easier and cheaper.


Someone else asked for more info, so I wrote a much more detailed post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823507


My younger kids hadn’t seen the Matrix and I thought the 25th anniversary release in the theater would be perfect.

Leading up to it I tried to create the mystery for them that I remembered 25 years ago.

All of the mystery was destroyed with the featurette.

I was so annoyed and disappointed. But they enjoyed the movie so that was good at least.


That is so frustrating.


I would be fine with the Pro models getting larger screens if they would shrink the standard phone. I'm still trying to survive with my 12 mini for as long as possible until the battery dies. I tried a standard iPhone 15 for two weeks last year and I wasn't happy with the larger size and returned it.

The mini was a great form factor, fits in more pockets comfortably and the whole screen is within reach of my thumb when using the phone one-handed.


More people want "all of the above" to be larger than want the smaller phone. It does leave those that prefer the truly small phones in a tough spot though, but they are a tiny percentage of buyers and only a fraction of that percentage actually dislike the other options vs would just use the mini when it's available https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/21/iphone-13-mini-unpopula...

That said I wonder if they'll slip in a new mini model every once in a great while to give that group of users an option.


Excellent article. Very well presented with just the right level of detail and drama.

I had no intention of learning about ADB or crazy Apple USB power-on hacks but here I am having had a great time while doing just that.

10/10 would recommend and now this blog is on my reading list.


I agree with you but handing the power to the Executive Branch doesn't solve the problem.

The people need to demand more from their elected officials but the two parties have done an outstanding job getting us to fight with each other so we forget how the corporations are controlling everything.


I want to respond with a Beowulf cluster joke.

Then I remembered this isn’t slashdot and it isn’t 2001.

Now I’m reminded of how old I’ve gotten.


Slashdot is where I found out about 9/11. I got up one morning and the NY Times (which I usually read first) wasn’t loading. Neither was CNN. After one or two more news sites, I shrugged and went to Slashdot, and that was where I saw the news.


Thanks for the memory lane trip, mate. Yep, we’re old.


Just remember, BSD is dead now.


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