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I enjoy his technical and tech culture essays, ones like this are a waste of time and mental energy. I won’t read it because I know it provides zero value.

You won't read it based off of its title I presume? On Twitter he says how so many people jumped into conclusion without even reading the essay.

Btw this falls squarely into "tech culture" category.


SNES also had a similar service called StellaView that was only available in Japan. They had live farro and timed legend of Zelda 1 completions iirc.

I used to play some of the roms of these games. The one of Legend of Zelda was pretty slick, redone with A Link to the Past graphics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview_games_from_The_L...


As a tourist, the cost was well worth it. Used buses and rail to get everywhere, booked one DB train from Berlin to Bamberg but otherwise travelled all over Germany during my time there.

Just had to remember to cancel.


A lot of folks configure their editor to render |> as a rotated triangle.


Sure, but putting it in a code sample is similar to putting opening/closing quotes in a code sample instead of "

It makes it harder for people to copy and paste and play with.


If you copy and paste that triangle you will get "|>".


Isn’t this the guy who joined Twitter as an intern to “fix” search?


We reset them every time a religious figure comes along anyway.


Gave me a flashback to my middle school days when I used a hex editor to modify my saved game files.


Shut down the stupid blockchain miners that are taxing the grid for no good reason beyond transferring wealth upward.


You should read that dudes Twitter account. It really can be something else sometimes.


Ignore the doomsayers, they purposefully want us to pause progress in the name of “everything is wrong.”

It’s been that way for centuries. There’s always things “getting worse outside your bubble” but there’s also a lot going well.

Never apologize for saying this is the kind of content you come to hacker news for, it is EXACTLY the content that should be here.

People can go to Twitter or something if they want to doomscroll.


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