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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's not at all how the GPL works....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Chrono Trigger. It's basically the evolutionary peak of the NES-era console RPG. Every aspect, including the story, art, game mechanics, and music, are best-in-class, with no obvious room for improvement given the technical constraints of the time.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

After seeing this, I thought I'd go over to the Play Store to leave a 1 star review. Then discovered I had already left a 1 star review (complaining about their shitty interface) a few months ago, which I'd totally forgotten about ;-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Optical components are already used in some parts of servers, in interconnects. But I don't expect them to replace silicon for general purpose processing ever. One thing that's never noted in these scientific press releases is that optical components are huge. The wavelength of light is about a micron, i.e. a thousand times larger than the feature sizes of silicon electronics. This limitation can't be easily overcome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's all be grateful that Google handled GChat and its successors so incompetently. There was a window of time in which the world might have gotten hooked into using Google for instant messaging, which would have been a privacy disaster. Lucky, they fucked it up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I know this upsets a lot of people, but the ruling isn't without justification. $450B++ in government spending should not be accomplished through a legal loophole. (Quite aside from the fact that fiscal stimulus is the last thing the economy needs right now.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

for some fucking reason

The reason is that she expected Hillary to win and the satisfaction of the first female president appointing her replacement.

It's a great example of how these justices aren't as wise or smart as they seem to think they are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If it was so irrelevant, the colleges would not have fought tooth and nail to maintain it. Anyway, the prior experience of individual states that have banned affirmative action indicates that the effects are not negligible -- it's responsible for double digit shifts in racial compositions of student bodies.

Things will depend on how the universities respond; one can imagine Harvard doubling down on ever-subtler ways to tag Asians as personality-free robots undeserving of consideration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pull for scantily-clad farmhands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is a deliberately obtuse take by the Telegraph. Central banks are literally empowered to create or destroy money; the profits and losses they themselves make are accounting fictions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Ultima Underworld

It came out before Doom, had full isometric 3D environments including looking up and down, and contained immersive sim and RPG elements. All the ingredients of a modern first person action RPG... in 1992.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's a saying in developmental economics. There are four kinds of economies in the world: developed, undeveloped, Japan, and Argentina.

It's really mind-boggling how Argentina's economic troubles never end, under socialist governments and neoliberal ones, with a pegged exchange rate and a floating one, under high global interest rates and low ones.

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