We didn’t have the Intel 8080 chip that the Altair computer ran on, So Paul got to work writing a program that would simulate one on Harvard’s PDP-10 mainframe. This allowed us to test our software without needing an actual Altair.

So, basically:

We are going to write a compiler, but first we are going to write a Virtual Machine from scratch because the hardware is too expensive.

Good times.

Bold of you to assume the tiger didn’t go for them as an appetizer.

As a native Portuguese speaker I found it very useful when I started to learn English. And even nowadays having some form of “visual map” between English and Portuguese at least for more erudite words - which tend to be the ones that are shared between more languages - helps me write English better.

The similarities between English and German also ended up helping me learn German.

Going by how ortography changes have gone in other languages, I doubt it.

Besides English, if English fix its ortography it’s going to become much harder to learn for speakers of other European languages - as confusing the pronunciation rules and exceptions are, they are caused by writing things similarly to other European languages while mangling the original pronunciation.

That’s very 2024. Now they are arresting German and Northern European immigrants too. They are also moving past “illegal” because US visas don’t actually mean a thing now - the US border control has arrested several people with valid visas already. And when people get used to this, they’ll be able to disappear anyone and claim they weren’t American citizens.

They can’t close the kernel. They already distribute Android with proprietary software - for example Google Play services and DRM services.

It’s almost like LLMs aren’t capable of understanding or something. /s

And analytics. And offloading as much computation to the client, because servers are expensive and inefficiency is not an issue if your users are the ones paying for it.

Just wait until the vibe coder overwrites 3 months of “work” with garbage because ChatGPT never told them about git and then decided to poop the pants.

Antennapod and not depending on the whims of whatever a CEO feels like today.

Please do. I want to train an AI on Disney movies. (Dear Disney lawyers please take the bait)

Fine is high praise for videogame adaptations.

All of the above and more? There’s always the risk of something falling through the cracks, so the more layers of security measures you add/can afford the better.

90% of security vulnerabilities are caused by “let’s just use/do this for now and change it before production”.

Two Mac OS VMs enforced at Kernel level, which wasn’t a thing on Intel Macs.

Did they remove the stupid limit of 2 VMs per machine or is it still an expensive toy?

They published lots of popular franchises, the problem is that they never owned half of them and the other half are now owned by big labels like EA. Maybe they can recover some mid level franchises from the ruins Embracer is leaving behind but that’s pretty much it.

I think they just figured out they can offload the modernization of old games to the community. People will still have to buy the game to get the assets needed to play it legally.

It’s called parody. It’s very hard to do when talking about people that are the embodiment (and origin) of Poe’s Law, so I appreciate everyone’s effort.

Back when silicon valley wasn’t all about fellating boot Google left China for much less.