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The Famicom Disk System included special sound hardware the NES lacked, so their Contra, Zelda, and Metroid sounded much better than ours.

But the Japanese Contra was so much better! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CiXzONyCDW0

The NFL and MLB seem to have similar numbers of recent dynasties and of different teams that have won a championship.

I went to New York’s Museum of Holography in the 1980’s. It was on Mercer Street but it closed in the 90’s. I remember it was incredible, though, and I saw some techniques on display that I haven’t seen matched since.

And what might that look like in a hypothetical future where the successors of today's LLMs really do reach that bar and convince you?

If you lived in the world of Star Trek, could Data convince you he was conscious? How?

I was working there when they switched to that font. A lot of people were furious that their cheese had been moved.

Well there's a name I haven't seen since 2007

These are the original illustrations with just the text changed.

Not sure; I didn't go to law school.

Out of curiosity, why do you think you know that?

"Oh, I wonder which subroutine he came up with"

(Googles it)

"Ah"

This was probably what people used to say about petrol stations.

The floppies got A and B because hard drives were expensive and for a time a lot of people got by without them, though everybody had at least one floppy.

Even if you only had one floppy, it was both A and B, so you could say "copy a:DOC.TXT b:" and it would read the doc and then ask you to insert the floppy you're considering B (and depending on file size and available memory, sometimes switch back and forth a few more times)

“Burning Man is supposed to be about anarchy!”

“Cool, I’m going to fly in on a private plane”

“No not like that”

I don’t understand your edit; can you quote an example switch?

“These are the worst ads I’ve ever seen.”

“But you have seen them.”

I don't actually see that change, unless I misunderstand the meaning of toptext.

This post would be improved by adding a sentence explaining what ScrollPods are. I don't mean the technical details that you promise in an upcoming post, but rather anything whatsoever about what it's like to use them.

Why is the wind-up gear needed? Couldn't the axle be connected directly to the spring gear?

Yeah, I don't understand this. What broken tool is turning newlines into j?

Taking a knee to lock in an American football victory used to be considered unsportsmanlike, but then the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_at_the_Meadowlands happened, where the Giants were up 17-12 with 30 seconds left and played normally. They fumbled the ball, the Eagles recovered it and scored a touchdown, the Giants' offensive coordinator was summarily fired and never worked in the NFL again, and ever since, dropping to your knee when it ensures your win is standard, accepted, and even sometimes called the Victory Formation.

Because if the one falling 20ft lands on a seesaw, the other side of it will toss two balls each of the same mass 10ft up.

To me this sounds more like the Icarus Fallacy: "The lesson of isn't don't fly close to the sun, it's make better fucking wings."

I've never heard of a big red L but I've known about the Japanese new-driver icon for decades.

Do you think it’s dangerous to be in a car going at freeway speed? Do you ever do that anyway, even though you could be walking instead?

People were definitely addicted to IRC.

Priests will read it and then talk to their congregations about it on Sundays throughout the year, if not explicitly, then in how it shapes their homilies.

Yeah, every US sixth-grader can instantly tell you 12x12=144 but will have to puzzle out 2x13 the long way.

I agree. She’ll never get to 20 because kids only do the times table up to 12.