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CaptainJistuce

Posted on 19-07-20, 11:37 in Cartoons, imported

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Posted by Nicholas Steel
If you were trapped like that wouldn't you just open a window and lean out of it for air? Obviously this'd provide oxygen for the fire but still...

That might solve the asphyxiation issue(or just let the fire's outgassing flood the building more efficiently since it no longer has to work so hard to displace the trapped fresh air), but you're still basically on top of a very large barbecue grill.
Also, they did open the windows. Not for fresh air, though.

I saw someone elsewhere paste a New York Times article that touched on this aspect, and while I will spare people the grisly details... people were jumping out of them, mostly after already suffering severe burns.

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CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-21, 02:59 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE Hi.
Custom title here Post: #582 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	I know where it is and how to get to it, but I'm not going into any detail without confirmation he wants more clues. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-22, 07:29 in What is input prediction? Hi.
Custom title here Post: #583 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	--- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-23, 01:21 in Ternary chips incoming? Hi.
Custom title here Post: #584 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	Posted by sureanem And for that you use completely alien architectures anyway. The PS3 had the cell processor, so it's not like it's without precedent. PowerPC isn't THAT weird. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-24, 05:51 in Blackouts Hi.
Custom title here Post: #585 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	So Maduro's current defense is that Trump used Goldeneye on Venezuela? Good luck, you guys. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-24, 06:28 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE Hi.
Custom title here Post: #586 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	Pretty cool. Too bad it's still Gradius. Also, it takes away one of the biggest improvements made in the port from arcade to Super Nintendo. The arcade version was considered insanely and unfairly hard, even by people that think Gradius is not a misanthropic ball of hatred. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce

Posted on 19-07-24, 09:15 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE

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Posted by Broseph
Yeah. Gradius games have never been a favorite shmup series of mine.

Just played the hack. It does play a lot smoother (and is much harder as a result) but at the end of the day, it's still Gradius III and doesn't suddenly turn the game in a great SHMUP or anything. I do quite like the soundtrack of III though.

It's kind of a shame. Konami has, at times, touched upon the changes that would be needed to make Gradius a great shooter. But they always stumble and then back off for more comfortable terrain.

Maybe more games in the future will be SA-1-ed. It should be mentioned however that, from what the article said, it's not a simple matter of slapping an SA-1 chip on top of a regular SNES game either and there's quite a bit more work involved.

Well, obviously. But the point is that the hack is proven possible.

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CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-25, 23:50 in Resolutions of consoles Hi.
Custom title here Post: #588 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	I'm not a Master System expert, but 240 lines does sound wrong. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-26, 03:22 in Resolutions of consoles Hi.
Custom title here Post: #589 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	If I'm not mistaken, the Master System VDP, like other TMS9918 derivatives, outputs a 256192 image inside a 320-ish240 frame. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-26, 13:10 in Blackouts Hi.
Custom title here Post: #590 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	Why not just take over the country and remake it into a utopian ideal? --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-27, 00:26 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO! Hi.
Custom title here Post: #591 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	And here I thought IBM bought Red Hat to stop the madness. What I'm hearing here is "learn FreeBSD". --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-27, 01:07 in Blackouts Hi.
Custom title here Post: #592 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Venezuela Job perks: living wage, you can just shit off the side of the boat without flushing --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-29, 10:02 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO! Hi.
Custom title here Post: #593 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	Does Arch fuck like a tiger? --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-29, 13:28 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO! (revision 1) Hi.
Custom title here Post: #594 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	I honestly have no idea. Possibly video games. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-29, 23:01 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO! Hi.
Custom title here Post: #595 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	If you aren't loading data with an array of a hundred or so toggle switches and reading it out with a row of lamps showing you register values, you're using a machine that shouldn't exist. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-30, 04:19 in bsnes v108 released Hi.
Custom title here Post: #596 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	true pixel-perfect ZSNES snow effect emulation OH SHIT YEAH! KILLER FEATURE! Seriously, though. Good job on the release, byuu. 25% speed boost is notable, even though your emu hasn't been the system-killer it is reputed as for quite some time. The massively improved Super GameBoy is, of course, also quite appreciated. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-31, 12:33 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO! Hi.
Custom title here Post: #597 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	We get it. You are an elitist prick. You don't have to keep driving it home. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-07-31, 22:29 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO! (revision 1) Hi.
Custom title here Post: #598 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	Posted by sureanem I thought you were bullish on the smartphone/webapp trend. Et tu, capitanee? Computers are computers, interfaces designed for 5" touchscreens will be diffrent than ones designed for 25" with a keyboard and mouse by necessity. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

CaptainJistuce	Posted on 19-08-01, 00:59 in Ubuntu: x86_32 is dead because WE SAY SO! Hi.
Custom title here Post: #599 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 9 hours	Please state the nature of the medical emergency. --- In UTF-16, where available. ---

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Posted on 19-08-01, 07:18 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)

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Posted by tomman
While we guys protest in disgust about the imminent death of our beloved floppy drives and 32-bit processors on our Linux distros, the priorities at Boeing Commercial Airplanes are quite distinct:
https://www.wingsoverquebec.com/?p=8649

The death trap known as 737 MAX just got yet another computer-related flaw added to its pile of computer-related flaws: a good ol' 286 (as in "Intel 80286", released over 35 years ago!) is in charge of critical flight systems, like the flaps and stabilizers. Turns out if you feed a slowass CPU with a heavy load, said CPU performance will plummet down. We hate this when it happens to our videogames, but on an airplane the consequences are far more serious. As in deadly serious.

So yeah, those very expensive birds with flawed computers won't be flying again for some long time. The MCAS issue? That's EASY MODO. Yet, Boing (not a typo) believes they can ~~add more Javascripts~~ ~~hire more $9/hr code monkeys~~ fix this flight control flaw with more software.

I'll stick to buses, thanks.

In all fairness, I'm pretty sure javascript code monkees aren't generating anything runnable on an 80286, even an unusually fast one(I'm assuming they're using some sort of embedded microcontroller version that runs at something like 200 MHz. I mean, if it is possible for the Z80, it is possible for the 80286.).
That said, they probably can't fix this with more code. They need LESS code.

Also, slowdown nearly crashed Eagle during the Apollo 11 landing. Armstrong and Aldrin forgot to turn a single switch off, so the computer was overloaded and calculations were lagging behind real-time.

But with as much of a fiasco as the 737 MAX has been, yeah. Stick to buses. Boeing gives no shits if the plane can fly, apparently. There's problems in every crevice.

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