PANTS_ON_FIRE,

If you have a Chromium browser, that is. I’ll prefer installing libusb and using fastboot flash until there’s Firefox support.

This is how I learned about Portal in 2020

Everything is injected. Even most of Pokémon Gold, including the code enabling GBC features (the font is the same tho). This can’t be done on the NES because the character (graphics) is in CPU-inaccessible memory (and therefore ROM on most cartridges). There are several stages of the payload that write and execute each other:

1. name+item manipulation
   • a few bytes in several seconds
2. copying existing button input buffer
   • 60 bytes per second
3. polling buttons in a loop
   • only CPU-constrained, almost as fast as copying from the cartridge to RAM, literally fast enough to stream video at 10 fps (or in this case, 15 fps with ⅔ of the screen area updating, see technical writeup OP linked)

The Ocarina of Time “Triforce%” TAS speedrun (very good live commentary at GDQ!) activates some debug code such as the inventory debug menu and Starfox spaceship model

There’s WebUSB on Chromium browsers, a JS API for all kinds of peripherals. I think formatting mass storage is allowed, as long as it’s connected by USB

I used Imagine by Logotron (Czech-localized, including keywords - yes, with diacritics) as my IDE, and I still have it installed because the accompanying graphics editor (LogoMotion) is just so good. I never got to the OOP part because the textbook didn’t cover it and there are no materials onlone about the Czech version (not even a keyword dictionary), and I couldn’t speak English back then. I stopped programming for way too long because I couldn’t get another IDE working and I didn’t know how to make arrays and text I/O in Logo, the tutorials I had stopped at variables.

Yay, Logo

I used it way too long because my clumsy ass couldn’t get another IDE to work

It usually also rains during hailstorms, which helps clean up airborne particles

There’s a 2001 rewrite of the documentation. There’s lots of funny instructions aside from P00 meaning root process of the computer, like an OS kernel which also includes the P00D00 abort routine. There is also SEXTMARK (sextant mark) and ENEMA (software restart).

I know what P00 is, that’s program 00 or the root process of the computer. Terminating the subprocess hands control back to P00, which is why the processor is instructed to GOTOP00H (the H might indicate the point where the subrutine was called; presumably because the CPU lacks a hardware-implemented “return from subrutine” instruction)

Strange that the AI did not elaborate on this, that’s one of the best known parts of the Apollo software…

Forcing people to write CSS? I thought there was an international treaty against that

A slightly less dumb idea would be to tax food by calorie content. In ages of famine, that tends to be the main factor in its cost, after all, and when obesity is rampant, it could make people more aware of their diet. Artificial sweeteners and other low-energy alternatives would become way more viable. Of course, this is impractical as it would inadvertently cause massive misrepresentation of calorie count (even if the <5 cal/serving ≈ 0 cal loophole is closed).

USSR bartered machinery for bananas or sugar with Vietnam and Cuba because they lacked hard currency. I heard rumors that the rate was 1:1 by weight but I haven’t been able to find evidence. It’s probably just a widespread myth making fun of how dumb the USSR’s policies were and the banana scarcity.

I think one could be made without the need to keep touching a common electrode (with capacitance only) but would require good calibration

iGPUs vary by feature set a lot. A fully-featured GPU can sit on the motherboard and use the same cooling system as the CPU but most are bare-bones, maybe just with video codecs.

Your GPU has 128 MB of memory? What for? Mine just pushes framebuffer contents outta the VGA and DVI-D ports, with some features like I²C to determine supported resolutions and VSYNC to prevent tearing.

VMs with desktop Linux or Android are technically possible but you won’t enjoy the performance. Better dual-boot with those specs.

Damn, 1 GB of RAM in cca 2003? That was really a high-end machine. But 4 GB is enough for a Linux computer now with not too many browser tabs or workflows with large files.

Memory usage vastly depends on what the GUI framework is, if any files are open, what processing is being done… There can be a terminal emulator that needs 300 MB, and a hex editor can use any amount of RAM depending on what file is loaded (although better ones load file chunks on demand).

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