Why, does Switzerland still have a patent on LSD?

Trump is useful to people with effectively infinite money. AOC, quite the opposite.

They may have already had a go at German, where common word pairs are collapsed into macros (i.e. “in dem” (“in the”) becomes “im”, “zu der” becomes “zur” and so on).

The Supreme Court will probably overturn it 6-3

Rather embarrassing for Israel to fumble something so basic

Roberts, in a hot-dog costume, trying to figure out who did this

That’s what happens when you let a mad king play toy soldiers with your national military assets

The Kims had entertained ambitions to conquer South Korea, capture its industrial base and add its surviving population to the labour camp work force. Perhaps the pace of progress in Ukraine has caused them to reevaluate the feasibility of this.

In the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, there was a video in which James Bond takes the Queen skydiving. The Queen’s stunt double in the skydive scene was a bloke with a beard (which was invisible from the distance it was shot at)

They’re a south-pointing compass (if they assert something, you know it’s wrong)

Aircraft with millimetre-wave radar could detect them easily. And under a totalitarian regime like Iran, mere possession would be a capital crime.

For that price, you’d at least expect a slide-out QWERTY keyboard under the game pads so you can do some BASIC programming when you get bored of Chucky Egg.

Are these the FPGA ones or just specially branded ARM Linux retro-gaming handhelds?

“Trump is not a cunt. He doesn’t have the warmth or the depth” - a sign at a protest

Man with stereotypical Italian name has close relative also with stereotypical Italian name

There are recompilation tools in some form; there’s a version of the C64 speech synthesiser SAM somewhere on Github that has been translated into very unreadable C code with global variables for the 6502 registers and 64K of RAM and C code that does the equivalent of 6502 instructions (I think the ST* instructions that touch the SID have been replaced with audio-writing code). For games, presumably you’d want this sort of thing with some libraries that do VIC-II graphics, SID audio, simulate hardware interrupts and such.

If one wanted to distribute C64 games to people who aren’t necessarily into C64 hardware or emulation, what would be the best way of doing so? Are there tools for either wrapping such a game in a preconfigured emulator or else recompiling the 6502 code into a native app for existing game platforms?

Mark Fisher’s KPunk blog/Capitalist Realism. That and/or play Disco Elysium.

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The lack of phonetic information is a challenge. If you see an unfamiliar English word, you can guess the pronunciation, and usually be pretty close (sometimes you’ll get a phoneme wrong or stress the wrong syllable, but listeners will be able to infer what you meant). With kanji, as well as not knowing what it means, you have no information of how it’s pronounced. It is theoretically possible for kanji to exist which not only lack meaning but also have no pronunciation, and indeed, there are about a dozen meaningless, soundless “ghost kanji”that ended up in Unicode due to bureaucratic errors at the Japanese standards agency.