What did you learn from this?

I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the US to apply the Chinese approach.
Has anyone heard from Jack Ma lately? Is it really a bad thing?

I wish I had some hippocratic style oath I could lean on to not release unsafe, unoptimised, barely tested, possibly maintainable code.
Alas all I have is good, verbose comments and an email here or there expressing my concerns.

I think your system has made it abundantly clear that neither competence, nor mental state, nor age, nor criminal record are limiting factor to be a politician in the US.

Oh dear, yes, SVGA! I had forgotten about that one, hahaha!

Oh man! This is some brilliant trickery, haha! I love those. Back in the day, though, there was scant few sources of info so most people would rediscover this sort of stuff on their own, unless part of some group like the demo scene. Wish I could have read this sort of article back then…

VGA let’s you pick a palette of 256 colours out of 262144, which is because the RGB components were actually on 6bit, not the full 8bit we would come to expect later. The 320x200 resolution would also be a sore point for artists and that’s how you ended with quite a few games sticking to the EGA palette and using dithering to simulate more colours while using a superior resolution (640x480, or was it 800x600?). I’ve some vivid memories of Cobra Mission for example, or the Commander Keen saga.

Hercules used to play in 720 x 400 or thereabouts.

And that CGA palette looks wrong to me, haha. All the games I ever saw were either cyan magenta black and white, or black red green yellow. First time I see a mix like this.

But can you shoot it down?

I’m actually curious what they even import from the US that they can’t find elsewhere or make themselves.
I’m wearing NB bought in a NB shop in Wuhan at European prices and they’re… made in Indonesia. I’m guessing it’s gonna be some really unique luxury shit like alcohol? Or cars? So nothing that’s gonna affect Chinese people significantly, except perhaps to send them shopping in the EU and reinforce the Belt and Road and the railway connection with Europe (well, if Putin doesn’t fuck things up. That’s another story)

“Another fals positive? Woops! Whatever shall we do?”

Well, he could just show his birth certificate, right?

I wonder what he’ll say when he realises what the French motto means. What a muppet.

I kinda assumed it was more of a Prince of New York scenario, really.

That’s an interesting and reasonable take.
I’m actually surprised you are not down voted to oblivion!

Remember the outrage when stuff like that happens in China?
Ever since living there a few years back, I keep saying how your two countries are so fucking similar, and it getting truer every day.

Your jesus like approach is nice and all, but a lot of people seem to only learn their lesson after they have suffered. I think we shouldn’t rejoice in their suffering and instead hope they learnt a fucking thing, but given their stupidity literally cost lives, I’d say you shouldn’t be surprised at people enjoying a bit of Schadenfreude.

They probably freaked out when she started speaking Welsh. Understandable.

Have been using it for 8 years now. I never felt the need to switch back honestly. Only Google thing I really love is Maps and that’s it.

One of those is not like the others…