Adam Hay

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If this is what sinterklaas sent to me this year then I'd love to know what I did to piss him off...

Not true.

It was actually the extra copies of ET they couldn't fit into the burial site at Alamogordo.

Maybe I should've started with the last step, then i would've realised that there was absolutely nothing wrong and then grabbed a cup of tea and carried on with my life...

I just did a stupid.

Someone reported a specific game not working on a MiSTer core, so I

*Grabbed the game
*Installed it in an emulator
*Saved out the memory
*Disassembled it
*trawled the memory for the suspect code...
*...fired up the core to see what was happening.

want to guess how that went?

Dear charity collectors,

I don't give at the door because I know that I need to donate for months just to cover your cut. I skip straight to direct donations.

I just don't feel like funding your weekend beers in place of whatever situation you're exploiting.

So bugger off.

Does anybody know a way around the bol.com chatbot to get to an actual human being?

It's bloody useless and everything pushes you to it.

It had to happen eventually...

Here's a random computing question:

*Apricot were around first.
*Apple wanted to be in the phone book before Apricot
*Acorn wanted to slip in before Apple
*The Dutch.... went with Tulip. Why? Aardbei (strawberry) was right there and basically unbeatable.

Why throw away a victory like that?

Well that's my vote in.

Spoiler alert: It wasn't Wilders.

#TweedekamerVerkiezing

I know that pain...

Them:'You don't remember my name? Am I a joke to you?'
Me: <list all their likes, dislikes, ambitions, phobias, allergies and a thousand other piece of trivia related to them>
Them: 'I can't believe you forgot my name...'

Never had the pleasure of being on the receiving end of this sentence, but I have experienced 'now just add single player', which works out just as well to be honest...

'Now just add multiplayer'

Buienradar keeps referring to 'Depression Storm Amy', which sounds like a great title for an emo song...

Reminds me that I need to dig out my work-in-progress port and finish it.

It's rough but playable, so I guess it should tidy it up during the wet dark months...

My 'favourite' was the person who said on facebook that I only voted remain during Brexit because I'm one of the elite who had more opportunities and went to a better school than he did.

We were in the same class for 5 years and shared a table in most classes...

Their power comes from any fear they can cause.

That would make pointing and laughing at them a pretty good defence.

Well.. I made enquiries about getting my BBC Micros back from the UK (Master 512 and a Master compact), and it looks like they were dumped at a recycling centre.

Fuck...

Hey postNL,

When you marked my package as delivered to neighbours because I wasn't home you do realise that I have a video doorbell, right?

I also have video of your driver just walking by and not even trying the door.

I just got ICE'd by a car parked diagonally over 2 bays, one of which was a charging point.

First time ever, and it had to happen eventually...

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Dutch TV gets it.

Ceramic white 6502 CPU from 1975

Happy birthday to the MOS 6502! It was 50 years ago today that people were able to buy their first samples of the chip from a jar in a hotel room at WESCON.

Here's my oldest 6502 from the 52nd week of 1975. Still works perfectly!

Fellow geeks who horde cables for every device produced since 1977 in their loft...

Can we just agree to maybe skip over EV charging cables?

If they lean on you saying things like it's a cool job, you'll look like a loser if you push back and there's others who would kill for your place just tell them to go away and find one of those people instead.

I did exactly that and funnily enough I'm still a gamedev, just at a better place.

It's a fulfilling thing to do, but only do it if you can be sure that you won't make it a big part of your identity and you have it in you to tell a manager to sod off if they're being abusive.

You need to know when to walk away.

I'd love to know how - you could write it in BASIC and it would run better than half the versions they released.

More likely they realised you couldn't just throw the ST 68000 code at it and fix it up...

It can improve games if you use it as a fast memory shifter for moving graphics around (which is a side effect of it being a crappy memory expansion), so you can have faster games with more stuff onscreen.

But that was figured out too late, and devs would only target common hardware anyway...

The ICC have as much jurisdiction as Trump did when he blew that boat out of the water...

But it seems the hate-filled orange prick doesn't really worry about jurisdiction too much, so why should anyone else at this point?

Albert Heijn and Unilad seem to have mastered the art of contextual advertising on facebook...

Nobody bends the laws of space and time quite like PostNL