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As soon as I saw .cpp I knew it was cursed.

Star Trek The Original Series scene. Montgomery Scott, in his red uniform and with a floral red velvety looking backdrop, looks happy. Like, just SO happy. He's beaming, not StarTrek beaming, just happy beaming. Closed caption reads: [BANGING]

#HappyValentinesDay

Please test and break my database
FragCoord.xyz

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Harsh but fair.

Title screen for Valentine's Day Grump, an Apple II educational game from Troll Associates, © 1985. A smiling red-orange troll is seated among violet and red-orange hearts against a blue-and-white background.

As simple as it appears, this is some impressive color control. They did not have to make it this hard. Troll Associates rarely disappoints.

The Art of Bob Peak

The maintainer has posted a follow-up that gets to the heart of the issue: the ethics of reporting and the runaway effects of agentic misinformation.

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Roses are red, violets are blue, syntax error in line 32.

A message from your ZX Spectrum.

All three pictures are of the Lemmings statue in Dundee.

Today is Valentine's Day and more importantly, the 35th birthday of Lemmings.
Here's your annual reminder that there is a Lemmings statue in Dundee.

Help Jack fund this new game! Especially if you're into Giallo and Horror movies 🕴️

YouTube video by 8/16/32bit The Tandy/Memorex VIS

It's the Tandy/Memorex VIS by Radio Shack!

What do you mean you've never heard of it?

Well, watch this and learn something!

youtu.be/0hA3f4cuqis

lady macbeth: i love you with strange tenderness that startles me and i cannot allow myself to be so soft Macbeth: you have transformed me and i am the monster in the mirror. i have come full circle. this. this is me as i was destined from my birth. it hurts. lady macbeth/macbeth: i love you you have transformed me with strange tenderness and i am the monster that startles me in the mirror. and i have come full circle. i cannot allow this. this is me myself as i was destined to be from my birth. so soft it hurts. — two.bees.poetry

So Soft It Hurts — two.bees.poetry

black and white art for cover to a sample superman comic in its earliest version. the date at the bottom says 1928 but this was done in 1933 when Siegel and Schuster first started developing the idea of their hero. we see a man flying down to stop a tough looking mug sticking a gun in the face of a guy who is bound and gagged. there's a cityscape in the background and what looks like a speeding locomotive the title says "the Superman a science fiction story in cartoons". "The most astounding fiction character of all time" for 10 cents

The Superman — Jerry Siegel & Joe Schuster, 1933

pixelated space man in space suit, floating in space with a computer (keyboard & monitor).

computer graphics (1985) archive.org/details/Comp...

a computer/screen with a pirate's face in the screen, eyepatch, knife in mouth, red with white dots polkadot bandana over the top of the screen, two chained/shackled arms protruding from the side of the screen (one from each side). the arm on the right has a skull and crossbones tattoo on the lower part of the arm.

scuttle the computer pirates: software protection schemes, book (1984) i.ebayimg.com/images/g/eLw...

YouTube video by RobSmithDev I Built a REAL Floating Lemming... For the 35th Anniversary

Watch the wonderful @robsmithdev.bsky.social make a floating #Lemming!

#Lemmings #Lemmings35th
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-2K...

New version of Rogue 7800, work in progress game for #Atari7800 forums.atariage.com/topic/380919... #roguelike #atari

Inside Raiders of the Lost Ark (Atari Style) Hackaday Article

Inside Raiders of the Lost Ark (Atari Style)

Dark Souls III for $26 is one of the best prices I've seen in the last four years, but it's still four times higher than it was before Elden Ring came out.

"Isometric games don't exist" is a guide with 40 detailed charts about perspective in videogames.

It teaches you everything about isometry and what all the other game perspectives & projections are and how they work.

You can download it for free on my itch page
cyangmou.itch.io/isometric-ga...

After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name One developer is struggling with the social implications of a drive-by AI character attack.

The most interesting thing about this disappeared Ars Technica article about an AI agent beefing with an open-source maintainer is the last part, which appears to have been hallucinated by another AI.

web.archive.org/web/20260213...

Someone in a thread asked about reasons AGI was impossible, even theoretically.

AGI here stands for "Artificial General Intelligence," basically used a buzzword for a conscious, godlike bias-free computer brain that could take actions on its ideas, but really would be much more limited. [MORE]

GitHub - joshuanwalker/Raiders2600: Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 - joshuanwalker/Raiders2600

Here's a new disassembly of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for Atari VCS/2600 with extensive documentation. Very impressive.
(via Ian Schmidt)

github.com/joshuanwalke...

Comparing the output of my emulator to test data for the jump indirect instruction JMP ($70FF)

I’ve been developing an #emulator for the MOS 6502 and ran into a hardware bug that occurs when a page boundary is crossed during the jump indirect instruction.

Check out my article on the bug & how you can handle it when emulating!

markjames.dev/blog/6502-ju...

#retrocomputing #emulation

Sifting and cleaning up my PDF folder i stumbled on this amazing 2019 paper "What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?" which in it's supplememts contains an "exact scale (1:1) illustration of a Primordial Black Hole" (black holes that formed shortly after the big bang). arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090

YouTube video by 80's 90's Music Video's Remastered @Videos80s Rollins Band - Liar (1994) Official Music Video Remastered

One of my favorite videos.

500 Assets Added to Pack in February Update This February, we're adding over 500 new assets to the pack free for existing customers and readily available for those of you looking to get in on this month's 50% off sale!

Boom! As promised we're updating our 10k Game Assets pack for both new and existing customers. This February update includes over 500 brand new assets #GameDev #Indiedev

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That he’s not in the Eisner hall of fame is a disgrace. Just his Dredd alone should be enough. But when you tot up everything else he’s done for the industry, it’s baffling that he’s omitted every year.