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The world is much bigger than the US, and those of us on the outside don't worship your founders.

Sega was quite crazy too. From the top of my head:

* The Megadrive plus MegaCD plus 32X, affectionately called "The Tower of Power". I have one and it is quite a hefty beast.

* Sonic & Knuckles with its lock-on technology that allowed plugin Sonic 3 (or Sonic 2) to form the full game.

* Virtua Racing and its SVP chip, Sega's answer to the SuperFX.

* The Saturn and its extension cartridges that provided additional RAM.

* The Dreamcast and its VMU.


I have that situation with anime. Yeah, I know that there are loads of awesome anime, but most anime fans are a bit... intense.

We do have those funny coloured "licorices" in Spain, but anybody with have a brain knows that the real one is black, and the others just happen to share the same shape xD

Having said that, my favourite is that salty stuff you guys have up there in the North.


3DS carts are actually NAND flash, and if you don't play them for long enough the may lost all the data!

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/psa_yes_your_ds_an...


> 3DS carts are actually NAND flash

TIL. Thank you :).


How do you get a PostgreSQL database to grow to one petabyte? The maximum table size is 32 TB o_O

Cumulative; dozens of machines with a combined database size over a PB even though each box only had like 20 TB.

Probably by using partitioning.

At least it wasn't megabytes...

Spoiler: "megabytes" are abbreviated as MB, but many people don't see to remember that SI units are case-sensitive.


Also keep in mind the difference between MB and MiB. You almost never want MB. You usually either want MiB or Mb.

Which well-defined interface? Most Unix tools communicate through text pipes, and provide their result in whatever random format the author likes that then requires significant effort to parse correctly.

Traditional Unix tools have well-defined text interfaces. Well-defined =/= universal, or well-designed, or even easy to parse...some RFCs are rough to implement parsers/validators for, but I digress. My point is that it is easier to replace an individual Unix tool, that it is to replace a systemd subsystem.

My dad was a big fan of Trinitrons. Both our first TV bought in the mid '80s, and the second one bought in the early 2000s after the first one died, were Trinitrons, as was our 17” PC monitor.

Last year I got bitten by the retrogaming bug and ended up getting now one, but two 17” Trinitrons, one for a MAME machine in our office's cantine, and one for my retro PC. Even after 25 years those beasts look gorgeous, old games really look great on them.


As a kid, I had a Sony 20" Trintron KV-20EXR20 with the weird PiP feature. That was right about the era of the change from OTA NTSC to cable TV.

On the PC side, I had a Sony CPD-1304 Trinitron monitor, and later an Iiyama Vision Master Pro 17 (with a Mitsubishi Diamondtron tube) which was possibly the finest CRT monitor ever made.


Two? I envy you.

I really wish I had the space for another CRT. One day I hope to have a second for two player time crisis.


I wonder how well that will work given the differences in grammar and word order. I have seen a similar solution applied between English and Japanese, which has a similar grammar to Korean, and the results were... not impressive.


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