YaBoyMax
@YaBoyMax@programming.dev
- Comment on Apple Vidsion Pro vulnerability fills victims room with spiders and bats 5 months ago:
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 5 months ago:
Can’t you say the same about virtually any form of entertainment? The electricity that runs the server you used to post this doesn’t come from nowhere.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 7 months ago:
Ethics may not be fully objective, but claiming that they’re fully based on emotion is a ridiculous thing to say. You can make ethical arguments based in reason. Pointing to the war and saying “see, ethics aren’t real” is an incredibly naïve conclusion to draw.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 7 months ago:
This is ignoring the fact that raising a cow for consumption requires ~10 times the amount of crops per calorie compared to just eating the crops directly. Also, I don’t think I’ve heard a single health expert recommended eating more beef - the universal understanding is that red meat consumption is generally a net negative in terms of overall health.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 7 months ago:
You seem like a very pleasant person.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 8 months ago:
macOS 10.14 has been EOL for more than 2 years now and basically every Mac released since 2012 is compatible with 10.15. Valve also didn’t just flip a switch and turn off support; they’re just no longer providing updates. I don’t think Valve shoulders any blame in this specific case - it’s unreasonable to expect any company to indefinitely support platforms that are effectively obsolete.
- Comment on Are there typically limits to the size that ROMs can be when it comes to emulators? 11 months ago:
Bank switching is necessary because the 6502 chip in the NES has a 16-bit address space, with the bottom 0x4019 (~16K) bytes being reserved for system use (RAM, PPU/APU features, and controller I/O). Cartridges therefore only had access to a ~48 KiB range of address space (although in practice I believe only the top 32K was typically used for ROM), so bank switching was needed to be able to fully access anything larger.