You love to hear it.

They’re also potentially in sight of a ⅔ supermajority, which would allow them to overturn Orban’s laws.

They still have Germany, with its paraconstitutional Staatsräson.

Padme Amidala: “For social democracy, right …?”

The Victorian government should announce railway electrification (of the V/Line routes serving Melbourne’s commuter belt, followed by routes such as Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo) as a flagship project along the lines of the level crossing removal project.

There are recompilation tools in some form; there’s a version of the C64 speech synthesiser SAM somewhere on Github that has been translated into very unreadable C code with global variables for the 6502 registers and 64K of RAM and C code that does the equivalent of 6502 instructions (I think the ST* instructions that touch the SID have been replaced with audio-writing code). For games, presumably you’d want this sort of thing with some libraries that do VIC-II graphics, SID audio, simulate hardware interrupts and such.

If one wanted to distribute C64 games to people who aren’t necessarily into C64 hardware or emulation, what would be the best way of doing so? Are there tools for either wrapping such a game in a preconfigured emulator or else recompiling the 6502 code into a native app for existing game platforms?

Somewhat heartening to see that for every ex-Labour voter going to the Faragist kleptofash, several are going to the Greens, and more probably would if they knew about them.

Wouldn’t that make you a Shy Red Tory?

According to this article, John Major came so close to giving the UK a world-class railway system. A bit more deregulation and some light-handed tweaking of incentive structures would have done it.

Expecting understanding of concepts from LLMs is a category error.

The security is dubious, and Durov is not exactly an exile: he travels to Russia regularly, and Telegram have had (and might still have) development offices there, suggesting some kind of accommodation with the authorities there.

I wonder if a Chinese person who believes themselves descended from the Romans has ever met one of the Japanese people who believe themselves descended from Jesus Christ (who reportedly survived the crucifixion and traveled east, settling in Japan, having many children and living to an old age)

And now Ovidiu is a very common name in Romania

You can always lie down and RETVRN to the nitrogen cycle

That’s basically a dog-bites-man story by now.

you can add Orban and Erdogan to that list

If the Russian Mafia can do it, theoretically so can you.

Given that the guy died last year, he’s probably more likely to be mates with Ned Kelly these days.

That’s too optimistic. The trees kept voting for the axe because they gleefully imagined other trees they disliked getting chopped down, whilst convincing themselves that they were probably safe.