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?

Expecting understanding of concepts from LLMs is a category error.

Just making public transport free without increasing funding for it will only turn it into a soup-kitchen service that only those with no other options will use. The well-heeled bourgeoisie will stay in their cars; they have podcasts to listen to and cruise control to crawl through traffic jams for them, and anybody who regards strangers’ body heat and odours as anything other than a celebration of common humanity will avoid it as much as they can. If they can’t, then once fuel prices drop, they’re out of there and not going back, instead talking about the dark days of packed trains in the way that refugees talk about regimes they fled.

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

For some people, their burger is the closest thing they’ll get to an emotional support animal.

He’s announcing a conscription plan to create a new generation of ANZACs, for God, King and Country

With that title, I was expecting Cronenbergian body horror

Do Substack next

That’s probably just RMS being RMS

Or you just revealed the porcine equivalent of Lovecraftian cosmic horror to it.

This doesn’t necessarily hold in the fediverse

Presumably that’s the entire Australian motor vehicle industry these days, after Ford, GM and Toyota pulled the plug on local manufacturing

New York has bodega cats, but Tasmania has this

They could always bring back the Life Be In It campaign, telling people to get off the couch and do a sport of some sort.

It’s tempting to wish that the Iranians succeeded in assassinating him, though we know that if they did, he’d be instantly beatified into a global centrist Charlie Kirk: a statesman of peace and liberalism ruthlessly murdered by evil terrorist fanatics. There’d be statues of him alongside Mandela and Gandhi, Berlin would rename one of its central squares to Netanjahuplatz, and the next year’s Oscars would be swept by the biopic Bibi. The gaslighting would be incessant.

Apparently they were popular in the Middle Ages

Slightly disappointing none of them has feet instead of hands or some similar artefact.

Vibe coding, the crystal meth of software