Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter(dmitry.gr) |
Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter(dmitry.gr) |
As someone who is interested in similar old hardware that occasionally lacks any kind of documentation (specifically cameras), I sincerely wish I had this level of patience and determination (and also understanding, I'm not really a software guy).
The litmus test can be done by AI code generation in a sandbox during the period they don't have to make it open.
Having had coworkers who worked for Fisher-Price, using worse components to save a fraction of a cent per device seems their general MO.
I fear that the future will increasingly be filled with people framing old/new cultural artifact X or Y in terms of whether or not it reminds them of social media.
(Not a dig at the article or the immense technical skills required to accomplish all of this)
All to say it's a major bummer his cool work is tainted by his dehumanizing words and I wonder if he understands how he comes off to people.
I don't interact w/ Twitter so I can't speak to anything he's written there.
The whimsy of the PalmOS work really clashes with the incessant racism and hate.
I'd wager he doesn't use X.
I actually like his writing style. I think he just speaks his mind in full honesty and you should not interpret it as aggressivity.
Your parent comment gave a paraphrased example of discrimination against a group, not a person.
> you should not interpret it as aggressivity
Your parent comment didn’t describe it as aggressive, they described it as dehumanising. There is a colossal difference between the two. Patton Oswalt demonstrates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKo1_RP_0c
Note: I don’t have a Twitter account nor have I ever encountered Dimitry’s writing, so I’m not commenting either way, but if you want to refute/contradict/disagree what your parent comment said, it’s important to respond to the point they made, not different ones.
As a fellow embedded dev, I smile every time one of his projects shows up on HN. He's really talented. But c'mon, dude.
Frankly, that includes you, too.
You can't hang out at the Nazi Bar and complain about all the Nazis.
I found Pixter online but are there a little bit more capable systems like this for kids made today?
EDIT: Looks like devices by LeapFrog and VTech are the closest alternative these days so far.
I think I am going to buy a Pixter itself. Everything else today is either too limited (vtech is buttons only and its screens are too tiny for example) or too powerful.
I was half expecting you to find the Pixter Color VM to be a Forth like interpreter ;)
That hand rolled DAC for the touchscreen with the eight gpio lines is hilarious.