excuse my ignorance... wouldn't it be enough to just plug the chip and read its contents?

This is a speech synthesizer chip. The contents of the ROM are not exposed directly for reading like that. You could play all the phonemes one by one and capture them with an ADC, though.

1994, the Spring Operating System

Another way of saying "this time is different u idiots"

Why next.js 14?

I chose Next.js 14 because it’s the framework I’m most familiar with. I originally built this as a simple prototype without plans to launch, so I stuck with what I knew for speed and simplicity.

> I asked this question two years ago

beware survivor bias.

I. DO. NOT. I do, however, wonder what made you think i do.

its always clear and simple if you buy the official line

Also faetal oxygenation could one day be possible for non-faetuses

from work she did in 1985? im only paid for work i do this month

You don't own the rights to any of the work you did for your employer this month.

curious, do you know how many HN'ers there are?

There's a great deal of lurkers. I'm always surprised by the traffic it brings and how many are familiar with HN but never comment.

In 2022, dang said about 5 million unique monthly users. Probably grown a bit since then I would guess.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450094