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NetOpWibbytoday at 4:36 PM3 repliesview on HN

  Before figuring out how to tackle this project, I needed to know whether it would even be possible. According to a 2021 Reddit comment:

    There is a zero percent chance of this ever happening.

  Feeling encouraged, I started with the basics: what hardware is in the Wii, and how does it compare to the hardware used in real Macs from the era.
I LOL'd

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MomsAVoxelltoday at 6:43 PM

The missile knows at all times where it is, by knowing at all times where it isn’t.

glensteintoday at 5:03 PM

I almost think such projects are worth it just to immortalize comments like these. There's a whole psychology of wrongness that centers on declaring that not-quite-impossible things will definitely never happen, because it feels like principled skepticism.

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nancyminusonetoday at 4:52 PM

Gotta love that particular Redditors follow up comment:

>Go ahead and downvote me. I am correct on every single thing I said

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