Drakim

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by Drakim 10y ago
Then it should say "Buy a license now!" rather than "Buy a product now!"
602.
by Drakim 11y ago
"Innovation" isn't the word I would use here, it was simply that the US caught up to the rest of the western world.
603.
by Drakim 11y ago
Because the world isn't a trivially small operation? ;)
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by Drakim 11y ago
Actually, you could in theory craft save-data that softlocks the game when the save-data names are displayed. If the game isn't programmed to wipe bad save data you'd be in trouble. Not saying this is the case for SMW, but there a
605.
by Drakim 11y ago
The same case could be made for the poor buying golden jewelry. I don't find it very convincing.
606.
by Drakim 11y ago
Is it? I was so sure that modern architectures could just push your entire set of registers away to a stack with a single instruction, since it's so common.
607.
by Drakim 11y ago
Do you have any resources on such techniques and tricks? I'm very much into 6502 from a NES background but I know little about dynamically generated code. I understand how it works, I just can't imagine what I would potentially us
608.
by Drakim 11y ago
I don't think that really avoids the problem. I mean, what if you do a JMP to an address decided based on a value gained from player input? How is the compiler supposed to guess that in advance?
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by Drakim 11y ago
The NES just let developers deal with that, pretty much all interrupt code starts with the developer frantically saving the registers somewhere so that he can restore them at the end of the interrupt.
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by Drakim 11y ago
The issue is that nothing is stopping the developers from doing all kinds of crazy loops and jumps in the code that's invoked by the interrupt, making it into a halting problem. Unless the interrupt handler is trivially simple, you can
611.
by Drakim 11y ago
Maybe a tiny VM could be added just for runtime generated code. (but to be honest I don't think there is a single NES game that does that)
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by Drakim 11y ago
Interrupts isn't something you can compromise on though, it would break all but the most trivial NES games (SMB and SMB3 both rely on interrupts). I assume the trouble with interrupts is the "interrupting", as the location to
613.
by Drakim 11y ago
Interrupts need to be fairly accurate. Lots of games use them to have unmoving status bars, and rely on them triggering on just the right scanline.
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by Drakim 11y ago
I feel that there is this collective idea that since you can't block out advertising from your vision while walking around, then you shouldn't be able to block advertising online either. As if our computers are letting us cheat th
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by Drakim 11y ago
I guess the idea is that Steam Greenlight has grown the indie market and thus given him more competition.
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by Drakim 11y ago
I really like the idea behind Atom, it's what I "want" to like. But Sublime is just so superior in terms of speed and feel that I keep going back. Working in Atom has that feel as if I was sitting in a remote desktop view whi
617.
by Drakim 11y ago
The danger lies in that they can offer free access to their own search engine, video sharing site, email, social network, and so on. And then set a really high price for regular traffic, making watching video outside their own video sharing
618.
by Drakim 11y ago
Might the attacker have the mindset that "Azure's business depends on it's reputation as a reliable and safe host, so they are more likely to give in to my demands." The unicorns, while they still have much to lose by ha
619.
by Drakim 11y ago
All that doesn't count because the government doesn't physically attack your house with with black helicopters if you make a freedom blog (that nobody reads). Often I feel that we in the west have our own "whatabout-ism"
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by Drakim 11y ago
Probably, but Steam is in a growing business, not a dying one. The argument is more that not only is Gamestop in a diminishing market, people won't even miss it because they have unpleasant memories of it. If Gamestop was this cool ama
621.
by Drakim 11y ago
You can still write åäö with the numpad if your keyboard has one. Alt + 134 = å
622.
by Drakim 11y ago
Yes! $175 seems like an absurd cost, and I bet it's full of advertising too. It seems especially strange when I think about what other things I could get for 175$.
623.
by Drakim 11y ago
If somebody hands me a free newspaper with ads in them, it's not vandalism for me to cut out the ads so that I can read the newspaper without them. Nobody sane would call "modifying a copy of something" vandalism.
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by Drakim 11y ago
Such detection will also trigger when your ad-network is down, so if you say something rude to the user or block the website's content you are gonna have some angry feedback from a lot of people.
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by Drakim 11y ago
I remember there was a controversy when it came to the public's attention that there was cellulose (wood) in many popular brands of bread. Personally I see nothing wrong with it, in fact, it seems like a pretty clever "food hack&q
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by Drakim 11y ago
The problem is the "race to the bottom" as countries have to offer better and better deals to outbid each other. It's a tragedy of the commons issue.
627.
by Drakim 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand, how can a framework "solve" code performance? Do you mean that it's faster than other frameworks?
628.
by Drakim 11y ago
Sure we can. If a robot went around killing people with an axe, we would stop it and dismantle it. We wouldn't shrug out shoulders and say "The robot can't help it so we can't hold it accountable for what it's doing
629.
by Drakim 11y ago
Valid point, but how many of those phone apps is just a webview wrapper? :p
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by Drakim 11y ago
I think he is exaggerating, but he does have a point. How many uses native applications for reading email today? More and more are also moving to the web for office applications. Some areas are completely swallowed. In the 90s it wouldn&#x2

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