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by eminence32 2y ago
Question from a reverse-engineering noob: Why can't ghidra (or any other reverse engineering tool) be used directly on the .exe? Why do you have to go through this emulator? Is it because the thing you want to debug only runs in x86
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by eminence32 2y ago
And also the same Simon Tatham who wrote PuTTY https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
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by eminence32 2y ago
I used to always hesitate to use that "dislike" button because I was worried that Spotify would not be able to distinguished between "I will always dislike this song" and "I don't want this song in this specifi
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by eminence32 2y ago
Demo pages like this are fun, and technically impressive when compiled to a browser environment. But I suffer from a lack of imagination so these widget demos don't really help me envision what an egui-powered app can do or might look
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by eminence32 2y ago
As a New Englander, I am quite partial to "y'all" and "you all", mostly in written form. It is indeed a quite capable substitute to "you guys". But to my ear, "yall" is ever so slightly more i
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by eminence32 2y ago
I like how one of them is clearly (to my eyes, at least) a person holding a gun
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by eminence32 2y ago
$200 per month feels like a lot of a consumer subscription service (only thing I can think of in this range are some cable TV packages). Part of me wonders if this price is actually much more in line with actual costs (compared to the non-
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by eminence32 2y ago
In my experience Java debuggers are exceptionally powerful, much more so than what I've seen from C/C++/Rust debuggers. If I'm debugging some complicated TomEE application that might take 2 minutes to start up, then I&#x
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by eminence32 2y ago
I agree; your interpretation is reasonable and plausible. But it's disappointing to have this ambiguously, since the license file has a whole section for "Definitions" and yet it fails to define what "forking" mean
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by eminence32 2y ago
Open sourcing is always good, because maybe you can learn some things by reading it. Also, Winamp Legacy is a fairly important piece of software, so having an archive of its source is a great thing. But the restrictions on the source are i
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by eminence32 2y ago
I'm assuming that the tokens used to encode an image are entirely distinct from the tokens used to encode text. Does anyone know if this is actually the case?
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by eminence32 2y ago
It's not clear to me that trying to assign semver semantics to a command line interface is going to work well; trying to define the "interface" for command line tools seems too challenging. Perhaps one might suggest that cad
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by eminence32 2y ago
Is there a difference between "superalignment" and "alignment" ?
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by eminence32 2y ago
Crossterm does indeed work well under Windows Terminal. I use it indirectly via the ratatui library[1] [1] https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui
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by eminence32 2y ago
A quick off-the-cuff remark based solely on the title: in 2024, I think the state of the terminal has never been better, in large part to Microsoft making a high quality terminal easily available to everyone on Windows [1] As an application
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by eminence32 2y ago
> cut the sample into around 5,000 slices — each just 34 nanometres thick — that could be imaged using electron microscopes. Does anyone have any insight into how this is done without damaging the sample?
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by eminence32 2y ago
The https://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/e.2mil URL still works, and now I'm really curious about why there are 2 million digits of e on APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day)
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by eminence32 2y ago
I appreciate that you can try this without signing up for a Facebook account
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by eminence32 3y ago
While saying "makes C safer than rust" is a good headline to get clicks, I feel like it invites comparisons that aren't helpful for advancing this project. Instead, I think something like "Makes C safer than the C code y
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by eminence32 3y ago
> This is yet another article that goes on and on about nonsensical situations that are just shitty code. > Who cares? The short flippant answer is: because everyone writes shitty code at some point. It generally doesn't get co
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by eminence32 3y ago
Some of this seems readable to me (someone who's never seen APL before), but some of this is just wild: →0⍴⍨0∊⍴i←⍸127<c←⎕UCS w
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by eminence32 3y ago
The full quote is this: > LLRT offers up to over 10x faster startup and up to 2x overall lower cost compared to other JavaScript runtimes running on AWS Lambda I read this to mean that AWS only cares about performance on AWS Lambda, and
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by eminence32 3y ago
Has Google released any SynthID tools for people to use to check if a watermark is present? I looked at their SynthID release announcement blog post, and I'm not seeing anything
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by eminence32 3y ago
I get the point that omnidirection treadmills "can't work" in the sense that they can't be a perfect simulation of real walking, but I'm not sure they need to be perfect. Current generation VR systems are highly fla
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by eminence32 3y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143054
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by eminence32 3y ago
I wonder how the starlink sats pick out the signal from a low-power terrestrial cell phone -- extraordinarily sensitive antennas and filters and amplifiers? extraordinarily sophisticated signal processing? This feels a bit like magic (The
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by eminence32 3y ago
As you get more and more experience, I think this will become easier. You'll eventually get a feel for what types of questions you should just work through yourself, and which types of questions you should ask someone else about, and
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by eminence32 3y ago
> Since the advent of ChatGPT, and later by using LLMs that operate locally Does HN have any favorite local LLMs for coding-related tasks?
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by eminence32 3y ago
It's fun to see this, mostly because things from Rhode Island don't often end up on the NH front page :) A related organization, the Rhode Island Computer Museum [1], is also great. Their warehouse (which is unfortunately by appo
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by eminence32 3y ago
I've been playing around a lot with llama.cpp recently, and it's making me re-think my predictions for the future... Given how big these models are (and the steep cost for GPUs to load them), I had been thinking that most people w

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