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by jamesu 6y ago
One thing which really grinds my gears about old hardware is the commonplace use of brass screws. If you've ever tried to unscrew one that hasn't been turned in decades, it's an utter pain. Sometimes the only recourse is dest
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by jamesu 6y ago
I've used Hopper a lot to assist with reverse engineering, and in comparison the Ghidra decompiler blows its equivalent out of the water.
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by jamesu 6y ago
I’ve been tempted to do a native clone of an early version of evernote for a long while now. Learning it’s turned into electron trash might just push me over the edge and actually do it.
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by jamesu 6y ago
Every time I’ve tried it, it falls apart within minutes of using it. You’d think after 20 years of development it might be somewhat stable but I guess not.
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by jamesu 6y ago
The 2019 Macbook Pro has to be one of the worst macs I've ever used. It feels like a culmination of software and hardware design disasters, as a lot of comments here suggest. But for me, the biggest let down is there's all this fa
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by jamesu 6y ago
In the realm of lightweight html renderers I've taken a liking to litehtml ( https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml ) - though it isn't quite as fully featured as this.
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by jamesu 6y ago
Had to go a step further in a project and patch static functions in a codebase with no source. It’s certainly enlightening how much you can do with just a symbol map and type info. I don’t think the articles vtable layout is entirely accura
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by jamesu 6y ago
I still have a few spindles of CD-R's probably topping out at 15 years old now - managed to burn copies of linux for some old machines earlier on in the year though with no errors. Really doubt I will end up using much more of them at
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by jamesu 6y ago
I'd attribute it mainly to the APIs available. Right out of the box you can easily loads PDFs, images, and make "Document" oriented applications. You can also do rich text editing and even embed web content to do more advance
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by jamesu 6y ago
One other quirk with the touchbar I've noticed is when the machine starts overheating, the touchbar feels noticeably hotter... sometimes to the point of becoming painful to touch. They should probably rename it to the torturebar.
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by jamesu 6y ago
Following on from this, why didn't they use, say, gogs/gitea?
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by jamesu 6y ago
My main problem with blogging is not really the tech stack itself, but rather getting into the flow to consistently write and complete stuff. Every slip-up which happens on the way from brain to page drastically reduces the chance something
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by jamesu 6y ago
My main issue at the moment is they don't work in webgl, where the rendering is sufficiently different enough that it differs from what generally happens when you run in the editor. The built-in "Frame Debug" tool for me is v
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by jamesu 6y ago
I got stuck into a few unity projects recently, and I've been surprised how poorly documented and undiscoverable things can be. Why is the whole rendering pipeline stuff such a mess? I've bumped into far too many unexpected gotcha
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by jamesu 6y ago
This is very useful if you want to cook up quick GUIs for tools. Used it in a few projects now, and I've been very satisfied every time.
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by jamesu 6y ago
Considering the XCode on iOS rumors, I'm still waiting for a 27inch iPad to be released myself.
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by jamesu 6y ago
The current release hasn’t BSOD’d on me yet, so they’re at least headed in the right direction. I’m still a bit mystified how they still have the same graphical glitches the ancient version of Firefox they support. It would also be nice if
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by jamesu 7y ago
I've used this to successfully run legacy 32bit commandline tools, though I think it's still too unstable to rely on it in a production environment. I think there's been a notable upsurge in interest though, so I expect good
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by jamesu 7y ago
I've been working on a project which requires writing ~40 different packet types in a custom protocol, but always thought something like protobuf would be a great fit for standardizing the packet serialization routines.
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by jamesu 7y ago
Personally I'd never move my primary workhorse from a Mac to GNU/Linux. I did the reverse switch years ago, and despite checking out all the weird and wonderful new releases and distros that have made it out the door, there's
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by jamesu 7y ago
Occasionally I'll check on how loud something is with my smartphone, and i'm always amazed at how loud some everyday things can get... especially when you factor in enclosed spaces.
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by jamesu 7y ago
I too am still waiting for the mythical bitcode powered 100 core ARM MacBook here.
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by jamesu 7y ago
Been experimenting using this to run legacy software and while it seems to work great with command line tools, as soon as you progress onto gui stuff you quickly run into missing functions and libs. Still insanely cool though.
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by jamesu 8y ago
I've often wondered if something like this could be used with older browsers on retro platforms to give a rough approximation of a modern browsing experience (without all the ram and cpu time required).
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by jamesu 8y ago
I eagerly await the day when I can run this for more than 10 minutes without anything going wrong. Tried out a recent build last week in vmware and... it didn't even boot.
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by jamesu 8y ago
If it works and does everything it needs to do, does it really need updating though?
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by jamesu 8y ago
I’ve found LD_PRELOAD immensely useful patching new code into binaries, saves the pain of trying to squeeze code into the existing binary.
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by jamesu 8y ago
Been working on a few reverse engineering projects myself and it's a great refreshing experience when you can find a tool that outputs a good approximation of what the original code was doing, even if the approximation is terrible. Mod
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by jamesu 8y ago
I'd say its a little more involved than simply age. With a few exceptions I find most 90's console games boring or frustrating to play but i'm more likely to find a pc game from that era enjoyable to play. However when it com
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by jamesu 8y ago
But then you've got other people who seem adamant they are switching the mac to their magically scaled up ARM chips. What on earth is really going on at Apple HQ?

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