jonhohle

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by jonhohle 1mo ago
Do you think it costs nothing to provide stable APIs and write documentation?
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by jonhohle 1mo ago
These projects do not start with assembly. They start with machine code interleaved with data. Even getting to assembly through a disassembled requires some input and understanding. Usually these are raw binaries with no (or limited) metada
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by jonhohle 1mo ago
The compiled binary is protected and the property of the original company. The source code written by people doing decompilation is owned by the people doing the decompilation. That source code can compile to a lot of different binary repre
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by jonhohle 1mo ago
None of the original source code exists in these projects. It’s all created from scratch. Copyright for this new code is owned by the person doing decompilation. No one knows how similar to the original it is or not, just that it compiles t
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by jonhohle 1mo ago
> it is fairly clear that producing source code with the explicit goal of reproducing a 1:1 binary is in no way transformative, so that's out. This would be a really hard argument to even attempt. Absolutely false. There are an infi
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by jonhohle 1mo ago
Not that it doesn’t have issues, but I’m not sure why you’d choose tmux of all things. It runs as a user and has no privileges to escalate. It was written for and is part of OpenBSD and follows their security hardening practices. (There act
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by jonhohle 1mo ago
So should information be free to everyone or do we need to protect children from things they are not developmentally able to handle yet? It seems like a lot of the people praising this decision think the same thing is evil when applied in o
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by jonhohle 1mo ago
I just bought a $50 Android phone, quad core, 8GB RAM, 1 year of mobile service (albeit limited, but free WiFi is everywhere). Have all the age restriction you want. A kid goes into the store with their lunch money (a few days worth) and th
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by jonhohle 1mo ago
> At the same time, a parallel market in 3D printers for manufacturing was developing. These were printers that took up a whole room and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Machines that take up rooms and cost hundreds of thousands of
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Legend is amazing and his character is still one of the most impactful practical effects I’ve seen. I was always happy to hear his voice work in shows as well. Mighty Max and Super Samurai Syber Squad being among my favorite. He’s fantastic
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
The soda thing is pretty crazy. I’ve mentally tracked it for about 20 years and Costco never beat supermarket sales for. Are brand soda. It was almost absurdly overpriced for something at Costco. Now their every day price is cheaper than th
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Until someone adds a dependency…
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Yes, except 80% of those displays align them as neat little rows and columns. Mobile is really the outlier with odd formations. Nearly everything else is physically identical to the grid conceptual model.
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
I had a Rio Volt which somewhat bridged the gap. 700MB mp3 CD/RWs (about 10 hours of music per disc) and a CD player when traveling and picking up new music. Not as small as an iPod, but no book of CDs was necessary, either.
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
I was recently in Hawaii on Kauai. I wondered if I could see any of the other Hawaiian islands (besides the small local ones). Can you see Oahu from Kauai (70 miles away)? Rarely, and only if you get to a high enough elevation and even then
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
There was a recent post that probably explains the details better than I could[0]. This would most like just be the concern of the compiler and assembler. In GCCs case, my understanding is it just inlines the assembly into the output assemb
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
I wrote a tool[0] for manipulating elf files to support inline assembly for a compiler that doesn’t support it (based on a similar python tool). That required knowing any of the ELF sections that were being changed and how those changes wou
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Pixels very much exist in hardware outside mobile. Microsoft’s clear type even exploited the specific layout of color channels in discrete hardware pixels. Mobile displays are all over the place, but most other displays use standard RGB lay
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
That’s an interesting angle. There’s probably some property value (though maybe not enough based on volume) to the books they purchased. I doubt there’s any value to the “backups” of those books. I’d imagine they’re normally transferable.
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
1 point by jonhohle 0 minutes ago | edit | delete [–] You’re missing the point. It doesn’t require that they destroy the book, but it precludes them from giving it away. It’s their property, so they can choose to store it, but that has real
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
The average lifespan of a library book is 26 loans. For a popular book that could be less than a year.
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
It’s not just clothes. Unless the item is a very specific name brand thing, I find Amazon nearly useless for discovery. It’s effectively Ali Express with much higher markup and much faster shipping. I suppose there’s a market for that. Unfo
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
In each sector 2048 of the data bits are just bits, but each data sector also includes 12 bytes of sync, 4 bytes of metadata and 288 bytes of ECC that are not really controllable (if you want the disc to be readable). Then there’s the ISO 9
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Oops, I can see how that reads like only the shareware version is this way. It’s often cheaper if you’re just going for the music.
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
It’s worth getting the Quake shareware disc for the NIN soundtrack. Official track names are now available following the vinyl release a few years ago. This is the only CD release of the soundtrack. Just don’t forget to skip track 1.
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Arizona
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
> ACA premiums are literally taxes, the price you pay has nothing to do with your health risks. Then turn it into a tax and be done with it. I don't shop for my tax collector and I don't pay taxes to companies with the biggest
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
Before I went indie, prior to ACA requirements I researched private insurance and found plans for around $3K. This year I’ll pay over $20K for a bronze plan for my family. 700% increase in less than a decade. Aetna left the marketplace inpu
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
For what I’ve seen at my kids school: the district leaves all of “safesearch” YouTube open for the few dozen videos teachers will use during the school year. But since they don’t control safe search filters sometimes those videos get blocke
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by jonhohle 2mo ago
That’s the airline’s concern. Imagine having a reservation at a restaurant and something happens to make the table unavailable. Should you wait for everyone else who made later reservations and all the walk ins who came while waiting you we

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