jonhohle

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by jonhohle 4mo ago
How do you purchase or download a game without a server or account?
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
10 years ago I was working on this problem at Amazon. We were developing methods to normalize all the crap listings and methods 3ᴿᴰ party sellers used to get unique listings when consolidating them was known to drive down prices, which was
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
But then how could you skim off the top of other people’s work?
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
I recently dealt with a merchant in Aliexpress who was intentionally selling things well below market price, not to build their storefront reputation, but to collect sales and then ask the customer to cancel. I forced them to cancel the ord
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
What’s crazy is that boot time was a headline feature of Snow Leopard.
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
In the mid-2000s I ran a. Fleet of RedHat servers that hosted millions of domains. I had boxes in that fleet that were up for over a year. Netcraft confirmed it! Microsoft literally bought these 6 or 7 servers to migrate to IIS so they coul
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
Your code running on other people’s hardware is a privilege. Treat it with respect.
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
I’m glad the Anker’s worked out for you, but the Soundcore brand almost completely turned me off from Anker. After two weeks the Soundcore buds I had stopped charging. I have limited experience with noise canceling headphones (some circa 20
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
If the sources produce significant sequences that match the original binary, that binary is probably infringing. The community gets around this by distributing binary patches instead. In some cases the EULA is what gives you access to the o
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
I was just reading interviews with Hayao Miyazaki around the time Princess Mononoke was released. He talked a lot about how all movies about feudal Japan or samurai were based on period costume plays and Akira Kurosawa movies. He had worked
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
The RE3 devs were distributing binaries. This is known to be an issue. The source code is theirs, binaries mixed with other copyrighted content is not. They also allegedly violated a EULA, but I haven’t looked closely into that. CSE2 was di
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
I say this every time it comes up, but polluting a decomp project with AI generated code is risky, imho. What makes decomp legal (in the US) is that it’s a creative transformation performed by a human and the resulting copyright of the code
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
Most decomp projects (that I know of) are Ship of Theseus style projects where the minimum unit is a function, give or take alignment requirements and quirks of the compiler. On the MIPS side, tools like Splat and SPIM can help identify fun
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
The multi disc era started when disc based games became available. There were multi-disc Sega CD games! The difference now is that you lose the ability to resell, transfer, inspect without agreeing to a license, and all the other privileges
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
If it’s really a differentiator, why announce it? Why not keep it secret and make it a competitive advantage?
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
If anyone knows where to find a legitimate MIPS version of Photon, I’d be interested in starting a decomp project.
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
In the US USPS provides this as a service. Every time I put my address in I get asked to use the standardized version.
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
It’s exhausting. It’s like every article is written by the same author and that author is also your coworker and personal assistant and also moonlights as Brian, a waiter at Chotchkie’s.
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
We had about 10-15 years or so where the web wasn’t so complex and fast moving that a browser needed constant updates for things to work. Now browsers are more complex that entire operating systems and anything older than a few years just w
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
Many people now have devices with secure storage with them at all times. Maybe it’s time we owned our data and decided who gets it and when. Obviously this doesn’t work in all situations and for all people, but it’s a start.
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
I’ve been getting my kids KaiOS flip phones where I can disable the browser via ADB. I get a year of service and a phone for around $35 (TracPhone). There’s enough minutes that they can be used for coordinating pickups and emergencies. I’ve
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
Not only that, but this is exactly the kind of phone I get for my 12 yo. I love that it doesn’t even have a browser that I’d need to try to disable via ADB or some other hack. If it’s nicer than KaiOS, and compatible with the right networks
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
This seems’s like an issue created by congress. the constitution only requires a headcount by state. Maybe they should use another mechanism to collect demographic data. Since the concern is not about representation, but allocation, tax ret
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
I read that as: SACD customers expect a better mix. The format is only relevant in that it requires audiophile level dedication and money to use the format in the first place. Not dissimilar to vinyl before its recent boom. I have an SACD s
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
I’m pretty sure copyright office has settled that already. Inly human expression can be copyrighted: > As described above, in many circumstances these outputs will be copyrightable in whole or in part—where AI is used as a tool, and wher
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
This makes me sad. Not that this work was done, it’s incredible, but that we’ve fallen so far from what was possible on meager hardware. Now everyone has a super computer in Their pocket that feel slow.
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
That’s what variable length encoding is for!
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
Of course they support scrolling with on screen controls. So has the keyboard. I said they’ve never made a mouse with “scroll wheel” which is a very specific device for physical input.
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
Apple, to my knowledge, never sold a mouse with a wheel. Their first mouse with scrolling was the Mighty Mouse, which used a small trackball to simulate a touch surface. It was spring mounted and would fall flush when scrolling oven a sensa
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by jonhohle 4mo ago
These are relatively recent and may have come into force after development began, definitely after Siri development an initial integration into personal data. I suppose if you think these rules are reasonable, you’d be happy to not have thi

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