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by pdkl95 5y ago
I am currently writing a utility to spy on Super Hexagon's KeyPress/KeyRelease XEvents with the goal of recording very precise timestamps for each event. Since the walls in the game arrive at a constant rate, I want to graph my ke
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Minecraft speedruns are fun, but the HN crowd might enjoy the technical insanity of the 29.19 second TAS[1]. (explanation video: [2]) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wv_jJQ3XCE [2] https://www.youtube.com&#x
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I've only mentioned one example of how such a tool could work. There are many ways this typ0e of system could be designed. For an alternative that doesn't depend on the number of output combinations, see GauntletWizard's exam
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If "optimize[d] download sizes" is the goal, Google could simply release a tool that performed the compression/etc on a bundle (pre-signing) and require[1] that apps must be processed by the tool before submission. [1] Google
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> The reason it's currently unlikely is because ad-networks need to validate their views. Ad-networks also want to validate views because they don't trust the hosting website. They don't need to trust the hosting website&#
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Ever since WebAssembly was first introduced, I thought it was obvious[1][2] that the end game for those that want to control the web is sending opaque binary blobs of code that only use the browser for the canvas tag's framebuffer. Fon
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https://web.archive.org/web/20170914014648/https://qntm.org/...
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It's just a variation of the Normalization of Deviance. See this[1] short talk by Richard Cook for a very good explanation of the mechanism that causes the transition from "robust" to "superfluous". [1] https:&#x2F
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It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: -- "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away.&quo
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Maybe those of us that understand this problem can and should help friends and family buy making/buying them a "USB condom"[1] and strongly encouraging that they use it anytime they want to plug something into USB for chargin
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> Every piece of technology faces a time of obsolescence. That is true for most technologies that experience entropy and the problems of real world. Real physical devices of any kind will eventually fail. However, anything build upon Cla
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You seem to be assuming rebuilding is possible . What about the (still very useful) proprietary binaries from a company that hasn't existed in a decade? What about the binaries where the original source no longer exists ?
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VERY certain $ find /{,usr/}{,s}bin/ -maxdepth 1 -type f \ | wc -l 5616 $ du -h --total --no-dereference \ $(find /{,usr/}{,s}bin/ -maxdepth 1 -type f) \ | tail -n 1 1.3G
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Today, to get a game to work on an older system. Several times last week when I needed to use an old proprietary program that used several outdated libraries. Every single time I want to run a program (usually a game) that has a runtime dep
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by pdkl95 5y ago
As Linus points out, the utility of shared libraries depends on the situation. Widely used libraries like libxcb, libGL, and zlib that tend to have reasonably stable ABIs are good candidates for sharing, while the "couple of libraries
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> claimed they did not store IPs ... on their users "We don't store IPs in the 'users' table." > merely swapping one unique key out for another. "We store them in another table* with a synthetic primary
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by pdkl95 5y ago
(off topic, but this report is a good example of how to handle user data) > anonymized Could we, perhaps, stop using this word? Instead of using the vague, often misleading term "anonymized", state directly what actually happen
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by pdkl95 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization So many people complained about not being able to run their on firmware on the TiVo that it caused the GPL to be updated to version 3. While Turing machines are universal, ther
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by pdkl95 5y ago
>> "Can't you just make us a general-purpose computer that runs all the programs, except the ones that scare and anger us? Can't you just make us an Internet that transmits any message over any protocol between any two
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The War On General Purpose Computing[1][2] is escalating. The war has moved past trivial fights over copyright/"DRM", and is now directly targeting programming environments. [1] https://boingboing.net/2012&#x2
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> I recommend all software engineers to watch all of Gary Bernhardt's talks They are all great talks, but please don't use "The Birth & Death of JavaScript" as an instruction manual! In addition to the talks on
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https://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/ >> This website details the design and construction Wave Bubble: a self-tuning, wide-bandwidth portable RF jammer. The device is lightweight and small for easy camouf
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This article is unabashed pro-free-market, anti-government propaganda. From the author bio at the bottom of the page: >>> Jeffrey Tucker is a former Director of Content for the Foundation for Economic Education. He is the Editorial
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqL7Yllgeew "Fire in the sky" Gagarin was the first, back in 1961 When like Icarus, undaunted, he climbed to reach the Sun And he knew he might not make it, for it's ne
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It's originally from sed's "s"ubstitute command[1], and later incorporated into many other tools. The "s" at the front is the command name, which is followed by two sections delimited by "/"; the
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Vi Hart - "How to Microwave Gracefully" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9E0zSpULFY
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edit: fixed formatting problem > sentinel values Using in-band signaling always involves the risk of misinterpreting types. > This is part of more general problem DWIM ("Do What I Mean") was a terrible way to handle typos an
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The Bitbuf(linusakesson.net)
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Does anybody know of recent-ish software or hardware projects that implements the live note-level (pre-synthesis) manipulation seen in lft's amazing "bitbuf"[1] device? In the presentation video[2] at 3:26, lft describes ho
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Claiming that something has "better" security is meaningless without first defining the treat model. When the threat model includes protecting the user's privacy, Chrome is not merely insecure , it is an actively hostile th

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