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by sehugg 7mo ago
From the docs, I couldn't tell if it had disassembled very much of the EXE. Looks like it extracted most of the assets, the presence of open-source modding tools for this game in training data likely helped a bit.
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by sehugg 7mo ago
Realize, though, that just grabbing a frame buffer is not a thing anymore. To render graphics you need GLES support through something like ANGLE, vectors and fonts via Skia, Unicode, etc. A web browser has those things. Any static binary bu
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by sehugg 7mo ago
That policy doesn't explicitly disallow writers from using LLMs as part of their process, nor does it mention reviewing submissions for content that could be LLM-generated. I like some of the ideas in the article but there are some ver
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by sehugg 8mo ago
I note that Clarion is still being developed, version 12 was released last year. I remember fondly using its screen designer to create drop-shadowed dialogs.
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by sehugg 8mo ago
Eh, the NES is better because you get two entire screen buffers. The C-64 gives you only one offscreen row or column to repaint every coarse scroll, and the colormap is fixed so you gotta move all of its bytes while racing the beam.
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by sehugg 8mo ago
IIRC there was also an Edie Brickell video.
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by sehugg 8mo ago
One of the authors, Dennis Debro, has done a bunch more of these: https://github.com/DNSDEBRO/Disassemblies
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by sehugg 8mo ago
They had written authorization from the state court and verbal confirmation from state court officials. They didn't know there would be a pissing match between the judicial branch and the sheriff.
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by sehugg 9mo ago
The best tech writers I've known have been more like anthropologists, bridging communication between product management, engineers, and users. With this perspective they often give feedback that makes the product better.
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by sehugg 9mo ago
The System Source museum in Hunt Valley, Maryland is also worth a mention. I attended a demonstration of a revived Bendix G-15 there.
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by sehugg 9mo ago
Several maps created to assist the agency with decisions — like where to open new offices and allocate certain resources — were made public through incorrect privacy settings between 2021 and 2025 ... the mapping website was unable to iden
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by sehugg 9mo ago
iCloud sync is a nice feature too. I use the Mac app mostly for adding feeds and the iOS app for reading. Anytime I read an interesting web post, I pop its url into the app to see if it has a RSS feed.
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by sehugg 9mo ago
2011. This in my memory is the year of the industry-wide vibe shift from open APIs to walled gardens/cesspools.
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by sehugg 9mo ago
More annoying is that it's really difficult for me to unlock the phone with the side button without activating Siri. Seems like there's often a lag when waking the phone that causes a long press to be detected even with a short pr
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by sehugg 9mo ago
Bluebeard is a good one too; it ruminates on the nature of art and how/why meaning is assigned to it.
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by sehugg 10mo ago
Try https://8bitworkshop.com/verilog to get started with dabbling
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by sehugg 10mo ago
GTA Vice City was released for iOS devices in 2012, and IIRC it ran pretty well. Not surprising that it runs well with WASM/WebGPU, given the massive increase in GPU performance. I'd imagine that the CPU-bound paths are well-optim
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by sehugg 10mo ago
Another related question: Is there any production software system so inefficient that it would run faster if implemented in machine language on the AGC
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by sehugg 10mo ago
I ran Node with --print-opt-code and had Opus look at Turbofan's output. It was able to add comments to the JIT'ed code and give suggestions on how to improve the JavaScript for better optimization.
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by sehugg 10mo ago
I've implemented Atari 2600 library support for both LLVM-MOS and CC65, but there are too many compromises to make it suitable for writing a game. The lack of RAM is a major factor; stack usage must be kept to a minimum and you can for
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by sehugg 11mo ago
I've worked on and off on my own personal system which leaves the filesystem stuff to filesystems, and focuses on verifying backups/mirrors and recursing into archive formats. Also interested in warning of near-obsolete formats, l
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by sehugg 11mo ago
You can put a small ROM on your board with diodes, for example to store bitmaps, and for style points you can even arrange the diodes in the shape of your bitmaps: https://technologizer.com/2011/12/11/computer
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by sehugg 11mo ago
Does RSS count? I've appreciated having NetNewsWire and its iCloud sync. Having no urge/obligation to comment or retoot is a different experience.
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by sehugg 11mo ago
I used FreeBSD as my daily desktop for a while in the 2000s. IIRC, the package manager had to compile each package from source, but that wasn't a huge deal. Things just worked in a non-overly-clever fashion.
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by sehugg 11mo ago
My 8-bit IDE lets you share your ROM as a lzg/b64-encoded URL. Things get dicey when you go above 2000 characters or so.
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by sehugg 11mo ago
I use "aider --commit" sometimes when I can't think of a comment. I often have to edit it because it's too general or it overstates the impact (e.g. "improved the foo", are you sure you improved the foo?) but t
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by sehugg 11mo ago
Even easier is the 1-bit DPCM codec used on the NES. Go up or down one step each sample depending on the next bit. You can't get a square wave out of it, only a triangle, but it has a nostalgic quality.
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by sehugg 1y ago
I guess whichever has the most parseable format and plays nice with virtual printer drivers. And when sharing a spreadsheet with someone, you can share the entire spreadsheet application software, no incompatibilities :)
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by sehugg 1y ago
Sometimes I wonder if instead of struggling with office suites, I'd be better off running VisiCalc in an emulator. Low memory usage, high portability, and you know they're not going to change the UI on you.
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by sehugg 1y ago
There were/are some horrible bugs with Reduce Transparency mode in iOS 26, let's hope this new mode gets added to the fully-tested set of configurations.

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