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by evmar 6mo ago
I had a similar experience implementing simd instructions in my emulator, where I needed to break apart a 64-bit value into four eight-bit values, do an operation on each value, then pack it back together. My first implementation did it wit
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by evmar 6mo ago
Hey thanks! I don't mean to hijack this great wine news with my own project, but since you asked, the top of the post has links to more. I will fix the link.
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by evmar 6mo ago
I don't know the technical details, but the kernel docs say "It exists because implementation in user-space, using existing tools, cannot match Windows performance while offering accurate semantics." https://docs.k
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by evmar 6mo ago
If you're interested in technical notes on how the WoW64 thing works, I dug into Wine and implemented a similar thing in my (far inferior) emulator and wrote about it here, including some links to some Wine resources: https:/&#x2
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by evmar 6mo ago
By the way, I did a deeper dive on the problem of serializing objects across the Rust/JS boundary, noticed the approach used by serde wasn’t great for performance, and explored improving it here: https://neugierig.org/s
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by evmar 7mo ago
They wrote a blog post addressing this concern: https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan
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by evmar 7mo ago
Where can I learn more about the Windows decompilation community? (This is an area I kind of work in, and I am interested in participating!)
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by evmar 7mo ago
The term he’s searching for is possibly “intellectual control”: https://www.georgefairbanks.com/ieee-software-v36-n1-jan-201...
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by evmar 9mo ago
Exact same for me! Just ten minutes ago my son opened his Xmas present, his first box of TubeLox. My expectations and hopes are high but he is currently distracted by the flashier presents.
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by evmar 9mo ago
This comment feels in bad faith. There are ~340 million Americans and you draw evidence about all of them from this one thing? It's not even an insight into its single American author. It was a quick weekend hack. The purpose of the
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by evmar 9mo ago
I took this morning to gather the data again and sanity check it further, so please try again! (I guess Wikipedia and the UN call it "the Czech Republic" so my update also renamed it...)
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by evmar 9mo ago
Since it's so germane, I'll share my little widget that compares EU countries to US states on various metrics: https://evmar.github.io/states/
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by evmar 10mo ago
From the title, I first imagined what my favorite math problem was, then clicked on the article -- and they had the same one! For me, the reason this problem is cool is that it exemplifies mathematical thinking: superficially the problem is
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by evmar 11mo ago
My first job was a dotcom startup who heard via social connections I was a bright high school student who could program. I think I was paid $15/hr to write Windows GUI code. In retrospect I think they were just happy for the cheap lab
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by evmar 11mo ago
From the OP: "Beyond [the two-year] timeframe, we will keep a subset of Rosetta functionality aimed at supporting older unmaintained gaming titles, that rely on Intel-based frameworks."
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by evmar 1y ago
It looks like memories have to be declared up front, and the memcpy instruction takes the memories to copy between as numeric literals. So I guess you can't use it to allocate dynamic buffers. But maybe you could decide memory 0 = he
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by evmar 1y ago
The state of Oregon is experimenting along these lines: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/preventionwellness/pages/psilo... "A client may only access psilocybin at a licensed service center during an ad
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by evmar 1y ago
For this advice, that is the best place to share it from. They're saying even by age 20 it's already the case that the effort was wasted.
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by evmar 1y ago
Most discussions of language features immediately fall into the politician's syllogism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism I appreciate the Go language's general sense of conservatism towa
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by evmar 1y ago
I noticed math_emulate.c comes from Linux (it even has a " * (C) 1991 Linus Torvalds" bit on it). I was wondering what the license on that code is. It looks like Linux adopted GPL in 1992 so maybe this copy predates that, but it
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by evmar 2y ago
I added a pic to the original comment, sorry for not being clear!
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by evmar 2y ago
I am pretty sure it added a kasrah not present in the input on the 2nd to last line. (Not saying it's not super impressive, and also that almost certainly is the right word, but I think that still means not quite "perfect"?)
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by evmar 2y ago
I noticed on the Arabic example they lost a space after the first letter on the third to last line, can any native speakers confirm? (I only know enough Arabic to ask dumb questions like this, curious to learn more.) Edit: it looks like th
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by evmar 2y ago
Sorry in advance if it's too off-topic, but if you want to play the Windows 2000 Solitaire I have it kind of working in my web-based emulator here: https://evmar.github.io/retrowin32/run.html?exe=sol.exe&dir=..
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by evmar 2y ago
My favorite "took me a long time to discover" Git tweak is to use difft for diffs: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/
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by evmar 2y ago
I don't really follow Elm, but I was curious and tried to see whether the project is still alive. It appears the last commits on GitHub are from mid 2024 and the last installable release was 2019. It appears the main developer is wor
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by evmar 2y ago
This is pretty much a canonical example of what does not belong on HN. A dumb topic, and then on top of that a dumb take on that dumb topic.
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by evmar 2y ago
Another common computing system to be aware of: the Windows epoch is 1-Jan-1601.
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by evmar 2y ago
(wife is a dentist) To my knowledge, the state of the art in tooth removal still is basically pliers and a lot of force. The difference today is a trained professional knows the technique and has practiced it a lot. (And anesthetic.) Here
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by evmar 2y ago
I glanced at the code. It seems to have multiple possible "passes" which reduce the code in various ways, and the passes here not tagged with "C"=>1 are used in the not-c mode recommended in the post. https:/&#

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