foxtacles

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by foxtacles 3mo ago
Got a refund for the full $200 subscription
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by foxtacles 7mo ago
I wonder how effective LLMs are going to be for decompiling i.e. games written in C++ targeting the PC platform. I’m not surprised one can get reasonably good results for N64 games, which have always been the easiest to reverse for a number
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by foxtacles 1y ago
Used this API in a service worker together with Workbox to allow https://isle.pizza/ to work completely offline if requested. Works great
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by foxtacles 1y ago
Unfortunately I have to agree with this take. This plus the anti-innovation and risk-averse culture is what drove me out of the country. Living in the United States now and enjoying the environment much more. (source: born and raised in Ger
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by foxtacles 1y ago
d3drm has been implemented from scratch: https://github.com/isledecomp/isle-portable/tree/master/mini... The entire project can be compiled targeting Emscripten. There's nothing particular to the br
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by foxtacles 1y ago
It has trouble with regaining focus at times. Try switching back and forth between the game and another tab/window and it will recover eventually (the hanging is just the game being paused when it goes out of focus)
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Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser(isle.pizza)
263 points by foxtacles 1y ago|72 comments
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Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island(github.com)
251 points by foxtacles 2y ago|32 comments
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Fastmail Is Down?
2 points by foxtacles 2y ago|0 comments
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by foxtacles 2y ago
Agree with this advice. Our consulting agency, also based in Europe, specializes in exactly this - bootstrapping software solutions for companies that lack the in-house experience to do so. After a successful launch our clients usually tran
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by foxtacles 2y ago
Yeah I'm not Matt :) No idea if he is on HN
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by foxtacles 2y ago
It just removes the warning, which is impossible to get rid of otherwise. This bug has persisted all the way into MSVC 6.0: https://web.archive.org/web/20000519112833/https://support.m... Since the warni
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by foxtacles 2y ago
I've been working on a similar project (LEGO Island decompilation). We've developed an extensive set of annotations and corresponding tools that facilitate matching the assembly/binary: https://github.com/isle
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Lego Island Decompilation(github.com)
1 points by foxtacles 3y ago|0 comments
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Germany accuses climate activists of 580 offenses(dw.com)
4 points by foxtacles 3y ago|0 comments
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Cerberus: Minimalistic Multi-Shard Byzantine-Resilient Transaction Processing(escholarship.org)
2 points by foxtacles 3y ago|0 comments
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by foxtacles 3y ago
Most likely since you are using a newly created account, and an automated system does this. Happened to me as well and kept happening even after months. Was fixed swiftly after I contacted the site admin about it :) I believe when people &#
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Demoscene in Poland gets accepted as national cultural heritage (2021)(demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net)
2 points by foxtacles 3y ago|0 comments
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Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)(smithsonianmag.com)
241 points by foxtacles 3y ago|159 comments
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by foxtacles 3y ago
Have you considered setting up a rule using the Snooze feature[0]? Using this it should be possible to delay all incoming work email until a time that is suitable for you. [0]: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-sno
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by foxtacles 3y ago
Fully agree. I'm also a very happy Fastmail customer of over 10 years now; I could never go back to gmail
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by foxtacles 3y ago
That's technically correct, however much of the Greens' ideology has been gradually adopted by essentially all other political parties over the past 10-15 years, most likely since it's rather popular with the voters here. The
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Working for a Purpose Economy company: the sweet spot(blaubart.com)
1 points by foxtacles 3y ago|0 comments
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Europe needs to ‘Frankenstein’ its startup sector(ft.com)
2 points by foxtacles 3y ago|0 comments
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Archiving a vBulletin forum using HTTrack and Netlify(blaubart.com)
2 points by foxtacles 3y ago|0 comments
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by foxtacles 3y ago
Related video illustrating your last point using the example of a pencil: https://youtu.be/IYO3tOqDISE
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by foxtacles 4y ago
You're not the only one. To anyone who's tired of reading those frequently espoused, virtually now mainstream, apparently self-hatred fueled viewpoints, or to those who are interested in positive outlooks on humanity, I can recomm
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by foxtacles 4y ago
I feel the same way. Add to that the plethora of "C++ bad" memes that every software engineer is throwing around as soon as they get a whiff of anything remotely resembling C++ - I've made my peace with the fact that I'm
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by foxtacles 4y ago
Nice! That reminds me of my efforts to add multiplayer functionality to Fallout 3 (which basically used a previous generation of the Skyrim engine) about a decade ago: https://github.com/foxtacles/vaultmp
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by foxtacles 4y ago
This also works on Windows 11. Thank you!

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