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Not sure why people always say it's so hard to build GraalVM ... all you need is roughly 2 prerequisites and one build command. The prerequisites are a "Labs JDK" which is essentia…

> Yesterday File Pilot (no affiliation) hit the HN frontpage. File Pilot is written from scratch and it has a ton of functionality packed in a 1.8mb download. As somebody on Twitte…

I think there is some confusion about "ubershaders" in the context of emulators in particular. Old Nintendo consoles like the N64 or the GameCube/Wii didn't have programmable shade…

> It lacks features like lambda calculus, closures, and coroutines—powerful and proven paradigms that are essential in modern programming languages. These limitations make it harde…

Actually I have the VT240 firmware ROM dumps, that's where I got the original font from. The problem is, at least the VT240 is a rather sophisticated thing, with a T-11 CPU, some a…

The only problem with real VTs is you have to be careful not to get one where the CRT has severe burn-in, like in the ebay listing. Sure, some VTs (like the VT240 or VT525) are a s…

> After that, I've had great fun playing with RT-11 [...] If you want to play around with RT-11 again, I made a small PDP-11/03 emulator + VT240 terminal emulator running in the br…

> For video games the binary is the covered work, not its disassembly. For the law it doesn't matter much if you look at binary code in a hex editor or at disassembly, since disass…

Simple: a real 3.5" floppy disk drive has moving parts and various things that age and eventually break. For example I have an old device with a broken floppy disk drive which can'…

I added a few screenshots of different files right now.

Since this is an old tool and it fails to deal with large files, I made a completely new version from scratch a while ago, using a completely different rendering approach that's mo…

> TruffleRuby even had the extremely big brain idea of running a Truffle interpreter for C for native extensions […] TruffleC was a research project and the first attempt of runnin…

> […] like any audio hardware that ain’t totally mainstream is not good. Funnily enough, it totally depends on the hardware. If your audio hardware is supported by Core Audio on Ma…

Games are the easier part. There are a few examples of software which is only available for Windows and Mac or even Windows only, like professional audio software or various CAD to…

> […] Windows-specific apps that they use, such as games. As if many Windows games don't work on Linux via proton, to the point that Valve's Steam Deck runs on Linux and is "good e…

If you need some real world examples, here is a recording of "One Stop" from a few different professional synthesizers (Roland JV-1080, XV-5080, INTEGRA-7, and KORG X5DR) to get an…

I implemented it just now. Turns out when performing the subtraction on the raw data before applying the color space conversion LUT, it's also necessary to add the mean of the nois…

You are indeed right. I'm not sure how to efficiently implement a median here though, because a single frame is around 120MB large already. I assume I could/should compute the medi…

I wanted to record the aurora last weekend, but I only have a Blackmagic Design video camera which is clearly not made for this purpose. Recording a video of the night sky results …

This project looks interesting. I saw you use stty to configure the console, but there is a native "UNIX way" to do this via tcgetattr/tcsetattr, you'll have to figure out how to u…

Did you run into a boot loop because of some SDMMC controller problem? If yes: this is caused by hardware changes in newer rpi4 and old rootfs images from ALARM which don't support…

It seems like this tool does not create a fully deterministic nor reproducible environment. Hermit seems to only intercept and modify syscalls, but this is not the only source of n…

> Even the likes of gdb are rendered powerless before the might of this uber segfault. It's quite easy to debug crashes in the dynamic linker if you use a more powerful debugger. F…

As far as I understand it, this change is not supposed to change anything about files posted on Discord, as long as you actually view the channel where they were posted. Means: if …