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knackers

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About knackers

Aussie developer in NYC.

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    https://github.com/cdlewis/snowboardkids2-decomp A matching decompilation of snowboard kids 2 for the n64. Why this game? Well it's awesome but also I wanted to work on a decomp pr…

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    I've been experimenting with running Claude in headless mode + a continuous loop to decompile N64 functions and the results have been pretty incredible. (This is despite already us…

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    Comment #45876518

    Decompiling Snowboard Kids 2 for the Nintendo 64! https://github.com/cdlewis/snowboardkids2-decomp The work is mysterious but important.

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    I found the contrast with workflow systems such as Cadence/Temporal really interesting. You can tell the author has felt the pain of managing real time distributed state machines.

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    I recently switched from frontend to a backend/ml role at a large tech company. At a high level the work is pretty similar. Instead of working with design/product you work with dat…

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    He mentioned lisp.

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    Very cool. I suspect running on the main thread with requestAnimationFrame for rendering to the canvas would eliminate some of the performance issues without having to rely on post…

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    Went through this exact process last week. Did they really need to remove CommonsChunkPlugin? Feels like breaking stuff for a slightly nicer API. If this were React we would've had…

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    Google Wave. RIP T_T

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    This is the post I wish I'd made a year ago. Any advice for building back up again for a second attempt?

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    Looks great. It's such a pain to write separate authentication / profile retrieval logic for each service.

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    Inflation.

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    I think it was through Slashdot.

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    Loved the 'artwork'. Simple but immediately familiar. Like some other commenters, I felt that sometimes my jumps weren't being registered.

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    To echo some earlier comments. As someone currently preparing for an interview, I would definitely like to see a web version.

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    Thanks for the link unwind/paulrouget2. I think it went a little over my head. What role does about:blank actually play? I'm assuming that the wild behaviour and parsing difficulty…

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    Yeh it's sandstone. Group of 8 is also sometimes used because ANU and Monash wanted to be included :P

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    It will be interesting to see what the practical effect of this is over the long term. The new SOP says that certain processes involving software will still be patentable, which se…