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New comment by jmarcher in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

jmarcher — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:27:09 +0000

Their home page is underselling how cool this is:

MVG did a great overview of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5twUkvYFpA

New comment by jmarcher in "Hammerspoon"

jmarcher — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:18:28 +0000

That should not be required if the Ethernet adapter has a higher priority. That being said, you might different reason.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mchlp2711/mac

New comment by jmarcher in "Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit"

jmarcher — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:48:25 +0000

> Why as an adult you would play Pokemon

Oh, I don't want to play Pokémon games, but every few hours, I am given the controller and told to beat the boss with a team composed of 6 low-level Pikachus and zero healing items.

New comment by jmarcher in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

jmarcher — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:56:38 +0000

It (partially) works, but only if the cursor is NOT hovering over the right portion of the window. So only 30% works.

New comment by jmarcher in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

jmarcher — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:50:16 +0000

The most puzzling part is why someone would run Windows 98 on a machine built around 2002/2003 (according to the specs).

New comment by jmarcher in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

jmarcher — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:37:27 +0000

100% I used to have a 43-inch 4K "monitor" (16:9). The lack of curvature meant that at the sides of the screen, there was noticeable color shifting due to variations in viewing angle. That's with an IPS panel.

Your dream is probably a ~50in 8K TV (with RGB pattern if you are on macOS), but curved. I don't know if that will ever exist.

Personally, I found that with a bigger 16:9, I would not use the top and bottom of the screen. When I "downgraded" to a 40in ultra-wide, there was not much difference in the space I was using.

New comment by jmarcher in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

jmarcher — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:25:06 +0000

I have a 40in 5k (32in 4k, but wider). IMHO, 138ppi is the bare minimum, but it really depends on a person's eyesight and preferences.

I would love a large-ish ultra-wide with > 160ppi. One day, maybe, that being said, by that time those things will exist and be reasonably priced, my eyes might not be able to appreciate the difference.

New comment by jmarcher in "New Lego smart-play system"

jmarcher — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:40:44 +0000

Yes, I thought the same thing.

My son loves Lego Mario and the app. He'll even go through the building instructions of kits he doesn't have just to see how they are built. The instructions in the app are super clear, animated, and the model can be rotated at any step to check whether the real-life model is correctly built.

Going back to paper instructions after using the app is a pain.

New comment by jmarcher in "Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX"

jmarcher — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:36:07 +0000

For me, on macOS, the main thing is that the subpixel layout is rarely the classic RGB (side by side) that macOS only supports for text antialiasing.

If I were to use a TV, it would be an OLED. That being said, the subpixel layout is not great: https://pcmonitors.info/articles/qd-oled-and-woled-fringing-...

New comment by jmarcher in "Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst"

jmarcher — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:10:12 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_Order:_The_Tetris_M... ?

New comment by jmarcher in "It's Time to Switch to OpenTofu"

jmarcher — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:45:19 +0000

It is possible to self-host it on GCS, S3, etc. We used to pay for their cloud offering, but using GCS as a backend was much more performant than using their backend and extremely cheap (a few cents to dollars per month).

New comment by jmarcher in "Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal"

jmarcher — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:52:13 +0000

In Emacs, there is [helm-ag-edit](https://github.com/emacsorphanage/helm-ag) (but uses ripgrep if present). It's almost identical to your workflow, but all done inside the same app.

1. helm-ag # the search results are updated as you type 2. helm-ag-edit # edit the search result as regular text. Use multi-cursors, macros, whatever. 3. helm-ag-edit-save # commits the changes to the affected files

All those commands have keybindings, so it's pretty fast. I'll often open up Emacs just to do that and then go back to my JetBrains IDE.

New comment by jmarcher in "Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods"

jmarcher — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:18:03 +0000

Yes, I have used a similar Hammerspoon script for nearly 10 years.

New comment by jmarcher in "Better Dotfiles"

jmarcher — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 20:16:52 +0000

+1 I've been using this for almost ten years. It's straightforward, easy to add files, and there are no symlinks to deal with.

When people ask me which tool I use to manage my dotfiles, I tell them about this little-known tool called `git`. ;)

Side note: I use an shell alias instead, but it's pretty much the same.

`alias home="git --work-tree=$HOME --git-dir=$HOME/.files.git"`

New comment by jmarcher in "Cat as a Service"

jmarcher — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 01:46:26 +0000

> Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!

New comment by jmarcher in "Using a "proper" camera as a webcam"

jmarcher — Wed, 18 May 2022 12:39:39 +0000

If you enable PC Remote Function [1] it disables UMS so you don't need another cable/adapter plugged in. I notified the author and he updated the article.

[1] https://helpguide.sony.net/dc/1910/v1/en/contents/TP00028862...

New comment by jmarcher in "Ask HN: How to learn about text editor architectures and implementations?"

jmarcher — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:23:50 +0000

I'll plug your (awesome) blog for you:

https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...

Which points to https://xi-editor.io/docs/rope_science_00.html

New comment by jmarcher in "Ask HN: Remotely helping elderly parents?"

jmarcher — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 21:59:14 +0000

Might be a bit too much, but depending on their autonomy level, if they grant you Power of Attorney (PoA), you can do manage everything without involving any technical solution.

Technical solution wise, sharing credentials via 1password or bitwarden is probably the most straightforward approach IMHO.

New comment by jmarcher in "Kinesis Advantage 360"

jmarcher — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:51:44 +0000

My concern with this keyboard and others without F keys would be how awkward some IntelliJ keyboard shortcuts would be

e.g: LayerX + cmd + shift + 9 to rebuild a file. There are much worse offenders I am sure.

New comment by jmarcher in "Libtree: Turns ldd into a tree; explains why shared libraries are found or not"

jmarcher — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 03:50:03 +0000

Is there anything remotely close to this for macOS?