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New comment by joshschreuder in "Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%"

joshschreuder — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:18:45 +0000

While we're here I'll give a shoutout to the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night decomp which is coming along pretty well too (still lots to do)

https://github.com/Xeeynamo/sotn-decomp

New comment by joshschreuder in "Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%"

joshschreuder — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:16:30 +0000

> It may be also worth trying a loop of "fix until it matches binary" for separate files... But I haven't seen anyone actually write it up.

I might be misunderstanding what you mean, but there is decomp-permuter which I think does just this. Rewrites the code in various heuristics and subtle ways to attempt to find a match at function level.

https://github.com/simonlindholm/decomp-permuter

New comment by joshschreuder in "Tunarr: Create and configure live TV channels from media on your servers"

joshschreuder — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 01:25:10 +0000

I recommend VHS Revue for a comedic, Australian take on old VHS content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--AqQpz2ZXs&list=PLWeppF9fEM...

New comment by joshschreuder in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

joshschreuder — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:51:52 +0000

I am not a coffee hipster (as will probably become evident by my next statement) but I do like good cafe coffee here in Melbourne and I completely agree. I don’t make it my daily driver, but 7/11 and even McCafe coffee is quite decent here IMO

New comment by joshschreuder in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

joshschreuder — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:50:20 +0000

I agree completely, most iced coffee here from supermarkets is hyper sweetened rubbish that barely tastes like coffee at all. You have to go for “double” or “triple” espresso options to get a proper taste of coffee, otherwise you’re just drinking sweet milk (and not even in the guilty pleasure Vietnamese iced coffee way)

As previously mentioned Boss does do a decent black iced coffee though, and there are a few niche brands around putting out less sweet varieties

New comment by joshschreuder in "Ask HN: How do you find new games to play?"

joshschreuder — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:55:32 +0000

Mostly word of mouth or podcasts. For podcasts I recommend Into The Aether in particular as they only chat about games they like and don’t bother with stuff they don’t like. And also talk about older games they like that you may have missed. In general it’s a chill informative listen

Was also listening to Electronic Wireless Show (RIP) and also listen to Besties which is good but probably more of an entertainment show than a prime way to discover games, though I still do every now and then.

The game I’m enjoying at the moment is Tametsi (https://store.steampowered.com/app/709920/Tametsi/). I stumbled upon it randomly in a mention in a Steam review for a different puzzle game.

New comment by joshschreuder in "Incels need more mental health help, have "fundamental thinking errors""

joshschreuder — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 23:16:55 +0000

I think this probably gets a lot worse before it gets better. I'm not in the space myself but am close with a number of primary/elementary educators and from my perspective it appears as though in Western/developed countries at least there has been a massive shift away from teaching rejection and "life is unfair" philosophy and moving towards "everyone's a winner" type stuff. And education has a perverse incentive to just promote kids that are floundering instead of failing/holding them back and upsetting parents / making more work for the already underpaid and overworked teachers.

We're only just recently trying to course correct for this by teaching resilience training, because of course these kids will get to the "real world" of tertiary education / careers and just completely fall apart the first time things don't work out exactly as they planned.

I would be curious to see the age ranges of self reported incels and whether this correlates to a modern generation raised like this.

New comment by joshschreuder in "Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com"

joshschreuder — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:13:20 +0000

Love this, thanks!

One question - is pagination broken or not implemented? eg. searching for a band with a large discography like Built to Spill / Okkervil River only returns a small selection of tabs. It actually doesn't seem to be the first page even, more of a random selection.

New comment by joshschreuder in "Mythbusters: Wing Commander I Edition"

joshschreuder — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:31:05 +0000

I feel like given the comment from Ken, it is not unreasonable to assume the game shipped like he said.

He did specifically say "We had to ship ASAP" which implies that it was done to get the game out the door and indeed shipping copies would have the message.

New comment by joshschreuder in "Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything"

joshschreuder — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:24:08 +0000

Nice work, I was able to extract out a feed URL from a Listnr exclusive podcast and can now add it to my normal podcast app without needing to use their stupid propriatary one. Win for openness!

New comment by joshschreuder in "OpenWRT 22.03.4"

joshschreuder — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:41:58 +0000

Has done since 3rd Dec for the 388 branch

https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/changelog

New comment by joshschreuder in "Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?"

joshschreuder — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 05:40:10 +0000

I have a Freestyle Edge as well and highly recommend it.

New comment by joshschreuder in "Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?"

joshschreuder — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 05:38:18 +0000

Is there anything like this but... not as nice? (and not as expensive) I wouldn't mind having something like this to mess around on but not for $180 USD

New comment by joshschreuder in "ChatGPT is now finding bugs in databases"

joshschreuder — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:30:36 +0000

One of the words it gave me was “Yclept (archaic form of "called" or "named")” which is both silent and invisible!

New comment by joshschreuder in "New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint"

joshschreuder — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 22:19:01 +0000

It would seem like no, in recent times at least. In recent browser versions (Chrome 94+, Firefox 99+, etc.) it's been changed to only report the default PDF plugins

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/p...

New comment by joshschreuder in "Ask HN: How do you test SQL?"

joshschreuder — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 23:19:56 +0000

Just as a real world (somewhat) counterpoint to this - you need to be very careful about performance metrics in particular.

Functionality is pretty easy to verify with LINQ / mock data sets (though it is also easy to mock things in a way that aren't representative of real data by mistake) but the performance characteristics of a real SQL engine vs. unit testing in this way can lead to some real gotchas once it's deployed. Particularly if you're using an ORM, multiple enumerations over database queries, strange ORM choices in joins/exists/whatever can absolutely murder performance.

I would still recommend having integration and/or performance testing downstream of these types of unit tests though I agree they are useful.

New comment by joshschreuder in "Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do"

joshschreuder — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 05:02:40 +0000

There's a lot more to upper body strength than just doing pull ups. You can absolutely work up to it in many ways (including negatives as mentioned).

Recommend giving this video a look, and the channel in general. Lots of good vibes and solid advice for working up through a progression without the muscle bro wankery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO3dKSQayfg

New comment by joshschreuder in "LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing"

joshschreuder — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:18:41 +0000

Can you elaborate?

New comment by joshschreuder in "LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing"

joshschreuder — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:17:58 +0000

I’m not sure whether this linked on does or doesn’t handle HEVC.

But Avidemux in copy mode should handle it, I’ve been using it for a while in a similar lossless manner to this tool and it’s great.

New comment by joshschreuder in ".NET 7 is Available Today"

joshschreuder — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 23:36:31 +0000

Upgrades are honestly really easy, and have been since around .NET Core 2. I have now done 2 -> 2.1 -> 2.2 -> 3 -> 3.1 -> 5 -> 6 with very little friction at all, in a fairly big web API codebase.

I don't foresee any issues going from 6 -> 7. 5 -> 6 was essentially just a find and replace on TargetFramework and it all just worked.