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New comment by reassembled in "Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?"

reassembled — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 06:25:57 +0000

The Northwest Repair Discord server is pretty active with people sharing techniques, tips, technical info and gear advice. While NWR's YouTube channel is mainly focused on GPU repair, there's a lot of good knowledge in their vids, and in their Discord channels.

New comment by reassembled in "RK3588 – Implementing a Vectorscope for processing video in real time"

reassembled — Wed, 07 May 2025 01:18:20 +0000

The RK3588 is actually quite powerful. It is capable of running much heavier video workloads than this. OBS runs very well on it although it does not yet make use of the RockChip’s built-in media accelerator. It’s capable on paper of 16 streams of 1080p30 H264. Check out this blog post (not my own): https://jas-hacks.blogspot.com/2023/01/rk3588-decoding-rende...

New comment by reassembled in "3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)"

reassembled — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:07:32 +0000

I recently decided that I wanted to relive the PII/3dfx glory days went a little bit overboard buying up parts on eBay. I ended up with an Abit BH6, PIII-800, 768MB RAM, dual Voodoo2 cards and an Asus 3800 TNT2.

New comment by reassembled in "Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit"

reassembled — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:22:14 +0000

Interesting, I didn’t know that. I suspect many casual observers don’t either. So you’re suggesting they did this work with proprietary info they’d gained through work with Sega and thus broke their NDA?

New comment by reassembled in "Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit"

reassembled — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:59:54 +0000

Just this week a PC port of the 360 version of Sonic Unleashed was released that was accomplished via static recompilation techniques. It plays flawlessly and is really quite an impressive release. If this is possible now then emulation of these consoles might not be the only avenue to preserving their history.

New comment by reassembled in "Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004)"

reassembled — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:26:42 +0000

I was a QA tester on Noby Noby boy at Namco. It was really more of a toy compared to Katamari but it still retained much of Keita's signature weirdness and style. It was also the first game he made with network functionality. NNB is still relaxing to play around with every once in a while. It's a shame it was only released on the PS3, as it would be a good candidate for mobile devices.

New comment by reassembled in "Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas"

reassembled — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:01:33 +0000

A couple of years ago I had my 6Mbps ATT DSL reduced down to less than 1Mbps, to the point of being absolutely useless. I had no forewarning or notice that my service had been compromised. Every attempt to obtain support from ATT was met with attempts to get me to switch to cellular internet.

Fortunately I was able to get accepted into the StarLink early access around that time and managed to cancel the DSL. Even though ATT clearly did not want my business anymore, they still made sure I had to jump through countless hoops to finally disconnect and terminate billing. I had to sit on the phone for a couple of hours, being transferred between phone reps and managers until I finally got one person with the authority to shut my account down.

New comment by reassembled in "What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video]"

reassembled — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:50:00 +0000

Arcade collectors are practically liquidating Japan of many valuable arcade cabinets and PCBs. Nobody cared about much of these items 10-15 years ago. The YouTube and Reddit subcultures have grown a new younger audience for retro gaming, who often have a lot of money to throw around buying up rare items. There are also IG accounts of folks in places like Dubai, who clearly have wealth, amassing large collections of Japanese retro game tech.

If Japan, Sony or any other individual wanted to save this CRT for themselves, it would have been snatched up by now. The fact stands that the creator of the video is the only person on earth who did the detective work and put boots on the ground to make it their own rare CRT. Good work, I say!

New comment by reassembled in "Why GTA 6 Will Disappoint"

reassembled — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 08:15:44 +0000

Rockstar will fall behind if GTA6 isn’t fun, not because they failed to adopt C++17 or higher. This article is bordering on ridiculous and almost reads like a subversive ad for Unreal Engine or Unity (moreover Unreal).

Many game engines eschew the C++ STL and latest language features in favor of rolling their own performance optimized platform, data structure and algorithms libraries.

I work at a large player in the video hardware industry and we roll all our own performance-sensitive video processing code in C99 or C++98 (we only recently adopted C++11 because, why fix what ain’t broken?). It doesn’t seem to be holding us back.

New comment by reassembled in "Researchers launch "moonshot" to cure blindness through eye transplants"

reassembled — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 04:17:33 +0000

Sorry, Bob, but your damaged Apple iEye was cryptographically tied to your iBrain account so a transplant of a generic SeeWorld eye is not possible. We still don’t have wetware right-to-repair laws on the books in 2124.

New comment by reassembled in "AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux"

reassembled — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:47:10 +0000

Everything except Windows 7 and XP that is.

New comment by reassembled in "ESP32: leaving love notes and entering demoscene territory (2022)"

reassembled — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 05:41:07 +0000

A testament to how well designed and executed the ESP-IDF framework is. Paired with VSCode I’ve found it a joy to work with IDF and my ESP32-S3.

New comment by reassembled in "AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processors are ready to deliver world class gaming"

reassembled — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:26:56 +0000

Is there a reason why a few AMD motherboards have Thunderbolt 4 on them but most do not? I believe I’ve only seen it on the workstation class boards, I could be wrong though. Is there a reason why it’s not more broadly available on AMD mobos?

New comment by reassembled in "Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment (2019)"

reassembled — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 11:13:02 +0000

I know there is at least one ffmpeg fork with Rockchip mpp and rga support, although I haven’t tested it myself yet: https://github.com/nyanmisaka/ffmpeg-rockchip

I have tested the mpp SDK a bit and the code is easy to work with, with examples for encode and decode, both sync and async.

New comment by reassembled in "I like the RP2040"

reassembled — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:33:01 +0000

You can use Arduino libs via ESP-IDF. The IDF environment comes with a lot of libraries on its own but it is a development environment first and foremost. The design of IDF is very open and easy to understand throughout the stack. It is very easy to integrate external libraries via CMake as well.

New comment by reassembled in "FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps"

reassembled — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:43:50 +0000

Meanwhile, to my knowledge, ATT is actively pulling all existing DSL service with the only hard line alternative in many markets being a 1Mbps “UVerse” connection over the same copper phone lines. My 6Mbps DSL was suddenly turned into a 1Mbps UVerse line last year, with no warning. This has been happening to my neighbors as well. In some instances, after a big storm knocked out phone lines, ATT took the opportunity to cancel some folks DSL lines under their new policies. If you go to the ATT DSL page you will see that it is no longer being offered as a service.

Fortunately we were able to get Starlink soon after but it’s not a perfect replacement, particularly for gaming, due to the periods of short downtimes we still experience.

New comment by reassembled in "Activision QA Workers Vote to Form Largest US Video Game Worker Union to Date"

reassembled — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:48:53 +0000

I worked in game testing at two major Japanese game companies in the Bay Area for a few years before switching to doing QA in the video industry. As game testers we’d write up a ton of bug reports but generally only the most egregious crashes and console manufacturer’s standards violations would get fixed (think using the wrong Sony or Microsoft terminology or symbols in the game UI).

By the time most games reached our offices for testing they’d already undergone most of the core testing in Japan or at their developer’s studios. We were essentially just there to make sure last minute bugs didn’t slip through the cracks. Management rarely prioritized gameplay or even functionality bugs to be fixed, unless it was easy to reproduce and clearly prevented overall progress in the game.

We shipped one big fighting game and wrote up a bunch of bugs that clearly showed that online play was nigh-unusable, and nothing got fixed. The game came out and was ripped apart in reviews for the low quality of its net code. But it had a bunch of single player modes that were rock solid so they let the online modes slide. This was a few years before fighting game developers started seriously considering the importance of online play, and taking major steps to improve its quality.

New comment by reassembled in "Abandoned villages of Hong Kong"

reassembled — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:31:31 +0000

And did you find the great grandfathers grave?

New comment by reassembled in "Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub"

reassembled — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 03:14:22 +0000

Typo, max/msp

New comment by reassembled in "Lilygo T-Deck: 2.8-inch IPS LCD display, mini keyboard, and ESP32 processor"

reassembled — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 09:43:47 +0000

My recollection is that by default the ESP32 DAC isn't very high bit depth and so the sound quality is limited. It is recommended to interface it with an external DAC chip via I2S in order to achieve higher than 8bits per sample (maybe 12bit? Someone please correct me).