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Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled
Snowboard Kids 2 for the Nintendo 64 has reached 100% matching decompilation. A brief note on what that means, how we got here, and what comes next.
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DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots
(This post is part of a series on the subject of my hobby project, which is recreating the C source code for the 1989 game F-15 Strike Eagle II by reverse engineering the original binaries.)
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I'm scared about biological computing
I’ve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped. I’ve toyed around with a lot of Language Models, built random side projects, built a couple from scratch and I’ve spent hours looking at the math behind it all.
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California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business
A plain-language guide to AB2047 you can share with your school board, PTA, or neighbor. Learn what's at stake and how to take action.
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The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances
This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB .
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Aluminum foil (2021)
It’s typically 10 μm thick and 400 mm wide, giving it an aspect ratio of 40000 in that dimension, and rolls are commonly some ten meters in length, for an aspect ratio of 1 000 000; heavy-duty versions can reach 30 μm or more. Despite their thinness, foils of 25 μm or more are impermeable to oxygen, water, and light…
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RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
It turns out, you can attach an external GPU to a Raspberry Pi 5. So my natural first question is, can I game on it? Let’s try it out and compare it with some similar computers. Just a quick FTC required note: When you buy through my links, I may earn a commission. For the showdown of crappy gaming computers, we’ll…
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I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
TL;DR I use an Excalidraw, wrap the elements of interest with a frame, name it with export_ prefix, my forked excalidraw extension automatically generates SVGs for light and dark mode.
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Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home
Discreetly modding my friend’s apartment intercom to work with Apple Home.
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Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
Demonstrating the basics of logic programming with data from the Pokémon games.
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Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
This post is a high-level explainer for my Master’s thesis, which involves designing hardware architectures for ultrafast inference and online learning using the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) architecture. I’ll assume familiarity with standard machine learning concepts, as well as some understanding of hardware and…
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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
What Zig felt like, coming from Rust Intro I’ve spent the last 7 years as a Rust developer, working mostly on open source projects, and I’d like to think I’ve built a solid feel for the language and its ecosystem along the way. I gravitate toward the functional side of Rust like clean functions, expressive types, that…
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The darker side of being a doctor
I’m a surgeon. I’d like to think that I’m resilient and well adjusted, having gone through medical school and rigorous surgical training. I’ve been a doctor for 13 years and much of that period has been spent training to be as good a surgeon as I could ever be. I have great family support, a physician wife who…
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Programming Isn't Special
Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists?
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Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future
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404 Deno CEO not found
The one where I mourn the best runtime and speculate idly.
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IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
Collaboration aims to advance new technologies that expand infrastructure choice while preserving mission-critical environments ARMONK, N.Y., April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today...
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Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
An unreleased Claude model improved the lower bound for the fraction of zeroes of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the hypothesis, raising it from 41.6% to 67.2%.
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The Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
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H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office
In a voice vote earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some government agencies, but it’s much more than that. H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S....
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Solving Factorio Quality
I play Factorio the normal way: by writing matrix math code to plan the factory.
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How close can pure functional programming get to C?
In Why Lean is Faster Than Rust , the author shares an impressive result: a DEFLATE compression library written in Lean 4 , a functional programming language and proof assistant, outperforming an equivalent Rust package that crates.io says has been downloaded over a billion times. From the article:
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Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction. The color correction still a work in progress, but you can…
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What I learned from my mom (1941-2026)
My mom and I had a daily practice for many years: We would exchange gratitude emails.
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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker
A hacktivist group with links to Iran’s intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker , a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker’s largest hub outside of the United States, said the company sent home more than 5,000 workers…
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eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
I work as an Engineering Manager at Google, and my teams practice a simple habit - we book all meetings to start at five minutes past the hour (or half hour). This works better than trying to finish five minutes early. Meetings often don't finish on time, and the impact is highest with back-to-back meetings.…
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Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime is Apache-2.0 and stays open, and here is what the funding is actually for.
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How I'm Productive with Claude Code
It’s been about 6 weeks since I joined Tano, and this is what my commit history looks like:
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Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful
Notes on Chapter 1 of Principia Mathematica