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Kristine1975on System Shock 1 source code released under GPL

>Because they've been unsuccessful in completing the reboot, releasing the sources is a way of apologizing.

They wanted to publish the original source code from the get go. Here's an article from mid 2016 talking about it: https://www.gamezone.com/news/system-shock-s-original-source...

>Since the instructions mention a PPC requirement to build on Mac, I'm assuming these are fairly old.

The game was released in 1994, so yeah, they are old :-)

Kristine1975on System Shock 1 source code released under GPL

The (partial?) source code for Thief 2, SS2 etc. was leaked a few years ago. You can still find it on the Internet.

Kristine1975on System Shock 1 source code released under GPL

I'm pretty sure CodeWarrior was able to deal with any kind of line endings: CR, LF, CR+LF.

Kristine1975on System Shock 1 source code released under GPL

>I have no idea if that version of the data would work with this version of the engine, though.

IIRC the Mac version doesn't use the original data files, but converted them to use the Mac's resource file format. And judging from a quick look at the source code it doesn't contain support for the original data files.

So: no, you'll have to use the Mac version's data files.

Kristine1975on System Shock 1 source code released under GPL

Use this fork with changed line endings: https://github.com/ToxicFrog/shockmac

Kristine1975on System Shock 1 source code released under GPL

https://github.com/ToxicFrog/shockmac/blob/master/ShockMac/G...

    inslwi   r0,r10,16,8
    insrwi   r11,r10,16,8
    rlwimi   r0,r10,16,24,31

How I missed this!

Kristine1975on LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack

Which in some cases might make it cheaper for customers to use their own hardware, resulting in cloud providers losing business.

Kristine1975on HyperCard On The Archive

Given that there's a topic "hypercard_xcmd-xfcn" I'd wager they are. Archive.org is essentially emulating a Mac Plus that runs HyperCard in the browser.

Kristine1975on HyperCard On The Archive

Fun fact: The game Myst was created in HyperCard (at least the original Mac version was).

Kristine1975on Firefox about:addons is using Google Analytics

Same with Firefox 54.0.1 and uBlock Origin.

Kristine1975on What is your current “bathroom book?”

Spending a lot of time on the toilet is not healthy. Increase your fiber intake instead of deciding on a bathroom book :-)

Kristine1975on Ask HN: What do you do while your code compiles?

Browse HN, d'uh!

Kristine1975on Juicero's CEO responds

* The bags apparently aren't even vacuum-sealed (there's a "breathing hole")*

Wouldn't the content (at least the liquid part of it) leak through the hole?

But they don't pasteurize the bag's content, so it will spoil a lot faster than, say, juice you buy at a supermarket. They use their fancy QR code to make sure a bag hasn't expired, essentially providing an over-engineered solution to a problem they created in the first place.

Kristine1975on Xfce bug: “default desktop screen causes damage to monitor”

>when there was an intense debate on whether a software could cause damage to some hardware.

A more recent debate (TL;DR: yes, software can cause damage to hardware): https://superuser.com/questions/313850/

Kristine1975on Xfce bug: “default desktop screen causes damage to monitor”

And then ship a malicious /usr/bin/cat.

Kristine1975on Xfce bug: “default desktop screen causes damage to monitor”

What's easier to change? Even a single cat or XFCE?

Kristine1975on Xfce bug: “default desktop screen causes damage to monitor”

>The bugtracker seems to be taking a nap

Sounds like it's a cat. No wonder the bug won't be fixed then.

Kristine1975on VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering

>http://crbug.com/361587

Reported almost 3 years ago and still not fixed...

Kristine1975on The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

No, it doesn't.

Kristine1975on The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

>Canadians have no problem waiting a year or more for surgery.

Citation needed.

Kristine1975on Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 20

It should have ended with the 3rd season. The 4th season was directionless, the 5th season was ok, the 6th season again went nowhere (not to mention the stupid magic-as-drug subplot and Tara's death), and that's when I stopped watching.

Kristine1975on Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising

>if you really don't want to pay for it, we still want you to use Windows 10.

Hasn't that always been Microsoft's modus operandi? They could have cracked down on pirated versions of their software (Windows, Office), but they didn't because they knew that piracy helped in making their software the de-facto standard.

Kristine1975on Dual Numbers and Automatic Differentiation (2014)

Second derivatives can be calculated using hyper-dual numbers: http://adl.stanford.edu/hyperdual/

Kristine1975on New York City mapped its trees and calculated each one’s economic benefits

Because clearly the only thing important when it comes to trees is their economic value/s

Still a nice project.

Kristine1975on Don’t Mess with The Google

>Anything critical and entirely irreplaceable goes onto blu-ray disks, because I can't accidentally delete those

There's bit-rot though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation#Decay_of_stor...

Kristine1975on Error Handling in Node.js

>and if the program generates a segfault, there is no way to safely store any data

FWIW Inkscape tries to save the current document to (IIRC) the user's home directory, displays a message to tell the user about it and quits.

Kristine1975on Why American Elections are Flawed, and How to Fix Them

It's the illusion of choice: Choice where it doesn't matter, no choice where it does.

Kristine1975on Why American Elections are Flawed, and How to Fix Them

>If you believe the project veritas videos you are a gullible moron

I don't think this has a place on HackerNews?

Kristine1975on Why American Elections are Flawed, and How to Fix Them

The problem isn't requiring an ID per se, but the requirements for obtaining such an ID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_ID_laws_in_the_United_St...

For example:

> A 2009 study found that 84.2% of white registered voters in Indiana had access to photo ID to comply with that state's ID law, as compared to 78% of black voters on the rolls there