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jmiller099··on Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) re-implemented in C
love how they supported compiling with tcc!
jmiller099··on NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001)
Love this! Was in my bookmarks as I had to make a couple of codes late last year to slow the ball in arkanoid, so it could be enjoyed by someone who couldn't keep up. Needed to use FCEU to find the ball speed info and some online references to the 6502 ASM instruction set for substituting instructions to keep the ball slowed.
jmiller099··on Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10
thanks, sounds like backwards progress
jmiller099··on Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10
The HP Elite lapdock works well with Dex on the Note8 and Note 10. Samsung SW used to just mirror the phone display, but some Android update allowed Dex over any detected HDMI connection and has been working well since.

But these days generally prefer to run Dex on Windows instead of carrying another device. Would love to see Dex on Linux happening officially. The workaround, although admirable, seemed too clunky to try [1]

1 https://www.technipages.com/android-accessing-samsung-dex-mo...

jmiller099··on In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"
i like c |= 0x20; :)
jmiller099··on Transparent OLEDs
Transparent OLED on subway video

https://en.oledspace.com/a-closer-look-into-beijings-futuris...

jmiller099··on Lossless compression of English messages using GPT-2
Tried similar.

Typed in 你好吗 and decompressed it. The decompression was an entertaining read.

jmiller099··on TheForger's Win32 API Programming Tutorial
sups? :)
jmiller099··on Here is my collection of 600+ “old” digital cameras
My two batteries were both dead when I pulled it out of my closet last month. Ordered one on ebay, received it, charged it, put it in camera and then saw it come to life again.

Slid in a floppy disk and failed to write to it when pressing the shutter button on the camera. Didn't get it working and forget if I tried to format the floppy from the camera or not, if such method exists?

jmiller099··on Apple Supplier List – Top 200 [pdf]
udc also supplies phosphorescent emitter materials manufactured by ppg.
jmiller099··on Apple Supplier List – Top 200 [pdf]
udc supplies to samsung display (and others)
jmiller099··on SD cards could soon hold 128TB of storage
yes, exactly. came to say similar thoughts.
jmiller099··on Ask HN: Why Is the Resolution Inside Any VR So Poor?
https://9to5google.com/2018/05/22/google-lg-vr-oled-display/
jmiller099··on Ask HN: What is a good phone for to write code on?
another thing came to mind today

the samsung galaxy note 8 plugged into the hp elite x3 lapdock is a great candidate. doing this gives you a larger screen, keyboard, and trackpad.

jmiller099··on Show HN: Pocket Puter
on android a developer can develop for android on android itself. applies to java, ndk, and even console c/cpp apps. product is called AIDE. root not required.

furthermore, can use rooted android to develop for windows and windows ce by using tcc in conjunction with the aforementioned ndk to build tcc on the phone.

jmiller099··on Ask HN: What is a good phone for to write code on?
Gemini PDA is my recommendation.
jmiller099··on You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
lol, awesome
jmiller099··on You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
agree with you, i have put gallium os as a dual boot on my Acer r11 chromebook and the laptop has become my primary computing device.

basically have three environments on it:

1 chrome with chromebrew shell and android apps

2 crouton for most linux needs

3 gallium for when i need VMs and other more finicky os interactions

if i could get some wifi drivers working under crouton and also sync with appropriate os header files each google sw update in order to install virtualbox i could forego galliumos.

under crouton was able to do a lot:

1 natively compile with gcc

2 cross compile for kindle paperwhite

3 cross compile for windows ce

4 cross compile for esp8266

5 cross compile for garmin connectiq

the author of the original article is funny about using a linux vm to compile apps for android and run in chromeos. because today i can use the android app named aide to build an android app on my chromebook and immediately execute it. no need for linux, vm, or crouton.

jmiller099··on Original Windows File Manager with enhancements
your post about "quick build" compelled me to do the same and then bring out another computer to target windows rt on arm.

worked quickly and wonderfully, screenshot and recipe is here:

http://www.wanderinghuman.com/blog/archives/000123.html

jmiller099··on I miss Windows Phone
Lol, funny timing to see this. I pulled out my HTC Touch Pro 2 phone today because it has a keyboard and wanted to do some quick ssh stuff from remotely. Maybe not technically windows phone, since it was called windows mobile then with different design goals.

Had to charge it for longer than recent phones needed, but it came up well (except bluetooth). Fortunately WiFi worked with my current phone's hotspot.

After that had to find a solution for ssh client. Wound up using a midlet runner found on xda-developers and an ssh jar file. The keyboard usage was interesting after foregoing it for about a decade.

jmiller099··on Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America
ouch
jmiller099··on Chinese Text Project
on my note phone I hover the s-pen above the text.
jmiller099··on If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery
Here's some info from a jailbroken ipad (redacted some unique identifiers):

iPad:~/ root# ioreg -l -w0 | grep Capacity | | | | | "Capacity" = 960 | | "BootCapacityEstimate" = 87 | | "BatteryData" = {"CycleCount"=232,"MaxCapacity"=10639,"FullAvailableCapacity"=11085,"StateOfCharge"=98, "MfgData"=<redacted cuz it looks like a unique id>, "DesignCapacity"=11560,"QmaxCell0"=11678,"Flags"=1,"ManufactureDate"="6205","ChemID"=4384,"BatterySerialNumber"="redacted","Voltage"=4155} | | "CurrentCapacity" = 10500 | | "BootBBCapacity" = 10364 | | "AppleRawCurrentCapacity" = 10242 | | "AbsoluteCapacity" = 11272 | | "AppleRawMaxCapacity" = 10489 | | "MaxCapacity" = 10500 | | "DesignCapacity" = 11560

I hypothesize that the MaxCapacity will drift lower over time. They have all the info they need in their registry.

jmiller099··on Making a Game Boy game in 2017
you can even do console on android with aide. was doing recently. paused while I switched to porting some console stuff to jailbroken iPad. running those over ssh. great nostalgia running nurses Dr Mario in a terminal. pointless, but enjoyable.
jmiller099··on Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable?
motoactv fits the bill also.

I even hacked it's golf database to update for the Torrey Pines North redesign which occurred last year.

For the other data pulls, the xda folks did that.

Garmin may also work, depending your use case. I couldn't get golf working without their service, so I leave it unused. used some java library found online to parse their .fit files within an android app, so can get data on my phone without going through their servers.

jmiller099··on Researchers discover bees can be left or right-handed
are any ambidextrous?
jmiller099··on Foreign students have begun to shun the United States
awwww
jmiller099··on Why I wrote fake news
incompetence or worse
jmiller099··on China Pulls Ahead of U.S. In Latest TOP500 List
congrats
jmiller099··on Trump admin. to reverse ban on elephant trophies from Africa
it's about time
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