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I like how the author says Google killed the Fitbit Sense so they could sell an inferior product without having to compete … then said author reluctantly buys and recommends that inferior product. I’m way pettier than that. I’d use anything else, even if it sucked, rather than directly reward a company for fucking me over.

That’s closer but rather than being a wrapper, it takes the original architecture’s instructions (MIPS in the case of N64) and generates a C/C++ function which implements that instruction. Then you call those functions in the same sequence as the original compiled machine code ran instructions.

That’s a relatively inefficient way to make a port, because you’re basically reimplementing the original CPU in software, hence why some have described it as emulation. At the same time though, most recompiled games are like 15-20 years old, so a bit of overhead on a modern PC isn’t going to hurt you too much.

But anyway, unlike WINE, the original binary is not used any more after recompilation. Instead, you have a native binary for the target platform, the translation having occurred at the time of recompilation (when you built the port binary).

Not really. The Ship of Harkinian ports are based on decompilations, which is where you reverse engineer some equivalent source code using the final binary as a reference point. Then, you can port that source code to anything else you can build for, like a PC, phone, Wii U or Dreamcast.

Recompilation, which is what this project is, is closer to (and some have gone as far as to say that it is) emulation. It’s taking the final binary and then, without actually working backward to get source code, translating the raw instructions directly into code that compiles for a different platform.

It’s kind of difficult to get across the difference without being familiar with what both are doing behind the scenes, because the result is obviously similar. Both require human intervention, but decompilation is the more labor-intensive approach, while recompilation is somewhat more automated.

The advantage of former is that you end up with a relatively human-readable codebase to work with, while the latter doesn’t bring you any closer to understanding how the game works internally. Both ultimately allow for porting the game to new platforms. Decompilation will almost certainly result in a more optimized final game, because it avoids the overhead of “emulating” the original architecture. However, for the same reason, recompilation can be generalized to other games that originally ran on the same hardware.

JERRY!

Somebody get a sponge.

Jeffrey Toobin was pretty good at it.

What are your favorite search engine alternatives? Ideally no ads or favored content, and with various useful filters

There’s the obvious suggestions like DuckDuckGo, but if you’re used to the (actual) results you get from Google, it’s worth checking out Mullvad Leta. This is a search engine that proxies the results of either Brave or Google, so you get their results without them tracking or advertising to you. This is the only way I use Google when doing text searches these days. Sometimes I still have to break it out to do image searches and stuff, as Leta only handles standard text, but it’s been handy as a way to divest from Google without giving up the benefits.

There is a common factor in all of my problems in life and ultimately I have to admit, it is Jared Leto.

It’s a very weird case. ABC Australia had an article on her hospital stay as it was ongoing which raised some questions without definitively answering them.

While Giuffre had posted about going into kidney failure, ABC reported:

The family of Virginia Giuffre, a prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, says she remains in a “serious condition while receiving medical care” after a bus crash in Western Australia.

But the Perth hospital where she’s staying denies that characterisation, as police maintain the crash was “minor”.

Giuffre was later discharged from hospital after treatment. Reading between the lines, it seems that she wasn’t going into kidney failure when she posted to Instagram about it.

Whether that means she was incorrectly informed that she was dying, or was confused due to sedation, or was suffering from poor mental health, etc. is not reported.

If she has now committed suicide, that would seem to make it more likely that mental health had a role in the initial post about her physical health.

In addition to any ongoing trauma relating to her abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew, Giuffre no doubt had additional strain due to her recent separation from her husband and estrangement from their three teenage children.

He plans to run for governor of Florida (against Ron DeSantis). The article also quotes Florida Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried, who gave her reading of the reason he left:

“Jason’s failure to build support within our party for a gubernatorial run has led to this final embarrassing temper tantrum. I’d be lying if I said I’m sad to see him go, but I wish him the best of luck in the political wilderness he’s created for himself,” Fried said. “The Florida Democratic Party is more united without him."

I don’t know these people, no idea whether either of them is trustworthy. Funny burn, though.

Good news but also butterfly meme.

That or she only reads the ones with the blue checkmarks.

https://xcancel.com/NancyMace/status/1913723311386952073

Did somebody say “DOGOON”?

(Violence Fight, Taito, 1989, arcade.)

Absolutely. I can’t know what has gone wrong inside him, but even if this particular brainworm was eating him up 20 years ago, he could have just said something vaguely apologetic and let it blow over. Instead, he decided a trans hate crusade was more important than his family or his career.

Series 3, episode 4, “The Speech”. Sadly, it’s also the episode where they convince Jen a box with a flashing red light is the Internet, but it has a subplot where Reynholm un-knowingly dates a trans woman. He finds her stereotypically masculine behavior attractive until he finds out she is transgender and a physical fight erupts between them.

It’s not even on the upper end of offensive comedy about trans people, but when the episode was criticized, Linehan doubled down and has kept doubling down harder for 20 straight years, to the point where he now spends all of his time harassing, dead naming and doxing trans women on Twitter. His wife left him, writing jobs dried up, he’s just a miserable has-been Twitter checkmark asshole now.

Except for that one transphobic episode that Graham Linehan has ruined his whole life over instead of going “Yeah, I’m sorry, that was a bit insensitive.”

Mostly every Rare game.

• Diddy Kong Pilot (the voxel version)
• Dinosaur Planet
• Donkey Kong Racing
• Twelve Tales: Conker 64

I know 3/4 of these sort of got released, but the mode-7 style Banjo-Pilot is fundamentally not interesting to me, Star Fox Adventures is fine but was a lot more ambitious when it was on weaker hardware, and while Twelve Tales looked generic, Conker’s Bad Fur Day is the least funny thing to ever attempt humor.

I didn’t forget Donkey Kong: Coconut Crackers, I just don’t mind missing out on that.