skelpmargyar

You can buy CDs of the SGI SDK on ebay.

Recompilation projects aren't bit perfect, only decomps. They use a recompiled version of the compilers for Linux so that they don't need to emulated with QEMU like they used to, though.

Why should we wait for LLMs to become good enough to spoon feed the end result when we can do it ourselves?

These are beautiful, collaborative efforts and require members to constantly improve their learning, communication, patience, and technical skills. These are skills that transfer to other parts of life, same as other hobbies like sports and martial arts. It's an incredible manifestation of the hacker spirit. Do we as a community not enjoy tinkering anymore?

This isn't a consumable product. We aren't selling anything here trying to make a quick buck. There's no "rush to market" pressure to finish these projects.

The perspective I see creeping up in many engineering areas of "wait for AI to automate everything in life" seems to value the end product more than the means.

It's a valid question. The short answer to the question is counterproductive in my opinion.

Can you please elaborate on why distributing decompiled source code is violating copyright? And Nintendo is litigious, if it was black and white surely they would have taken down everything by now? How do you know the major LLMs are not trained on these decomp projects and/or leaks already?

Of course any random C file is going to have pointers. Where can anything in the linked code be exploited? It seems like they're testing for bad input data with asserts to catch bugs in some functions, and properly validating bad inputs in others. Just because they're writing C doesn't mean it's vulnerable.

How can you claim nobody cares about 5%? A 5% performance increase is significant. And video decoding is not always for playback, where 5% may not matter as much.

On the main page, it took me a minute after laughing at "std::byte arithmetic" to realize it was April 1st. All of those C++29 "features" are on point, very funny. Though surely there's somewhere SFINAE can be mentioned...

RISC-V is supported on QEMU. The available devices don't have a ton of peripherals compared to aarch64, but it exists. Even FreeRTOS has a QEMU virt port for RISC-V. And if you have unit tests QEMU could easily run those accurately.

Proxmox is awesome! I've been running it for ~5 years and it's been absolutely stable and pleasant to run services on.

The Proxmox Backup Server is the killer feature for me. Incremental and encrypted backups with seamless restoration for LXC and VMs has been amazing.

Avidemux is also great, but I've had some issues with running it under Wayland. LosslessCut works excellent on every platform I've tried with no issues. It also has a much better UI for cutting multiple segments, IMO.

Just wondering, do you know of a better alternative? I've pretty much only bought Anker recently because they haven't failed me yet. Trying to determine what is quality online now is very difficult.

Importing a library is not abstraction any more than closing your eyes is abstracting the world to black.

You also can't write software bad enough that you're forced to upgrade your monitor due to poor performance.

What is the advantage of that RPi setup over some cheap Android phone?