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hcs · 2026-02-02T21:36:37 1770068197

Surely you've been on HN long enough to know people just read the headline. Not that it would stop all sniping, but that headline doesn't even include "program" (or "compute").

tromp · 2026-02-02T22:04:54 1770069894

> that headline doesn't even include "program" (or "compute").

Neither does Scott's article titled "Who Can Name the Bigger Number?" [1]

The title is just a way to invite the reader to find out why the answer isn't simply 2^64-1.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9058986

hcs · 2026-02-02T04:30:11 1770006611

On Switch 2 there are also pure license dongles in the form of the Game-Key Card. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Game_Card#Game-Key_Ca...

hcs · 2026-02-01T22:33:34 1769985214

After decompression, with the performance characteristics you'd expect. If it has to come off disk it's still a win or at least usually breaks even in their measurements. https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compression/#query-runtime

The paper suggests that you could rework string matching to work on the compressed data but they haven't done it.

hcs · 2026-01-26T03:04:50 1769396690

Flips switch

How about now?

taneq · 2026-01-26T03:12:30 1769397150

Have you tried turning your sense of self off and on again?

braaileb · 2026-01-26T03:19:13 1769397553

shh the buddhists are sensitive (got dunked on by Ram)

hcs · 2026-01-21T11:03:44 1768993424

Oh this looks right up my alley, I'll check it out on desktop.

Posted a few times previous, without discussion, though I'd missed it:

Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524890

Links on author's site https://r-labs.io/#emudevz

hcs · 2026-01-18T19:37:01 1768765021

Though it doesn't directly answer your question, isfdb.org is a great reference for publication history of SF: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?55700

elcapitan · 2026-01-19T15:25:26 1768836326

Oh wow, that's amazing, thank you!

hcs · 2026-01-18T17:46:46 1768758406

Related seriously: You can make it more likely to have long runs of the same letters, reversibly, with the Burrows-Wheeler Transform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf...

(No magic, though it still feels like it, BWT is most useful when there's repeated substrings.)

hcs · 2026-01-14T06:40:59 1768372859

If you don't have a good drive and a clean disc you may get skipping/jitter and thus possibly never get a AR or CueTools DB match. (CTDB has parity records that can be used to repair some small errors.) This is the point of the elaborate re-read stuff Exact Audio Copy or cdparanoia does. Though even with a good drive you ought to be using a tool that checks for C2 errors, and that won't necessarily catch everything; error correction and detection is always probabilistic.

Also not everything is in AR/CTDB. Maybe 3% of the 1000+ CDs I've ripped had no records yet, though I do tend towards the obscure. I rip these again with EAC, which is set up to automatically do CTDB submission. (Usually I'm using the redumper tool which has some specialized features.)

Without external verification it's best to dump it twice and ensure they're bit equal, preferably with a different drive to minimize error correlation.

hcs · 2026-01-11T13:05:47 1768136747

Speaking of Max Payne and graphics, there's an amusing hidden sketch with references to engine development in the game: https://youtu.be/Ca04hCF9FL4

hcs · 2025-12-22T14:28:11 1766413691

Thanks! I keep meaning to add a table of players to the page, here's what comes to mind.

Victor/JVC sold a few decoder/karaoke components (VS-G2, VS-G3), as in this '92 catalog: https://extended.graphics/images/Mezzo.1992.2-4.pg10.jpg

There was integrated support in a karaoke machine from Victor (KX-G1-H) and a CD player from Sony (CDP-K2EG, '94 catalog: https://extended.graphics/images/CDP-K2EG-94.2-full.jpg). There were varying levels of support on the NEC PC-FX and some CD-i systems (GoldStar in particular). I've also seen the logo on some LaserDisc players but never tested one.

The Sega Saturn is the best and easiest to find, though! As far as I know there hadn't been a commercial CD+EG disc released since 1992, and the Saturn was out in 1994, but I guess it was just a little extra BIOS code by then.