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The author introduces the topic of old Sierra games and their inner lives, mentioning that the brilliant script decompiler written by Phil Fortier for SCI Companion was instrumental in understanding these games. However, the author wanted to write their own decompiler and share it with the community. After obtaining as many games and variants as […]
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This is a compilation of personal blogs taken from the Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? thread on Hacker News. The list is provided in OPML format, making it easy to import into your preferred RSS reader. To create this list, blogs from users with less than or equal to 100 karma […]
We have an exciting new feature for Bluesky users! You can now purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky. This means you can set a custom domain as your Bluesky handle, like bsky.team or alice.lol. We’ve partnered with Namecheap, a leading domain name registrar, to make this process quick and easy. Namecheap has been around […]
Joplin is a free, open-source note-taking and to-do application that allows users to organize their notes into notebooks. The application supports Markdown format and offers features such as search, tagging, and synchronization with various cloud services. It can be customized with plugins and themes, and a web clipper is available for saving web pages and […]
A federal judge has ordered the Biden administration to halt its communications with social media companies, stating that the administration violated the First Amendment by colluding with these platforms to suppress disfavored speakers and content. Judge Terry Doughty granted a preliminary injunction that imposes limits on various government agencies and officials, prohibiting them from pressuring […]
InternLM is introducing its open-sourced 7 billion parameter base model and chat model. The models have impressive features, such as leveraging trillions of high-quality tokens for training and supporting an 8k context window length for stronger reasoning capabilities. The toolset provided allows users to build their own workflows, and a lightweight training framework supports model […]
In a leaked document, Sega’s confidential emails, notes, and other documents reveal the company’s transformation from a major competitor of Nintendo to abandoning consoles altogether. The documents include business plans, inter-departmental emails, and marketing strategies. CEO Tom Kalinske expressed his belief that Sega was surpassing Sony in Japan in 1996, but this would later prove […]
Geologist Jérome Lavé has uncovered evidence suggesting that a massive landslide in the late 12th century caused a mountain in the Himalayas to lose around 500 meters in height. If Lavé is correct, this would be one of the largest landslides ever recorded, displacing an estimated 27 cubic kilometers of rock. The energy released during […]
PlanetScale is introducing a new offering called Scaler Pro that combines the best features of their current plans and enterprise offerings for companies of all sizes. This new plan allows customers to select the exact resources they need for their workloads, providing more control and clarity on pricing compared to traditional serverless models like Amazon […]
In this web content, the author discusses the complexities of working with textual data and introduces the unstructured Python library as a useful tool for handling unstructured data. The author explains how to install the library, split a document into smaller parts, and access different elements of the document. They also demonstrate how to convert […]