eigenform
@reflexive.space
he/him (John), near-30, looking for work!
🌙 your nonlocal hacker friend
🦀 hw/fw/sw, security, microarchitecture, rust, etc
🐬 hacks on gc/wii/melee stuff sometimes
🐘 @eigenform@treehouse.systems
🐦 @eigenform
🌙 your nonlocal hacker friend
🦀 hw/fw/sw, security, microarchitecture, rust, etc
🐬 hacks on gc/wii/melee stuff sometimes
🐘 @eigenform@treehouse.systems
🐦 @eigenform
i love that gordon freeman hopium image everyone is posting (but im too old and jaded for hope at this point)
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
i love that gordon freeman hopium image everyone is posting (but im too old and jaded for hope at this point)
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something i have tried to explain a few times, when people see crashes (panics, asserts, segfaults, whatever) as "bad":
when you have a bug, your program crashes if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, your program keeps running, but it is now a different program than you think it is. That's worse.
when you have a bug, your program crashes if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, your program keeps running, but it is now a different program than you think it is. That's worse.
“rust isn’t safe because it panics” shut da fuck up rust is safe BECAUSE it panics. instead of, you know. not doing that.
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
something i have tried to explain a few times, when people see crashes (panics, asserts, segfaults, whatever) as "bad":
when you have a bug, your program crashes if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, your program keeps running, but it is now a different program than you think it is. That's worse.
when you have a bug, your program crashes if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, your program keeps running, but it is now a different program than you think it is. That's worse.
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parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
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Did you know that there was a Wii that used wired Wii Remotes, couldn't be accessed by players, yet could swap between 22 retail titles? In our latest feature article, we look at the weird, the wonderful, the Starlight Wii.
dolphin-emu.org/blog/2025/11...
dolphin-emu.org/blog/2025/11...
Starlight Spotlight: A Hospital Wii in a New Light
In the early 1990s, the world found itself at a crossroads of technological change. Electronic entertainment was blowing up just about everywhere, with Nintendo at the forefront of the home video game...
dolphin-emu.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Did you know that there was a Wii that used wired Wii Remotes, couldn't be accessed by players, yet could swap between 22 retail titles? In our latest feature article, we look at the weird, the wonderful, the Starlight Wii.
dolphin-emu.org/blog/2025/11...
dolphin-emu.org/blog/2025/11...
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ah yes, the well-known "branch on [incoherent sputtering noise]" instruction
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
ah yes, the well-known "branch on [incoherent sputtering noise]" instruction
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amp/cab sim stuff is stupidly good and easy now..
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
amp/cab sim stuff is stupidly good and easy now..
happy edmund fitzgerald day
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
happy edmund fitzgerald day
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i put balatro on my oscilloscope
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
i put balatro on my oscilloscope
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finally stapled together some comet pictures
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
finally stapled together some comet pictures
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getting close to the 31st, time to start listening to dragula on repeat
October 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
getting close to the 31st, time to start listening to dragula on repeat
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>Names minor NPC after the console's processor.
>Expresses desire to be violent towards it.
What did Miyamoto mean by this?
>Expresses desire to be violent towards it.
What did Miyamoto mean by this?
In a 1996 interview about Super Mario 64, Shigeru Miyamoto said he really wanted to make Mario throw MIPS the Rabbit by his ears, and would have done it if the team had just one more month.
October 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
>Names minor NPC after the console's processor.
>Expresses desire to be violent towards it.
What did Miyamoto mean by this?
>Expresses desire to be violent towards it.
What did Miyamoto mean by this?
defensive programming or four-line horror story?
(i *think* it's actually the former, but I read it as "author realizes some horrible consequence of SLS happening across ERET" and physically felt pain)
(i *think* it's actually the former, but I read it as "author realizes some horrible consequence of SLS happening across ERET" and physically felt pain)
October 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
defensive programming or four-line horror story?
(i *think* it's actually the former, but I read it as "author realizes some horrible consequence of SLS happening across ERET" and physically felt pain)
(i *think* it's actually the former, but I read it as "author realizes some horrible consequence of SLS happening across ERET" and physically felt pain)
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The first LaserDisc upload today: a video art City Pop love letter to the American Southwest. A collaboration between two Japanese pop artists in the 1980s.
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The first LaserDisc upload today: a video art City Pop love letter to the American Southwest. A collaboration between two Japanese pop artists in the 1980s.
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
youtube auto-generated captions just casually dropped this banger:
"a thousand" -> "a,000"
"a thousand" -> "a,000"
October 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
youtube auto-generated captions just casually dropped this banger:
"a thousand" -> "a,000"
"a thousand" -> "a,000"
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Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
what fresh hell is this (from the LNL perf events?)
October 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
what fresh hell is this (from the LNL perf events?)