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I just wondered if anyone knows how Near is doing

I noticed his byuu.org site has been down for a while

Posted by NTI
This thread is gradually reaching a point where it's becoming a good candidate to preserve for posterity alongside these ones. Please, don't stop guys.

This movie is the result of decades of routing and discoveries, and has been developed with extensive help from the current speedrunner community. Notable contributors to the routing are the actual game top speedrunners, such as (in no particular order) crem, CapnClever, 7eraser7, Karlgamer, YOLO4GG, GoodSpectre, Higlak, Velcheran, Creditor, WinterThunder, uvq3tsa, Wolfadawn, KenshinTrek, and GMP.

The route has improved a great deal during the last few years thanks to the use of savestate-enabled emulators (e.g., DosBox-X), allowing players to try different tricks without losing too much time. The development of this TAS is largely based on the existing route but has introduced two novel approaches:


Frame by Frame Analysis / Memory Debugging

Thanks to the use of emulators (JPC-RR) and memory debuggers (Cheat Engine), the discovery of new tricks (e.g. level 4, 7 and 8 skips) became possible, as their discovery required a frame-perfect input and RNG-heavy setups. Fortunately, more human-friendly versions of these skips have been developed after their discovery.


Routing by Exhaustive Seach

The development of an open-source version of the game (SDLPop) allowed the development of a high-performance parallel breadth-first search bot, called Jaffar, that exhaustively explores all possible movements in each possible frame. The search is made possible by constraining the exploration space to that of a pre-determined route, requiring a few trillion states per level. As a result, the bot found the most efficient way to traverse the community-established route. We've applied Jaffar repeatedly on a supercomputer to solve for every level. Following strict definitions, the re-Record count is: 817,608,423,040

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Posted by tomman
Does nocash still sell license keys for that?

You'd have to ask him.

Posted by shadowinthelight
According to this

When Windows 11 Home prompts users to connect to a network, a simple ‘Alt + F4’ shortcut closes the prompt, and the screen proceeds directly to the local account creation page

Still available, just harder to find?

Posted by CaptainJistuce
The old guard, though? 1994's MS-DOS 6.22 listed an 8088 with 512 KB of RAM as the minimum system requirements.

Hahahahaha. The content itself is in the fucking HTML - but hidden behind a <noscript> tag! So if you're browsing the site without JS, you just see the content immediately, but if your browser has JS enabled, you have to wait for the HTML to load completely (including the content), for the browser to parse the HTML and send a request to a javascript source file, wait for the javascript to load, get parsed, get to the point in execution where it sends a GET request to an API which serves the content, wait for the GET request to complete, the giant JSON payload to get parsed, and then finally JavaScript can do the DOM operations necessary to populate the body.

So with JavaScript disabled:

1. GET request to /hillelwayne/archive/i-ing-hate-science/
2. The response contains the post contents, so rendering of content starts even before all the HTML is downloaded

With JavaScript enabled:

1. GET request to /hillelwayne/archive/i-ing-hate-science/
2. Once the entire HTML body is downloaded, GET request to /.../main-<hash>.js
3. Once the entire JS script is download, parsed and executed, GET request to /api/emails/...
4. Once the entire JSON payload is downloaded, parse the JSON payload
5. Once the entire JSON payload is parsed, populate the body

Why do people make websites like this?

The funny thing is: The script which actually loads the e-mail is at the very bottom of the HTML. Normally, putting scripts at the bottom of the HTML is good practice, because you want the content to be loaded first, and JavaScript to be loaded after the content. But in this case, the javascript loads the content, so it's critical to start downloading it as soon as possible. The script tag should've been close to the very top of the HTML. But it's not, so the script which loads the actual content of the page is going to be loaded with essentially the lowest priority possible by the browser, and the browser won't even know about it before the entire post body is loaded (due to that aforementioned noscript tag).