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The comments are AI-generated, but the original class names were all in Dutch, so I told it to make the rest of the code match :)

Why is this a paper? Should've just been a blogpost. Maybe I don't understand academia

You can definitely have 50000 unit battles on the web

Opus figured out the compiler and flags in 5 minutes actually

I want to get the original (Age of Mythology Gold Edition) running natively on macOS and then port it to WASM to run it on the web so I can easily play it with friends

I'll write a blogpost when I actually have it working, but basically I gave the game .msi installer to claude opus 5.5 and said to read these blogs:

  - https://blog.chrislewis.au/using-coding-agents-to-decompile-nintendo-64-games/
  - https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-long-tail-of-llm-assisted-decompilation/

And to setup a harness that will decompile the game and start doing a matching decompilation of every function. It set up a bunch of tooling and started a service in the background to do this actual decompilation campaign. I put some instructions into the main opus chat now and then to e.g. add automatic git pushing including a nice svg chart of progress and to switch model strategies here and there i.e. to do a first pass with a cheap model and then switch to opus/sol if the small model can't solve it.

I could now one-shot a new game, yeah.

This is great! Been using GPT 6 Luna for decompiling my childhood favorite game (Age of Mythology) and this means I can throw Haiku into the mix as well. 17352/21965 functions matched so far...

You don't have to wait? You just have to compile matter yourself

If you're looking at real estate for example, it's interesting to see what the plot and the neighbor's plots are

I built https://kadaster.club, which shows all land parcel data of the Netherlands. There's some existing sites for this but they quickly try to upsell you stuff and/or are slow and don't show the parcel data when zoomed out too much. None of the other ones I've seen render the parcel data as vectors either, which hurts my eyes.

I also just added https://kadaster.club/mcp so an agent can query the same data and even look in the data available on https://omgevingswet.overheid.nl/ to answer question around what is allowed and what permits you need for a specific location

$800M in 2009 Apple stock would be about $24B today!

Bluetooth now has something that does this more accurately on a protocol level: https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/feature-enha...

I've built this website which shows the land registry data (Kadaster) information of The Netherlands but with nice vector graphics and much more performant than other websites I found: https://kadaster.club

Turns out there's an incredible organization here (of course) that publishes many geospatial datasets: https://www.pdok.nl

I think that used to be the idea but then they got acqui-hired

We use NixOS for all of our robots and servers at https://www.monumental.co, hard to imagine how we would do constant updates of our robot fleet without it.

If you're working on cloud systems it's easy enough to just throw away VMs all the time but you can't really do that with physical hardware that's on a construction site for months on end, where you only have a shared 5G connection. NixOS makes this all manageable!

The alternative firmwares give you a lot more options in this, stock is OK in layout

We could still deploy manually but it's suboptimal! And we're 'flying blind' without CI runs

Insane, we have to come up with contingency plans now for long-duration GitHub outages because we can't safely do deployments. For a service we're paying thousands of $ per year for even though we host runners ourselves...

iDeal is an enormous success in the Netherlands so if banks implement it as well in other countries then it will definitely be competitive with credit cards for online payments

No, open-source maintainers don't owe you anything if you don't pay for it

I highly recommend anyone to look at jq's VM implementation some time, it's kind of mind-blowing how it works under the hood: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/master/src/execute.c

It does some kind of stack forking which is what allows its funky syntax

Hopefully some actual competition against GSuite (or whatever it's called these days)

Wow I've heard pieces of this but never the full thing, incredible

Wow 11 years ago, takes me back...

Sure, but getting this far would be inconceivable just half a year ago. It will only get better as time passes

My website: https://bou.ke/

I should blog more, and so should you!

It's not available in my region (NL) :(

big L for all the cloud providers that made the mistake of using it instead of forging their own path, they're kind of screwed now

option 2 is what this blog is about, the example code creates a socket using that method

HR, finance, sales any non engineer is called an operator these days basically