echisholm 5/2016 Have a relative (sort of) who works at a 3M plant. Shit still occasionally happens. > You can't just say that and go away!! How are you not irresistibly > interested in that?? I would've interrogated that relative so hard It just came up i…
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I’ve been reversing Black Ops Cold War for a while now, and I’ve finally decided to share my research regarding the user-mode anti-cheat inside the game. It’s not my intention to shame or promote cheating/bypassing of the anti-cheat, so I’ve redacted a few thi…
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Blurhash creates compact blurred image previews as ASCII strings. Alex Karpinsky of Uploadcare made it 128x faster.
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A while back I wrote : I've had many, many failures in my life. (Hm, maybe I should write a blog post about that.) This is that post. I'm ...