Dwedit

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by Dwedit 8mo ago
7zip.com has never been the official website of the project. It's been 7-zip.org
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
Does anyone know the history of auto-tiling in games? I know that Dragon Quest II (1987) had this feature for water tiles on the overworld, before it got backported to the North American version of Dragon Warrior 1.
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
I remember making custom Warcraft II levels, and you could change the construction time for buildings. If you picked a construction time of zero, the building would be built very quickly, but be damaged. There's something hilarious a
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
Zig got too much in to avoiding "hidden behavior" that destructors and operator overloading were banned. Operator overloading is indeed a mess, but destructors are too useful. The only compromise for destructors was adding the &
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
There were the TI calculators produced through the 2000s, still powered by Z80, just not a "computer".
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
They don't use general midi standard instruments. You need the extracted soundfont because the instrument numbers are unique to each game. In order to "improve" the soundfont, you need to edit that soundfont to have higher
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
If you combine "GBA Mus Ripper" and "SoundFont MIDI Player", you can get some seriously excellent sound for listening to GBA music. "GBA Mus Ripper" detects the so-called "Sappy" music driver and extr
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
What's the quality of the generated code like? Does it use explicit stack frames and all local variables live there? Does it move loop-invariant operations out of a loop? Does it store variables in registers?
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
I haven't actually tested this, but aren't the input and output handles exposed on /proc/? What's stopping another process from seeing everything?
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
At least it's not a total bizarro unit like "Floppy Disk Megabyte", equal to 1024000 bytes.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
Can someone explain why SystemD was controversial in the first place? I just saw faster boot times when distros adopted it.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
It's because the Apple I had no built-in BASIC, and booted to a Monitor prompt. It was hard to use without a manual in front of you. Meanwhile, the Apple II just let you put in a disk and boot a program. Huge difference in usability.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
The Apple I computers got bought back by Apple for the release of the Apple II. That's why they're so rare, Apple wanted them gone. They were not a user-friendly computer. It booted to the Monitor prompt, and did not include BA
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
Gmail automatically downloads images ahead of time, so the tracking pixels will have been fetched by Gmail themselves regardless of when the user opens the email.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
60 interlaced fields per second, not 30 frames per second. The two fields do not necessarily contribute to the same frame.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
"View -> Page Style -> Basic Page Style" is required to read any of the text.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
On Windows, an optimization is to call CloseHandle from a secondary thread.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
VeraCrypt can be set to pass through TRIM. It just makes it really obvious which sectors are unused within your encrypted partition (they read back as 00 bytes)
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
The MSX was basically the TI-99/4A done properly. Just use a Z80 instead of whatever mess they were using.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
You violate the license (such as GPL)
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
JPEG XL is basically 4 codecs in one... * A new lossy image Codec * A lossless image codec (lossless modular mode) * An alternative lossy image codec with different kinds of compression artifacts than those typically seen in JPEG (lossy mod
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
It has an operation mode where it can losslessly and reversibly compress a JPEG further, and "not a jpeg" wouldn't cover that.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
C++: Where you can accidentally deallocate an object that's still in the call stack. (true story)
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
Does it emulate an XBOX 360?
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
There was WxWidgets.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
Why does the article start talking about Japan, then show some photo of Koreatown Manhattan?
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
When not signed in, you get no videos at all, just a "Sign In To Confirm You're Not A Bot" screen.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
On Android, if you try to make an APK that is compatible with both old versions and new versions of Android, you get a ton of scary warnings when you attempt to install it.
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by Dwedit 9mo ago
I wonder how this compares to the Beef programming language. https://www.beeflang.org/ The Beef programming language was used to write Penny's Big Breakaway.
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by Dwedit 10mo ago
Still hard to beat Syncronys SoftRAM.

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