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by Dwedit 11mo ago
Lowercase 'x' is always your dead giveaway that it's ZLIB.
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by Dwedit 11mo ago
rand() doesn't do what you think it does. It's a multiply then an add, then return particular bits of the current seed. See "Linear congruential generator" for more information. On GCC, it's multiply by 1103515245
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by Dwedit 1y ago
The page itself has a more accurate description (Winamp *clone* in swift for OS/X) than the headline here. Since the actual Winamp had a questionable source code release, it could feasibly have been ported to other platforms, so we nee
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by Dwedit 1y ago
You can always identify the OpenAI result because it's yellow.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
You are able to toggle these specific named categories: * Cookies * Tracking Content * Cryptominers * Known Fingerprinters * Suspected Fingerprinters But there is no separate toggle for the feature that adds noise to the image, or indicatio
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Adding noise to images sounds like a really bad idea. It will mess with any Javascript code which performs processing on images. Try writing a photo editor in Javascript and watch your browser corrupt your images.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Paint is subject to the effects of radiance. How paint looks changes depending on the surrounding lighting in the room, including the colors of other walls and objects which the light bounces off. So even if you could pick out a color fro
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by Dwedit 1y ago
You don't have any old browser extensions by any chance? "Enhancer for YouTube" is an extension which has become unmaintained, and will break YouTube.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
If you crashed to the monitor, you could hit Ctrl+B and get back to BASIC, then type IN#6 to boot the disk.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Ooh, the Z80 refresh line. You can have a program that writes to the R register in a loop and prevent the refreshes from happening.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
One little issue there, Apple II is normally 40 columns, and the 80 column mode has incredibly skinny characters (with very little between-line spacing). This resolution looks a lot more like a DOS program than an Apple II program.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
My personal take would be if it takes you to what's basically another page (such as the entire page being rewritten), then involve browser history.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Is there really a difference between writing a DOS program and writing a FreeDOS program? You just need a period-accurate compiler that can target DOS. Maybe OpenWatcom, maybe DJGPP. With HXDOS, you can also write a Win32 console-mode pro
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Just usually not driven by timed code by a program running on a CPU. That's when it becomes bit banging.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
People have bit-banged out analog NTSC and PAL video signals before.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
EasyPrivacy has too many false positives, and no way to report them. If you are a techie who understands what the messages mean, and can click the button to proceed to a site on a false positive, then it's fine to have it turned on.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
OTVDM (based on Wine) allows you to run 16-bit programs on 64-bit Windows, so it's not just a Linux thing.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
This doesn't cover the things that the CPU secretly does before it finally enters Real Mode, such as loading and validating the microcode.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Pretty much yeah. You have your usual Win32 API functions found in libraries like Kernel32, User32, and GDI32, but since after Windows XP, those don't actually make system calls. The actual system calls are found in NTDLL and Win32U.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
That's dotslash, not slashdot.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
DOS programs ran in Text Mode, and directly interacted with the keyboard hardware. Linux Terminal programs are running in an emulated terminal, and are bound by keyboard input restrictions that DOS programs did not have.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
The very first image in the article is not edit.com, it is the Windows 95 edit.exe which replaced it. The actual "edit.com" is a tiny stub that launches QBasic in edit mode, equivalent to "qbasic /edit".
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by Dwedit 1y ago
The one "AI" feature that genuinely helps the user and preserves privacy is the Translation feature. (Yes, machine translation is in fact AI)
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by Dwedit 1y ago
There was one time where I actually had to use object resurrection in a finalizer. It was because the finalizer needed to acquire a lock before running destruction code. If it couldn't acquire the lock, you resurrect the object to gi
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by Dwedit 1y ago
In C# programming, you are able to specify a culture every time you call a function such as numbers <-> strings, or case conversion. Or you specify the "Invariant Culture", which is basically US English. But the default cu
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by Dwedit 1y ago
The 32X version is incredible. Imagine if there were other genres of games running on the DOOM engine, maybe it could have even saved the 32X.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
https://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/twain.htm (Not actually by Mark Twain)
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by Dwedit 1y ago
The story was that they used a lower mipmap level (blurrier textures) when the process was named Quake, but used the normal mipmap level (standard textures) when the process was named Quack.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
32-bit ARM had literally every instruction be conditional.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
2010-era Firefox is probably plagued by security holes.

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