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by Dwedit 1y ago
Zip Drives began as Parallel Port devices, and PCs had parallel ports since the beginning. It's not like it's a USB device or something like that.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Does using pure PyTorch improve performance on non-NVIDIA cards in any way? Or is PyTorch so highly optimized for CUDA that no other GPU vendors have a chance?
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Leaving off the "API" part from "API Token" causes confusion, since AI models tokenize all text into "tokens" before running the model. It's using the same word to describe two very different things.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Game Genie was a device that could replace values on the cartridge bus, allowing it to change what the system sees when it fetches bytes from ROM. Unlike many other cheat devices, this meant that Game Genie modified ROM (game program) rathe
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Rubber keys and rotten leads Rand and run and load and screens Then five minutes fingers crossed Hoping not to witness the terror Of R: Tape Loading Error (M.J. Hibbett & The Validators - Hey Hey 16k)
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by Dwedit 1y ago
"Not your keys, not your crypto" - Not just for cryptocurrencies anymore.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
miaomiaoPixel_v11 can generate sprites that small. Specify a size of 128x128, and that corresponds to an actual size of 16x16. Use an image editor to shrink the sprite down to 16x16, then reduce the palette as needed to remove the near-ma
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by Dwedit 1y ago
It's not just memory, it's cleanup that the Kernel must perform when the process terminates.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Duckduckgo and Brave Search's AI-generated answers seem to correctly mention that model 280 does not exist, but this is 11 days after the article was first published, and the article is now part of the search results used to generate t
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Saw 2^51 and thought it was about storing integers into doubles. But nope, the number for that particular use is 2^53-1, not 2^51.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Yeah, using their logo like that is obvious trademark infringement, that would be why you got a C&D for trademark reasons.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
mod_rewrite means you can redirect the .php page to something else if you stop using php.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
It's actually somewhat of a challenge to display "Mem cleared" without access to the lowercase font. You have access to any uppercase character, spaces, and BASIC functions. With stat vars, you also get lowercase "a&qu
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by Dwedit 1y ago
It's also possible to run codecs like H.264 in a true lossless mode, it's just almost never done.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Sometimes, you'll need to pack multiple files inside of a single file. Those files will need to grow, and be able to be deleted. At that point, you're asking for a filesystem inside of a file. And you can literally do exactly th
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by Dwedit 1y ago
iNES file format is guilty of badly designed bit packing. Four flags were packed into the lower 4 bits, then Mapper Number was assigned to the high 4 bits. But then they needed more than 16 mappers. They used 4 high bits of the next b
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Isn't Flash an open format?
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by Dwedit 1y ago
These terms are all relative, but there's also "BabyLlama", which measures its parameter count in millions rather than billions.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
In all seriousness, there is fan control software where you can request a speed of 0 when temperature is in a particular range.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Or you just use Rufus to build the USB installation disk.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
WSL1 was hobbled by needing to calculate Unix Permission numbers and hardlink counts for every file. On Windows, you need to create a handle to the file to get those things. That's a file open on every file whenever you list a direct
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by Dwedit 1y ago
This is new stuff, not stuff done during the reign of the N64.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Rip John Conway, died of Covid.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
I wonder how many people out there actually created an icon for Kid Pix and used the icon from Moricons.dll? I was one of those people.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
It mentions a few classic flash movies, but doesn't mention the Flash hosting site Newgrounds.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
If you really really need to connect to a server running on a "forbidden port", you can use client-side network forwarding, such as SSH tunnels or Netcat.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
If you're filling uninitialized pointers with AAAAAAAA, it might be best to also reserve that memory page and mark it as no-access. I'm not even joking. Any pattern used by magic numbers that fill pointers (such as HeapFree filli
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Patent is from 1994, and would have expired in 2014.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
Meanwhile, Banjo-Kazooie implemented its form of dynamic music in a very simple way, extra channels that can be faded in and out. The "extra layers" method where you turn them on and off is simple, so games like to use it.
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by Dwedit 1y ago
I thought Mingw defaulted to MSVCRT.DLL as the CRT?

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