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by Dwedit 1mo ago
I was one of the people who added sound into a TI83 game. It ended up in my IceClimb game. Not particularly well done or anything, it's just there. I also didn't properly adjust the timing as the notes got higher, so it plays f
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
Turns out that it's actually 2-bit and not 1-bit. It uses a combination of the EAR and MIC jacks, and when you output through the MIC jack, it slightly boosts the EAR jack. That gives you 4 possible levels, but they are not evenly ba
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
How much data does it download off the server to run the challenge? I've made some tiny webassembly binaries before, but I've never seen Rust generate something tiny.
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
Nah, it's not piracy, it's AI model training.
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
What does "Browser's Main Thread" even mean when there are over 30 processes running?
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
Brave Browser offers "Brave-hosted" versions of uBlock Origin and uMatrix.
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
What about Win32s? Then the same binary can run on Windows 3.1 and Windows 11.
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
C# does closures by creating a class. When you run the function, captured local variables actually live inside the object instead of in the stack. This makes use of an object, but no memory pages need to become read/write/execut
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
What do you need the executable stack for? You call using a function pointer, there's no executable read/write memory involved in using a function pointer.
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
How about allowing browsers to actually display markdown?
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
That's the nice thing about LLMs, you're always absolutely right.
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
The topic of an article being AI and an "AI-Generated Article" are two completely different things.
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
Many many different ways to allocate memory. malloc, new, HeapAlloc, LocalAlloc, GlobalAlloc, CoTaskMemAlloc, etc. GlobalAlloc and LocalAlloc are pretty much obsolete. "malloc" sometimes redirects to HeapAlloc with the default
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by Dwedit 1mo ago
Lossless Webp is still very good, and it decompresses very quickly. Lossless JXL compresses better, but decompresses much more slowly. Lossless AVIF is a joke.
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
Then you load User32.dll, and you get 2MB of commit and 1MB of private bytes. Throw in a Message Box, and it's 272KB more private bytes and 388K more commit. Windows 10 makes it literally impossible to write something that uses low me
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
I made my own 64-byte MS-DOS stub that uses a shorter message "Win32 Only!" instead of the usual "This program can only be run in DOS mode" message. By using the shorter stub, using the secret flag to omit the Rich head
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
It's a US keyboard (happens to be a laptop). I've already named the scancodes and VK codes in the parent post. Browser is Firefox. Backslash works fine if you have chosen to emulate the PC or PC XT. For PCJr, no keystroke appea
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
I've worked with C compilers that refused the // style before.
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
Not just the OSD keyboard, my real backslash key is also pressing backspace. You can't do your classic DOS commands like "cd\" without a working backspace key.
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
Key is Scancode 0x2B, or as a VKEY code: VK_OEM_5 (0xDC) Javascript says the key I pressed was keycode 220 (same number as 0xDC) or key "\". I had Tandy 1000 as the selected machine. When I look at the onscreen keyboard, I don&#x
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
This is about early IBM PCs, not apple computers. And the non-working key is the Backslash key \ , not the backspace key.
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
Pentium 4 had lids. AMD Athlon XP did not.
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
Mysteriously, backslash has been mapped to backspace for some reason.
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
I mean I don't bother reading the dialogs. If there's modifications, "Yes" means save, "No" means close the program without saving, and "Cancel" means go back. And almost every program agrees on tha
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
Rip John C. Dvorak, writer of the Abort/Retry/Fail column from PC Magazine. On a different note, never underestimate the value of a modal dialog that gives you a chance to retry an IO operation that failed. Loose USB cables and n
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
Grouped Details example really needs a hand cursor. An "I" cursor for selecting text doesn't tell you that an element is interactible.
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
Saw headline, expected branch prediction vulnerability involving Unicode, was surprised at a completely different topic.
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
I had to do this once. SSH server needed to run on port 443 because the clients had a locked down network firewall and could only make connections to particular port numbers.
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
Or even better, something that pretends to be a real "Sign in with Google" button but instead phishes your username and password.
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by Dwedit 2mo ago
Would probably need a full userscript at this point?

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