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781.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Dimensions, Pointer to Scanline 0, Stride, and Pixel Format. What else do you need before you start processing images?
782.
by Dwedit 2y ago
When one campaign raises 3 times as much money as the other campaign, that tends to happen.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Two different considerations for when you'd want to deny memory to other processes: Protecting against outside attackers Digital Rights Management Faking "mseal" is something you might intentionally do if you are trying to br
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Probably not LD_PRELOAD. It would need to be an imported function in order for LD_PRELOAD to have any effect. A raw syscall would not be interceptable that way. Discussion about intercepting linux syscalls: https://stackoverflo
785.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Not undefined behavior, just won't switch in or out of THUMB mode.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
PC-relative instructions is how ARM loads 32-bit literals. "ldr,=label" is a psuedoinstruction that becomes relative to the PC, and it picks the nearest literal pool as the acutal address to read from.
787.
by Dwedit 2y ago
It was mostly the Game Pak Prefetch feature that was used to foil GBA emulators. A game can detect if the number of cycles to access ROM (with prefetch enabled) is incorrect.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
I just use my own password hashing tool to make the passwords. Only time I have problems is when the site restricts which characters I'm allowed to use, or enforces a maximum length, especially a different max length on the login vs t
789.
by Dwedit 2y ago
What's really weird is that the game "Willy Beamish" has a similar character who also happens to be named "Spider". Both Micro Machines and Willy Beamish released in 1991.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
> 'The company was on the verge of mass manufacturing its European cartridges when a serious bug was discovered in the code. ‘It turned out that if you pressed brake or reverse on the starting grid the game just crashed,’ says Grah
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by Dwedit 2y ago
When people are speaking about technology from 30+ years ago, they often get the details wrong... > ‘I knew the C64 inside out and the NES has the same processor so, in some ways it was very similar,’ says Graham. ‘The NES was character
792.
by Dwedit 2y ago
I'm more impressed with the song "Get Low" ending up in an E-rated game.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
We really need a vector editor that has some of the features of Flash's UI. I haven't seen them in other programs.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
int a; cin >> a; Then the program goes berserk as soon as the first non-number is read out of standard input. All the other "cin >> integer" lines are immediately skipped. Yes, I know about error checking, clearing er
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by Dwedit 2y ago
I know that on Windows, DLL files get optimized a lot. If a DLL file can be loaded without any relocation, then it becomes a memory mapped-file rather than an additional copy of the program. All the system DLLs have different pre-defined
796.
by Dwedit 2y ago
How about the part where Shared Objects take a performance penalty due to being position-independent code?
797.
by Dwedit 2y ago
What if you try to convert a French floating point number that uses a comma instead of a dot?
798.
by Dwedit 2y ago
The minimal print function on Win32 is WriteFile, using GetStdHandle to get the file handle for STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
C# basically forces "e" to be the name of EventArgs in any event handler. You can change it, but it will always default to "e".
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by Dwedit 2y ago
The worst thing that Windows has that's tied to your locale is case sensitivity for filenames . You can have two filenames be created under one locale, change your locale, then the filenames aren't considered different anymore.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
It's the import table of an EXE/DLL where non-ascii is out of spec. Meanwhile LoadLibraryW is happy to load any filename. (But don't you dare try to call LoadLibraryW from within DLLMain, that's under loader lock)
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by Dwedit 2y ago
What is Ticalc.org doing here? (Yes, I have some featured programs there...) Gotta give huge props to the ticalc.org staff for keeping the website up.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Just a reminder that Windows Defender has flagged certain versions of ExplorerPatcher as a virus. The last time I updated Windows 11 was to fix the IPV6 RCE vulnerability, but other than that I have updates blocked.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
> JavaScript did deliver its promise of unbreakable sandbox I'm sure there's a big long list of WebKit exploits somewhere that will contradict that sentence...
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by Dwedit 2y ago
I used to have a lot of bot spam, but then I mostly foiled them with the world's silliest captcha. Looks like a math problem, but the solution isn't what's required to proceed.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Fandom is perfectly usable with adblockers and the "Cleaner Fandom" userscript. But only with those extensions!
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Ah Cloudflare, where you constantly get captchas for attempting to read a web page .
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Wikipedia used to have this picture for an illustration of Mojibake: https://dic.academic.ru/pictures/wiki/files/76/Letter_to_Rus... A very good job from the postal employees who corrected it.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Thunderbirds is actively airing on TV today, there's a channel owned by Weigel Broadcasting (MeTV Toons) which shows it.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Loading a more detailed version of an image as you zoom in is different from what a progressive JPEG does. Loading a Progressive JPEG means you still unconditionally load the entire file, you just are able to show a low detail version befor

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