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by Dwedit 2y ago
What the hell browser makers... Make it so that file:// URLS are extremely locked down and doesn't have enough rights to even fetch files in the same directory (or even itself), yet grant localhost URLs full permissions... T
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Visual Programming is fine for very specific cases: Graph-based connection of inputs and outputs. It was used for DirectShow GraphEdit and ComfyUI, and works find there. Just please provide a way to also type things in manually as well.
873.
by Dwedit 2y ago
This is very similar to the geolocation systems where whenever they had no information other than "United States", they pointed to a specific farmhouse in Kansas. Unwanted visits from Police, FBI agents, and people seeking reveng
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Without the raw data that trained the model, how is it open source?
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Many old NES/SNES games had a simpler character encoding system, with 0-9 and A-Z at the beginning of the table. No conversion require to display hex.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Switching from kernelspace to userspace on every file access would eat up so much performance it would be ridiculous.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
9C means that it's a NULL address plus some offset of 9C. Like a particular field of a struct.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
You'd use WinDBG today. It allows you to do remote kernel debugging over a network. This also includes running Windows in a virtual machine, and debugging it through the private network connection.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Ooh, custom linkscripts! Nice.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
This is how you destroy your hinge.
881.
by Dwedit 2y ago
When you write a procedure that has to maintain an internal state between calls, changing it into a class makes sense. As for the name, you change the verb (write) into a noun (writer), and you now have a name for the class. C# will silent
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by Dwedit 2y ago
How does using uBlock Origin affect this?
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by Dwedit 2y ago
The classic from The Daily WTF: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_customer-friendly_syste...
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Gaps in the numbers are often enough to do some kind of "SIMD" even on ordinary 32-bit processors.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Windows 2000 and XP had very good support for many MS-DOS games if you installed VDMSound.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
It was never merged. The DOS-based Windows series was just replaced. Windows 2000 could have just as easily been the OS that replaced the DOS-based Windows series, it was user-friendly and functional enough.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
How does this compare with Moonlight?
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by Dwedit 2y ago
ActiveX is raising its arm through the soil
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Negative weighted tokens don't do what you think they do. Sometimes they act like a negative prompt, other times they don't. Likewise, zero-weight tokens don't act like the token is absent from the prompt.
890.
by Dwedit 2y ago
If you end up with characters outside of the valid range after scrambling, then probably not.
891.
by Dwedit 2y ago
I have a system where you need to hold down power when turning on the PC to get out of "Quick Boot" mode, and get the ability to get to the bios screen. It's a Sandy-Bridge-era Intel motherboard.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
You had the bootloader because first you needed executable code in the first sector of the partition, and you can't fit much in those 512 bytes. But moving to UEFI means you never execute that code anymore. Instead, you load a BOOT.E
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by Dwedit 2y ago
The real question is if this will stop Morrowind from secretly rebooting the XBOX at certain load screens.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
FLAC is meant for audio only. But you can open a BMP file as raw audio (8-bit unsigned mono) using a sound-editing tool, then save it as a FLAC file. Since FLAC is lossless, you get your original data back when you decompress it. It just
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by Dwedit 2y ago
I'm a big supporter of JPEG-XL. It has something very unique that has not been seen in an image file format before: An option for Lossy compression that isn't DCT-based. So you can't get ringing or blocking, because there
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Some people want to work exclusively with classic 8-bit-color-depth SRGB. And other people need the HDR and color space stuff. Combining both use cases into one format makes the API more complicated. There are some footguns in the compres
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Here we have an article that claims that even when people are told they are getting a placebo, they still felt better after taking it. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Yes. No CB or CR channels.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Someone figured out how to get ISA slots on Broadwell-era motherboards by highjacking the TPM port.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
"Hatetris", not "Hatris", which is a different game.

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