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901.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Compile time or runtime? Compile time reflection would be completely painless and bloat-free.
902.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Windows Forms (C#) is basically a continuation of Visual Basic, it's not very painful at all. The only painful bits are when you need to lock a bitmap and deal with raw pointers, and you need to use the "unsafe" keyword.
903.
by Dwedit 2y ago
At least you can hex-edit or resource-edit the Alt+Letter back into a standard windows button or menu that's missing an accelerator key. Just add the missing &.
904.
by Dwedit 2y ago
WX Widgets still exists.
905.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Also FrontPage Express, which was basically a UI for MSIE's built-in HTML editor.
906.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Mt. Gox is short for "Magic The Gathering Online Exchange", and the site's focus was on virtual trading of cards for Magic Online rather than cryptocurrency.
907.
by Dwedit 2y ago
I still use HXD for most cases, but whenever I need to work with encoded text, I use a fork of MadEdit instead. MadEdit has no problem with multibyte characters, whether it's UTF-8, UTF-16, or Shift-JIS.
908.
by Dwedit 2y ago
The problem with CP437 is that FF, 00, and 20 are all empty space and look the same. Then there's the question about that ambiguous character that's either German Sharp S or Beta.
909.
by Dwedit 2y ago
ESRGAN already comes very close to being that magical Enhance button.
910.
by Dwedit 2y ago
There's a video by Technology Connections all about turn signals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z5A-COlDPk Demonstrates thermal-based flashers as well as capacitor-based flashers. They are clicking because metal is
911.
by Dwedit 2y ago
At least it's not the "systemd-tmpfiles" command that deletes /home.
912.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Glorious 7-bit graphics.
913.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Encrypted using EBCDIC
914.
by Dwedit 2y ago
For x64, there's OTVDM to run Windows 3.1 applications.
915.
by Dwedit 2y ago
I thought the Bad Apple font was really neat, but this is just too much.
916.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Not all calculators are restricted to a 7-segment display.
917.
by Dwedit 2y ago
What about ULAs? That's what the ZX spectrum used. They're not quite FPGAs, and not quite ASICs.
918.
by Dwedit 2y ago
I think CDNs led to the demise of "mildly dynamic" websites. They made static websites get served super fast, so you got the most benefit from completely static sites. You could still include a small amount of JS to make a mostly
919.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Nowadays, if you wanted something you could boot off a USB flash drive, you'd use MX Linux. It even supports loading the entire OS into System RAM so you can eject the USB flash drive after it has booted. Persistence is optional here,
920.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Can it run Wine + FEX Emu?
921.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Undervolting is not underclocking. With undervolting, you keep performance the same, but use less voltage. It requires trial and error to find the "magic value" that you can reach without experiencing system instability.
922.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Will this cause actual code signature checks to tell if the EXE running is fake or not?
923.
by Dwedit 2y ago
The problem is that Fandom ends up with better search engine rank than the replacement wiki that the actual community moved on to.
924.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Donkey Kong '94 (Game Boy) brought back Pauline. Donkey Kong '94 is also about as close as you can get to being a Mario Game without actually being considered a Mario Game.
925.
by Dwedit 2y ago
How about a trap URL in the Robots.txt file that triggers a 24 hour IP ban if you access it. If you don't want anyone innocent caught in the crossfire, you could make the triggering URL customized to their IP address.
926.
by Dwedit 2y ago
AV1 doesn't have the fast encode/decode speed that H.264 has.
927.
by Dwedit 2y ago
There's also the LPCNet Codec (2019), which does wideband speech at 1.6kb/s by using a recurrent neural network. https://jmvalin.ca/demo/lpcnet_codec/
928.
by Dwedit 2y ago
And to be fair, Far Side comics would probably fax well.
929.
by Dwedit 2y ago
If you think your software is too old, use Backports.
930.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Get the $300 cable to avoid having to debug someone else's shoddy product?

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