Dwedit

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by Dwedit 4mo ago
One clearly defined starting point is exposing any custom controls to accessibility APIs that are used to enumerate and interact (simulated mouse actions, reading the text, etc) with controls on the screen. Both scripting tools and screen
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
What really matters is the sovereign capability to finetune the LLM models. Any model could be vetted and tested, but you need finetuning/lora training to prevent the model from being outdated.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
Is this actually real? I thought fread just multiplied the two numbers together to compute a total size. Meanwhile, the Win32 API call ReadFile actually does do a separate system call if you call it multiple times.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
This kind of thing is why you need a separate watchdog process that gets notified when the other process terminates.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
Android loves to auto-disconnect you from any Wifi network that doesn't provide Internet. You need to go through a bunch of arcane settings to disable that feature.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
C syntax dropped the ball badly on operator precedence. Left Shift <<, Right Shift >>, and Bitwise And & should have been at the same priority as multiplication or division, while Bitwise Or (|) should have been at the same
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
The presentation is a work of speculative fiction presented in a deadpan manner. The things demonstrated in the presentation (Unix shell with C compiler targeting asm.js running inside a web browser) did not actually exist at the time.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
It might be stable, but when Vista came around, there was a huge change to how Window Rects worked. Something so basic got a big breaking change. Before Vista, there were two rects, the Window Rect (which included the title bar, menu bar,
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
I don't think Javascript is still interpreted though?
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
Within the video's story, they removed virtual memory and memory protection because the JIT was good enough. Nothing like that has happened at all.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
To be fair, the C standard for types is pretty dreadful. How big is an int? A long? Want an integer type that matches the size of a pointer? <stdint.h> did fix a lot of the issues, but people targeting an early C version don'
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
16-bit windows applications aren't supported natively by 64-bit windows, but OTVDM (based on Wine code) will run most of them fine.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
The game is known as Qix, Xonix (title of a clone) is not a common name for the game.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
Seems like this idea solves a different problem than signed timestamps. You have access to not only the current random numbers, but also any random number from the past (as long as someone somewhere wrote it down). I just don't quite
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
Just allowing more than one arraybuffer could go a long way to help with performance. One array buffer for the wasm memory space, then an arraybuffer for each input or output argument.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
My task in question was a number crunching task, basically doing multiply-and-add for 336-bit integers. I wrote a JS version, and a C version compiled into WASM by using Zig. You'd think that WebAssembly would trounce JS here, but it
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
WebAssembly doesn't beat JavaScript in performance, and that is embarrassing.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
Year 2038 says hi.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
There's two requests involved for the auto updater, one to grab the XML file, and one to grab the driver file over plain http. If the autoupdater can't handle the redirection when grabbing the XML file, then it's a case of ac
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
Sega Channel had a web browser, but it never got released. Page rendering was done on another computer, and converted to image data so the Genesis could view it.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
The Thinkpad I have is too old to have the BIOS feature to swap Fn and Ctrl. It has a Core 2 duo.
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
Sleep key is scancode E05F In registry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout" Create Binary value named "Scancode Map" Put in there: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 3E 00 5F E0 00 00 00
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
If you put tape on cartridge pin #14 of NES Platoon (or other bad connection), the game will boot to a glitched version of the ending, thus making it a zero-second speedrun. Pin #14 is the CPU R/W pin, and if it's not properly con
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
There is one hard wall that stops very old clients from connecting: Not supporting a new enough version of TLS. TLS 1.2 is from 2008, and TLS 1.3 is from 2018. Web browsers older than 2008 can't connect to modern websites since TLS 1
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by Dwedit 4mo ago
There weren't too many GUIs that used the PC-BIOS font. Most of them wanted to get away from that.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
I had the N64. It did not wobble. Seeing a Playstation in action with its wobble was so weird.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
You can indeed use mount points like C:\mountdir, but that's still on the C drive, which is a drive letter. It's not "no drive letters".
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Will we ever see a Windows-optimized version of unix utilities that avoids creating new processes? It seems like that's the step that's really slow, and if you could reuse a process to continue running more commands, that would s
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Shred isn't very useful on SSDs in general. Because of TRIM, deleting a file instantly makes the sectors read back as 00 bytes. (Yes the data is technically still on the flash chips scattered across memory blocks without any mapping
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Nobody wants to use \??\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume3\ in their paths.

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