Dwedit

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by Dwedit 5mo ago
UTF-16 is also used by C#, Java, and JavaScript. Since JavaScript is so widely adopted, I wouldn't call it a rare bird. Not necessarily used when reading or writing files, but it's what's used internally for the strings. A
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Saw "OPFS" and immediately misread it as OSPF (open-shortest-path-first)
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Devcon is powerful, but it has no safety features. You can end up disabling your only keyboard or mouse.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Adding noise to a canvas element is a mistake anyway. It means you can't develop a proper paint program using web technologies because your browser will mess with the image.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
I've seen Google Webmaster Tools misidentify a page as a "Soft 404" page before.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
What I'm interested in is seeing how this will improve the AVIF image format. AVIF stomps the competition for low-bitrate still images (where chroma subsampling is used). For lossless images, not so much. Lossless JPEG XL and lossle
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
At least it's not D4vd.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Zero is a denormal number where the mantissa is zero. If you disallow denormals and treat them all as zero, then actual zero follows as well.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Denormals happen to be the way that Zero can even be represented at all?
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
I think the "weird AI processing" might have been someone misunderstanding a compression codec. When laypeople see anything advanced, it's always called AI no matter what it actually is, and that's the word that spreads
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
4K screen resolution, not a 4KB intro.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
The first font on the page mentions raising up descenders (g j p q y) so that pixels don't go below the baseline. You can often find characters with minimal descenders in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) fonts. Sometimes a raised-d
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
I am not talking about the search assist, I'm talking about the descriptions that show up in individual page results.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
How do you build a search index in the days of Anubis pages everywhere?
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Unfortunately, search results on DuckDuckGo contain AI-generated descriptions. These sometimes contain mistakes.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
I can see by dragging the slider around and comparing to the ground truth that it is making things up that look plausible to what is there. Just keep any numbers out of there. Remember what happened with the Xerox scanners and JBIG2 compre
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Did not work on PCEM for some reason.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
ARM got all the commercial benefit once they switched from making chips to providing full designs ready to integrate into other chips.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Meanwhile the original ARM didn't use any microcode at all.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Are they finally marking all those functions that use IntPtrs as unsafe? (such as Marshal.Copy)
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
GitHub won't let you upload a 7z file as an attachment for the issue tracker. Thus forcing me to use an inferior and obsolete compression format.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Then it's not a zip file anymore. Just like if you modified PNG files to use zstandard instead of deflate, but otherwise be identical, it's still not a PNG file anymore.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
More likely to be referencing the mascot character who appears on your screen when you visit a protected page.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Anubis is actually not a cat. The original Egyptian deity is a god of death, and has a canine head. Anime catgirls and dog girls can look similar at first glance.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Just make sure you don't mind the interrupts also writing to that memory...
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
If you want to write faster Z80 code, pretend it's a Game Boy, and use the IX/IY registers sparingly. You can use 256-byte aligned tables. Then you put your index into the low byte of the register pair, and which table into the
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Now RAM use is the main reason to prefer native APIs over web views.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
The NT Object Namespace itself indeed has no restrictions on filename characters except for "\", but once you reach a real filesystem like NTFS or FAT, the forbidden characters continue to be blocked. https://projectzer
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Yeah, I see the word "DX'ed" and immediately think of getting clotheslined by Triple H.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Windows allows unmatched surrogate pairs in filenames, invalid for UTF-16. Likewise, Linux allows invalid UTF-8 byte sequences in filenames. Because invalid UTF-16 strings could show up in places within Windows, someone made a UTF-8 varian

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