Dwedit

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by Dwedit 5mo ago
SMR Hard Drives have very different rules about how you should access them vs conventional hard drives or SSDs. I wonder how much optimizing for SMR drives (Big sequential writes) would also optimize for other drive types.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
I wonder if there's a way to turn the attributes (background and foreground color) into 8x1 cells.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
I'm a big fan of the Windows XP Royale theme (from Media Center Edition). Like regular XP, but glossier and shinier.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Headline says "Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features", but only provides two actual examples? It lists NTSYNC, and waiting on multiple events at once.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
Is the tooling really centralized around Github? I use TortoiseGit, and that doesn't seem to care which service you are using. Although it does seem to have special authentication features specifically made to help you log in to Gith
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
The memory is organized differently, where VGA has to use 4 memory chips and spread a byte of memory among them, while MCGA just keeps it simple and uses one byte of memory per pixel.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
The thing that really surprised me is how rare actual IBM MCGA cards were, yet the MCGA-compatible VGA mode was so widely used.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
This is where something like "const bool isAdmin = true, sendWelcomeEmail = false" helps. Now your literal values aren't in the function call arguments anymore, but instead their meaning is, you just need to look elsewhere (
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
It would have been found in a whole lot more places if it hadn't been for that meddling Microsoft employee.
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
It's that RICH header that you need to exclude. I just tested my copy of MSVC 2019, and `/emittoolversioninfo:no` will exclude the RICH header from the binary. Supposedly also works in MSVC 2022. The build timestamps in the PE h
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
I guess the Adult Swim games like "Robot Unicorn Attack" don't count here?
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
No, it's not how the world works. The warning about "goto" in C is about memory leaks due to misusing malloc/free. The issue with TI-Basic is about the interpreter using a stack for if/else/end blocks. In nor
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by Dwedit 5mo ago
The Basic was SO BAD that I had to learn Z80 assembly to make anything good. Really. No sane Basic should leak stack memory just because you exited an "If-Then" block without reaching the corresponding "End". Yes that&
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Game Boy Color has a secret video mode where you can directly drive the LCD from the cartridge slot. CPU completely halts, so you can't use the joypad or sound anymore. https://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Gameb
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Also somewhat related to Microsoft and IBM: "I may have invented it, but I think Bill made it famous." - David Bradley (IBM), creator of the Ctrl+Alt+Del shortcut key.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Guard pages are for the process that creates them, they're not for the other processes that try to read the memory.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Guard pages are one-shot exceptions used for growing the stack.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Reading arbitrary process memory can be done as a standard user. No admin needed. Any Win32 program can do it. You just can't access the memory from processes that are admin-level.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
A correct ROM packaged using the emulation community's standard file format will exactly match a pirated copy. There is no story here. After the article came out, Nintendo even created their own incompatible ROM packaging format just
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
We need lightweight HTML/JavaScript applications that aren't an entire web browser. You already have a web browser installed, you shouldn't need yet another copy of Chromium to run some HTML/JS files. Because browser m
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
I think you can flash a TI83 Plus ROM to a TI73 by using an exploit? One exploit was that flashing an OS writes all the ROM, then checks the signature afterwards, then erases it if it fails. Pull batteries at the correct time and...
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
The order was: TI-81 (1990) TI-85 (1992) TI-82 (1993) TI-80 (1995) TI-92 (1995) TI-83 (1996) TI-86 (1996) TI-73 (1998) TI-83 Plus (1999) TI-89 (1998) TI-92 Plus (1998) TI-83 Plus Silver Edition (2001) TI-84 Plus (2004) TI-84 Plus Silver Edi
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
I remember that SimTower (Windows 3.1 version) would briefly draw the dialog boxes in Japanese, then immediately redraw it in English. This was on a computer without any Japanese fonts.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Some people don't like how Brave is pushing cryptocurrency.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
I think you meant "green fields" and not "clean room"? Clean room refers to reverse engineering an existing program to create specifications, then having another team implement the specifications without legal risk from
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Now you just have to deal with Apple's hostile repairability situation. Cryptographically-mated parts are just the beginning.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Unity = Decompilable (except for IL2CPP or obfuscated binaries)
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Any Tetris game where the term "Kill Screen" applies doesn't use the 7-piece bag randomizer.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
I think you left out the part about AI being a plagiarism machine.
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by Dwedit 6mo ago
Not a fan of the pre-collapsed sections of an article. I was wondering where the text was.

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