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by Dwedit 7mo ago
I have personally nullified one of those, namely the Copilot Key. It took a low level keyboard hook, and blocking a specific sequence of keys, then injecting the right ctrl key back.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Presumably because a new account, and an offtopic post about AI. Then you look at the post history.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Forcing people to keep up with SDK updates is a bad thing in itself. Let people target the earliest possible feature set and make the app run on as many phones as possible rather than showing scary messages to people due to targeting an ol
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
WASM + Zig (even compiling C code) will make some really tiny WASM files with no dependencies. The problem is that you don't have a standard library, then your code gets really big as you add more of that in there.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
> "I used Claude to create an approximate version of the game loop in JavaScript based on the original DOOM source" This is the real horror here, Uncanny-Valley gameplay Doom. It's like those Doom maps where people tried
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Cell phones know what time it really is.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
You can use CRU (custom resolution utility) to add 50Hz to most screens.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
"Complex concept" I see what you did there.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
In 32-bit windows, you used to be able to see if a pointer was valid or not by seeing if it pointed to the last 2GB of address space. If it did, it was pointing to Kernel memory that was not valid for user mode code. But then Large Address
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
JS and WASM share the main arraybuffer. It's just very not-javascript-like to try to use an arraybuffer heap, because then you don't have strings or objects, just index,size pairs into that arraybuffer. Anyway, Javascript is no s
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Is there a list of these that are actually in real shipped software and not created as a joke?
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
New TI graphing calculators are sold today for the same price as they were in 1999. (Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/768/ )
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Blocking applications from interacting with each other when it already has full access to the other process's memory via /proc/<pid>/mem is just silly. Save the blocking for when it doesn't already have that
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Medical apps (such as those that talk to insulin pumps) also refuse to run when developer mode is turned on.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
The word YouTube really depends a lot on good kerning. The "YouTube Display" font has much better kerning around the uppercase T than the other three fonts that mention YouTube.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Audio delay for most Bluetooth headphones is downright atrocious. Yes, there are some out there which support low delay modes (under 40ms), but the vast majority of them do not.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
This time, it has more to do with diminished supply combined with heavy demand rather than a trade war.
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Are we back to the days of RDRAM when having a blank memory module was actually required?
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Log Base 2 of 3 = ~1.5849625, so that's the limit to how well you can pack three-state values into bits of data. For something more practical, you can pack five three-state values within a byte because 3^5 = 243, which is smaller than
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
There's the ARM video from LowSpecGamer, where they talk about how they forgot to connect power to the chip, and it was still executing code anyway. According to Steve Furber, the chip was accidentally being powered from the protectio
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by Dwedit 7mo ago
Fire Stick/Fire TV is a pretty dreadful experience as it is. Video ads on the home screen, but at least you can currently install custom apps. No way to replace the home screen.
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
Because they're square waves and not proper modulated signals.
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
Make your own programming language? Penny's Big Breakaway was created using a new programming language named Beef.
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Show HN: NoCopilotKey – Utility to change Copilot Key back into right ctrl key(github.com)
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
Exactly half the resolution of a TI83 (which is 96x64)
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
It gets worse for UTF-16, Windows will let you name files using unpaired surrogates, now you have a filename that exists on your disk that cannot be represented in UTF-8 (nor compliant UTF-16 for that matter). Because of that, there's
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
The one place UTF-16 massively wins is text that would be two bytes as UTF-16, but three bytes as UTF-8. That's mainly Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc...
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
One example that really sticks in my mind was "Libreboot". Yes, it's supposed to represent a free BIOS/booting system. But it also sounds like the name of a library dedicated to rebooting your computer.
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
I personally had big problems doing an OTA update within LineageOS that required a factory reset afterwards. So yeah, don't do the OTA updates. Do full backups and full manual updates instead.
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by Dwedit 8mo ago
I just checked a wiki, and the "MediaWiki:Common.js" page there was read-only, even for wikisysop users.

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