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by Trixter 3y ago
I co-founded MobyGames with one of my oldest friends. About a decade later, it weighed very heavily in my favor getting a DevOps position at a quant trading firm, as they were looking for people with initiative, unconventional thinking and
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by Trixter 3y ago
A more complete chess that fits in a boot sector is Toledo Atomchess: https://nanochess.org/chess6.html
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by Trixter 3y ago
This is missing the broad concern with hallucination: You are putting your trust in something that delivers all results confidently, even if they were predicted incorrectly. Your counter-argument is lack of trust in other sources (podcast
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by Trixter 3y ago
The original programmer specified "peanut butter" in the original docs, but being the author of a format does not make you a linguist. If each component of Graphics Interchange Format is pronounced properly, it is hard-g gif, and
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by Trixter 3y ago
That's missing some of the bigger picture. One of the reasons streaming 4k content is at a lower bitrate is because it has to deal with network hiccups and fit inside the buffer of most playback devices. A computer or phone has ple
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by Trixter 3y ago
In the mid-90s, when CPU heatsinks didn't need to be screwed in, thieves discovered that the new ZIF/zero-insertion-force sockets also make good zero-removal-force sockets.
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by Trixter 3y ago
OP has also told you in these threads that their business pivoted 2 months ago and no longer has adult content, so it is a valid business, yet was still banned.
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by Trixter 3y ago
As previously suggested, w3fdif has mostly been supplanted by bwdif. w3fdif can produce shimmering, whereas yadif does not, which is why bwdif operates like yadif but uses the better field matching of w3fdif.
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by Trixter 3y ago
In high school in 1988, a friend and I discovered a vulnerability in the netware deployment of 30 IBM PS/2 Model 30-286s in our brand new computer lab that allowed us to insert programs into the autoexec netboot sequence. Prior to tha
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by Trixter 4y ago
codec is coder/decoder. Not sure where you're getting your other definition. "codec"s are required to both create, and play back, a file with a certain compression algorithm.
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by Trixter 4y ago
I co-founded MobyGames: https://www.mobygames.com/ While the site has had its ups and downs, and changes of ownership, it is usually the first validating reference for any computer game entry on wikipedia (which it pre-date
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by Trixter 4y ago
I never had a problem playing it on my 386-40 with ISA VGA... I just hit F5 to go into low-res mode. Worked great.
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by Trixter 5y ago
This is a class of "sprite" generators, which I find fascinating. This one in particular seems very good, although I wonder how much of that is our brains* filling in context. *I am, evidently, a mushroom cloud
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by Trixter 5y ago
Even HEVC works depending on the client support; for example, I stream h.265/HEVC to my 4K TV and it decodes it just fine. (Which makes me wonder what formats the OP has things stored in that plex has to transcode, or what client devi
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by Trixter 5y ago
Since his last comment is still visible, it's the comment he left afterwards that may have actually started the ban (and was removed). So this could be disingenuous.
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by Trixter 5y ago
It required a 386sx or better with 4MB of RAM, and EGA or better graphics card. This is quite reasonable for 1992, and the extra ram was likely needed only for the graphics. DESQView itself could run on an 8088 system and didn't even
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by Trixter 5y ago
> At that time, printers already printed yellow dots with the serial ID. No schools in 1987 had color laser printers with this technology (and I doubt many businesses did either). Any students trying to do something fishy would have had
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by Trixter 5y ago
Before you start rolling this into a video codec, please consult the sources of UT Codec, which has been state of the art in this space for many years. Or, at least, use UT Codec as a direct basis for comparison, to see if you are beating
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by Trixter 5y ago
RLE on runs of deltas is in very many compression schemes; it's a common technique (probably so common that many authors don't deem it worth mentioning). Lossless video codecs in particular (huffyuv, lagarith, utcodec, etc.) have
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by Trixter 5y ago
> liblz4 probably benefits from decades of tweaking & tuning to get there Decade, singular. LZ4 was proper around 2011. But the real reason it's faster is because its not doing nearly as much work as QOI. LZ4 is just about as
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by Trixter 5y ago
I'm active in the vintage personal computing space, and I find it funny when this topic crops up every decade or so under a different name. In the 1980s, there was a entire software category of "personal knowledge management syst
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by Trixter 5y ago
For those who wish to experiment, this method has existed for Photoshop for a long time as a plugin: http://www.descreen.net/eng/soft/descreen/descreen.htm
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by Trixter 5y ago
I can't have any music playing when programming, because my brain focuses on the music and I get nothing done. My wife is ADHD, and she must have music (and possibly something else) playing, or else she can't get any work don
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by Trixter 6y ago
Yes, but you were likely paid more than $100 for your time to prepare said documents and have them ready.
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by Trixter 6y ago
> This is censorship. It's why I'm posting anonymously for the first time in a long time. I think you're confusing censorship with accountability.
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by Trixter 6y ago
I don't see the point of this project. It essentially turns the IBM PC into an embedded system where the only program you can run is the one you burn into the ROM. There is little, if any, advantage to avoiding the use of interrupts.
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by Trixter 7y ago
The short answer: The live broadcast switching/transport industry has been slower to adapt to 4K HDR than other industries, primarily because there is no live broadcast (ie. cable, satellite, over-the-air) support for 4K or HDR. YouTu
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by Trixter 7y ago
Vintage Computing: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum.php Very pure community around all things vintage computing; has stayed mostly the same for 12 years (and still very helpful).
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by Trixter 7y ago
LPC (think Speak'n'spell, PCjr speech adapter, etc.) and variants is really the only way to achieve this. A 1.44MB floppy has 1,457,664 bytes available after formatting. LPC at 2400 bits per second means you can store 80 minutes
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by Trixter 11y ago
Besides, I don't think my interrupt handler and API would be of that much interest (oOoooh, sexy, an API!)

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