becurious

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by becurious 3y ago
You could also visit the Wylfa nuclear plant on Anglesey. Not sure when tours stopped (probably due to security) but you could see the reactor. All closed now.
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by becurious 3y ago
I used to do that but you can record screen video with the Snipping Tool now. Works fine, mp4 file as output.
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by becurious 3y ago
When it was designed there was no UTF-8. You had to know the code point; and file systems like FAT did not encode the code point, so file names would be interpreted by whatever the current code point was. So having a file system and other A
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by becurious 3y ago
You’d think they could at least train GitHub Copilot to test run the workflow and point out immediate issues. We have to add an action to kill duplicate runs on triggers. The caching is marginal, at least on Windows runners because it takes
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by becurious 3y ago
Would a part like this get x-ray inspected? I had a summer job working at a machine shop and structural castings would often get sent for x-ray inspection.
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by becurious 3y ago
You’re confusing a distribution with an ABI. They are not the same thing. Totally different philosophy.
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by becurious 3y ago
No, they don’t. They may bundle additional DLLs but all those DLLs call the win32 APIs.
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by becurious 3y ago
SWI is just software interrupt. Gets trapped by supervisor mode. Then the registers can be decoded by the kernel to implement the correct syscall. Old school real mode x86 equivalent would be an INT instruction. If you want to do straight t
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by becurious 3y ago
Direct to the hardware would be initializing the frame buffer and writing there. Which means that you need to have all the glyphs and then look them up and write them into the frame buffer. This is what we used to do with 8 bit computers th
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by becurious 3y ago
Being called Randolph would be worse.
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by becurious 3y ago
WIL is user mode, for applications. Drivers will use Kernel Mode Driver Framework or User Mode Driver Framework. UMDF has a COM style API. C++ has been usable in the Windows kernel for a long time but you need to make sure that code ends up
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by becurious 3y ago
I think the woman urinating (she was on The Moor I think) was when RAF Finningley was nuked first, but I don’t remember for sure. It is one of the abiding memories from it. I was only about nine when it was shown and only got to watch half
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by becurious 3y ago
But you would charge overnight, when the Air conditioner isn’t running.
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by becurious 4y ago
It’s not, because like compliance with taking say a contraceptive pill, people don’t manage to abstain. They get caught up in the heat of the moment, or pressured, or a thousand other things. When you compare to other methods of birth contr
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by becurious 4y ago
If I remember correctly when the 128K Spectrum came out they changed some bytes in the top end of the 16K ROM that had been used frequently by games as an Interrupt Mode 2 vector table (point I register to be the high byte of the address) s
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by becurious 4y ago
LensLok! http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/56946/Lenslok-Softwar... Trying to play Elite on Christmas Day and repeatedly failing to enter the correct two letters!
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by becurious 4y ago
The message map macros were the equivalent of the switch statement in a WndProc. They couldn’t add every Windows message as a virtual override because every derived class would have needed thousands of vtable entries. At the time memory was
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by becurious 4y ago
It’s a COM based API and so everything is an interface described via an IDL. You add a new member or change the parameters to a method, you must create a new version of the interface with a new GUID descriptor. You can query any interface f
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by becurious 4y ago
Worked with a transputer based piece of life sciences instrumentation for a few years. The way you could pass program code over the links to boot each transputer was neat. The people procuring parts (not just the transputers but also the pa
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by becurious 4y ago
Zip stores all its metadata at the end of the file.
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by becurious 4y ago
Project Astoria to allow Android apps to run on Windows Phone. Though WSL2 is not a classic NT kernel subsystem in the way WSL1 was.
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by becurious 4y ago
Dell 38 UltraWide at work and a 40 at home. I used dual monitors back from when it first became an option with 17” CRT monitors 25 years ago but you end up with a primary monitor and then other apps off to the side. The UltraWide is just ea
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by becurious 4y ago
You’re going to love the ARM64EC ABI target on Windows.
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by becurious 4y ago
The description of the trig functions on page 69 taught me those way before we encountered them in school. The manual has those clear memory maps and it even describes the way numbers are encoded in the tokenized BASIC program memory, with
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by becurious 4y ago
Being able to directly access sectors of a floppy disk on Windows. You could to this and read floppies with different file systems. Went away somewhere around Windows 2000 and modern external USB floppy disk drives just implement mass stora
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by becurious 4y ago
Using M1 plus the address lines was used to trap on certain addresses on expansion devices for the Spectrum such as Interface 1 or the +D. Then they’d use a line on the expansion bus to disable the standard ROM and substitute their own ROM
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by becurious 4y ago
Diversion of painkillers is unfortunately a thing and so those are often now in computer controlled cabinets that track dispensing. It’s the right thing to do because if a HCP is doing this they need help.
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by becurious 4y ago
Scanning for id3 tags at the end of files in case they’re mp3? Except doing it by scanning from the start rather than seeking from the end?
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by becurious 4y ago
I tried to spin up a project with the Microsoft Rust bindings but for what I needed (DirectX12) there’s a lot of necessary helpers in the header files that haven’t got ported over there. And working from one of the samples it was nowhere ne
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by becurious 4y ago
Had this exact same problem. It was a specific color inkjet driver doing this, my guess is to enable dithering or something similar. It’s one of those things that infects everything in the code base because the way you print with GDI is to

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