sumtechguy

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by sumtechguy 8mo ago
On top of that, that thing takes a bunch of fiddling in their own GUI to disable. I want a search bar for my home page. Nothing else. Then every once and awhile it will 'forget' its settings and put it all back. Edge/Chro
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by sumtechguy 8mo ago
This happens all the time. Basically build vs buy. The problem is on the 'buy' portion of looking at things the company failed. So they took who they had on hand and built something. It took a fresh perspective to say 'hey
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by sumtechguy 8mo ago
Also it is an easy way to stop a denial of service attack. If you let an infinite amount in that field. I can remotely overflow your system memory. The mail system can just error out and hang up on the person trying the attack instead of
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by sumtechguy 8mo ago
thats a new one had not see that before. One of them I bought the feature is not clear if it is 'on/off'. It is a weird tower icon with another weird icon under it. One of them means turn it on. The other means turn it off
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by sumtechguy 8mo ago
> The real issue was never AI in Windows It was AI with no clear user benefit. I find it handy here and there. HOWEVER... There is no clear way to get rid of the thing. MS has added tons of features and then burry them in really obtuse
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by sumtechguy 8mo ago
I recently bought 2 of them. You have to specifically look for the feature. Most do not have it.
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by sumtechguy 8mo ago
Having been downsizing my horde of computer junk I have several large boxes of full MSDN disc sets. There is a graveyard of MS stuff that is no longer supported. The only thing with MS is they seem to give you a better off ramp usually th
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by sumtechguy 8mo ago
As someone who has picked up recently some 'legacy' code. AI has been really good at mostly summing up what is going on. In many cases it finds things I had no idea was wrong (because I do not know the code very well yet). This
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by sumtechguy 9mo ago
That was my point I think I said it badly. A physical store takes people on site to run it. Even amazon with its online store has an army of people running the behind the scenes things. Most things are not automated by code. VZ is not m
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by sumtechguy 9mo ago
Might be. VZ does host several big DNS root nodes. But it could just be comcast too...
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by sumtechguy 9mo ago
Also 'Verizon' is not really one company. It is 2. Telco and wireless. Each of those is a mashup of dozens of other phone companies VZ gobbled up over the years. With tech stacks going back decades. At one point while I worke
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by sumtechguy 9mo ago
That would 'work' to a point. But my gut guess is it would end up with bigger data. Most algs that I have ever made. There are several places where your gains disappear. The dictionary lookup for me is where things come apart.
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by sumtechguy 9mo ago
I personally do not use it, but know someone who does. She says it is more like a appetite suppressant. You just do not feel that hungry. Her doctor also said 'if you eat like crap this stuff will punish you'. Basically you wi
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by sumtechguy 9mo ago
That is the way I work. Now my bookmark list is crazy. I have started using 'open all' and then reviewing items in each folder to see if they are worth keeping. 99% of the time. no. Many times they are from years ago and the si
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by sumtechguy 10mo ago
ARM does not have a 'ibm pc clone' moment. There is no one, that anyone wants to rally behind. The market is fragmented in an interesting way but a way that is hard for people to target. This fragmentation has existed since the
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by sumtechguy 10mo ago
Heard of one production needing to do a one day reshoot on something. Something that could easily have been done in LA. It was cheaper to fly everyone out to some European country for 3 days and do the pickups. The business side of Hollyw
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by sumtechguy 10mo ago
Considering WB was once the champion of that format too. Guess that is end of DVD now. Netflix has no interest in that format.
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by sumtechguy 10mo ago
Most of the other ones at the time it was pop and the data was gone. You had to jump thru some hoops to make it work as persistent. Not 'hard' but just more annoying. Kafka has that out of the box. Where kafka starts to come a
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by sumtechguy 10mo ago
I see the msvc arm compiler has not improved much in 20 years. The msvc arm was pretty odd when we used it in ~2003. We did not trust it at all. Think we had to get 4 or so compiler fixes out of MS for that project plus 3 or 4 library fi
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by sumtechguy 10mo ago
MS needs a 'windows xp sp2' moment. Where they stop jamming new things in and just fix as much junk as possible. They still have a mixed control panel situation. Things just randomly work/break for no real reason. Camera
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by sumtechguy 10mo ago
pretty sure scummvm pulled in one of the ultima remake projects. Think it was exult but I could be wrong. Do you need to play the prev ones? hmm I would say if you play 6 and 7 together you should be ok. You could get away with them stan
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by sumtechguy 10mo ago
Wait play the game? I am fiddling my config.sys and autoexec.bat just right and making sure I could get to 610k. Using 4DOS to have a pick a path adventure of which configuration to load as it was starting up to run each game. Then I mig
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by sumtechguy 11mo ago
Also to add we are already rounding. When you do taxes it does not come out to a full penny. There is a fraction of a penny (hi there office space and superman 3). That fraction is already rounded. Also many transactions are with credit
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by sumtechguy 11mo ago
Projects like eXoDOS and DOSBox (and its derivatives) have basically allowed most of DOS and win31 games to be in a very playable state. GoG is doing the detective work of finding out who owns it and trying to monetize parts of it as well
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by sumtechguy 11mo ago
Think windows only supported one machine type declared with big endian from what I can see in the docs with the PE format. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-for... There may have
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by sumtechguy 11mo ago
That comes out to about 1.5 hours faster per week for many tasks. If you are running full tilt. But that seems like an ok easy win.
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by sumtechguy 11mo ago
Kafka and other message systems like it have their uses. But sometimes all you need is just need a database. Now you start doing realtime streaming and notifications and event type things a messaging system is good. You can even back it
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by sumtechguy 11mo ago
what? windows 11 was just for new features right? ... right?
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by sumtechguy 11mo ago
oh absolutely reducing any of those spots can change the dynamics of the formula. 'zero copy memory' is another local item many drivers can use. It is just one of those things that also change as tech marches on. What used to b
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by sumtechguy 11mo ago
That is application of the formula Pre-work time + pack up time + send time + unpack time + work time + pack up time + send time + unpack time + post-work time. All remote work has these properties. Even something 'simple' like a

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