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511.
by ygra 6y ago
NT was being designed starting in 1988 or 1989. You don't change your character encoding throughout the operating system on a whim a year before release, though.
512.
by ygra 6y ago
Well, at least Windows' use of Unicode goes back to the late 1980s and back then the 16-bitness of Unicode still seemed like a sensible idea and UTF-8 definitely didn't exist yet.
513.
by ygra 6y ago
Neither Windows, nor .NET, nor Java have moved away from 16-bit code units (the latter two have made concessions for strings in other encodings, either to save space or to improve speed in scenarios where UTF-16 will never appear, like HTTP
514.
by ygra 6y ago
HCL and HCl would be very different things to a chemist, though, if an element L would actually exist.
515.
by ygra 6y ago
My first foray into programming was reading the GW BASIC manual and then asking my father whether he could get me GW BASIC; I got QBasic instead, which nicely integrated all the text from that tome in the IDE. Right now I wonder what childr
516.
by ygra 6y ago
Flags tend to disappear after a while, though.
517.
by ygra 6y ago
All done with US International, but should be reproducible with other keyboard layouts; just that with, e.g. a German layout it might be harder to find digraphs that can be typed by forcing a non-combination for a dead key. Firefox 81, Wind
518.
by ygra 6y ago
Sometimes it'd be great to have full XPath available for CSS selectors. But I can see how that's a performance nightmare.
519.
by ygra 6y ago
This seems to have problems with dead keys. Typing ' and then d on US International results in 'd, but doesn't count as such and instead is an error.
520.
by ygra 6y ago
And those bitwise operators are defined to convert the number into a 32-bit signed integer as part of the process. Which is why foo | 0 is a way of converting a number to an integer (as long as it's not too large ...).
521.
by ygra 6y ago
Actually, there's even more recent research into doing this really efficiently, using an algorithm called Ryū. [e] https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu [-4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-U6smcLzk [
522.
by ygra 6y ago
For me that actually was Windows 2000. Never really saw a need to switch to XP, and instead switched to Vista and later 7, eventually.
523.
by ygra 6y ago
Okay, perhaps my wording was off. Yes, they're Win32 controls in that sense, but many (most?) of the newer controls are no longer mere wrappers around something that exists in Win32, but rather implement all functionality in managed co
524.
by ygra 6y ago
A lot of Windows Forms is non-Win32 controls with custom drawing, by the way. Especially things like menus, toolbars, etc. So a lot of Windows Forms controls are basically as native as WPF controls (just a lot harder to work with imho).
525.
by ygra 6y ago
PowerShell runs on Linux, too.
526.
by ygra 6y ago
https://github.com/Maoni0/mem-doc/blob/master/doc/.NETMemory... probably answers your question.
527.
by ygra 6y ago
Save As > Plain SVG or Optimized SVG should remove the things you don't need. You tend to have control over everything else directly in Inkscape.
528.
by ygra 6y ago
You do carry over some things. As far as I know the orbs unlock spells you can't find in the wild before then. It's relatively minor in the grand scheme of things, admittedly.
529.
by ygra 6y ago
I once hit an unplayable slowdown (on Windows, though), where the devs told me I somehow managed to break the physics (NaNs everywhere). May have been a similar issue, as otherwise minor slowdowns are usually accompanied by excessive things
530.
by ygra 6y ago
Well, other body parts probably also fit the bulky description. But they'd also be heavy, I guess.
531.
by ygra 6y ago
I guess Versengold is more folk than metal.
532.
by ygra 6y ago
Especially if the end result is a closed-source product you still license code you don't want to write yourself. See stories like this one: - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180515-00/?p=98...
533.
by ygra 6y ago
> and the DV transfer didn't drop a packet Considering how FireWire worked in comparison to USB that's not particularly surprising. The host machine was more or less out of the way while the FW interfaces did their thing instea
534.
by ygra 6y ago
That'd be a lot of work (clean up the code, look through everything to see whether things can actually be released and not covered under licenses disallowing that) for .. what benefit to Microsoft exactly? Trident and EdgeHTML are no
535.
by ygra 6y ago
It's ambiguous, for example.
536.
by ygra 6y ago
Windows Forms is the wrapper around the Win32 API. We forms is the ASP.NET part that mimics how Windows Forms works, where near every look or button click included a server roundtrip (doPostback or so was the JavaScript function named that
537.
by ygra 6y ago
Are there really WebForms codebases that someone would intend to port to .NET Core (if it were available there)? I'd guess most of those are stuck in maintenance mode anyway. Also, .NET Framework doesn't go away and is supported w
538.
by ygra 6y ago
I certainly didn't think about that they would have to re-implement the entire (or at least most of the) computer system the pilot is interacting with as well.
539.
by ygra 6y ago
Hooks on the repository server that won't let them push?
540.
by ygra 6y ago
If it's outside the adjustment range, there's too much weight on the trailer hitch. There are limits (usually documented in the manual) and both the rear suspension and headlights are the reason for them.

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