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Avery3R

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    Comment #46432632

    "reference TVs" exist, they're what movies/tv shows are mastered on, e.g. https://flandersscientific.com/XMP551/

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    Comment #39987097

    It shows up on bing, yahoo, and yandex, but not google.

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    Comment #39973300

    Google maps location sharing works cross-platform on android and iOS

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    Comment #39086020

    It's unreal, and it actually runs pretty well. The devs seem to actually know how to use the engine. I've had significantly less stutters in it than in some other recently released…

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    Comment #38092048

    Exception Level 2 [1] They're analogous to "protection rings" on x86. Generally, EL0 is usermode, EL1 is kernel mode, EL2 is hypervisor, and EL3 is the "secure monitor"/firmware co…

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    Comment #36464263

    BEGIN TRANSACTION; ... ; Modify DB ... ; Inspect State ROLLBACK TRANSACTION; and then switch the rollback to commit when satisfied

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    Comment #36303154

    It's extremely common in asp.net apps

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    Comment #36148125

    appending .i to the end of the url will still get you the compact frontend

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    Comment #36061029

    AppContainers have supported win32 from the start, not just WinRT. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/app... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wi…

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    Comment #35891510

    bootguard keys are oem specific

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    Comment #35675679

    Not exactly sure how the desktop Linux boot process is structured, but on windows with bitlocker the boot partition isn't encrypted either. UEFI has to be able to load a boot manag…

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    Comment #34887334

    https://web.archive.org/web/20230218154249/https://clarkvisi...

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    Comment #34134008

    But you're still getting the perf hit of calling a function and checking if the module is already loaded

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    Comment #33849222

    Or you could use https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu for free

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    Comment #33073213

    What makes you say that? It looks like this was definitely used in the chain on that post to me.

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    Comment #32998895

    There's static ding that'll make turn the sticky/floating elements into normal ones https://www.staticding.org/ it does put a little overlay telling you how many elements it adjust…

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    Comment #32860780

    in the first paragraph > See also Part 2 (to be published),

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    Comment #31395388

    ring -1 is canonically the hypervisor, so you could probably count hyper-v or xen or esxi as operating systems

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    Comment #31114688

    thumbs.db hasn't been a thing since XP... Vista+ generates thumbcache_xxx.db within the user's temp folder.

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    Comment #30736463

    This website does something weird with scrolling and is impossible to use

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    Comment #30289394

    Don't you mean MAAAN?

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    Comment #29786111

    Just a theory, but it looks like it could be caused by differences in the tone mapping algorithm used to convert the HDR masters down into an SDR palette.

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    Comment #29704384

    You can by modifying the security attributes on DWM's theming handle so that it's inaccessible(you could also just force close the handle but that's not reversible). https://wincla…