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Dwedit

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    Comment #49234722

    This is what happens when you start a separate instance of Chromium everywhere.

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    Comment #49222940

    For DOS, your choices are basically DJGPP C compiler, or using the HXDOS DOS extender. But how well would Cave Story work on 50MHz?

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    Comment #49222858

    Until 2023, Edge was sending every URL you visited to bingapis.com. Microsoft's current privacy statement also says "Depending on your settings, this browsing history is sent to Mi…

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    Comment #49211020

    C++ ABIs are why Win32 settled on things like COM to do cross-module passing of objects. Because nobody could agree on a standard, the COM standard enforced a very specific calling…

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    Comment #49210873

    Would exposing people to an obviously hallucinating AI help people here? Then they won't blindly trust it so much.

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    Comment #49204663

    I've looked at Visual 6502 and it's way beyond me. I've even looked at the scans where it shows how they severed the connection to disable 6502 decimal mode on the NES.

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    Comment #49197763

    There seems to be a bug in the code for handling input, certain combinations of pressing or releasing left and right can cause the paddle to get stuck moving to the left or right, …

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    Comment #49183921

    MRAM (magnetic and non-volatile) had some applications in GBA cartridges to replace small amounts of battery-backed SRAM.

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    Comment #49161536

    Great, now converting a float to int will cause the C compiler to randomly reformat your hard drive... https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49599

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    Comment #49093187

    Focus of controls is the hard part. You end up needing a Per-seat version of focus in an application.

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    Comment #49092131

    Shooters or protesters?

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    Comment #49087330

    Usually the delivery person asks for ID when delivering the wine?

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    Comment #49069729

    How many Portal test chambers could be solved with Mario 64 jumping alone, and no use of any portal gun?

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    Comment #49064901

    Maybe count perfect solves in a separate average than solves with mistakes?

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    Comment #49051443

    Careful you might run afoul of the infinite scrolling laws.

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    Comment #49049903

    When I mentioned "perfectly reversible", I meant the FFT itself. You run the FFT. You run the inverse FFT. Because the FFT was quantized to 0-255, you end up with a lot of stuff th…

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    Comment #49048130

    That one does not seem to be an undither project, it appears to be a special way to encode chroma information within a monochrome dithered image. NTSC television also encodes chrom…

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    Comment #49047746

    Speaking of which, are there any good ways to undither images? Things like GIMP FFT are not perfectly reversible.

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    Comment #49042293

    Pressure is on shipping things fast, not making things lightweight.

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    Comment #49011332

    I just stick with TOTP.

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    Comment #49007415

    AI images (or even Stock Images) of food in a menu are false advertising. Full stop.

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    Comment #49006564

    We know that crooks are selling fake drives where the size is over-reported. Shouldn't something that tries to be sneaky under-report the size instead? Not just in the partition.

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    Comment #48964565

    A magazine disk was the first time a game containing Sonic the Hedgehog was released. He was thrown into a game as an enemy character in a platformer game (Adventures Of Quik & Sil…

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    Comment #48962627

    Not anymore, now you just get an AI overview, followed by SEO slop results.

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    Comment #48958211

    When you have a dialog window too big for the screen, you can Alt+Space to open the system menu, then activate the Move menu item, then you can use arrow keys to move the window ar…