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alex_suzuki

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    Comment #49080744

    So that was what 13yr old me was doing modifying himem.sys to get some stupid game to launch. :-)

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    Comment #49060036

    Side note: there’s plenty of Analytics tools that don’t require cookies. Plausible ( https://plausible.io ) is one of them, there are many others. Not affiliated, just a happy cust…

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    Comment #49047379

    > it's not running anywhere near HTML, CSS or JavaScript There’s plenty of usage in the browser environment as well, plenty of client-side SDKs for things like e.g. video editing, …

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    Comment #48990054

    > ben 10 hentai game where qwen gets drunk erm... what?

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    Comment #48966704

    raises hand I too confess to writing code by hand. It… works for me?

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    Comment #48930838

    It also works really well as a conversation starter for me. I forget people’s names and the context all the time, but the faces stay familiar, and of course you can tell from their…

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    Comment #48922994

    “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”

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    Comment #48908836

    I’ve heard (and used) the term “API surface” a lot…

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    Comment #48891785

    > Zig creator's article seems to have changed? I don't remember the bottom bit being there when I read it a few days ago. Yes, Andrew edited it. Diff here: https://github.com/andre…

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    Comment #48884256

    My biggest gripe with AI is that I struggle to come up with even one real problem that it has solved in my daily life, and that of my family and friends. Yes it might have made me …

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    Comment #48844776

    > Anyway, Jared donated $60k a month to this project $60k per year , which amounts to $5k per month. Still, nothing to be sneered at.

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    Comment #48844290

    Obligatory Black Mirror reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You

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    Comment #48829414

    Self-hosted, or are you using something managed? I’ve held off switching from Gitlab for now as everything is setup and runs ok, but they’re pushing their AI hard into every corner…

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    Comment #48770733

    Nothing prevents them from removing CarPlay in an update, though? Unless you make sure to never connect the car to the internet. Some garages will update FW for you unasked I hear.…

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    Comment #48764593

    > thin wrapper on the built-in RichEdit control > UWP abomination they call Notepad Kind of weird for both of those things to be true. I thought the latter was mostly the former. B…

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    Comment #48748185

    Some years ago, I used Box2D from Python to get a couple of bodies moving naturally in a 2D plane, lightly disturbed by random impulses (like water lilies in a pond when it's raini…

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    Comment #48716433

    What a nice name for that particular box that keeps on growing and growing. Mine is called Why did I buy this, again?

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    Comment #48698480

    This is super cool, thank you! The SVG is actually generated by Zint itself, only lightly patched in the wrapper. Zint is a pretty old barcode generator (not meant disrespectfully,…

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    Comment #48686496

    The benefit of WASM in this case is that you can wrap a mature library written in C/C++ (in this case, Zint), and run it in a runtime that supports WASM, e.g. the browser. There's …

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    Comment #48685279

    Oh, interesting! I tried it in Word on macOS but didn't get it to work. But it works in the browser (question mark = calculates check digit). It uses this, which i have no idea wha…

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    Comment #48684977

    Shameless plug for my web-based Zint frontend: https://barcode.new (in-browser WASM) I wrote it specifically because most online barcode generators don’t support vector output or s…

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    Comment #48684931

    It can’t, at least for Code 128? There’s a text field that you enter the text into, and then the start/stop/checksum characters are computed.

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    Comment #48684658

    This would be more interesting if you wouldn’t need to calculate checksums yourself, and could just write the barcode value. Good luck doing that with something like Reed-Solomon (…