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    Comment #49244969

    on my screen it's the opposite: the glow makes it look like i didn't clean my glasses for a month, disabling that `text-shadow` makes it readable, and the slight scanline effect is…

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    Comment #48762661

    near lossless refers to being 89.65/90.26 = 99.32% of baseline, i'm pretty sure.

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    Comment #48322351

    just look at that giant 8-line headline, insanity

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    Comment #48209759

    then add a second r and it's suddenly piracy or torrent related!

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    Comment #48191593

    > This has the side effect of removing empty directories yeah, this will inevitably break things. excluding those from the directory stripping shouldn't be too hard (TM)

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    Comment #47875998

    as far as i can tell, no it does not. it only desaturates 00 in particular. the other colors you see in the screenshots come from matched formats/patterns. it does not do direct co…

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    Comment #47864017

    pretty sure 486 support only _just_ got disabled, and will be gone with 7.1: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Phasing-Out-i486

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    Comment #47847726

    headlines often trade legibility for terseness, sometimes a bit too much though :) EDIT: Headlinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline#Headlinese

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    Comment #47784242

    > I miss the wobbly windows I had in Linux when we started playing with Compiz. KDE still has them: Settings -> Window Management -> Desktop Effects -> Wobbly Windows

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    Comment #46972596

    you can also just uninstall the "new" notepad, at which point Windows will let you run the old one again (which is still shipped!). By using a version that is _that_ old you do los…

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    Comment #46972484

    You are mistaken: > The malicious code would execute in the security context of the user who opened the Markdown file, giving the attacker the same permissions as that user.

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    Comment #46795512

    TIL I'm an AI

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    Comment #46637053

    not even opposite, as mentioned in my comment it does have Initiator Mode, allowing it to act as a host

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    Comment #46637041

    If the reason to connect them is to dump them, something like https://bluescsi.com/ in Initiator Mode might work: https://bluescsi.com/docs/Initiator-Mode

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    Comment #46256930

    For a quick fix: `font-variant-ligatures: none;` on body or similar.

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    Comment #45996019

    Infocom was bought by Activision, ActivisionBlizzard was bought by Microsoft.

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    Comment #45963595

    Author here -- previous discussions/blog posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23313577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=377…

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    Comment #45958569

    I specifically checked if DirectInput from DirectX 5 already supports/provides USB HID devices, and it does! Granted, even then it was unlikely to encounter 8 USB devices, let alon…

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    Comment #45953867

    Because I felt like it :) Also works for multiple versions/patchlevels. But yeah, with the info provided it should be patchable. It's a `push esi` though, where esi has to stay 0 f…

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    Comment #45953821

    Usually dgVoodoo handles most of the games (that don't have actual bugs like this game) fairly well. Otherwise, 86Box is a pretty good full-system emulator for everything up to the…

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    Comment #45952731

    > am I right in thinking the DirectX library only exports a single function and _everything_ else is through DX interfaces Yup! That's why I didn't have to create a gazillion passt…

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    Comment #45952560

    Author here -- given that r9x is also my project it wasn't entirely random :^)

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    Comment #45952547

    AFAIK they are all backed up. For the blogpost I used the DX5 SDK docs, DX7 SDK docs, and the MSDN Library from VS2005 (last version to include 9x information). The VS2008 version …

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    Comment #45131046

    According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B#Histo... , the last version to support Win3.1 is VC++ 1.52 (which was shipped with VC++ up to version 4). Unless…