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'always online' has created a whole new set of buggy from a lot of companies. For example cyberpunk is NOW a playable game. Launch date was a very mixed bag. 'fix it after launch' …

Having just put a battery into my existing system. For the power company I use the answer is no to your question. Many power companies charge that fee depending on the size of pane…

I did something similar in win16/32 at one point. Think we wanted something special with graphics on the button. We basically had to recreate all of the actions of focus/unfocus/et…

and sometimes you can not do that. if it is some sort of historical thing.

Probably talking about swapping it in from some external datastore. These days you would open the file and dump it into a single buffer and rip across it, and not even really stres…

Unfortunately not all of them. It depends on the device you are using, and the storage device, and the kernel, and the CRT you are using. The process I was using went from like 20-…

Also you need to be careful what you read/write. In some cases. As many examples out there use int/char etc to show how to use the thing. But if you switch to structs that fwrite c…

There is one game called 'hack n slash' on steam. You manipulate the 'global vars' to win the game. There is even one point where the game has you open up its data files and change…

On some systems/drives if it detects an error that is big enough it will reset the carriage. You can here it reading and rescrubbing over and over. That can cause the carriage moto…

> Now I work mostly with PhDs who were at the top of every academic environment they've ever been in. And yet I can see their thinking skills rapidly declining as well I noticed th…

those story points do not earn themselves!

Start simple add the rest later when you needed it. How will you know you need it later? At 3AM. If it makes you feel better add a comment what will be needed when it breaks. I see…

Yeah that probably should just be an option. Basically the default is to least mangle the zip file. Where the most extreme is turned on by flags. One of those could be 'remove empt…

Yeah I was thinking that. Also at some point you will be switching motherboards every other cpu update just due to the socket changes between generations.

Heh, not sure why but it makes me wonder if you could 'Ship of Theseus' something like that into a modern day desktop. By going thru the different eras of DIY compute.

I want to see the outtake lines they didnt use. Roddy Piper had tons of one liners he would use for wrestling.

I wanted an accountant I got a poet.

That can happen many times during a buyout. Some company buys a thing. The problem then is ownership of the thing. Who in the new company is going to own the 'make sure it stays go…

Sometimes also the project is just 'done'. I many years ago made a windows screensaver (never released to anyone else). Just so I could have a '2001' screen saver. Basically in the…

Think someone got the bill and worked out their burn rate and pushed the big stop button. Remember when you are renting other peoples computers they can and will change the terms f…

IoT was an absolutely terrible fit for the home space. My parents have light switches in their house installed in the 1940s. They still work just as good. Getting something from th…

Had one project where for some reason one of the devs wanted to access the messages before it got translated. The reasons are lost to time. You technically could create other types…

It was more of you had to know where to grab control. It was not always clear. With some of them it was dead easy and you can do it on window creation. Others you had to hook it ou…

> This isn't actually true though. You can delegate to the default window proc, and only customise what you want. Yeah that was my memory of doing this stuff. You basically just ad…

I saw a few years ago one group buying spools of fiber just to 'slow down' the trades. As they were submitting them to different datacenters across the country. They wanted everyth…