What are the rules ? Since this is a largely predictable instruction stream, you know all the branch outcomes before hand. You even know the value outcomes. You can create a close to perfect branch predictor, prefetcher, scheduler etc.
Speedrunning Windows 95
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Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
The last two quintuples are switched, otherwise it is correct. The "RKT-8TG6W" is my favorite part, because it makes for a nice rhyme (at least in German, where "W" is a single syllable"): RKT 8T G6W :)
American checking in on the pronunciation: "Arr kay tay, acht tay, gay zex vey"?
I read your "arr" as in English "are".
I am not a native German speaker, but the dialect I learned and my German relatives speak says "r" more like the English word "air".
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#73Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn…
Story of my life too, including the 15 years part! Every once in few years, when I feel like my memory skills are fading, I recite the damn key, pat myself in the back and go back to sleep.
Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#74Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn…
The FCKGW key was written down on one of the documents recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound:
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/61/61C5FB27A...
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#75I was recently amazed to find out that Windows 95 is still used in an industrial automation setting. The company uses the NetBEUI[0] protocol and Windows 95 is apparently the only version to support it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS_Frames_protocol
At a college I worked at a few years ago in one of the larger lecture class rooms. There was a Windows3.1 PC mounted in the podium/lecture counter. It was used primarily for controlling the levels of lights, dropping down the screen and projector, and a few other menial tasks. I don't believe it was wired into the network and don't believe it was ever replaced.
It could easily be replaced by an electron app running a QEMU in JavaScript emulating an virtual machine running Windows 3.11 on an Rasperry PI terminal connected to a cloud server located at the edge for maximum performance paid for by real-time Bitcoin micropayments.
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#76There's another speedrun category: time to bluescreen https://mobile.twitter.com/Foone/status/1103384684812255233
This joke also reminds me of the "Banned%" Club Penguin speedrun. It was short-lived but people came up with various tricks to speed up the email verification subsequent banning process.
https://www.speedrun.com/cp#Banned
https://www.pcgamer.com/getting-banned-from-club-penguin-is-...
Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#77Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn…
I just had a similar thing happening a year or two ago. My mom sent me some old backup CDs that she found while cleaning out her basement. I was very happy to find my first attempt at making a game with graphics on one of the discs. The game was written in Visual Basic so I downloaded a copy of the IDE and luckily the installer ran under Wine. When I got to the license screen, some forgotten but apparently not decayed part of my brain clicked into gear and to my surprise I just typed the 12 digit code from memory on the first try, 20 years after I last installed it.
Here's the (not so amazing) result. Consider it a "Show HN"? https://vimeo.com/220071855
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
"oh he forgot to uncheck , that's going to cost him..."
"Over to IFuckedUrMom666, retired former Windows 95 installation champion, for some extra commentary." "Thanks Jeff. Yeah, we'll have to see how this plays out, but I'm tentatively calling this one as maybe not a mistake. By leaving IPX support in, there's an extra 198 sectors to copy - but you save 39ms later from reduced install logging, as there's never any IPX check failures from the network infrastructure. He's…
If there was ever a need for hackernews silver...
This was genius. Well done. _Golf clap_
Re: Speedrunning Windows 95
#79Hah! I love that this is a thing.
In software development I think I could watch speedruns of folks building a login service/page or any component really.
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#80OT: can someone explain this anime/waifu thing to me, in particular why does someone record a video like this one with careful window placement so that we can see the anime? I feel like I'm missing something.
creator here; That was my desktop background at the time, recorded the video with obs at 720p because I wanted to get anything watchable on youtube (480p suxx if I wanted to include a timer, also it would look way worse). BTW, she's not my `waifu`, I just like her as a character.
Does your waifu know?