Just_Harry

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by Just_Harry 7mo ago
And the historical reason why the allocation-granularity is 64 KB instead of 4 KB (or the page-size) is that it made DLL relocation very slightly faster on Alpha AXP processors. No, really! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/old
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by Just_Harry 7mo ago
For the United Kingdom specifically, I've suffered the misfortune of reading the Online Safety Act, and this kind of age estimation is both mentioned and permitted by the Act. (Not a lawyer blah blah blah) Part 3, Chapter 2, Section 12
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by Just_Harry 10mo ago
Your memory is intact :) Those were/are a thing. The Xenia emulator handles them with symbolic links in its virtual-file-system: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/blob/70e44ab6ec...
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by Just_Harry 1y ago
It's freely available at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10826467/
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by Just_Harry 2y ago
> I don’t understand why these extra paddings are present and why one is gone. Even with pragma pack 8, should not it be only one padding? If you're referring to `__pad2` in the example, that trailing padding is there to ensure that
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Harpsichord(henrylim.org)
3 points by Just_Harry 2y ago|0 comments
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by Just_Harry 2y ago
In my later school years, when I had semi-regular need for printing things in colour, I took to drilling holes in the inkjet cartridges and refilling them with cheap ink using syringes. Which worked out to about £5 for the syringes, £5 for
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by Just_Harry 2y ago
Unfortunately not, I just tried running the copy included with Windows XP SP1 on Windows 11—it relies on SheRemoveQuotesW which was removed from Shell32 in Windows Vista. (It doesn't seem to be able to use a copy of a Windows-XP-source
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by Just_Harry 2y ago
All type 1 diabetics are being conned?
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by Just_Harry 2y ago
My favourite is MapViewOfFile3FromApp [0], which is one of the seven variants of MapViewOfFile. [0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/memoryapi/nf-m...
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by Just_Harry 2y ago
Not initiating conversation could be down to disinterest, yes. But I think consistently refusing eye contact does constitute a lack of respect, if the person refusing to return eye contact has no problem returning it to the upper echelons o
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by Just_Harry 2y ago
My mother cleans schools for a living, and she once remarked to me that most of the teaching staff in the grammar schools[1] she cleaned would avoid making conversation with the cleaners, and some would even avoid making eye contact, which
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by Just_Harry 2y ago
PowerShell yet again proves itself to be an enlightened language: PS> ${Valid characters for an identifier? Eh, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whatever (`}) you want.} = $True PS> ${Valid characters for an identifier? Eh, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ wha
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by Just_Harry 2y ago
Whether there's a performance detriment from borderless-fullscreen vs exclusive-fullscreen depends on how a program presents its frames (and on the OS, of course). On Windows, under ideal circumstances borderless-fullscreen performs id
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by Just_Harry 3y ago
This is something I _really_ like about D. Unit-tests are built into the language, as is comment-based documentation—put those two together and you get unit-tests as documentation examples built into the language; all it takes is to put a d
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by Just_Harry 3y ago
I've been using a Matias Ergo Pro Programmable for the past three-or-so years and it's been excellent; all the wrist pain I had been experiencing after typing ceased once I started using it, and that's held true since. The sw
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by Just_Harry 3y ago
It's valid in PowerShell, if "." is defined as a function: PS> function . {$Args} PS> . . . . The first dot is an operator which invokes a command in the current scope, the second dot is our command ".&q