sumtechguy

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by sumtechguy 1mo ago
Most of the time it isnt mine either. But here and there there will be large swaths of some site that are just not archived. At one point if someone put up a robots text file history would just vanish. Have not checked lately if that sti
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by sumtechguy 1mo ago
Even Archive.org is rather limited in what it keeps. I know of a very large site that recently disappeared. archive only has part of the web html part of the site. Everything else is either gone or non accessible.
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by sumtechguy 1mo ago
There are. Several model maker communities use it to put stuff up for sale. It is a nice way to find other model makers. The reason I joined FB no longer exists for me. I remember why I stopped talking to many of the 'friends'
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by sumtechguy 1mo ago
'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' ugh.
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by sumtechguy 2mo ago
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 panels. Now if you do not hook to their system they do not ca
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by sumtechguy 2mo ago
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/etc. Everything a normal button could do. Now
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by sumtechguy 2mo ago
and sometimes you can not do that. if it is some sort of historical thing.
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by sumtechguy 3mo ago
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 stress about it. Even 256 meg of hard drive. That would have b
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by sumtechguy 3mo ago
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 20-30 seconds to run to less than a second once I put a cache
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by sumtechguy 3mo ago
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 can totally burn you if you use the sizeof call.
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by sumtechguy 3mo ago
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 things. Interesting mechanic.
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by sumtechguy 3mo ago
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 motor to overwork and burn out. Not sure of this system
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by sumtechguy 4mo ago
> 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 this before LLMs became a thing. It was by accident.
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by sumtechguy 4mo ago
those story points do not earn themselves!
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by sumtechguy 4mo ago
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 over and over wildly overdone code. When all I really w
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by sumtechguy 4mo ago
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 empty folders'.
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by sumtechguy 4mo ago
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.
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by sumtechguy 4mo ago
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.
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by sumtechguy 4mo ago
I want to see the outtake lines they didnt use. Roddy Piper had tons of one liners he would use for wrestling.
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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
I wanted an accountant I got a poet.
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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
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 good' problem. Sometimes with a buy out the peop
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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
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 background of the movie was all thes
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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
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 for their benefit. They own it. You dont. You rent it.
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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
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 the IoT of home automation to last like that is very diffic
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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
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 of application that is not CLI or 'windows'. B
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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
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 out by playing with the window params (SetWindowLong) and get
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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
> 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 added what you wanted to the case statement (or other
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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
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 everything to show up at the exact same time so no one
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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
I can not think of any reason they would not want to do it. However, I do seem at least 2 downsides to this method. Number one it is at least 2x the memory. That has for a decently long time been a large cost of a computer. But I could se
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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
dobbs and msdn were my reading while I was waiting on a 2 hour compile many times. then msdn went terrible, and dobbs out of business :(

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