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carey··on Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?
Especially with the DLC, Infinite is a classical tragedy, so of course the player character doesn’t get to make any meaningful choices.
carey··on Gallery of programming UIs
The Wikipedia page doesn’t really give any impression of what it’s like to program in RPG with SEU, and with SDA. I wouldn’t say they’re very close to using vi or Emacs at all.

I have very bad memories of STOS BASIC, mostly around how very slow it was.

carey··on Potential Impact of Spectre on Processors in the Power family
I'm more interested in the non-PASE (more accurately, non-Teraspace) situation. The single level store maps every program into the same address space. Will POWER speculatively access another user's data before it discovers that the pointer is invalid or the array index is out of range?
carey··on Man who made passwords hard regrets rules that 'drive people crazy'
It’s just an unnecessary, extravagant ligature of the letters "et", from 9th century Latin.
carey··on Man who made passwords hard regrets rules that 'drive people crazy'
Inches and seconds should really use ″, U+2033 Double Prime, if you’re not going to use the ASCII quotation mark for everything.
carey··on The capital sharp S in now part of the official German orthography
It's probably for round-tripping with old single byte character sets. In this case, with Dutch VT220 character encodings.
carey··on Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm
Except on networks that block HTTP GET to unknown hosts...
carey··on Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform
Some of those programs would have been Java programs, where java.exe is modern, but the program is not. The definition of os.name in Java makes checking the string prefix particularly likely.
carey··on LLVM 4.0.0
The change is a bit disappointing, in a way. Though I'm not sad to see the last of CRTJVAPGM.
carey··on LLVM 4.0.0
IBM i Java used to run on top of TIMI. But the runtime overhead and IBM developer overhead were too high, and now it runs on top of PASE, which implements the AIX runtime without involving TIMI.
carey··on Java libraries you can't miss in 2017
Take it with a grain of salt because it's years since I used it, but the Jetty HTTP Client has a fluent API and can be used completely asynchronously. It doesn't use CompletableFuture, but it works with Java 8 lambdas and wouldn't be hard to adapt.
carey··on New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor
NZ's Geonet and USGS use different versions of the Richter scale, so both are likely correct.
carey··on Putting my VB6 Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store
Also sometimes because it uses SafeDisc or Securom copy protection, which just won't work on Windows 10: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/08/17/windows-10-safed...
carey··on The Elegance of Deflate
Weren't there also (alleged) patents on arithmetic coding back then? Huffman coding had that as an advantage, too, especially when GNU were looking for an alternative to Unix' compress program.
carey··on The Elegance of Deflate
It sounds like what you're thinking of has been included in the Brotli compression algorithm, which uses a relatively large initial dictionary. There are similar ideas with a more limited scale in HTTP/2's HPACK algorithm for header compression.
carey··on Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app
I was imagining something a bit more like http://store.steampowered.com/app/274920.
carey··on Royal palace discovered in area believed to be birthplace of King Arthur
If it was originally a round number, that would have been 1.95 metres in France, anyway, right?
carey··on Hijacking YouTube to transmit your data
I thought it might at least be something like the SSTV messages in the Portal ARG, which sounds a lot like modem noise.
carey··on Encryption Security May Not Be Secure Anymore (Possible AES Crack)
Is there any source for this that's less dodgy? Is it any different from the known weaknesses in the key derivation for AES-256?
carey··on About rel=noopener
In the right circumstances, which as far as I can tell are when crossing between security zones, Internet Explorer and Edge already seem to block this. I've never been able to pin down exactly what's happening, or to get Google login to work on our intranet sites with IE as a result.
carey··on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
A lot of my PowerShell scripts are accompanied by shortcuts or batch files that do:

    powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -File whatever.ps1
carey··on Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft
XMLHTTP was originally an ActiveX technology, though, from the Outlook team; it wasn't originally developed as part of IE. I guess it wasn't until Mozilla and Apple added a native version that it really took off.
carey··on An 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe [video]
A normal telnet connection will be assumed to be something VT100-ish, so it won't try to use EBCDIC. If you send one of a few specific values for the terminal type, though, the AS/400 will use block-oriented EBCDIC comms. This is even documented in RFCs 1205 and 4777.

A bigger issue can be with trying to send each of the 24 function keys when a VT102 didn't have any.

carey··on Jigsaw Finally Arrives in JDK 9
If managing versioned module dependencies with Jigsaw is anything like OSGi, you really don't. I haven't read the former's documentation yet, though.
carey··on Ubuntu trademark nonsense
Unless it's GPL or similar, that's the claim. I'd hope that something like

    case *buntu)
would avoid using their trademark, if you can't just test for Debian derivatives.
carey··on Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
There are serial-to-wifi modules for the Arduino; surely one of them would work on the RPi header, though you might need some new software to forward the network packets to it.
carey··on Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
Which one? Because we have a supplier's site that doesn't seem to work in post-Blink Chrome.
carey··on X-Ray Scans Expose Chip-And-Pin Card Hack
Which EBCDIC CCSID?

At least you knew which encoding to use. For one of our payment integrations we've given up, and just pass it 7-bit ASCII.

carey··on Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease
Candida is a common opportunistic infection in diabetes type 2, so there's a few ways in which correlations could be observed. The fungal infection could be a symptom of the underlying "type 3" diabetetes; or the CNS fungal infections could be more common in diabetic or pre-diabetic people, leading to AD.
carey··on Flux is the new WndProc
I am too, but maybe you're thinking of Windows Presentation Framework? XAML files are still used to describe user interfaces in whatever they're calling Metro these days.
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