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this comment thread hasn't been talking about win16.

but you're right, win16 can only load some 32-bit PE files through something like Win32s

sorry, i was referring specifically to the x86 segmented memory model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation (basically, near and far pointers)

it would, just without standard library support, as the default stdlib imports system APIs that older versions don't provide. Other than those and a "supported OS version" filed in the PE header there isn't really much else in your way (hence my Rust9x project)

likely no_std, and running via Win32s. Rust doesn't have support for segmented memory, so native 16-bit would be much harder

it's the "thin" browsers that are half-embedded in other apps, such as Google News. In the menu you can see "Running in Chrome" and "Open in <yourdefaultbowser>"

"can do things" in this case doesn't mean "is allowed to do things".

"Unsafe code allows to express the following, which is UB:"

> Notepad had been a native app until very recently, and it still opened pretty much instantaneously. With its rewrite as a UWP app, things went downhill. The before and after are apparent, and yet… the app continues to be as unfeatureful as it had always been. This is extra slowness for no user benefit.

We now have HUGE (/s) advancements in Notepad, like tabs and uh... Copilot

> If the size of the new type is larger than the size of the last-written type, the contents of the excess bytes are unspecified (and may be a trap representation). Before C99 TC3 (DR 283) this behavior was undefined, but commonly implemented this way.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/union

> When initializing a union, the initializer list must have only one member, which initializes the first member of the union unless a designated initializer is used(since C99).

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/struct_initializati...

→ = {0} initializes the first union variant, and bytes outside of that first variant are unspecified. Seems like GCC 15.1 follows the 26 year old standard correctly. (not sure how much has changed from C89 here)

> I didn't do performance testing or anything, it just didn't seem like there was any point in trying to compete with whatever millisecond-scale gainz libpng presumably had over my library when both of them are capable of loading the picture in less time it takes me to recognize the picture on the screen in front of me.

The gains become relevant in bulk processing.

It's instructions for the Windows RDP server to enable RemoteFX support so that the Rust client can make use of it.

Maybe I'm missing something, but for the server side it's only crates that help you build your own server, no direct integration with any system, be it Windows or otherwise.

it's a semantics problem, not a maths problem - modulus and remainder are not the same operation. This easily trips up people since `%` is often called "modulo", yet is implemented as remainder operation in many languages

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13683563/whats-the-diffe...

> I hate that it doesn’t have types. It’s totally YOLO:

SQLite _does_ support strict column types since 3.37: https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html

for Logitech G there is the Onboard Memory Manager, a portable tool to just set up the onboard profiles. Since they released it I've not had to use their normal software anymore: https://support.logi.com/hc/en-ca/articles/360059641133-Onbo...

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42368784

1440p is colloquially referred to as 2.5K, not 2K.

> You can actually monitor the temperature of the sdram and it reports if refresh at half or quarter the rate can be done. That allows the overhead due to refresh to be reduced by a half or a quarter which does improve benchmark results.

I wonder why this is not available on PCs. tREFI tuning has a big impact on performance, and having an automated guided optimization based on temperature would be nice.

> While the math is clear, I'm a bit annoyed by the label "paradox" as the whole setup is too simplistic and reductionistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox#Veridical_paradox

(also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppX7Qjbe6BM for a 40min video discussing the weird usages of the word "paradox")

(And `ignore` uses `walkdir` internally)

Yup, on many boards you could either jumper the direction (turbo switch closed= slow or closed = fast), or set it in the BIOS.

> There's a lot of examples of that, like it still being called Unleaded Gas despite it having been so by default for how many decades?

Depending on where you live, about 0.35 decades?

> On 30 August 2021 the United Nations Environment Programme announced that leaded gasoline had been eliminated. The final stocks of the product were used up in Algeria, which had continued to produce leaded gasoline until July 2021.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Modern_findings

Some more information about the kind of challenges to expect: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ann...

I guess it depends on whether the game cartridges only use it for storing savegames, or as actual additional RAM.

> In Rust, Cargo makes this super easy: “x.y.z” means “>= x.y.z, < (x+1).0.0”.

With the added special case of `0.x.y` meaning `>= 0.x.y, < 0.(x+1).0`, going beyond what semver specifies.

In Germany the minimum time of notice for being fired scales up with your seniority (number of years employed in the company). However, many work contracts add a stipulation that the minimum time of notice from the law be applied to both parties equally, so quitting will also need an advance notice of the same length.

rename it to openSUS and replace the chameleon with an amogus, problem solved

Blackjack, hookers, and reified generics!

Huh, I was pretty sure that you need an extra chip in-between. Otherwise, the 4 CPU lanes will just drop to 4.0 level.

This is the main reason why I just use the US ANSI layout in germany, together with KbdKaz on Windows for umlauts and a lot of other extra characters and accennts: https://www.omega-com.pl/kbdkaz.htm