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New comment by ormax3 in "MinC Is Not Cygwin"

ormax3 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:36:08 +0000

it seems possible to install GfW into an existing MSYS2:

https://gitforwindows.org/install-inside-msys2-proper

New comment by ormax3 in "MinC Is Not Cygwin"

ormax3 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:18:15 +0000

microsoft introduced Dev drives for this reason, they are optimized such that no file system filters are attached

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

New comment by ormax3 in "How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2"

ormax3 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:24:02 +0000

one might argue that one of the advantages of languages like C is that you only pay for the features you choose to use, no unnecessary overhead like initializing unused variables

New comment by ormax3 in "Sid Meier's Civilization VII"

ormax3 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:22:15 +0000

and here I am still playing Civ II MGE

https://github.com/FoxAhead/Civ2-UI-Additions

New comment by ormax3 in "Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you"

ormax3 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:07:47 +0000

I use this handy bookmarklet to kill sticky headers::

https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

New comment by ormax3 in "Where Is OpenCV 5?"

ormax3 — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:46:33 +0000

While OpenCV was born at Intel, I don't think it's solely developed by Intel anymore, there's now a non-profit organization in charge of the project:

https://opencv.org/opencv-platinum-membership/

New comment by ormax3 in "Linux ate my RAM (2009)"

ormax3 — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 21:07:54 +0000

the cache being talked about is for recently/frequently accesses things, not stuff pending write

New comment by ormax3 in "What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023"

ormax3 — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:09:48 +0000

first thing I did before reading the article, using uBO to block JS on the page

New comment by ormax3 in "RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models"

ormax3 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 21:47:34 +0000

https://petapixel.com/2022/12/14/man-fakes-an-entire-month-o...

New comment by ormax3 in "Inside the Matrix: Visualizing Matrix Multiplication, Attention and Beyond"

ormax3 — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:03:10 +0000

I agree, the visualization is pretty but kinda useless to explain mat-mult.

It would have been more intuitive to show every element in output matrix corresponds to a dot-product of row/column vectors from input matrices, the animation doesn't even highlight those corresponding vectors clearly..

New comment by ormax3 in "What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++"

ormax3 — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:34:04 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Layer_for_Unicode

New comment by ormax3 in "What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++"

ormax3 — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:12:01 +0000

The above manifesto makes the argument to use UTF-8 *everywhere*, even on windows where the internal representation is not native utf8.

The conversion overhead is really negligible: https://utf8everywhere.org/#faq.cvt.perf

(note: the two api calls per conversion is because how those specific functions work, first call to get the size to allocate, second to do the actual conversion, but you can always use another library in the implementation for the utf8<->utf16 conversion that might be more optimized than those windows api functions)

New comment by ormax3 in "What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++"

ormax3 — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:49:02 +0000

Like explained in https://utf8everywhere.org/#windows , you can write simple wrapper functions `narrow`/`widen` used when you are about to call window api functions.

    ::SetWindowTextW(widen(someStdString).c_str());

Implementation is straightforward, relying on `WideCharToMultiByte`/`MultiByteToWideChar` to do the conversion:

https://github.com/neacsum/utf8/blob/master/src/utf8.cpp

New comment by ormax3 in "Usability of Old Computers"

ormax3 — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 11:46:05 +0000

- TLS 1.2

https://www.emailarchitect.net/eagetmail/sdk/html/object_tls...

- Root Certificates

https://msfn.org/board/topic/175170-root-certificates-and-re...

- XP Browsers / Mail Clients

https://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/search/label/browser

New comment by ormax3 in "DALL·E 3"

ormax3 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:19:22 +0000

SD is uncensored, you can generate anything you want with no "safety" rails to stop you.

Just take a loot at civitai to see the kind of finetuned models that are out there.

New comment by ormax3 in "Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor"

ormax3 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:10:58 +0000

Nowadays even consumer-level hardware can run some decent local LLMs, completely offline.

You might want to browse /r/LocalLLaMA/ if "security" is an issue for you.

New comment by ormax3 in "Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers"

ormax3 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:05:10 +0000

both work in the same way, by setting up a proxy/local-vpn through which all traffic passes in order to filter ad hosts at the dns level.

New comment by ormax3 in "Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor"

ormax3 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:49:28 +0000

sounds like something LLMs can help with, sift through huge amounts of documents to summarize and highlight the interesting ones

New comment by ormax3 in "AI real-time human full-body photo generator"

ormax3 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 20:07:16 +0000

private/incognito window?

New comment by ormax3 in "Shrinking a shared library"

ormax3 — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 08:42:11 +0000

given the proliferation of electron-based desktop apps, which are known to be resource heavy, making various so libraries smaller is indeed a welcome improvement.