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il y a 7 moisdiscuss

Also they are horrifically broken if you use OS-level magnifier (ctrl+scroll etc). I don't know if this is the application devs' fault or not; I haven't investigated OS mouse warping APIs. Warping the mouse back to the center of the knob goes in a feedback loop with the magnifier and spams crazy mouse events such that every knob will immediately go to min or max. Really shameful accessibility fail that no one cares about.

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il y a 7 moisdiscuss

I read that whole (single) paragraph as “I made really, really, really sure I didn’t violate any NDAs by doing these things to confirm everything had a public source”

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il y a 8 moisdiscuss

That’s the statement I found last time I went down this rabbit hole, that they don’t have physical brightness info for third-party displays so it just can’t be done any better. But I don’t understand how this can lead to making the black point terrible. Black should be the one color every emissive colorspace agrees on.

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il y a 8 moisdiscuss

MacOS does wash out SDR content in HDR mode specifically on non-Apple monitors. An HDR video playing in windowed mode will look fine but all the UI around it has black and white levels very close to grey.

Edit: to be clear, macOS itself (Cocoa elements) is all SDR content and thus washed out.

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il y a 9 moisdiscuss

* “which of the 3 big data structures in this part of the program/function/etc is this int/string key an index into?”

* some arithmetic/geometry problems for example 2D layout where there are several different things that are “an integer number of pixels” but mean wildly different things

In either case it can help pick apart dense code or help stay on track while writing it. It can instead become anti-helpful by causing distraction or increasing the friction to make changes.

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il y a 10 moisdiscuss

I don’t think I can take that claim by itself as necessarily implying the cause is hardware. Consumer OSes were on the verge of getting protected memory at that time, as an example of where things were, so if I imagine “take an old application and try to run it” then I am immediately imagining software problems, and software bit rot is a well-known thing. If the claim is “try to run Windows 95 on bare metal”, then…well actually I installed win98 on a new PC about 10 years ago and it worked. When I try to imagine hardware changes since then that a kernel would have to worry about, I’m mostly coming up with PCI Express and some brave OEMs finally removing BIOS compatibility and leaving only UEFI. I’m not counting lack of drivers for modern hardware as “hardware still changes” because that feels like a natural consequence of having multiple vendors in the market, but maybe I could be convinced that is a fundamental change in and of itself…however even then, that state of things was extremely normalized by the 2000s.

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il y a 10 moisdiscuss

Thread is talking about kids knowing how to request emergency services with a nearby phone in case something happens to their parent(s). Nothing to do with giving kids their own phones.

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il y a 12 moisdiscuss

Do you have an M1? I’m really hoping this is a USB-chipset-specific problem that got fixed. That hope is supported by…one random Reddit comment.

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l’année dernièrediscuss

Can we collectively retcon an unencumbered replacement name for such things? Odoromop?

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l’année dernièrediscuss

I don't think I can trust TTS for language learning. I could be internalizing wrong pronunciation, and I wouldn't know. One time I tried Duolingo for Japanese already knowing a bit. To their credit I assumed it was recorded clips, until it read 'oyogu' as something like 'oyNHYAOgu', like it concatenated two syllable clips that don't go together. If I didn't already know, would I be trying to study and replicate that nonsense? So I don't know if I could trust TTS audio for language study regardless of what kind of tech it is. Sure mistakes can be unlearned over time spent immersing, but at much more effort than just not internalizing them in the first place.

Also Japanese specifically has this meme where it literally is a pitch-accent language but many people say it's not and teaching resources ignore it. E.g. 'ima' means either 'now' or 'living room' depending if syllable #2 is higher or lower. Clearly only applies to some languages, but is another dimension even harder to a learner to know there's a mistake. I have to imagine even other Latin languages probably have reading quirks where this could happen to me.

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l’année dernièrediscuss

Game exploits are extremely game-specific

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l’année dernièrediscuss

In this analogy, they are only retesting things reported by a previous red team who did that target.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Yes this helps specifically when passing functions as pointers or something like std::function (edit: or overriding methods), it will at least inform the developer that they need to add noexcept to the function declaration if they want to use it there, and hopefully due to that they recursively audit the function body and anything it calls for exceptions. And hopefully all future developers also notice the noexcept and keep up the practice. But it changes nothing about checking plain function calls. So I think adding this to the function type helps some cases but still does not move noexcept toward the behavior most people want/expect.

This just feels important to point out because this feature is 15 years old and still commonly misunderstood, and each time people are wanting the same thing (actual compile-time prevention of `throw`) which it is not.

Edit: OK I finally just went and tried it on godbolt.org. C++17 GCC, Clang, and MSVC all give 1 warning on this code for `bar` and that's all.

  void canthrow() {
    throw 42;
  }
  
  void foo() noexcept {
    canthrow();
  }
  
  void bar() noexcept {
    throw 42;
  }

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

noexcept doesn’t prevent any throws at compile-time, it basically just wraps the function in a `catch(...)` block that will call std::terminate, like a failed assert. IMHO it is a stupid feature for this very confusion.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

I accidentally trained myself by playing with SimTunes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimTunes> a lot as a kid. But I think it trained me to be slightly flat. Electronically perfect notes sound wrong, and I tune things down when that's an option. I wish I cared enough to try running SimTunes today and see if A was 440 Hz or not.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Or maybe they just wanted to share something connected to the article

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

It is a headscratchingly bad idea to put op-amps in week 2 of course #1. I can’t even remember for sure if we did them in the first course, but if so, it was at the very end, after you already know how to do algebraic working-out of values in a circuit. From there, they give a couple algebraic rules to figure out what an op-amp circuit does. And a key point that is usually glossed over is: op-amps are basically useless when not in a feedback configuration, and some of the analysis rules are based on already assuming the op-amp is in a feedback configuration.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Probably not, but mitmproxy is not a reverse proxy for any production purpose. It’s for running on your local machine and doing testing of either low-level protocol or web security stuff.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

I’ve tried to find “the autocad font” so many times before. Thank you!

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Purism also had/has this AweSIM cellular plan offering. Shortly after I signed up (a couple years ago), their backbone provider went bankrupt or dropped them or something; don’t remember. The outage lasted months, and during that whole time they kept charging the monthly fees! I sent a pointed message to support and they said “oh, well we promise we were always planning on refunding these charges later.” They offered to refund me individually because I’d called them out.

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