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seritools··on SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
nit²: 2.2x as fast, or 2.2 times the speed; not 2.2x faster. same issue you pointed out.

using faster with x/times is just begging for misunderstandings

seritools··on Voxtral 3
Ah, yeah, the voice samples on the page are much better than the one in the video.
seritools··on eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
if it only affected the company itself rather than ~the entire world, there may be face to be saved. trusted authorities have to be held to a MUCH higher standard, for good reason.

no grace if you use 4 as the private key for a trusted authority.

seritools··on Voxtral 3
Yeah, the german is also hilariously bad if it's supposed to sound native.
seritools··on MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026)
> They should just have a manually selected touch mode.

they did have Tablet mode, but it never went anywhere

seritools··on MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026)
> probably because someone read about Fitts's Law

probably for touch screens, like all the oversized, over-padded ui everywhere

seritools··on I love software rendering
yup, it should be renamed to "I Love GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_NEAREST"
seritools··on Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read
> English doesn't have it, afaik. Perhaps 'unexplored treasures'?

hidden gems?

seritools··on Mathematical Billiards (2024)
I assume posted because of the latest 2swap video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg
seritools··on Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge
> Personally, I did not learn that much from that experience.

What did you expect?

seritools··on The Road to MS-DOS 2.0
no, Windows still leaves that to the program. Usually handled by the msvc runtime for argv/argc, but the base windows API is GetCommandLine, giving you a single string.

EDIT: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/02/18/

seritools··on Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
What's the point you're trying to make?
seritools··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
why not "just" do it for them?
seritools··on Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler
on my screen it's the opposite: the glow makes it look like i didn't clean my glasses for a month, disabling that `text-shadow` makes it readable, and the slight scanline effect is nice
seritools··on Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program (1987) [pdf]
(1987)
seritools··on Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction
near lossless refers to being 89.65/90.26 = 99.32% of baseline, i'm pretty sure.
seritools··on Windows 95 contained a workaround for a SimCity 2000 memory bug
just look at that giant 8-line headline, insanity
seritools··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
then add a second r and it's suddenly piracy or torrent related!
seritools··on Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker
> This has the side effect of removing empty directories

yeah, this will inevitably break things. excluding those from the directory stripping shouldn't be too hard (TM)

seritools··on Your hex editor should color-code bytes
as far as i can tell, no it does not. it only desaturates 00 in particular. the other colors you see in the screenshots come from matched formats/patterns. it does not do direct coloring based on byte value.
seritools··on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
pretty sure 486 support only _just_ got disabled, and will be gone with 7.1: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Phasing-Out-i486
seritools··on Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed
headlines often trade legibility for terseness, sometimes a bit too much though :)

EDIT: Headlinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline#Headlinese

seritools··on Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared
> I miss the wobbly windows I had in Linux when we started playing with Compiz.

KDE still has them: Settings -> Window Management -> Desktop Effects -> Wobbly Windows

seritools··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
you can also just uninstall the "new" notepad, at which point Windows will let you run the old one again (which is still shipped!).

By using a version that is _that_ old you do lose out on some of the actually useful updates legacy nodepad received, such as LF line ending support.

seritools··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
You are mistaken:

> The malicious code would execute in the security context of the user who opened the Markdown file, giving the attacker the same permissions as that user.

seritools··on Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp
TIL I'm an AI
seritools··on Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?
not even opposite, as mentioned in my comment it does have Initiator Mode, allowing it to act as a host
seritools··on Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?
If the reason to connect them is to dump them, something like https://bluescsi.com/ in Initiator Mode might work: https://bluescsi.com/docs/Initiator-Mode
seritools··on I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
For a quick fix: `font-variant-ligatures: none;` on body or similar.
seritools··on Microsoft makes Zork open-source
Infocom was bought by Activision, ActivisionBlizzard was bought by Microsoft.
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