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Archive for the ‘C++’ Category

GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/20

For future experimentation transcribing voice conversations: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++

Whisper (speech recognition system) usually runs in the cloud (someone else’s computers, often rentable for a substantial monthly sum).

Via

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “Wat is een goede tool voor transcriptie van Nederlandse tekst voor hobbymatig gebruik?…” – Mastodon
  2. [Wayback/Archive] bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺: “@wiert whisper.cpp als je handig bent…” – Fosstodon

Now hopefully Whisper works well with the Dutch language…

I later realised Jeff Geerling mentioned Whisper a while ago as well:

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, C++, Development, LifeHacker, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Links to HTML versions of RFC’s need to move from “tools” to “datatracker” – Meta Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/07

Some work to do replacing dead IETF RFC and draft links in my blog posts.

From the accepted answer on [Wayback/Archive.is] Links to HTML versions of RFC’s need to move from “tools” to “datatracker” – Meta Stack Exchange:

  1. [http/https]://tools.ietf.org/html/[rfc/RFC] became https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc network-wide
  2. [http/https]://tools.ietf.org/html/draft- became https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-

>Both of these should conform to the reply we received from IETF.

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Posted in C, C++, Carbon, Development, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development, WordPress, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Some winget packages that will get you x86 or x64 versions of vcredist140

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/15

A while ago I downloaded some internal tooling that required vcredist140.dll (and related DLLs).

From the name you cannot see if that is a 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) dependency so you often have to trial and error to figure out which one you need.

I adopted some winget package install command-lines with package IDs current at the time of writing this blog post; similar should be available at the time of publication:

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Posted in .NET, C++, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio and tools, Visual Studio C++ | Leave a Comment »

NTFS Sparse Files For Programmers

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/25

Need to check this out some day: cs.exe compiled from [Wayback] sparse.zip which you can download from [Wayback/Archive] NTFS Sparse Files For Programmers

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Posted in C, C++, Development, NTFS, Power User, RoboCopy, Software Development, Visual Studio C++, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Leave a Comment »

GitHub Profile Roast 🔥🔥🔥

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/19

Who needs AI (:

[Wayback/Archive] GitHub Profile Roast 🔥🔥🔥

Sourcecode at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – codenoid/github-roast: Spicy GitHub Roast 🔥

Via [Wayback/Archive] Dennis Schubert: “okay, I finally found a good u…” – Mastodon

okay, I finally found a good use for an LLM. no, really.
github-roast.pages.dev
this thing is brutal

In addition, I learned about [Wayback/Archive] lokal.so · GitHub: Supercharged HTTP/TCP/UDP Tunneling Software

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, C#, C++, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, LLM, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

ladislav-zezula/FileTest: Source code for File Test – Interactive File System Test Tool

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/14

Cool tool to peek around in the Windows File System API and fiddle around uncharted territory: [Wayback/Archive] ladislav-zezula/FileTest: Source code for File Test – Interactive File System Test Tool.

It is written in C++ using Visual Studio and has build-instructions in [Wayback/Archive] FileTest/README.md at master · ladislav-zezula/FileTest.

Via [Wayback/Archive] “create reparse point” “query reparse point” – Google Search (which also found [Wayback/Archive] Free File Utilities – Free download and software reviews – CNET Download [Wayback download]) after reading a tweet thread having these highlights:

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Posted in C, C++, Development, Polyglot, Software Development, Visual Studio C++, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

Code Visualisation through Python Tutor – Visualise Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby code execution

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/18

The final visualisation post of this week (themed Data Visualisation and Code Visualisation) is about [Wayback/Archive] Python Tutor – Visualize Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby code execution.

Languages covered in these visualisers:

Earlier posts in the series:

–jeroen

Posted in C, C++, Development, Java, Java Platform, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Python, Ruby, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/11

This is cool and works well (including the portable version) :[Wayback/Archive] webcamoid/webcamoid: Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.

Most code is C++ with bits using the QML language of the Qt cross platform UI library.

It reminded me of the Kylix days: the first Linux version of Delphi where the CLX GUI framework was a rework of VCL but based on Qt instead of Win32 GDI.

The downloads are at [Wayback/Archive] Webcamoid, The ultimate webcam suite! with installable and portable versions of 32-bit and 64-bit for Linux, Mac and Windows (I have tried the latter, see below why).

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Posted in C++, Delphi, Development, Kylix, kylix_rd, Qt, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

When Microsoft download URLs time out: check if it other IP addresses for the same host do work fine (it might be a regional Microsoft CDN issue)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/28

A while back, early in the Wednesday morning after Patch Tuesday I performed regular updates of all the systems noticing some updates failed because timeouts on the Microsoft download servers.

Note I perform the manual steps on Wednesday as Patch Tuesday as it starts at 10:00 AM PST which is in the evening in Amsterdam. The automated steps are automated and kick in when Microsoft tells the Windows machines to update themselves.

See [Wayback/Archive] Security Update Guide FAQs

Microsoft schedules the release of security updates on “Patch Tuesday,” the second Tuesday of each month at 10:00 AM PST.

Depending on time zone(s) in which the organization operates, IT pros should plan their deployment schedules accordingly. Please note that there are some products that do not follow the Patch Tuesday schedule.

I posted a gist and a Tweet, but didn’t immediately thought of a good resolution so I postponed that until Thursday and found it:

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Posted in C, C++, Development, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools, Visual Studio C++, vscode Visual Studio Code, Windows, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

BitSavers added some more Borland documentation in 2022 (most relevant for me: Assembler, Debugger, Profiler)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/28

Below is a list of the Borland documentation that BitSavers added in 2022, ordered by relevance to me (and how I finally asked Peter Sawatzki if he still had the monochrome TDVIDEO.DLL he wrote for Turbo Debugger 3.0 for Windows):

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Posted in 8087, Algorithms, Assembly Language, Borland C++, C, C++, Debugging, Development, Floating point handling, Profiling, Software Development, Turbo Assembler, Turbo C, Turbo Debugger, Turbo Profiler, x86 | Leave a Comment »