Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/14
For my link archive: below a series of articles my Raymond Chen on “The AArch64 processor (aka arm64)” in the order of appearance from a few years back and still very relevant today.
It is part of a few more series on processors that (were) supported by Windows. A good reference to find which version supported which processor architecture is the tables in List of Microsoft Windows versions – Wikipedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/11
Weekend, so catching up on CES 2025 news.
If you are at CES, be sure to go visit the VideoLAN booth in Eureka Park to witness what I think is likely the most important CES 2025 AI news:
[Wayback/Archive] VideoLAN on X: “VLC automatic subtitles generation and translation based on local and open source AI models running on your machine working offline, and supporting numerous languages! Demo can be found on our #CES2025 booth in Eureka Park.”
In my opinion, though a remarkable statistic, their 6-billion downloads gimmick is just a teaser for the way more important news what this AI LLM is:
Whisper already ran circles around the YouTube automatic subtitle generator, and their automatic translations are far below par (see video below), so having new contender is great!
VideoLAN tremendously raises the bar for all commercial vendors, and at the same time makes:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/09
Besides the Delphi Praxis servers (the [Wayback/Archive] German one has existed for what seems eternity, the [Wayback/Archive] English one took over the Google Plus Delphi group – see Google is sunsetting Google+ by August 2019; DelphiPraxis might start English forums and have RSS – and de-facto the dead Embarcadero forums as the old newsgroup servers went dead, and the new ones weren’t known for their high up-time [Wayback/Archive] community.embarcadero.com’s forums – General Help – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]), nowadays – with the shortened attention span of many people – Discord has a few Delphi servers as well:
They are chat based, and suffer from messages and threads disappearing, just like the Delphi newsgroups and forums suffered from, and archiving content can be difficult or impossible (not just because of the Wayback Machine being down).
Queries:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/08
Directly after a new Windows installation, I want to have my cloned git repository of batch files in the PATH persistently so that it gets searched after rebooting or opening a new console window.
At that moment, there is not much of a 1024 PATH character limitation, but be aware about that limit if you try this yourself.
This is my add-current-directory-to-path-at-end.persistent-and-limit-to-1024-characters.bat:
:: https://serverfault.com/questions/664180/can-i-permanently-add-to-path-in-windows-using-batch
:: https://superuser.com/questions/812754/how-to-recover-from-path-being-truncated-to-1024-characters-by-setx
:: global environment
setx PATH "%PATH%;%CD%"
:: local process
:: https://superuser.com/questions/975605/add-current-directory-to-path
set PATH=%PATH%;%CD%
I execute it from within the cloned git directory.
Oh: you need to double-quote the SETX parameters, otherwise you get an error message: “ERROR: Invalid syntax. Default option is not allowed more than '2' time(s).“.
More links than the above ones from the batch file, especially on the 1024 character limitation:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/08
(All below statements were run elevated as Administrator)
I had arp -d fail with any parameter combination on one of my systems always throwing the error The ARP entry deletion failed: The parameter is incorrect..
Luckily I found out that this did clear the ARP cache correctly:
netsh interface ip delete arpcache
I found that via [Wayback/Archive] “The ARP entry deletion failed: The parameter is incorrect.” – Recherche Google:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/07
Since every now and then, like testing software developed with older tools, you need to run older software.
This always works: [Wayback /Archive] Deploy .NET Framework 3.5 by using Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) | Microsoft Learn
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /AllUse
/Allto enable all parent features of the specified feature.
(The /All is needed because software requiring .NET Framework 3.5 also require the parent features).
Notes:
dotnet3.5 fails on Windows 11 (have not tried on Windows 10) with the classical red on black PowerShell default error theme*:
ERROR: The term 'wmic' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
The install of DotNet3.5 was NOT successful.
Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\DotNet3.5\Tools\ChocolateyInstall.ps1'.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/02
While moving from ancient hardware to more modern hardware, somehow Visual Studio Code had updated itself to a version that didn’t support the underlying operating system any more. Bummer!
Normally I would get the list of extensions through this command (which is listed in many places, like in my blog post How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? (via: Stack Overflow), but also for instance answered in the below question by [WaybackSave/Archive] Benny Ng):
code --list-extensions
That obviously would not work, but thanks to [Wayback/Archive] How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Andrew and [Wayback/Archive] MarkP) I now could do this:
ls -alh ~/.vscode/extensions
(That directory obviously is also in various forms of official documentation like in the the Your Extensions Folder section of [Wayback/Archive] Publishing Extensions | Visual Studio Code Extension API.
A comment to the above question pointed me to an interesting way to automate extension installs on various machines: pack the installed extension list into its own .vsix file:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/01
I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before:
In the last one, I promised to list more occurrences which I now finally had time for to do.
But let me first elaborate more on the observation that modern computer books (like for instance on C# and Delphi beyond version 1) lack these kinds of index pun.
On the Delphi side, the index entry joke for recursion got removed no later than Delphi 3 (I am still looking for a Delphi 2 version of the Object Pascal Language Guide, see further below) even before the book being fully redone electronically and the index pages generation being automated in
I think I even understand why that is: the process of creating of indices. By the start of this century, more and more indices were automatically being generated and for the last 2 decades or so, all of them are. Back in the days however, indices were mostly done by hand. Nowadays, with everything automated, it is actually pretty tricky in most environments to add such an “infinite loop” index entry like in the Turbo Pascal book, as it would require two things at once:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/01
For my link archive as it will help me when ready to step up my Python skills: [Wayback/Archive] Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “i love this kind of researchy blog post (“i read a bunch of python libraries, here’s what i learned!”)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/31
A while ago, browser tabs were overflowing again so I first mad the list of links with quotes below, then discovered there is a template for many browser tabs open at [Wayback/Archive] To many browser tabs open Meme Generator – Imgflip
One of the reasons is that the WordPress “Press This” bookmarklet is very slow and also flaky at escaping HTML (for instance the below html – Why shouldn’t &apos; be used to escape single quotes? – Stack Overflow sometimes becomes html – Why shouldn’t <code>'</code> be used to escape single quotes? – Stack Overflow in [Wayback/Archive] Press This – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org especially when running it from Archive Today archived pages).
So here we go: Read the rest of this entry »
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 