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GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE (and some words on a 64-bit Delphi product)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/26

[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE

Hopefully this can be applied to Delphi projects as well. If not then in Delphi you can manually call this in an post-build task.

Addition late 20240626

[Wayback/Archive] Kirill Osenkov: “@wiert I also found that you can…” – Mastodon

@wiert I also found that you can target AnyCPU 32-bit preferred and it will give you the same address space. So that tool is only for x86.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Meik Tranel on X: “Please for the love of all that is holy. Do not build #dotnet tools to serve a non interactive task that is supposed to be run during a build – use an #MSBuild task package. Also #JS/#NPM devs should not be allowed to write tooling. Thanks for coming to my ted talk…”.

The Delphi bit inspired a few months ago by: [Wayback/Archive] Andreas on X: “Will there ever be a 64bit Delphi IDE or at least a LargeAddressAware version. Our Projekt crashes the IDE between 14-18 compilations because it runs out of memory. Maybe I have to patch the IDE myself by moving all .NET and Compiler memory allocations above the 2 GB address.”

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Posted in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Continuous Integration, Delphi, Development, Event, msbuild, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Delphi has had a more type safe FreeAndNil or a while now, but in order to do so it lies to you

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/26

During my year+ of cancer treatments, Embarcadero did a tiny thing that makes [Wayback/Archive]FreeAndNil safer to use. In order to do so, the method now lies to you by taking a const [ref] parameter which technically it is not allowed to change, but the internal hackery allows it to. Dalija Prasnikar explained it in 2020: [Wayback/Archive] Magic behind FreeAndNil.

The new signature is this:

procedure FreeAndNil(const [ref] Obj: TObject); inline;

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi 10.4 Sydney (Denali), Delphi 11.0 Alexandria (Olympus), Development, EKON, Event, Software Development | 2 Comments »

Lots of interesting programming learning games links via b0rk on Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/25

Every once in a while, b0rk (Julia Evans, of [Wayback/Archive] wizard zines fame) asks interesting questions like below that results in lot of cool links.

I have blogged assemblies of them before (see for instance Lots of interesting git links via b0rk on Twitter) and this one is no different:

[Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “what are some helpful programming learning games? thinking of things like mystery.knightlab.com for SQL, and flexboxfroggy.com, and ohmygit.org especially interested in games that have helped you learn something”

[Wayback/Archive] The SQL Murder Mystery
[Wayback/Archive] Flexbox Froggy – A game for learning CSS flexbox
[Wayback/Archive] Oh My Git!

The response was overwhelmingly good (I tried to indicate when games are not free or not playable from a web browser). I summarised it below.

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Conference Topics, Conferences, CSS, Database Development, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, Games, git, Multi-Threading / Concurrency, Power User, RegEx, Scripting, sh, Sh Shell, Software Development, Source Code Management, SQL, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

How to apply border inside a table ? – GeeksforGeeks

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/20

It is deprecated but still works and an easy way to quickly set the inner borders of an HTML table: use the rules attribute.

[Wayback/Archive] How to apply border inside a table ? – GeeksforGeeks

Only Using HTML: In this case, we will use rules attribute of table. Rules is the attribute in HTML table which allows user to display only inside borders of the table which can be chosen among only rows, cols or all.

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I needed an online HTML render because a site had HTML output you could not copy the render from

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/19

Let me explain what I needed based on a few tweets (Dutch, but will translate below):

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x86_opcode_structure_and_instruction_overview.pdf on -= pnx.tf =-

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/18

It is more than a decade old but still the best reference around [Wayback/Archive] -= pnx.tf =- has [Wayback] x86_opcode_structure_and_instruction_overview.pdf

I found it via [Wayback/Archive] Alice Climent-Pommeret on Twitter: “I’ve just discovered this amazing document showing super clearly the relation between the opcode and the instruction 🤯 …”

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Reminder to self: check to see if Delphi improved support for MMX/SSE/AVX instructions

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/13

This is from a long time ago [Wayback/Archive] Does Delphi support all MMX/SSE instructions? – Stack Overflow:

Delphi 2007 supports the MMX and SSE instruction sets. Certainly, Delphi 2010 and XE support up to the SSE4.2 instruction sets (but so far no support for AVX).

The [Wayback] Delphi 2005 Language Guide explained a bit, but no more recent PDF is available and the [Wayback/Archive] Embarcadero/IDERA Documentation Wiki is very much outdated on this information as per [Wayback/Archive] Talk:Assembler Syntax – RAD Studio:

Re: “Instruction Opcodes” The information on available instruction sets is outdated. D2010 and Fulcrum support the SIMD instruction sets all the way up to SSE4.2 (i.e., SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1 and SSE4.2).

–jeroen

Posted in Assembly Language, Delphi, Development, Software Development, x64, x86 | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/12

A great visualisation that LLM are basically a bunch of numbers: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet.

It also shows you that Excel is an excellent tool for working with numbers and formulas on a larger scale.

(note the file is a .numbers file developed in the Mac version of Excel)

Via:

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Excel, LLM, Office, Power User, Software Development | Comments Off on GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet

Converting html div tables to normal tables

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/12

Sometimes normal html tables are better suited than the more style friendly div tables, as they better suit the underlying data and are easier when you need column or row spans using the colspan and rowspan html attributes, explain semantics better, and … display as tables even without styling!

Converting from div tables to normal html tables is not as straightforward than from normal html tables to div tables.

So here are some links that helped me with both div tables and the conversion:

[Wayback] How can I use jQuery to convert into HTML table? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback] yob!)

in case someone needs to convert on the-fly:

var div2table = $('.outer-div ').map(function () {
                var issue = $(this);
                var trline = issue.find('.inner-div').map(function () {
                    return '<td>' + $(this).text();
                }).get().join('</td>');
                return '<tr>'  + trline;
            }).get().join('</tr>');

div2table = '<table>' + div2table + '</table>';

where divs are

<div class='outer-div'><div class='inner-div'>this will be 1st TD</div>.....</div>

[Wayback] javascript – Converting div table to normal table – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback] Shaggy)

You could use JavaScript to create a table, loop through all the .row and .column elements in the div to popultate it, remove the div and append the table. Here’s something I threw together very quickly to get you started. (I commented out the line that removes the div so you can see both in the results).
[Wayback/Archive.is] HTML Table Generators and Converters | Div Table
[Wayback/Archive.is] HTML Table to Div Converter

–jeroen

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Henk van Ess on the Google indexing and search algorithms

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/11

Many articles have been published on the Google Leaks earlier this year including a Twitter Thread by Henk van Ess. I will mention his and the original starting article which should give anyone hand and feet to dig deeper and assess for themselves how fast Google might be able to change this and get a feeling on much of it is still relevant over time.

A final note: I wasn’t aware that Google search used the Elixir (programming language) – Wikipedia. Cool!

--jeroen

Posted in Development, Elixir, Erlang, Functional Programming, Google, GoogleSearch, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

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GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE (and some words on a 64-bit Delphi product)

Delphi has had a more type safe FreeAndNil or a while now, but in order to do so it lies to you

Lots of interesting programming learning games links via b0rk on Twitter

How to apply border inside a table ? – GeeksforGeeks

I needed an online HTML render because a site had HTML output you could not copy the render from

x86_opcode_structure_and_instruction_overview.pdf on -= pnx.tf =-

Reminder to self: check to see if Delphi improved support for MMX/SSE/AVX instructions

GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet

Converting html div tables to normal tables

Henk van Ess on the Google indexing and search algorithms

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