Faster than light neutrinos
OK so this is probably going to demonstrate how bad I am at physics, and I will probably be flamed for being an idiot, but here are some of my thoughts on the faster than light neutrinos. Time slows...
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Suggestion for YouTube: Put the green and red like/dislike bar on the thumbnail of the video so you can see if a video is going to be any good before you visit it and to reduce mindless spam from...
View ArticleSQL Server random unique identifiers
A common method of producing random unique identifiers in SQL server is by using a GUID field, calling newid() to generate the data. For the most part, this works because it’s 128 bits worth of random...
View ArticleThe solution to most of the US’ political problems
In a US election, most states are pretty much guaranteed to vote a certain way. Amazingly, these political parties are actually distinguishable from one another (this is not the case in my country, in...
View ArticleIntroduction to MFC
The Microsoft Foundation Class library is a framework for Windows GUIs in C++, based on the Win32 API C library. To create a simple window, you need to create an app and a window. The app class handles...
View ArticleYouTube My Subscriptions grid view
YouTube has finally removed the old grid view my_subscriptions page. If you don’t like the frankly broken and unusable /feed/subscriptions page, there is a Chrome extension that will fix it for you....
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Park or Unpark your CPU cores the easy way.
CPU cores that are not under heavy load get parked to save on power, reduce heat, etc. Some users (not me) may get a performance benefit out of disabling this parking and keeping their cores unparked....
View ArticleCompile ffmpeg 64 bit on Windows with MSYS/MinGW-w64
Set up the MSYS environment Download MSYS from MinGW-builds. Extract it to a path with no spaces, to which you have write permissions. For example, D:\msys. This already includes useful features like...
View ArticleRemove UAC from a specific application.
This will remove the UAC prompt from a specific application executable. It assumes that “Run this program as an administrator” is already unchecked on the compatibility tab and the executable still...
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