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Re:Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @02:27PM (#49820381)
Never installed it myself, but the following might help in getting it set up:

https://support.west-wind.com/Thread5YZ172FPW.wwt

Re:Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:29AM (#49815107)
There's been a 64 bit version of FoxPro for years and years [1].

No, not the official VFP as released by Microsoft, but a version made by a well known VFP developer.

Besides that I do know of some developers actually using this for building their software.

No connections here, just know that it exists and is used and well before LLMs became the answer to everything.

[1] https://www.baiyujia.com/vfpadvanced/f_vfpa_about.asp

Re:My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:17AM (#49534659)
Ok, will see if I can find some time for play. Thanks.
Re:My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:16AM (#49534653)
Figured that would be the case. Thanks.
Re:My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:48AM (#49534017)
Is there anything one can reasonably run on a mac mini M2 with just 24GB RAM or should I not even try?
Just tried it. Google lens is fine, it does work.

However -some way or the other- it decided to only show pictures from 2024 and older. Something is messed up in that respect and thus I switched back.

It's not a consent, because the options are "Yes" and "Yes", you cannot opt out unless you quit the call.
Is google lens still available? That's perhaps the only cloud feature I sometimes use, in order to translate Chinese text to English or similar.

Also is it possible to undo (in case there's something I don't like?) Is it just a matter of adding the app back to your account?

This looks great! Thank you.
Re:From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:01PM (#47461946)
Thank you!
Re:From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story on Friday March 20, 2026 @05:15AM (#47452231)
Interesting.

Do you happen to know if that batronix board useful to have even if you have a Rigol DHO 924S without the logic probe (PLA2216)?

Same in the Netherlands too.
that you're arguing with an LLM :)
Re:Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever on Friday August 22, 2025 @05:14AM (#44982434)
If you can't run a recent browser anymore then there's always the option to run the browser in a VM.
and then the chips stay in Asia?
Re:Owls in Towels on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @05:48AM (#44105406)
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Monday May 26, 2025 @08:04AM (#44096617)
Working on AntView.

AntView is an ActiveX wrapper for the Microsoft WebView2 component. AntView enables programming languages that cannot use the WebView2 component directly to have a modern browser component in their applications.

You can find it here: https://antview.dev

macOS I assume? I use a little app called noTunes (it's on github) to prevent that from happening.

edit: should be this one: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

I had to blink twice last time when I installed Sonoma on a new partition that I did not have to provide a wifi password. This appears to confirm that. While I can understand that some people would appreciate this, I'm not exactly chuffed by a fresh install silently grabbing passwords from an old install.
Re:TinySA – small spectrum analyzer and signal generator on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:01PM (#39151171)
The tinySA can also be used for that, it's not only a spectrum analyzer, it can also generate signals and optionally modulate those for you.

edit: https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Specification here says it works from 100kHz for the low output. When I just tried it did let me select 60kHz and turn it into output mode. Haven't hooked it up to a scope to see what it does. Sorry no time to set it all up now. 60kHz is very low though, if you browse AliExpress then I'm sure plenty of signal generators will offer that for a really low price (cheaper than the tinySA)

edit 2: Sorry my European brain kicked in and missed you are looking for a 60Hz one that is very precise and not a 60kHz one. I'd better get some sleep.

> It did not seem to affect home computers like the Apple ][, Commodore 64, and such.

Your software most likely did not ran off a hard disk. So it was slow to load anyways.. and after that it ran within the memory it had. One program at a time, no memory swapping.

> I don't think it affected PC compatible computers running DOS.

Umm.. I remember being mesmerized by disk defrag programs. There was also TSR programs and other ways to run more as one program at a time.

Re:WebP is so great except it's not on Friday December 15, 2023 @01:07PM (#38656781)
I downloaded the images and then compared them via Beyond Compare.

After that it was pretty obvious what the author is talking about.

> For a straightforward approach, she suggested starting from the ground up with employees and having them create what she calls a “toil bucket,” essentially a list of everything they hate doing that they hope AI could take off their plate.

Talking with customers about their issues appears to be number one everywhere? :)

Great, how about you start with the documentation. :D
Re:Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:23AM (#38206135)
Ladybird is amazing.

They move so fast and are building all of it in the open. I'm very impressed by what the Ladybird team is doing.

Re:Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:18AM (#38206071)
> 3. Embedding. Like I said, using a web engine as a component seems to have been forgotten in modern times. Surely that can be sold to somebody, because there are plenty use cases for embedding web engines in stuff.

It's not forgotten. Microsoft has WebView2 which uses the same engine as MS Edge and it can be included in your .net applications.

If OTOH you want an ActiveX then you can buy AntView, which wraps WebView2 in an ActiveX control.

Disclaimer: AntView is a control sold by my company.

Re:Writing a Debugger from Scratch: Breakpoints on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:30AM (#37671778)
How about a book?

I like "Advanced Windows Debugging" by Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat.

I'm not religious, but it shows a lack of respect. Besides it "being the point".

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