Fulgen

7 ms·

1.
Breaking BitLocker Again(twitter.com)
4 points by Fulgen 3mo ago|0 comments
2.
by Fulgen 7mo ago
This is about raw_sql, which is explicitely documented to not use prepared statements and thus doesn't support query parameters; not about the actual query() API SQLx offers. > Note: query parameters are not supported. > Query pa
3.
by Fulgen 8mo ago
C++20 actually [changed the semantics of consume]( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230427-00/?p=10... ), but Rust doesn't include it. And last I remember compilers still treat it as acquire, so it&
4.
by Fulgen 9mo ago
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/unreachable.html
5.
by Fulgen 10mo ago
In Rust or in general? Because an arbitrary "too old" moniker is not something I've seen happening, and the only target that was removed instead of demoted in recent times was i586-pc-windows-msvc, aka Windows 10 without SSE,
6.
by Fulgen 10mo ago
Nobody noticed because Windows special cased InstallShield. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20131031-00/?p=27...
7.
by Fulgen 10mo ago
The problem is, as usual, that some people want that support, but nobody is actually interested in helping out with that support - and that doesn't only include people willing to help out with the code, it includes things like CI. Just
8.
by Fulgen 1y ago
> You should absolutely be XP pair programming with your LLM. If you want AI slop everywhere, that is.
9.
by Fulgen 1y ago
In some ways, Windows already does that too - the 32-bit syscall wrappers [switch into a 64-bit code segment]( https://aktas.github.io/Heavens-Gate ) so the 64-bit ntdll copy can call the 64-bit syscall.
10.
by Fulgen 1y ago
> You're starting to feel it absolutely everywhere Starting to? 30-50% of the HN front page has been consisting of articles about LLMs for months now, to the point that a user script to hide all AI articles vastly improves the exper
11.
by Fulgen 1y ago
The Netherlands proved you can do bike lanes quite well, not every country has to be a nightmare for life quality like the US aspires to be.
12.
by Fulgen 1y ago
So the point is to use technological advancements only to increase company profit and not pass any on to the actual workers. If a junior costs 1/4 of a senior, they could easily paid more from the 3/4s saved (since they're a
13.
by Fulgen 1y ago
> 1/4th of their salary If they + AI are a replacement for senior devs, shouldn't they be paid accordingly?
14.
by Fulgen 1y ago
As the previous commenter said - you don't need a new runtime instance per button, so the comparison doesn't really work (for the smallest binary size, you could provide a native application doing the bare minimum to display the U
15.
by Fulgen 1y ago
Fortunately for everyone, the Western world that the comment you replied to was talking about is not just the US.
16.
by Fulgen 2y ago
> There are very limited things you are supposed to do in an APC, but these are poorly documented and need one to think carefully about what is happening when a thread is executing in a stack frame and you interrupt it with this horrorsh
17.
by Fulgen 2y ago
Focusing on the GUI applications: There have been a few GUI automation solutions over the years - since the post's software is from MS, I'll take UI Automation as an example. Works well with Win32 controls, not sure how well it wo
18.
by Fulgen 2y ago
(Also not the point, C# can be AOT-compiled as well these days)
19.
by Fulgen 2y ago
As the other commenter said, `unreachable!()` panics. You'd need https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/hint/fn.unreachable_unchecked...
20.
by Fulgen 2y ago
> linux for example doesn't have true IO async API io_uring has been around for a few years at this point, with vulnerabilities having been fixed to the point that it's fit for broadband usage.
21.
by Fulgen 3y ago
Or notepad++ could just use the WinAPI (WideCharToMultiByte) to convert UTF-16 to UTF-8 instead of hand writing their own conversion routine.