hyperrail

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by hyperrail 2mo ago
As far as I know, no browser for Windows allows sites to read the computer's telemetry global ID at all.
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by hyperrail 2mo ago
In a sense it doesn't matter how the global ID is used now . The fact that it exists allows it to be used in ways like what you describe, either by a malicious (?) Microsoft itself or by a malicious third-party attacker. I'm fa
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by hyperrail 2mo ago
How a Windows device's global ID is generated may be new info in the public sphere, but the fact that the global ID exists is not a secret. This format of device ID has been in Windows since the initial release of Windows 10 in 201
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by hyperrail 3mo ago
> This is almost entirely an artifact of the financial instruments used to pay for these buildings, regardless of any Seattle policy changes. Why would this be different in Seattle than in other cities? Many downtown office towers are
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by hyperrail 3mo ago
One way I find traditional Lisp style more painful for functional code than Ruby is that fully functional-style Lisp pushes me to read and write code the opposite way from how I think about it. In the author's example: orders
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by hyperrail 4mo ago
My use of `git add` - and the explicit staging area more generally - is mostly a workaround for the fact that the repos I work with have checked-in dev setup scripts, IntelliJ/Visual Studio/Xcode/VS Code configurations, and s
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by hyperrail 4mo ago
Doesn't seem like all climate scientists are fans of it either. From a 2022 critique of a news story also based on this map: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/04/is-large-portion-of-w... > The essential
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by hyperrail 4mo ago
The drought map used here is partly subjective opinion. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/About/WhatistheUSDM.aspx > Who draws the map? > Meteorologists and climatologists from the NDMC, NOAA and USDA take turns
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by hyperrail 5mo ago
Indeed, even ones from companies as big as Microsoft! There is a story in Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire [1] where Apple asked Microsoft to fix hacks in its Mac apps that didn't conform to the developer docs in Inside Macintosh
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by hyperrail 5mo ago
> What actually happened [re Windows RT, but I think the point applies to UWP in general] was that the users went WTF because none of their native apps - which, contrary to his take, were very much alive and kicking! - worked there, and
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by hyperrail 5mo ago
> And then there was Windows RT (not to be confused with WinRT, because Microsoft product naming!). Aka the Windows-on-ARM that ditched decades of backwards compatibility because Sinofsky decided that rebooting the ecosystem is the only
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by hyperrail 5mo ago
> It was also when Windows was aggressively pushing their Metro styling on everything in the company, sometimes to ridiculous lengths - e.g. Visual Studio at the time "aligned" with Metro by, I kid you not, making the main men
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by hyperrail 5mo ago
> I was in DevDiv during his great WinRT push and the overall feeling I remember was that the guys in Windows had zero clue as to what the devs actually wanted, but were hell bent on scorching all the ground that wasn't theirs. My
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by hyperrail 5mo ago
> It's very amusing to see Sinofsky of all people all but dumping on .NET and (still?!) not understanding why developers so proactively jumped ship from Win32 & MFC hell to WinForms. Or why the HTML/JS app model in Win8 ne
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by hyperrail 5mo ago
(disclaimer: I was an individual engineer in the Windows division during the Windows 8 project, i.e. reporting through Steven Sinofksy) I think you're being a bit unfair to the Windows division during the Win8 lifecycle. Maybe that&#x2
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by hyperrail 5mo ago
There are still some things that are still locked in the UWP world that I wish were not. For example, Windows classic desktop apps still have no equivalent to the UWP app lifecycle. Your UWP app's processes can be suspended and resumed
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by hyperrail 6mo ago
Microsoft has always had a broad vision of itself as a technology company; I feel it's perfectly fine to not be able to describe Microsoft in one sentence without using platitudes like "empower every person on Earth to achieve mor
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by hyperrail 6mo ago
Both this blog post and the Steven Sinofsky response really set my blood boiling, because they both reek of retired-executive score settling, a kind of blame game that gets played out decades after the fact between ex-high-ranking people in
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by hyperrail 6mo ago
Unfortunately the only valid response is "Don't be so sure." There have been too many exposés about the poor data privacy practices of virtually every automaker including Honda. [1] [1] Example: https://www.mozilla
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by hyperrail 7mo ago
I too thought VSCode's being web based would make it much slower than Sublime. So I was surprised when I found on my 2019 and 2024 ~$2,500-3,000 MacBook Pros that Sublime would continually freeze up or crash while viewing the same 250
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by hyperrail 8mo ago
Even then, that happened at most twice as you say, not three times as the other poster said. And I disagree with your implicit claim that the WP7 & WP8 Silverlight -> Win10 UWP transition had no migration path. There was >= 90% so
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by hyperrail 8mo ago
Wrong. There was full app compat of WP7 apps in WP8 and Win10 Mobile, and for WP8 apps in W10M. The only full backward app compat break was from WM6.5/WP6.5 to WP7. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're thi
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by hyperrail 9mo ago
I might be misremembering, but if I remember correctly, back in 2019 Windows' pre-installed calculator had an interesting issue with the Japanese era change in 2019 from Heisei to Reiwa, due to Emperor Akihito's abdication and the
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by hyperrail 9mo ago
Eric Lippert's "Complete Guide to BSTR Semantics" explains this well: https://ericlippert.com/2003/09/12/erics-complete-guide-to-b...
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Loose Wire on Containership Dali Causes Blackouts, Contact with Baltimore Bridge(ntsb.gov)
11 points by hyperrail 10mo ago|4 comments
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by hyperrail 10mo ago
Aside: Why do we use the terms "mutable" and "immutable" to describe those concepts? I feel they are needlessly hard to say and too easily confused when reading and writing. I say "read-write" or "writable
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by hyperrail 11mo ago
https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file <- Direct File's web app source code is public-domain and published on GitHub! Obviously the 2025 version will be out of date for the 2026 filing season, though public
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by hyperrail 11mo ago
Font sizes and families are also a relatively little-used way to visually distinguish things in a code editor. Years ago I used to work on C++ code in a commercial editor called Source Insight [1]. At its default settings, it would do thing
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by hyperrail 1y ago
This is the first time I've heard of Deno so I'm only going by their Security & Permissions doc page [1], but it looks like the doc page at the very end recommends using system-level sandboxing as a defense in depth. This sugg
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by hyperrail 1y ago
Consumer Reports' reviews of newer Mazdas always stress the infotainment system as a big negative, to the point that I would seriously reconsider them as a result. Apparently it's a case of "right idea, wrong execution."

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