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by pitterpatter 1y ago
Reminds me of a hang in the Settings UI that was because it would get stuck on an RPC call to some service. Why was the service holding things up? Because it was waiting on acquiring a lock held by one of its other threads. What was that ot
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by pitterpatter 2y ago
Sure, maybe we could have that conversation if noncompetes actually required that...but they don't
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by pitterpatter 2y ago
>Else trade secrets can easily be hired away from competition Misappropriating trade secrets is already a crime in several states and federally. >you are paid highly for the specific reason that you are long term investment for that c
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by pitterpatter 2y ago
Yes, Rust supports annotating your types with a `#[repr(...)]` attribute to control how it gets laid out in memory. There's a "C" repr that gives you representations interoperable with C. https://doc.rust-lang.org&
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by pitterpatter 3y ago
>A solution exists, and is nearly universally implemented: scroll wheels on a mouse, and scroll gestures on a trackpad. So you didn't read the article huh. The very first paragraph says: >“Ah”, they say, “that’s what the scroll w
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by pitterpatter 3y ago
This sorta meshes with how I tend to think of cash. I essentially consider withdrawn cash as already "spent" the moment it leaves my account. So when I do get around to spending that cash (especially on something frivolous) there&
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by pitterpatter 3y ago
>The second most recent was when Windows Store local repository become broken. Any attempt at resolving the issue failed using Windows provided tools. Yet again had to reinstall the OS and all applications. oh man, I had my Windows insta
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by pitterpatter 3y ago
At Apple's scale, an edge case is a question of when (and how often) not if.
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by pitterpatter 4y ago
>Could they have purchased the hardware instead? Probably Uh, from the article: >We use many off-the-shelf development boards and even provide support for a number of these boards in Hubris. These are great for many use-cases, but les
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by pitterpatter 4y ago
>By creating a standard, and allowing multiple implementations, someone creating a new OS or a new CPU architecture can create their own implementation of the language without having to wait for anyone else to deign to create the port. W
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by pitterpatter 4y ago
This is not entirely unique to Google either. I have an old MSN email account I can't get into even though I know the password. It wants me to verify via an old phone number I no longer have access to.
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by pitterpatter 4y ago
My guess is they wanted you to pay the higher CS tuition to take the CS classes. Math departments also tend to be a lot more lax in my experience. Case in point: I got sign-off to take a 300-level pure math class without its 300-level prere
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by pitterpatter 4y ago
Edge is probably the one that annoyed me the most
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by pitterpatter 4y ago
The hypervisor framework doesn't provide a lot of extra things which are implemented by whatever VMM you're using. Qemu can also use Hypervisor.framework but you certainly wouldn't say it's exactly 1-1 w/ VMware Fus
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by pitterpatter 4y ago
I mean, Windows on ARM (first 32bit and later 64) has been a thing for years now. I don't the issue is the architecture per se. What made the M1 Macbooks so good wasn't just because they were ARM based but specifically Apple'
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by pitterpatter 4y ago
scapy was incredibly useful while I was writing some packet processing for just crafting test payloads and iterating quickly.
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by pitterpatter 4y ago
I have a .reg file that I run on every new install to remap Caps-Lock to Ctrl
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by pitterpatter 4y ago
That's generally true but the thing about Microsoft is that it's so huge I wouldn't be surprised at them being customers of a lot of SaaS offerings. Could be via an acquired company that is partially integrated? Or some kind
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
It's hard to notice sometimes because the a struct FOO is often a typedef to whatever the latest version is in the SDK you're using (FOO1, FOO2, etc).
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
You can definitely do most if not all of that with WinDBG (which is distinct from the Visual Studio builtin debugger). The problem is there doesn't seem to be as much resources around learning how to use it. There are a ton of old hats
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
Support for using Hypervisor.framework on M1 Macs was added in 6.2: https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.2#Arm >On macOS hosts with Apple Silicon CPUs we now support the 'hvf' accelerator for running AArch64
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
So what happens if you have Google Voice with a legacy Google Apps account? https://workspace.google.com/intl/en_us/pricing.html shows that Google Voice is a separate add-on from Google Workspace
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
There's an open PR for ethernet support (albeit with a different board) that uses the smoltcp crate to provide a tcp/ip stack: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris/pull/158
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
Generally when MSRC files security issues, they tend to get fixed quickly and across not just the current release but previous ones too.
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
>the cultural animosity for cars has prevented effective expansions of the transit infrastructure I'm not sure I understand this point? For one, if anything there's a clear preference for cars as the default mode of transportat
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
One reason why some have preferred not to ship with Windows is so that they aren't tied to the Windows release cycle. Not to mention, getting fixes into the monthly updates in a whole thing in and of itself.
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
Seconded! If for nothing else but to support systems they don't currently provide binaries for :(
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
Speaking of Google web products not working with Firefox: Google Meet backgrounds. What's most frustrating there is that it used to work until they disabled it to just throw up an ad for Chrome (i.e. use a "supported" browser
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
That won't always save you, there have definitely been bugs where it tries to hibernate but gets stuck
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by pitterpatter 5y ago
>DirectStorage for instance (allowing P2P DMA between your GPU and SSD) is only going to be available in Windows 11 apparently. Pretty sure they backtracked on that. "As such, games built against the DirectStorage SDK will be compat

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