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And the historical reason why the allocation-granularity is 64 KB instead of 4 KB (or the page-size) is that it made DLL relocation very slightly faster on Alpha AXP processors. No…

For the United Kingdom specifically, I've suffered the misfortune of reading the Online Safety Act, and this kind of age estimation is both mentioned and permitted by the Act. (Not…

Your memory is intact :) Those were/are a thing. The Xenia emulator handles them with symbolic links in its virtual-file-system: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/blob/7…

It's freely available at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10826467/

> I don’t understand why these extra paddings are present and why one is gone. Even with pragma pack 8, should not it be only one padding? If you're referring to `__pad2` in the ex…

In my later school years, when I had semi-regular need for printing things in colour, I took to drilling holes in the inkjet cartridges and refilling them with cheap ink using syri…

Unfortunately not, I just tried running the copy included with Windows XP SP1 on Windows 11—it relies on SheRemoveQuotesW which was removed from Shell32 in Windows Vista. (It doesn…

All type 1 diabetics are being conned?

My favourite is MapViewOfFile3FromApp [0], which is one of the seven variants of MapViewOfFile. [0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/memoryapi/nf-m...

Not initiating conversation could be down to disinterest, yes. But I think consistently refusing eye contact does constitute a lack of respect, if the person refusing to return eye…

My mother cleans schools for a living, and she once remarked to me that most of the teaching staff in the grammar schools[1] she cleaned would avoid making conversation with the cl…

PowerShell yet again proves itself to be an enlightened language: PS> ${Valid characters for an identifier? Eh, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whatever (`}) you want.} = $True PS> ${Valid characters fo…

Whether there's a performance detriment from borderless-fullscreen vs exclusive-fullscreen depends on how a program presents its frames (and on the OS, of course). On Windows, unde…

This is something I _really_ like about D. Unit-tests are built into the language, as is comment-based documentation—put those two together and you get unit-tests as documentation …

I've been using a Matias Ergo Pro Programmable for the past three-or-so years and it's been excellent; all the wrist pain I had been experiencing after typing ceased once I started…

It's valid in PowerShell, if "." is defined as a function: PS> function . {$Args} PS> . . . . The first dot is an operator which invokes a command in the current scope, the second …