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the new behavior works under the MEM_REPLACE_PLACEHOLDER flag, you can create those regions with VirtualAlloc2

this is no longer true with MapViewOfFile3: Third time's a charm, now you can map to page boundaries

The article points out how homeless people aren't popular or often defended. This reality is probably the biggest force against homeless people. Most people don't even want to cons…

This seems like the most obvious answer but social dynamics make it hard to suggest.

what kind of taxing scheme would make it so you want to work again?

Why do you think this is a response to my question?

Is there any story you can't justify with this reasoning?

Corruption definitely exists as people are periodically convicted for it, but outside of those convictions the majority of talk about it seems to be a cope for the failures of syst…

an important thing to realize with this analogy is the difference in purpose between code and writing. Writing is meant to be read whereas code is meant to specify a program. For p…

Is this some kind of marketing for the mentioned movie? The article mentions documents that are supposed to substantiate it's claims but then it just goes into speculation and only…

Is there any evidence for this or is this just trendy and shallow politician hate?

what were the first protocols? are these really comparable situations in your mind or are you grasping at straws here? genuinely curious if you can make an argument that they're si…

well that's a start, kudos for the probability and evidence that would shift it. Like most people I haven't looked into any of this much before the last year so I'm far from knowle…

A lot of the discussion I see on this hinges on possibility and not strongly believing the claim is false. Sure, this theory is "possible" in some sense but I rarely see anyone pre…

Is that tweet really "extremely negative" towards Linux? All he says is that he doesn't want to abandon Windows but instead push back on changes to it he doesn't like; he doesn't m…

That's pretty interesting considering they launched in 2015

I don't think it's a preference issue. The problem you have when you split up functions is you're making decisions that have consequences in a fairly arbitrary way(not backed by an…

you're probably not alone but the issue here is forcing it on the user. that the option exists means they understand some people want a raw timeline which makes repeatedly changing…

I agree that there should be action taken to push things like this in a better direction but I think the obvious things to do can easily back fire and just make the situation worse…

I don't claim to be an authority on this by any means and it's a very complex space but... the approach of "forcing" a foreign country to take on social/political beliefs seems lik…

It would help your argument if you could cite that number and show that it's part of a significant trend.

The curve isn't necessarily implicit or explicit; multiple forms exist. Think of the standard form of a line versus a parametric form. For beziers you might explicitly evaluate the…

the surface normals don't change when the mask rotates from the front to the back so the lighting appears to "change direction". I think looking at the edges gives you more cues to…

the problem is that "ugly" isn't precise and can get translated from other reactions that aren't based on experience but are instead just cargo cutting. it's great to use the faste…