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I run Claude Desktop inside a Hyper-V VM. My VM doesn't have the "Virtual Machine Platform" feature installed at all. The app accepts this and simply disables the Cowork tab. I won…

UTF-16 is the internal format of the ICU library (International Components for Unicode, the support library from the Unicode standards people) which is a common way to add "full fa…

> Amazon was AWS first customer It wasn't. The retail business took years to move to AWS. They could not even be described as early adopters of AWS.

Microsoft wrote their own replacement and it's better-integrated into Office than the old editor was. Search for "insert equation" in the Office search box. The new one supports bo…

30 years ago, in C89 and pre-standard C++, it was the case that `int foo()` in C is a function that accepts any parameters, and in C++ it is a function with no parameters. In C89 y…

> I had forgotten than you can build a perfectly legal enum from an integer out of the bounds of the enum's range. And a switch statement is non-exhaustive These are solved by the …

I helped out on this image-to-bits transcription, doing manual verification of the automated work. I did the whole thing by hand: I sliced the ROM images into strips that excluded …

The submit button in the post box says "add comment" vs. "reply" depending on what kind of message you're posting, and the link under comments says "reply" while articles don't hav…

Yes, I'm obviously aware of that. We're all capable of seeing em dashes and staccato sentences. My reply mentions, explicitly, that their top-level comment was AI written (reusing …

This OP hasn't done any of those things. They are here discussing the project, and it's clear all of their replies are human-written. The AI use is stated up front in the readme. T…

I'm not disagreeing, but I will point out that COM reference counting is an atomic integer operation. That's expensive. boost::local_shared_ptr exists because std::shared_ptr does …

I don't think AWS says so explicitly, but it's commonly known that T2/T3/T4 use live migration to balance workloads across hosts. This is necessary when oversubscribing hardware (w…

"Short of..." indeed. You already know the answer, although it doesn't need to be general ; it only needs to work on a single codebase. A recent and highly relevant example is the …

Even if I wanted a Windows-specific UI, I still wouldn't choose WinUI 3. You can ignore it. At my day job, I choose Windows Forms with Blazor mixed in. That's old reliable Win32 te…

Before R3 was PR1 and PR2, hence the 3. It didn't jump from DR8 to R3 like the article says. The discs were labeled "Preview Release" and "Preview Release 2" and they're common to …

I think you're directionally right but the bit about the web browser confused me. Haiku ships with WebPositive. You'll remember NetPositive from the R5 days. That's one of the few …

Just because a hypocrite says something doesn't mean that thing is wrong. If a drug addict tells you not to use drugs, they're still right about that. UBI is the solution, isn't it…

Can you give an example of a language ecosystem that went with reflection-based JSON serialization/deserialization and then went on to regret it? I can't think of any, and don't ag…

This changed a couple years ago. EV certificates no longer get a free pass. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/package-and-d... > EV certificates no longer bypass Smart…

It's expensive. I don't agree that it's harder, in the sense of TFA's technical struggles getting it to work. If you've got the money for the certificate, passing OV and signing th…

In Word you add a decimal tab stop to the ruler. Word's main problem is that people are unaware of its features; they don't spend time learning it like they do with TeX. https://im…

Since this article was written, AWS also added European Sovereign Cloud as a partition: aws-eusc.