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All I’m really hearing is that this guy rubs you the wrong way, so you’re not going to give him the benefit of the doubt that you’d give to others. I mean, maybe you’re right that …

Well, technically both WaitOnAddress and SRWLOCK use the same "wait/wake by thread ID" primitive. WaitOnAddress uses a hash table to store the thread ID to wake for an address, whe…

> If you want to claim that a language is memory-unsafe, POC || GTFO. There's a POC right in the post, demonstrating type confusion due to a torn read of a fat pointer. I think it …

What about ROL r/m16, 8?

I guess if the arch’s varargs conventions do something other than put each 32-bit value in a 64-bit “slot” (likely for inputs that end up on the stack, at least), then some of the …

No inline functions in library headers, then.

Despite the title, it's not actually open source yet. Soon!

Your NIC can already access arbitrary RAM via DMA. It can read your keys already.

I think the MPL attempts to be that license.

Supposedly “ampersand” comes from when the alphabet song/rhyme used to end in “and ‘per se’ and”. School kids mushed it together into “ampersand”, and over time it became the name …

Do you find this problematic?

> As for animators having to find new work... good? Isn’t this a paternalistic point of view? Why do you know better than the animators who are accepting these jobs? Who are you to…

I can’t agree. Combining alloc and free into one API is a false economy. You’re not really going to save any significant amount of space, and at best you’ll have an extra predictab…

You could also just cut a trace on the motherboard and it would type out the UPC codes unencoded.

Keep fighting the good fight, friend. Although I’ll note that the line between a VMM and hypervisor are not always clear. E.g., KVM includes some things that other hypervisors dele…

If looking at types is the least useful way to enforce versioning, then what are _any_ better ways?

I think Spintronics resistors will resist motion with a force proportional to rotational speed, which I think follows from the resistance coming from oil in the bearings. So the to…

NT4 already had the graphics stack in kernel mode.

Yes. But user space can take dependencies on features we didn’t implement yet or we implemented incorrectly or that have bugs in combinations with other features. E.g., more softwa…

We work very closely across the file system, kernel, and virtualization teams, so I don’t think we can blame Conway’s Law for WSL2. And actually our WSL1 fork performance wasn’t to…

In Windows we actually have a way to set the parent directory for a UDS bind or connect, via a socket ioctl. It’s not documented yet, but it’s in the header.

Yes, we were very excited to get WHP (Windows Hypervisor Platform) support integrated. Before that, you could only use it with the HAXM hypervisor on Windows, which conflicts with …

Care to elaborate?

What is a broccoli?