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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 acquiri…

Sure, maybe we could have that conversation if noncompetes actually required that...but they don't

>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 specif…

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 …

>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…

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 I essentially consider withdrawn cash as already "spent" the moment it leaves my account.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 th…

>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 th…

At Apple's scale, an edge case is a question of when (and how often) not if.

>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 …

>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 havi…

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 l…

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 …

Edge is probably the one that annoyed me the most

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…

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 becaus…

scapy was incredibly useful while I was writing some packet processing for just crafting test payloads and iterating quickly.

I have a .reg file that I run on every new install to remap Caps-Lock to Ctrl

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 compan…

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).

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 aro…

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' acceler…

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 G…

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

Generally when MSRC files security issues, they tend to get fixed quickly and across not just the current release but previous ones too.