hyperrail

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by hyperrail 4y ago
An advantage of working at Microsoft that only other huge tech companies can match is that you'll get the chance to interact with many different people, some of whom will inspire outright hero worship among you and your direct coworker
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by hyperrail 4y ago
Heh, I wish that had ever been the case for me. Sometimes it feels like WinDbg freezes every other command. Plus, getting it to reconnect to a kd after it freezes and I kill it was such an exercise in frustration that if the target machine
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by hyperrail 4y ago
Even if you do work on Windows in-box code only, it might not be so easy. Here's another issue you raised with your old job: > 2. Debugging exclusively via metrics and logs, since I can't just attach a debugger to a running se
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by hyperrail 4y ago
One reason I specifically suggest you confirm what your job is is that the teams that work on Windows in-box kernel-mode components aren't just Windows-specific teams anymore. They are part of the Microsoft Azure Edge + Platform divisi
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by hyperrail 4y ago
Here's my thoughts based on working on Windows in-box code (user mode only, though) across 2 different Windows component teams, totaling about 5 years with a break in the middle. (Split into multiple comments for readability. Some part
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by hyperrail 4y ago
The X byte of 32-bit color is nowadays used as the alpha channel (brightness), and is usually called A. But I'm not sure if Windows 95 supported alpha channels for display.
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by hyperrail 4y ago
Webex's Slack-like chat room service uses Adaptive Cards to define interactive messages from bots, just like Microsoft Teams does. I do agree with you that it should catch on more and it's unfortunate that it hasn't.
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by hyperrail 4y ago
Adaptive Cards have been around since 2016: https://github.com/microsoft/AdaptiveCards/graphs/contributo... It's a healthy project, with multiple development teams within Microsoft both using and contrib
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by hyperrail 4y ago
This seems to be what he is referring to by the map's subjectivity: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/About/WhatistheUSDM.aspx > Who draws the map? > Several authors from the NDMC, NOAA and USDA create the m
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by hyperrail 4y ago
One meteorologist has criticized the drought map used in this article as making things look bad in Washington state when they are not: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/04/is-large-portion-of-w... > The esse
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You can't copy code with memcpy(devblogs.microsoft.com)
423 points by hyperrail 5y ago|147 comments
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Sellers Deliberately Underprice Homes to Spur Bidding Wars in San Francisco BA(nytimes.com)
4 points by hyperrail 5y ago|6 comments
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by hyperrail 5y ago
If you are a current Visual Studio subscriber with access to Windows downloads, chk builds are available on https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads/Featured like regular builds. Search for "checked". I don&#x27
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by hyperrail 5y ago
Microsoft used to release a "checked" build for each version of Windows on MSDN/Visual Studio Subscription downloads. [1] This was a build with the same compiler optimization settings as the release build, but with debug-buil
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by hyperrail 5y ago
Here's a discussion of (at least one) original Windows 95 bug that causes the computer to freeze after 49 days, along with working download links to fixes: https://web.archive.org/web/20070223101651/https:&#x2
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by hyperrail 5y ago
Also take a look at Colorado Excluded: https://www.coloradoexcluded.com Which is referred to in the news article and whose creator posted it to HN a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27265447
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by hyperrail 5y ago
Archive.today link: https://archive.ph/1BgIG
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by hyperrail 5y ago
Archive.today has it in full: https://archive.ph/vMbpD I wonder how they're so consistently good at evading the Wall Street Journal's paywall, which is usually strict with no metered free limit and limited excepti
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by hyperrail 5y ago
Yeah, I have no idea either why Microsoft would want to remove Message Analyzer completely, even if they could not maintain it. You can still download it through the Internet Archive: * 32-bit x86: https://web.archive.org/we
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by hyperrail 5y ago
archive.today copy: https://archive.is/FHREj
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Apple's Privacy Changes Are Poised to Boost Its Ad Products(wsj.com)
4 points by hyperrail 5y ago|1 comments
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by hyperrail 5y ago
Consider submitting bug reports or feature requests for Notepad to Microsoft with Windows' built-in Feedback Hub. For bugs, your reported reproduction steps and the diagnostic logs collected by Feedback Hub are often actionable without
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by hyperrail 5y ago
I think we both agree on this, but in case not: I don't think Click's uncompetitiveness was due to inherent limitations of hybrid fiber/coax. These days, cable TV companies routinely sell gigabit or near-gigabit download spee
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by hyperrail 5y ago
On the other hand, Tacoma Power couldn't make the economics of their own-brand broadband Click Network work, [1] so they cut their losses to some extent by transferring operations to a private company, Rainier Connect. [2] Rainier Conn
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by hyperrail 5y ago
City governments have already been able to provide and sell Internet service - it is PUDs* that are banned from selling until and unless this bill is signed. And not only is the ban only on retail as opposed to wholesale service, there is a
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by hyperrail 5y ago
Even without these changes, Washington state's utilities and governments have already been able to sell Internet service, but mostly only on a wholesale basis - they can advertise, but only to direct you to third-party reseller ISPs.
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by hyperrail 5y ago
Microsoft has has software development centers in Kenya and Nigeria for a couple years now. [1] I'm glad to see other western tech companies moving into sub-Saharan Africa. Hope it's a trend - at MSFT we had some success there! [1
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by hyperrail 6y ago
Many histories of American national parks have stressed the tension between parks as preserves and parks as places for enjoyment. This is so even for park histories that might be expected to follow an orthodox view, such as the Ken Burns PB
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by hyperrail 6y ago
Here's another report today of someone wrongly paying $2023 per year for a Substack newsletter: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1374019267147018243/p... Maybe it's the same subscriber and&#x2
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by hyperrail 6y ago
Hmm maybe I can see Rajesh's LinkedIn when I log in because I'm some number of degrees away from him. Or maybe just logging in is enough. Anyway, you can search the web for him if you want to see that he has indeed been at Microso

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