muststopmyths

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by muststopmyths 1y ago
Wouldn’t be the “person who wrote it” unless he came back to do some special presentation. That guy left windows (and maybe even Microsoft) in the mid 90s. AFD has been around since the beginning of NT (edit at least 3.51, maybe even befor
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
I would love to see a reliable source for this. All I have ever found is people on the internet asserting this to be true, but no actual evidence (in the form of contemporaneous pictures or documents from WW2).
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
"horn please", to tell people to honk while passing. OK was originally a separate thing that used to occur in locations other than between the two words. I distinctly recall this from my childhood. Don't know the origins of
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
Onlyturbofans ?
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
I believe you’re underestimating the rapacious hunger of the click economy
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
Also Mexican cartels are wreaking havoc in coastal Ecuador, which is being used in an alternative sea route for drug shipments north. So yeah, South America is still a main hub of the drug trade.
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
It's mentioned in the doc that this is for the game, not the show.
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
I would argue that has_copy_constructor would also have the same issue in naming since most people would assume that has_copy_constructor means the damn thing works for copying. Too many traits is my diagnosis, so I agree with "foi
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
There is no "max amount of file handles per process" on Windows. The C runtime has limitations as you indicated. The Win32 API does not. File,Socket and other handles to NTOSKRNL objects (GDI is its own beast) are not limited by a
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
WER has been in the OS for about 20 years. Vista for sure, maybe even before that. Writing your own minidump uploader in the unhandled exception filter is/was a very common practice in games, while obviously not ideal. I think Unreal E
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
actually it's there. the link from the blog just points to a branch without the code
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
They do this sometimes during their Build conference. The code will probably show up after a keynote or session announcing it at the conference
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
Araxis is the best, but not free. Although if you maintain/contribute to an open source project they will give you a license for free.
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
so, debuggers are really just tools. To get "good" at analyzing crashdumps, you have to understand the OS and its process/threading model, the ABI of the platform, a little (to a lot) of assembler etc. There's no magic t
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by muststopmyths 1y ago
Years ago, there was a site called movingscams.com where people reviewed moving services. It helped me find a mover for my own move down the West Coast. Turned out to be a really good outfit, honest and great customer service (refunded me
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
The caption says 1995, so this is most definitely one of the test labs. We used to have rows of shelves with PCs in various hardware configurations that were tested with daily builds. Everyone did have their own offices in the early-mid 90s
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
I do get pulled aside for "enhanced screening" consistently while transiting Europe :-) I'm sure you didn't actually mean it that way though :-) A sibling comment made me recheck the rules and it does seem like phones an
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
> never having heard not to put a battery in checked luggage Maybe not conventional batteries, but you've been disallowed from putting lithium batteries in checked luggage for at least 16 years. I remember being dragged into the bow
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
It actually makes sense, but only to old Windows vets. The underlying NT (microkernel) api (as found in used-to-be-undocumented NTDLL) returns STATUS_XXX from functions. With STATUS_SUCCESS being 0. This is still consistent as far as I
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
Jade Raymond was famously (gamedev famously that is) hired to lead a studio to create first party content for stadia
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
I bought the Asus version of the B580 at MSRP of $280 on launch day. Central Computers in the SF Bay Area keeps them at MSRP. They may not be in stock online, but the stores frequently have stock, especially San Mateo. Not useful to people
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
Microsoft still sells boxed versions. Pretty sure those don't have any online connectivity requirements.
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
>I still miss it. There are dozens of us ! I miss so many things besides the UI. seamless integration of Cortana with in-car bluetooth to read incoming SMS, live tiles, fantastic cameras in Nokia devices.
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
I was talking about APCs and win32 api in general not this bug.
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
In this specific type of Win32 API case, I can think of a way to make this safe. It would involve looking at the function pointer in QueueUserAPC and making sure the function being called doesn't mess with the stack frame being execute
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
It's not an async completion. The call is synchronous. Windows allows some synchronous calls to be interrupted by another thread to run an APC if the called thread is in an "alertable wait" state. The interrupted thread then
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
I misunderstood. apologies.
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
Winsock Registered I/O or RIO predates io_uring and you could make the argument that io_uring "is largely a copy-paste of RIO" if you wanted to be childish. The truth is that they both use a obvious pattern of high-performanc
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
I was talking about RIO
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by muststopmyths 2y ago
I haven't looked into io_uring except superficially, but Windows implemented Registered I/O in Windows 8 circa 2011. this is the basically the same programming paradigm used in io_uring, except it is sockets-only. Talk here [1] s

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