Sep 12, 2023
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The odd cadence of narrative engineering design documents
Following the rubric off a cliff.
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Sep 11, 2023
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Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
The common pattern of trying to delete yourself.
Sep 8, 2023
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On transferring or copying ABI pointers between smart pointers
Keep track of who owns the reference.
Sep 7, 2023
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A freestanding JavaScript function that uses this is easily mistaken for a constructor
Because that's what constructors look like.
Sep 6, 2023
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Detecting whether a tree-like data structure contains a cycle
Combining two things we already know.
Sep 5, 2023
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When documentation cautions that something may not happen, that suggests that it normally does happen
Reading between the lines.
Sep 4, 2023
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Just for fun: What happens when you shift a register by more than the register size?
A comparative study of processor architectures.
Sep 1, 2023
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How do I find out more about the fail-fast exception that occurs when an exception in a PPL task goes unobserved?
Digging into the internals.
Aug 31, 2023
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Diagnosing a crash when trying to call ReadFile via language interop
Checking the signatures and inferring what could have gone wrong.
Aug 30, 2023
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How can I programmatically obtain the value of the “Make text bigger” slider?
The text scale factor property.