Mar 7, 2025
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To some people, time zones are just a fancy way of sounding important, episode 2
Words have meaning.
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Mar 4, 2025
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Microspeak: Respin
Spin it up again, baby.
Jan 22, 2025
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Be mindful of temporal terms in documents: What is the reference point in time?
What is your implied point in time for the reference?
Jan 21, 2025
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Why doesn’t the Windows blue screen of death prominently identify the company that created the driver that crashed?
Because the driver that crashed may not be the one at fault.
Jan 14, 2025
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Microspeak: The walk-on topic
Just walk on in with your topic.
Dec 31, 2024
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Making sure the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler chooses the right source encoding
Making sure the file and settings are set correctly.
Dec 30, 2024
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How various git diff viewers represent file encoding changes in pull requests
The invisible UTF-8 BOM, and sometimes invisible encoding changes.
Dec 18, 2024
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Is there a way to split the git history of a file or combine the histories of two files without a merge commit?
Studying how git recovers history.
Dec 17, 2024
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Microspeak terms that didn’t take hold: airspace, synthetics, and AOI
Sometimes they don't stick.
Dec 16, 2024
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Why do we have header files <pshpackN.h> and <poppack.h> instead of just issuing the pragma directly?
Because the pragma may not work everywhere.