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No user record in our sample, but ghelmer has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
> I sat through a conference session in the late nineties trying to understand the difference between an OLE document, a COM object, and an ActiveX control. I wonder if we attended the same conference session!
That is not my experience.
I find it's helpful to have context to frame what I'm memorizing to help me understand the value.
> one thing that helps me short-circuit it 99% of the time is a high amount of caffeine The med that helped my dad with migraines was Vanquish (aspirin, acetaminophen, and caffeine. Your experiences with migraines are…
I have experienced migraines since my teens, usually starting with annoying visual artifacts, facial numbness, difficulty speaking, and progressing to intense pain. The worst of them would also cause auditory…
I'm not apologizing for MS, and I have no idea what PII protection Recall actually has. If Recall does have real PII logic, it should recognize that a legitimate VISA payment card numbers must start with '4' + be 16…
The barrier to entry for programmers on projects like PostgreSQL and FreeBSD is high, with good and bad results. It seems you have to be very committed to the project (which may involve support from one’s employer) to…
Sounds interesting but behind the WSJ paywall. A story I find very interesting is the recovery of a large number of films found preserved under permafrost under a former ice rink in Dawson…
"The more things change, the more they stay the same" - Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr In the late 1980s, "executive dashboards" were all the rage. Vendors were selling tools to tap data in mainframe databases to provide…
I have been unpleasantly surprised when I expect Posix semantics from Windows. Think about parent PIDs. You can't assume a process's parent PID is actually still the parent. Think about file open semantics. Try to open…
Windows threw off the Posix elephant, and I spend more than half my time working around the resulting mess when working on Windows code.
Saw this effect demonstrated at room temperature by an acquaintance at Ames Laboratory over 20 years ago. Have long wondered about its practicality. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/854806
Love these posters -- the one referenced in the article, and the other (UNIX feuds) noted in the comments. At one time I had both - lost one on a plane, and lost the other in a move. So rich in meaning, as others are…
"They just want to win the argument" is a good summary of what I understood from the article. There are people I regularly encounter who have to inject their opposition or correction to anything anyone else does or…
I've written a lot of TCP deep-packet inspection code, including parsing FTP control protocol. So I was surprised by this post by Robert Graham: https://blog.erratasec.com/2019/08/hacker-jeopardy-wrong-ans... - FTP…
A summer spent testing (and breaking) compilers taught me a lot, including: compilers do have obscure bugs. 99.99999% of program errors are bugs in the code, but the rare compiler bug is maddening to diagnose.