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To understand this, you need to go back to the original release of Windows NT 3.1 in 1993.

Most of the GUI was implemented in user mode. But again, this is 1993, and NT's most popular platform is the x86.

Windows NT 3.5 was code-named "Daytona," and the primary goal of that release was to improve performance.

One way that was achieved was to take the window manager and graphics subsystem, combine them into a device driver (win32k.sys), and run them in kernel mode.

It's not precisely accurate to say that "the kernel" does all of these things, but rather the device driver that contains the window manager performs those operations from within kernel mode.

Over time, Microsoft has been gradually moving some components back into user mode for security and stability reasons, however win32k.sys continues to exist and is frequently the culprit when it comes to Windows security vulnerabilities.
Apparently typing latency doesn't annoy me at all. I think I just queue up what I'm going to type "in my fingers"; it's a one-directional process, and in general I don't have to see the letters before I keep typing whatever is in my queue.

What does annoy me about user interface latency: when a page loads slowly, I try to click something, the layout changes at the last minute, and I end up clicking something else. That's an example of a full feedback loop where my actions aren't coming directly from me. They're dependent on what I'm seeing on the page.
Bio implant chip Tesla Model 3 hack
* Every corporation

There are still plenty of individuals working on projects not driven by money which respect your privacy.
Recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds (2018) [pdf]
I don't move relative to my reference point, but you move relative to my reference point and vice versa. So from my point of view it makes sense to say you are moving at some fraction of the speed of light.
IIRC, Walt Disney practically begged friends and associates to buy up the land surrounding Disneyland, and always lamented the cheap motels and establishments that quickly proliferated outside the park. But he maxed out, mortgaged and bet pretty much every penny of the studio (and personally) to get the park built at all. There was simply no money left to buy up any more orange groves.
Ancient legend tells of a time when you could set that sort of thing once at the OS level. It's kinda weird how my most advanced desktop UI experience remains Enlightenment ~0.13 around 1999.
Calling a liar a liar is better use of time and energy than tirelessly repeating facts ad nauseam.
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> The fundamental IPC primitive is window messages

That is not remotely true. Windows GUI messages are implemented as part of the win32k.sys device driver via traditional IPC and synchronization mechanisms.

> Other IPC systems you'd expect to be GUI independent like DCOM end up using this under the hood.

That's not entirely accurate either. Yes, DCOM on GUI threads use Windows messaging for IPC for compatibility reasons that go back to OLE on 16-bit Windows.

But the multithreaded apartment (ie, COM for a modern OS) is completely independent from the GUI; it is layered atop Microsoft RPC, which itself uses the NT kernel's ALPC mechanism for IPC.

If you're not creating and working with COM objects on a GUI thread, then you should not be using old-style single-threaded apartment COM. Yes, even if your program is only single threaded, you should still be initializing COM to use the multithreaded apartment.
Ask HN: I'm a well compensated engineer that can't seem to break into management
For the last several years I've had a passion to lead a team, mentor, develop career paths, and problem solve but it seems no matter what company I work at I can't break into management due to any number of factors: nepotism, lack of experience, role availability, lack of interest by management to move me out of a technical role.

Unfortunately it seems over the last few years, I've worked myself into some well compensated roles as an individual contributor where I'm significantly rewarded financially for my tech chops but not with added responsibilities or leadership experience.

I read management 101 books, I attend meet-ups, hell many people & coworkers have told me that I would make a great manager but I feel stuck. I take ownership of projects and always follow through. I feel well utilized and I feel I'm delivering value but I also feel stagnant in the IC role.

It's very frustrating that I can't find the opportunities that I think will unlock who I want to be and excel in tech. I would like to develop a plan for the future but I just have no idea where to start.

Has anyone here struggled to climb the ladder? If so, what works?
Works the same in HK but if you notice a suspicious transaction you can get it reversed when the signature doesn't match. If you use the PIN it's a lot harder to reverse.
I know this is quite obscure, but there's a great video of Alex Lacamoire (music director on Hamilton) discussing their live digital sound setup and he discusses the topic of latency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHs0NVvTxHY&t=8m39s
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>a rest API + node server that talks to an SQL database

Yes that is what I was thinking.
The Amiga will always be an unfulfilled fantasy for me. Growing up, I lusted after its screenshots and specs in magazines, the forbidden fruit we could not afford, until something entirely different, and arguably better, came along (the PC.)

Although I can get a taste of it through emulators, I still wish I could have lived the experience of unboxing an Amiga when it was the hottest thing around. :)
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I don't think we really care, do we? I'm not really worried that I connected to First Bank rather than Second Bank, since both are legitimate banks; what I want is to ensure that I didn't accidentally connect to Second Bannk, the local fraud shop. "Is this site controlled by a FDIC-registered organization" is probably good enough™.
Here's a review of the studies:
https://www.tinnitus.org.uk/tinnitus-and-magnesium
Presumably if there's a working computer inside the case then it can't be packed to the brim with c4?
Hmm, isn't the present the only thing we can observe? All the past we see is whatever effect left over now.
With AMP, signed HTTP exchanges, and "portals" it's getting even worse. Users never leave their servers, and they control the publishing format and require you to include their JavaScript. (It's only briefly mentioned in the article.)
Cool, thanks for clarifying. Definitely on the todo list, although still figuring out how soon I need to figure out the whole data layer (the big missing piece right now) VS focusing on expanding the component library across all the UI kits. Lots to do..
Thank you for posting this, it articulated my views on this issue so perfectly. I would call myself a liberal. Recently someone else who would describe themselves as a liberal called me a "free speech absolutist", a term they thought to constitute a dire epithet. To me this event only further highlighted what a dire state of affairs we were in. The triggering event was posting a clip of the Sir Thomas More "Give the devil benefit of law" speech from 'A man for all seasons', which I thought was liberal if nothing else.
If software were as accessible on Amiga through a ubiquitous marketplace, things might be different.

For a while, you could buy an Amiga at Montgomery Wards at an outstanding price. Software came from another end of the mall at Babbage's or EggHead.

Boxed software at retail was limited and expensive.

It required the invention of entire manufacturing pipelines to make the product happen.

Lots of blame and lots of reason to thing it might be different to take advantage of today's manufacturing and compute capability.

Some very stubborn people are still at it, preventing that from happening.
they're just taboos for different sets of values. nothing in a john waters movie ever 'scared' anybody.
The glass blocks too much UV.
Yeah, the Russians meddling with US election is intolerable, but the West assisting HK riot is the right thing to do.
Yes, really. You should assume that people mean what they said.

He should have sold out, though. He's old and he did a bunch of wonderful things. If he had waited any longer, the cash-out would have passed him by. Should everyone work forever?

Attending exhibitions of his work as the guest of honor, giving talks at film festivals, doing lecture/stand-up tours every once and a while for a bit of travel and excitement; that's the life and a well-deserved victory lap.

He didn't have to sell out, but it wasn't like he was a activist or something, he was a grotesque Douglas Sirk having a little fun.
I think it's more of a case that no one gives a shit about some former Soviet wasteland in the middle of Asia that will never affect them (as far as they know, at least).
They were also conditioned for years with nonsense like "no cell phones on, no wifi, for the entire flight", than saw that rescinded later. Or the TSA seizing tweezers and other harmless items, then backing off later. They've been conditioned that the rules aren't always sensible, even though some clearly are.
Georgia Southern QB: roadside drug test wrongly showed bird droppings as cocaine
From what I garnered from a few documentaries here and there long ago, Mehdi Ali was responsible for driving other companies into the ground too, and escaping those ships richer than he was when he got on them.

How does this happen and why is it allowed to?

Are these kinds of CEOs the designated cleanup people who get sent in after a company has been decided to get killed off and they're the [insert butcher analogue for stripping the leftover parts of a corpse]?
We used to win nuke the computer labs in high school after playing the first 15 seconds of blur song2. It got to the point where just playing the song would cause Ethernet dongles across the room to get ripped right out of laptops. Ahh the old days.
A little bit disappointed they didn't test my implementation (https://github.com/Matthias247/http2dotnet). It's more or less the only feature complete standalone HTTP/2 implementation for .NET - but somehow that ecosystem seams to be too niche so that nobody ever got interested in using it.

Actually I feel like it avoids most if not all of the described issues. async/await in combination with the design principle of always exercising backpressure on the client and having no internal queues goes a long way in this.
Check out the new tabbed menu[1]. Seems to emulate the MS Office menu pretty closely and is a big improvement over the old UI.

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.3/en#GUI
They also crop the content so even when it is correct you can't see all the steps.
Yes, in your own reference frame you are stationary. So by definition all observers are at the same speed in their own reference frame, namely zero. What I was trying to say is that the velocity of the Earth relative to the Milky Way's SMBH is small compared to the speed of light.
Directors will be bored with all of the one take wonders. Maybe they'll have just go ahead an eliminate the director position as well.
I'm glad I was able to change your mind and convince you that breastfeeding is not a necessary part of taking care of a newborn.
If we (sol / earth) were moving at a speed significantly closer to the (absolute) speed of light we would experience significant time dilation.

This is significant for observing external events and correlating phase shifts to figure out distances.

Eg. Things in the external universe may appear to happen extremely quickly.

It’s actually very important.

Regardless of how fast you appear to be moving in your own frame of reference, the speed you’re travelling in absolute terms affects what you observe externally (and specifically with regard to how fast you are moving compared to what you observing)
I wish I could hit reader mode before the page loads so my phone doesn't melt in the time it takes for the page to finish loading its 10000 js frameworks.
How arrogant.
Besides that one pesky ribbon cable that could probably be rerouted under the battery pack easily, I see nothing else that prevents a removable battery containing multiple cells, which need not be rectangular overall.
The other issue is that the older nodes are more reliable. They're already matured where they understand how to make everything work right. On top of that, each process shrink introduces new challenges that can cause components to fail. The most modern nodes seem like they make everything somewhat broken coming out the door with designers building in mitigations for that. They don't last as long.

The older nodes don't seem obsolete if component reliability is a concern. All my concepts consider their potential. They're quite limited in performance, storage size, and energy, though. There's a tradeoff. Lots of companies want a cheap, reliable, simple CPU/MCU. That's where the oldest nodes shine. That said, the newest nodes are tiny enough that one might make a 2 out of 3 setup with extra error correction like Rockwell-Collins' AAMP7G CPU. Might still be pretty cheap... per unit (not development cost)... on 28nm CMOS or SOI process. Haven't seen an attempt.
You painted yourself into a corner. You could move on to a mgmt role somewhere else, may help to have project mgmt certs. Or get a MBA, your situation is a really good reason to do that. Or found your own thing. To get runway to do these things, can you live off of every other pay check and save the rest?
Azure performance data retrieval using REST API
Are we moving to the Chrome only world?
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Why Stonehenge could have been a prehistoric computer. (1966) [video]
Some of the early tube computers had some really interesting circuits. One that comes to mind is the use of "kirchoff adders," which are more-or-less analog adders with easy one-bit DACs and ADCs on the inputs/outputs. I can't remember if this ended up in the "final" IAS machine, but I'm pretty sure it was used in the MANIAC and is described in the "Second Interim Progress Report on the Physical Realization of an Electronic Computing Instrument": https://library.ias.edu/files/pdfs/ecp/secondinterimpro02ins....
I don't really see how this problem is any different to 'how do we know the #1 search result is the best content there is?', if it provides you the information you want, then great, otherwise you load #2.
Apple was yet another company that was almost destroyed by its management, post-Jobs. If it wasn't for Steve's return, we came scarily close to becoming a soul-sappingly gray, homogenous Microsoft/PC-only world. Thanks to the Mac's success we got iOS, then because of that, Android.

I wonder if there's any chance of a new major architecture becoming successful today.
Water is perfectly fine. It's cheap, nonflammable, and has a very high heat capacity.

Lithium ion batteries have no metallic lithium, which is what can react with water.
Seems like something along those lines.
I’m not going to lie, the pictures look pretty good.
Mr Erbell, you made my day!
I doubt that selling Dasani water in aluminum cans in the Northeast US is going to move the needle on global plastic pollution, with the entire US accounting for less than 1% of plastic pollution (below countries such as North Korea and Algeria [1]) despite having 4% of the population and 24% of GDP.

[1] https://www.iswa.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Calendar_2011_03_...
The government doesn't know what is and isn't a fraudulent investment scheme.

Sometimes they err in either direction: claiming something is fraud when it isn't, or claiming it isn't fraud when it is.
Special Relativity states that the time (component of spacetime distance) to an event depends on the relative velocity (angle) of the observing reference frame. It does not state that an event occurs at the moment it is observed; that would imply light has an infinite velocity.

The whole point of relativity is that events do not occur at the exact moment they are observed, because light has a finite velocity. The fact that light's finite velocity is the same in all reference frames is what causes reference frames to tilt their spacetime angle according to their velocity.

It's the same as saying the Y component (height) of a line segment changes if you rotate it. The length of the line is the spacetime distance, the height (Y component) of the line is time, the x component is spatial distance, and the angle of the line depends on the relative velocity of the observer.
Reverse engineering a finite field multiplication operation
I knew Dave Brockie. We both went to the same school, parties, and stickball games. Death Piggy played at my birthday party. We both had studio space in the Dairy. I saw the first GWAR show at Shafer Court.

I finally got around to watching Lord of the Rings. I was struck by how the costume design was nearly identical to GWAR’s. It made me wonder if or even how a self proclaimed cartoonist could have influenced someone on the other side of the world.

Its sad that he died; I’m losing all my old friends, Adam, Mike, John, my older brother. Jim Carroll was funny to us way back when. Not so funny now.
Yep, I dismiss your incorrect comment.
How good would this box be at mining CPU based cryptocurrencies, like Monero?
Yes, you have to claim your bags, pass thru customs and then check them on to your next flight
You can't access the US stock market without SEC regulation thanks to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. No amount of blockchain is going to change that.
> Most notoriously, COM STAs did, and all kinds of APIs would enter a COM "apartment" for you as part of their internal operation.

You make that sound like that was some kind of accidental leaky abstraction, when in fact it was by design. COM STAs were designed to work with GUI threads, full stop. If you aren't a GUI thread, you shouldn't be initializing yourself with STA COM.

> Also just look at the definition of the PEB and TEB. There's plenty of slots for GUI stuff that's just left empty for headless apps, but the space is still allocated.

I am perfectly fine with that, as it essentially removes thread-local GUI data from the application's TLS namespace. So a few extra pointers exist in the PEB and TEB, big deal.

> In the end Windows is GUI first with non GUI apps a second class citizen.

I don't really see how you can conclude that from STA COM and a couple of TLS slots reserved for the GUI.
Comments are supported in the RSS spec.

And Feedly is free.
I'm also saddened when people omit the mention of the Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX Spectrum, another affordable little wonder that was responsible for bringing the other half of the world into computing. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
You can make this joke, and there are hypocrites of this particular type, but that isn't actually an argument for more regulation.
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"We can't sit there and leave interests rates low forever" ...says who? What force dictates that the equilibrium for rates must be higher? Yes that's historically been the case but that doesn't mean that's the right path for us now and in the future. I would argue that low interest rates will be and need to be the new normal.

Interest is the ultimate rent seeking activity. The fed funds rate is a form of price fixing for banks whereby they collectively decide how much interest they can extract from the economy without killing it. Why must this be the case, the economy should be allowed to run much hotter for much longer.

Inflation is less of a risk now because of technology + globalization, right now we are experiencing significant deflationary pressure as products and labor converge towards global pricing/wages.

Our economy and government will be in very serious trouble if we have to pay higher interest on our significant national debt, so the government has a big interest (pun intended) in keeping rates low to protect its own financial solvency.

Finally, high interest rates imply money is scarce and that's far from the case now. Having large sums of money is not what it used to be, you're competing against a lot of other people and organizations seeking to deploy that money productively for a return. This generates downward pressure on market interest rates as evidenced by European Central banks going below zero to negative rates.
Great point, this was my first thought also. Google has been doing a slow creep of this type of content for the past through years through the featured snippet you mentioned, and other knowledge panel material. They now serve sports, weather, math, translation, flights, etc.
Well I've hit websites that break completely with ad blockers enabled. I've also seen sites that break regardless of my addons, just because it's Firefox, and it thinks I've installed something that's blocking ads specifically (frankly it's offensive to tell the user to disable something they never enabled, while blocking them).

Meanwhile, I waste my own time looking at how these are implemented because in about half the cases (or so) I can simply "inspect element" and delete the offending code. Though I waste the time in the other cases.

It's a disgrace, and something we shouldn't stand for...
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Because glass is a lot heavier than aluminum and there's way more loss due to breakage.
Can’t see anything on the globe, just a circle.
They do something similar on Chromebooks and 3rd party mini pcie WiFi cards. If you insert a non Lenovo branded card, it will fail to even enter the bios screen with a Dick Move error.

Also, same stupid justification,”this configuration hasn’t passed FCC EMI tests” when the cards a qualified directly, they are the FCC certification boundary.
I left a water bottle in my bag at SJC once. The TSA agent pulled me aside after I went through the scanner and pointed to it on the X-Ray to ask me what it was. I said something like "oh, oops, looks like I forgot my water bottle in there" and she asked me to take it out of the bag. She took a quick look at it and then just let me on the plane without making me dump it out or even opening the bottle.

I guess that means they at least looked at the X-Ray; it seems like a lot of the time they don't even bother to do that.
Do you mind to share which browser you're using? It's working fine for me on Firefox.
> though they don’t have the power to change them, nor do they want to antagonize the PRC as much as they would if they could

I want to also add that the oppositions, although not antagonize the PRC as much as they would, is also antagonizing the PRC more than the nationlists; the PRC-hating original tenants died off (it’s been 60 years after all), and the nationalists transformed themselves to fully embrace PRC in the name of economy. You have the nationalists (Kuomintang) occupying both ends of the pro/anti-PRC spectrum, and this weird situation is arguably one of the prominent problems of Taiwanese identity.
One other thing I thought of. Our neighborhood had its own Divine wannabe. Donnie, aka Dirt Woman, was a kindred spirit with John Waters and Divine.