Articles by nikbackm
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Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32 (codeberg.org/ziglang)

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Important Clarification: Notepad++ Security Incident (notepad-plus-plus.org)

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A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961 (rodneybrooks.com)

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Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1 (randomascii.wordpress.com)

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Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual) (acoup.blog)

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Standards for ANSI Escape Codes (jvns.ca)

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Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 12 Months (popularmechanics.com)

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Hail and Farewell (2019) (microsoft.com)

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Stay Gold, America (codinghorror.com)

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Getting the linker to verify identical functions (microsoft.com)

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Windows 11 now warns when typing your password in Notepad, websites (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Story-time: C++, bounds checking, performance, and compilers (chandlerc.blog)

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Lots of PCs poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today (arstechnica.com)

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Why It's Important to Call Bullshit on Columbus (kleefeldoncomics.com)

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Is This Tomorrow? (kleefeldoncomics.com)

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The case of the crash when destructing a std:map (microsoft.com)

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Reader Q&A: What's the best way to pass an istream parameter? (herbsutter.com)

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The Co­Initialize­Security function demands an absolute security descriptor (microsoft.com)

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Tales from the Far Side (kleefeldoncomics.com)

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Crashes and Competition (stratechery.com)

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Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell. (arstechnica.com)

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Quick Note on Penny Singleton (kleefeldoncomics.com)

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Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up? (arstechnica.com)

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How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching? (microsoft.com)

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The Marvels and Singularity of Vision (kleefeldoncomics.com)

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Three Things That LLMs Have Made Us Rethink (rodneybrooks.com)

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In Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, what is a "grabber"? (microsoft.com)

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China Chips and Moore's Law (stratechery.com)

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Mysterious fast radio bursts look a lot like earthquakes, study finds (arstechnica.com)

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32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine (randomascii.wordpress.com)

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Why did 16-bit _lopen and _lcreat functions return -1 on failure instead of 0? (microsoft.com)

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I accidentally made an operation on INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, worked: What happened? (microsoft.com)

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Reordering C++ template type parameters for usability purposes (microsoft.com)

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Rust Criticism from a Rustacean (codeberg.page)

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SQLite 3.42.0 (sqlite.org)

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Why does Task Manager disappear briefly when you switch it into Always on top? (microsoft.com)

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Five Worlds of AI (A Joint Post with Boaz Barak) (scottaaronson.blog)

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C++17 creates a practical use of the backward array index operator (microsoft.com)

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If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason (scottaaronson.blog)

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The False Promise of Chomskyism (scottaaronson.blog)

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Why am I not terrified of AI? (scottaaronson.blog)

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Getting Off the Windows Defender “No-Fly” List (jdeploy.substack.com)

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There is no software maintenance (henrikwarne.com)

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The year of C++ successor languages (accu.org)

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Compiler Tricks to Avoid ABI-Induced Crashes (randomascii.wordpress.com)

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Please Restore Our Registers When You’re Done with Them (randomascii.wordpress.com)

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The constexpr array size problem (brevzin.github.io)

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Why is there a make_unique? Why not just overload the unique_ptr constructor? (microsoft.com)