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nikbackm··on Ken Thompson's Unix Password
Same here, thought it strange they could brute-force such a long password! Even with MD5.
nikbackm··on Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
IoT Enterprise is basically the same as Enterprise LTBS.
nikbackm··on MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library
Note that the C library (CRT) is not included here though, as that's now delivered with Windows itself as the Universal CRT.

The cmath header here just forwards to math.h and has no real content of its own.

nikbackm··on E-books at local libraries: a fight between publishers and librarians
Those are properties of the e-reader rather than the e-book itself, in other words, not something you should be paying for when buying the book.
nikbackm··on During the Renaissance, the beard was the defining feature of a man
Have you tried an electric razor?
nikbackm··on Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster
You are allowed to cast away const-ness of an actual const object, just as long as you don't modify it.
nikbackm··on Google Search is routinely gamed by private blog networks
If those links don't help and are ignored by google, how do they help hide the "real" links?
nikbackm··on Microsoft Restores Deleted Technet and MSDN Blogs
Don't see how, only technical users would care about these blogs and they are too few to matter, even assuming these blogs somehow kept them stuck on older Windows versions.
nikbackm··on The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I.
Also after extensively studying ornithology?
nikbackm··on C++ Patterns: The Badge
Maybe C++ could add this feature at some point now that it too will get modules.
nikbackm··on Windows Implementation Libraries: type-safe C++ interfaces for Windows patterns
std::unique_ptr was made possible first in C++11 thanks to move semantics. Same goes for the similar smart pointers in wil.
nikbackm··on The New Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Architecture [video]
VirtualBox 6.0 should support it. Still considered an experimental feature though.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E97728_01/F12470/html/hyperv-inte...

nikbackm··on The New Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Architecture [video]
> My contention is that they could have instead replaced VolFs with a native WSL1 file system that uses a disk partition or VHD as its backend storage, thus eliminating the Windows I/O stack in the same way. They could then have implemented proper Linux file system semantics without any baggage.

But that would require them to implement a new file system from scratch wouldn't it? VolFs in WSL1 relied on NTFS to do the heavy lifting.

Far easier to just let the Linux kernel handle it.

nikbackm··on Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
It's not really possible to substantially improve either conhost or cmd due to backwards compatibility considerations.

The risk of breaking something for someone is just too high.

nikbackm··on Introducing Windows Terminal
Maybe it only works on the Windows Insider builds right now. Or it did not like your GPU.

Hopefully it will also work on the Windows 10 LTSB builds when released.

nikbackm··on Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
Same here.

Only difference is that I restarted the desktop Firefox and also enabled Shield studies to get the temporary fix. On the laptop I just upgraded to 66.0.4 and only then restarted it.

nikbackm··on How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess
But it can hardly be culturally relevant in a country where it's not available, or?

Unless everyone pirates it.

nikbackm··on Astronomers Worldwide Are About to Make a Groundbreaking Black Hole Announcement
It's happening.
nikbackm··on Prenatal testosterone linked to long-term effects in females with male twin
Similar for cows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemartin

nikbackm··on Unicode Standard, Version 12.0
Maybe all Asian scripts was not planned to be included back then?

Seems strange they would miscount so grossly otherwise.

nikbackm··on How the US has hidden its empire
Wouldn't Alaska be scaled up on maps being far to the north?

Have only really seen maps using Mercator myself though.

nikbackm··on Saudi Arabia’s Great Run Seems Headed for Trouble
> they’re dramatically more entrepreneurial and better educated than Saudi men.

How can that be if they've been locked up into their homes until recently? (To my limited understanding of KSA)

nikbackm··on How LinkedIn detects browser extensions
Probably the latter.

Otherwise LinkedIn would just fix the holes and not bother blocking extensions.

nikbackm··on Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows
It's great, but it does not search file contents and metadata like e.g. mp3 tags so cannot fully replace the builtin Windows search.
nikbackm··on Chinese Spacecraft Nears Landing on Far Side of Moon
Surely that would not really fool those in charge of the USA, or?

I mean, a random Hacker News poster seems to have figured it out easily enough!

nikbackm··on Windows 10 tops Windows 7 as most popular OS
You're probably more likely to see the desktop become totally irrelevant.
nikbackm··on What I learned at work this year
Probably better than the other way around.
nikbackm··on What did Jesus really look like? (2015)
I found this a good overview for that question.

https://www.quora.com/Do-credible-historians-agree-that-the-...

nikbackm··on The Long Lives of Fairy Tales
I thought it was well known that they collected existing tales rather than writing their own?
nikbackm··on Is ASP.NET Core Now a Mature Platform?
It was originally developed to be used with IIS which handles all of that.
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