speuleralert

Definitely a different strokes for different folks situation. I am also from the Gulf Coast and I genuinely love the cool rainy Seattle weather. In fact, I was just lamenting having to squint to see in the “hot” (65 F) sunny day this morning in Seattle.

> interest in technical matters is driven by a trauma response

Wow, I’ve never considered this but it makes sense, to a degree. Children who are “properly” socialized, or socially motivated, would have much less time available to pursue technical skill acquisition. I could imagine things snowball from there as they choose paths of least resistance in life, e.g. opting for engineering rather than sales as a career.

No, I believe 3rd party driver developers must pass Hardware Lab Kit testing for their drivers to be properly signed. This testing includes a suite of Driver Verifier passes that are done, but this is not formal verification in the mathematical sense of the term.

> All you have to do is call certain win32 functions that will cause the kernel to call itself and you can do whatever you want.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by this?

I’ve been thinking about something like this for years - super psyched to see a team working on it!

A feature I’d really love is a linked list of these code pointers, so send someone a link to a “flow” where they can step through each code snippet with the spacebar or left/right arrows, with optional accompanying text for each step. I’m imagining onboarding myself or someone else to a massive monorepo, or tracing through a flow scattered across several microservices contained in separate repositories.

Isn't this just an interpreter that you need to compile before running each time?

Here is a related and comprehensive article that dives into the subject, for anyone interested: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/15/increasingly-competiti...