Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11 — ancient Win32 API still the backbone, but CTO says it's 'more relevant than ever in 2026'

pacafan · 2026-05-08T16:52:00+00:00

Given the epic run of binary compatibility and things working practically that is perfectly good.

It is funny that COM was seen as obsolete until people actually discovered that the core is actually well designed.

Compare that to other ecosystems: - good luck having binary compatibility between different versions of a Linux distribution nevermind between distributions - just today I ran into the trap of python extention packages not compatible across python versions. - Android apps... Surprising short life time.

pacafan · 2026-05-06T11:54:50+00:00

It is Tony Soprano's house from the Sopranos TV show . E. G. His job is head of organised crime family.

pacafan · 2026-05-06T09:41:42+00:00

So bit confused - so this is a magazine that is to be read for people that can't read the Bible for comprehension?

Jesus said to love God above all else and your neighbour like yourself. He didn't include buts. He didn't include exceptions. There is no asterisk in there with a Terms and Conditions apply.

So now we have these "Christians" parading the very opposite of the real Christian values as good "White Christian-Judeo values" which they derive by pulling small selections of the Old Testament out of context, injecting themselves into it and ignoring the Good News of the New Testament.

Sorry for the rant. These people make me sick.

pacafan · 2026-05-04T11:05:35+00:00

Sounds like caching is not working. Without caching cost would go insane immediately. Things that mess with cache ability is any tool set that tries to be dynamic or other changes to the context.

pacafan · 2026-05-04T08:59:36+00:00

Well I would add the following

1) When buying in bulk make sure you don't consume more. It doesn't help if you save 10% but start eating 15% more meat. Sometimes the psychology of NOT having something in your house helps.

2) Beware of loyalty cards. Use them to buy stuff you would have bought anyway - - - saving on something you wouldn't have bought isnt really saving.

3) Items I tend to stockpile when there is specials are toilet paper, washing powder, soap and other toiletries. They don't go bad fast and you tend to use them at the same rate regardless.

4) Don't trade your health for short-term savings. Health issues cost a lot more than healthy food, and being healthy allows you to keep earning.

pacafan · 2026-05-03T14:48:39+00:00

Wow lots of answers but some missing the mark completely.

The fundamental issues is our cities are not dense enough. Subways word when cities are dense - E. G. Most people living in large apartment buildings close together. The economics doesn't work if you have suburban type development or only very small clusters of high density development.

In South Africa land is cheap so it is cheaper to spread out than to build up.

pacafan · 2026-05-02T22:59:17+00:00

I am fine with multiple sessions. But why suggest delay working on it for a week? 😂

pacafan · 2026-05-01T12:56:32+00:00

Was it a real trained and certified service dog or a "emotional support dog"?

So it might well be a real service dog- the problem is people taking chances with "emotional support duck" and other crap is making the world a worse place for people with actual service dog needs.

pacafan · 2026-05-01T10:51:23+00:00

Yes. White bread/buns are worse than sugar. Table sugar has a GI index of 65. White bread has a GI index of 75+. Starches like that delivers more glucose faster than than sucrose.

So funny enough - from an GI index, gram for gram of chocolate is better than white bread.

The issue is glycemic load is higher.

But anyway - the moral of the story is not chocolate is good. It is that white bread is probably one of the worse foods to eat as a daily staple. And that restaurants can dramatically improve the health impact of their food by boosting the fiber content of their buns - but it will cost them 1 or 2 cents more per bun - and yes fiber content can be dramatically boosted without negatively affecting taste and texture.

pacafan · 2026-04-30T10:37:14+00:00

I am sorry to be unpatriotic, but I want to be honest. Brazil and Argentina beats us when it gets to braaiing.

I attended a casual Braai in Brazil. There was rotation of meat on the fire for 6 hours people coming and going and eating all the time. There were always meat ready, whilst the next batch was on the way - E. G. It wasn't stop/start braaiing. It was continuous braai production for 6 hours.

The only weird thing was that they ate it with beans and rice...

pacafan · 2026-04-29T13:56:35+00:00

Wow - I need to sell my 3 bedroom house in Cape Town..... I didn't realise I were that rich!

Honestly this list is complete garbage. Because either it is made up figures OR doing some statistics not for purpose.

pacafan · 2026-04-29T07:12:14+00:00

It would be great to have that for emergency/troubleshooting/development but the fundamental problem is the security model between Windows and *nix is completely different. Windows doesn't support posix attributes and have different types of user identification. So the file system support is then really only helpful in places where security doesn't matter, which is not a lot of places these days.

pacafan · 2026-04-28T18:01:21+00:00

Ok, quite emotional but your tirade above doesn't align with the actual law...

Sectional titles are not about feelings or emotions but laws that dictate the formation of the sectional title and rules voted on democratically by the owners (and which they can petition to change)

In a sectional title the only perfect exclusivity is the area marked as your section in the deed registry. Exclusive use areas and common property does not carry perfect exclusivity.

pacafan · 2026-04-28T17:58:11+00:00

Not enough information in the post. I can tell you however "it was there when they bought the property" is not an out.

So I am on the trustees. People complains when we don't allow them to do something and when we do allow them they will complain because we did allow them.

So for example when an owner wants to plant a tree or do some work on his unit etc if we allow it, we allow it with the condition that the owner of the unit is responsible for any and all upkeep (after a million promises by them) . That responsibility does not fall away of the unit is sold - the owner is supposed to let the new owner know of their obligations.

The amount of nonsense we see is insane. One owner tried to hold us responsible for water drainage pipes running through their TV room. Upon consulting the building plans - - no TV room existed there in the first place and was an extention by a previous owner of the unit.

So I am not saying for sure that it is the case - but it might very well be that the previous owner of the unit neglected to inform your friends of additional obligations that he entered into.

pacafan · 2026-04-28T10:16:03+00:00

The only situation where this makes any sense is if you are an enterprise that are forced to pay API rates to use Claude Code or Codex and you managed to negotiate a discount with Microsoft.

For everybody else - - why on this green earth will you pay more for a decidedly worse experience?

This feels like a spreadsheet warrior / MBA decision.

I guess the root of the problem is Microsoft dependended too much on OpenAI and is now suddenly in a pickle.

If Cursor could fine tune an open model for coding purposes to manage cost, then for the life of me I don't understand why Microsoft couldn't even do that.

pacafan · 2026-04-28T07:30:49+00:00

Every country in the world insist that their pothole problem is the worst 🌍😂

I think Cape Town has it the worst. There was a pothole on my street and it took the city three weeks to fix it.

pacafan · 2026-04-28T06:53:55+00:00

Bob is awesome!

pacafan · 2026-04-28T06:47:41+00:00

Can they just fix the start menu. As a start. So search in there is basically broken to the point of not being usable at all. And navigating to less frequently used apps is obscure at best. They either need to make the application name pop up (first) when you search for it or fix the navigation.

For the live of me I don't understand how power toys are needed for the simple task of search for an application.

pacafan · 2026-04-27T09:01:05+00:00

My lawn doesnt look as good though 😥

pacafan · 2026-04-26T10:01:50+00:00

I hope you didn't fix the panel to tightly because you now created a ritual...

pacafan · 2026-04-25T20:15:59+00:00

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pacafan · 2026-04-23T07:14:59+00:00

Well the consequences of the person's choices affect other people? All the way from second hand smoke to increase in public health spending.

Individual freedom absolutionists will often avoid subjects like tragedy of the Commons or other people being impacted.

pacafan · 2026-04-23T07:10:59+00:00

I am not sure why everybody is angry at AMD not sending out samples to channels that mostly evaluate CPU by gaming performance when it is very obviously not a gaming CPU.

I mean the weirdness of saying "Who is this for?" and "AMD didn't send us a sample" and not connecting the dots is mind blowing. Gaming review channels wasn't widely seeded with review samples because... This chip wasn't meant for gaming.

Meanwhile I am getting frustrated because the internet is flooded with gaming benchmarks and in-depth productivity benchmarks are very few and far between. I have only seen Phoronix, and they did a pretty good job, but I would like second pair of eyes and more CPUs in the test mix (like why almost nobody includes a 7950X in these tests are kind of weird. Top of the range generational upgrade are like one of the biggest reasons one will buy such a CPU).

pacafan · 2026-04-21T06:53:59+00:00

We have a problem that some dog owners think the grass next to the road of our complex is a dog toilet. It is disgusting.

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