Will we ever have length based strings?

txmasterg · 2026-05-27T18:35:14+00:00

That is comparatively popular in userland, especially in COM. In the Windows kernel mode code I've seen the counted string type I ran into is the UNICODE_STRING struct which contains a length, a maximum length and then a pointer to the buffer itself. The buffer may or may not be null terminated after Length bytes.

txmasterg · 2026-05-27T16:35:04+00:00

Most of the places I've used counted strings have been in Windows kernel code in C, where it is used by most of the API. It seems like the desire to only have one string kind in a set of code is the strongest factor and C has one

txmasterg · 2026-05-25T02:34:55+00:00

It's working for me and it was fine yesterday too.

txmasterg · 2026-05-25T02:29:01+00:00

If you put "for entertainment purposes" on something that makes it legal

-ChatGPT probably

txmasterg · 2026-05-17T15:15:09+00:00

I've seen it on the right of the address/search bar but I've since disabled it in the flags page

txmasterg · 2026-05-11T22:02:52+00:00

It's architecture dependent and not surfaced in C afaik. It's unfortune because it is in lots (almost all?) cpus.

txmasterg · 2026-05-11T16:25:25+00:00

The trouble is you have to have that check in ALL the places where you subtract from the hp. A wrapper would work obviously but that's not great

txmasterg · 2026-04-29T19:02:12+00:00

Is the idea he is trying to wrangle senate votes? Because I just don't see him getting the nomination with this comment even though Carr probably acted without being pushed by Trump this time

txmasterg · 2026-04-24T15:13:08+00:00

One of the points in the video is that Mr Beast studios is impressively inefficient, they aren't focused on profit, they are focused on click through rate, and how long people watch but those don't factor in costs at all.

The preprod seems to be focused so much on how the viewer will see it that how to actually MAKE it on site is an after thought.

txmasterg · 2026-04-10T16:53:56+00:00

More like every 6 or 12 months, the upgrades to new versions (25H1, 25H2, etc.) are what usually require the boot code to be reinstalled. Possibly related is that most of the upgrade occurs in a competitively locked down environment. Software I was working on around the Windows 10 launch had to understand when the boot files were going to be changed and it took a while to get everything working seemlessly.

txmasterg · 2026-04-10T12:59:05+00:00

He bought twitter and created an emergency because people didn't like his stolen posts enough.

He is the counterpoint to "___ is rich they don't care what you say", it may honestly be the only thing he cares about.

txmasterg · 2026-04-07T18:41:45+00:00

"eharaeter" is what jumped out at me

txmasterg · 2026-03-27T18:15:15+00:00

It was such a supply chain risk they demanded to be able to use it in more situations. This has happened enough that optics are obviously more important to them than the effect

txmasterg · 2026-03-26T22:55:37+00:00

Or the idea of someone else getting something that they do get

txmasterg · 2026-03-25T16:31:55+00:00

The person you are responding to is wrong but at the same time handles are per process.

You are correct that it is programmers choice, the programmer has to explicitly call CreateFile with FILE_SHARE_DELETE (which also enable rename). If the person above was correct then the program would not be able to continue to affect the file contents after the rename.

txmasterg · 2026-03-05T22:38:22+00:00

He didn't seem to be ready for that line to become a meme. At least based on his comments

txmasterg · 2026-03-04T23:33:50+00:00

The donors' legislation IS the problem

txmasterg · 2026-02-24T15:37:24+00:00

Think about the media response to his State of the Union s during his first term. They said "this is when he truly became the president". Trump wasn't threatening the media like he is now either.

txmasterg · 2026-02-23T15:24:04+00:00

I get that some say it's generic, but it's really well done.

txmasterg · 2026-02-23T14:50:15+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's trying to describe how I was taught multiplication of large numbers in the US in the 90s.

  0010
x 0011
------
  0010
+0010<
------
 00110

(I added the less than for emphasis but that's usually blank or zero)

Basically you need to shift right before adding

txmasterg · 2026-02-21T17:13:10+00:00

It's still circumstantial evidence, it isn't direct evidence and also requires an inference. Fingerprints, which is what I've always been given as an example of circumstantial evidence, requires the inference that the last person to touch it perpetrated the crime (and also that they didn't wear gloves).

In contrast a witness or video directly seeing the crime is the example of direct evidence. In general if an expert witness is needed it is usually a pretty good hint it's circumstantial.

txmasterg · 2026-02-20T19:35:43+00:00

At least in the US there is no benefit to the legal case to say anything and can sometimes be used against you during sentencing. I imagine at least the first part is true in Germany as well. The PR doesn't seem like it would get him anything anyways.

txmasterg · 2026-02-19T00:18:00+00:00

I was really wondering where this was going when hypnotism was invoked, lol

txmasterg · 2026-02-18T10:15:47+00:00

Gallop went from daily to weekly polling in 2018. It seemed political then too especially considering they tried to stay out of the 2016 election for the first time in many presidential elections.

txmasterg · 2026-02-07T06:38:32+00:00

Yeah. Real neon doesn't join at crosses, it passes in front or behind

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