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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. With the Windows 10 2004 (April 2020 release) some of this quietly changed, but in a very confusing way. That’s crazy!

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GotW #97 Solution: Assertions (Difficulty: 4/10)

Sutter's Mill

Assertions have been a foundational tool for writing understandable computer code since we could write computer code… far older than C’s assert() macro, they go back to at least John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine (1947) and Alan Turing (1949). 1,2] How well do we understand them… exactly? GUIDELINE: Assert liberally. [3]

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

C @ns: [256, 512) 10900 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [512, 1k) 18291 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@| [1k, 2k) 4998 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [2k, 4k) 57 | | [4k, 8k) 117 | | [8k, 16k) 48 | | [16k, 32k) 109 | | [32k, 64k) 3 | |. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. Attaching 2 probes. ^C

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

C @ns: [256, 512) 10900 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [512, 1k) 18291 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@| [1k, 2k) 4998 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [2k, 4k) 57 | | [4k, 8k) 117 | | [8k, 16k) 48 | | [16k, 32k) 109 | | [32k, 64k) 3 | |. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. Attaching 2 probes. ^C

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

The Netflix TechBlog

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. Brief overview of image coding formats The JPEG format was introduced in 1992 and is widely popular.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics. He had it up and running on Wednesday. that a lot of people used.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Character POS ASCII Value Formula Value A 1 65 67 C 2 67 69 Checksum 136 Comparing ​​ the checksum values indicates ​​ that the values do not match and ​​ damage ​​ has occurred to the data.

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