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nikbackm

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• Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual)

  by nikbackm on 5/16/25, 12:00 PM, with 0 comments

• Standards for ANSI Escape Codes

  by nikbackm on 3/8/25, 10:02 AM, with 3 comments

• Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 12 Months

  by nikbackm on 2/28/25, 7:24 PM, with 3 comments

• Hail and Farewell (2019)

  by nikbackm on 1/20/25, 7:58 PM, with 0 comments

• Stay Gold, America

  by nikbackm on 1/7/25, 11:33 AM, with 1 comments

• Getting the linker to verify identical functions

  by nikbackm on 12/24/24, 4:16 PM, with 0 comments

• Windows 11 now warns when typing your password in Notepad, websites

  by nikbackm on 12/2/24, 3:54 PM, with 4 comments

• Story-time: C++, bounds checking, performance, and compilers

  by nikbackm on 11/19/24, 6:50 AM, with 0 comments

• Lots of PCs poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today

  by nikbackm on 10/15/24, 8:28 AM, with 0 comments

• Why It's Important to Call Bullshit on Columbus

  by nikbackm on 10/14/24, 3:30 PM, with 2 comments

• Is This Tomorrow?

  by nikbackm on 9/30/24, 3:36 PM, with 0 comments

• The case of the crash when destructing a std:map

  by nikbackm on 9/27/24, 4:46 PM, with 0 comments

• Reader Q&A: What's the best way to pass an istream parameter?

  by nikbackm on 9/3/24, 7:14 PM, with 1 comments

• The Co­Initialize­Security function demands an absolute security descriptor

  by nikbackm on 9/2/24, 2:36 PM, with 0 comments

• Tales from the Far Side

  by nikbackm on 8/19/24, 1:43 PM, with 38 comments

• Crashes and Competition

  by nikbackm on 7/23/24, 8:15 AM, with 0 comments

• Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell.

  by nikbackm on 7/10/24, 12:46 PM, with 0 comments

• Quick Note on Penny Singleton

  by nikbackm on 6/13/24, 1:36 PM, with 0 comments

• Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up?

  by nikbackm on 4/24/24, 3:13 PM, with 0 comments

• How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?

  by nikbackm on 4/9/24, 11:40 AM, with 0 comments

• The Marvels and Singularity of Vision

  by nikbackm on 2/8/24, 6:29 PM, with 0 comments

• Three Things That LLMs Have Made Us Rethink

  by nikbackm on 12/9/23, 12:14 PM, with 0 comments

• In Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, what is a "grabber"?

  by nikbackm on 11/28/23, 10:48 AM, with 0 comments

• China Chips and Moore's Law

  by nikbackm on 10/18/23, 3:46 PM, with 0 comments

• Mysterious fast radio bursts look a lot like earthquakes, study finds

  by nikbackm on 10/11/23, 8:18 PM, with 0 comments

• 32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

  by nikbackm on 10/2/23, 6:09 AM, with 100 comments

• Why did 16-bit _lopen and _lcreat functions return -1 on failure instead of 0?

  by nikbackm on 9/19/23, 6:26 PM, with 2 comments

• I accidentally made an operation on INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, worked: What happened?

  by nikbackm on 9/14/23, 6:35 PM, with 0 comments

• Reordering C++ template type parameters for usability purposes

  by nikbackm on 6/9/23, 3:22 PM, with 0 comments

• Rust Criticism from a Rustacean

  by nikbackm on 6/8/23, 10:15 AM, with 123 comments

• SQLite 3.42.0

  by nikbackm on 5/16/23, 2:16 PM, with 105 comments