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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. It is desirable for a program to be able to go to sleep and then wake up a little while later. Decades of madness.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Syscall count by program bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. Internally, bpftrace uses a lex/yacc parser to convert programs to AST, then llvm IR actions, then BPF. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Syscall count by program bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. Internally, bpftrace uses a lex/yacc parser to convert programs to AST, then llvm IR actions, then BPF. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it.

C++ 40
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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

” Quality assurance (QA) is defined as: “A program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.” — “ Quality assurance ,” Merriam-Webster. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. Nanoc removed the UI and is instead a program you run on the command line. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here. Drupal is not just a CMS.

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Why Do Selenium Tests Fail? : Top Reasons

Testsigma

Selenium was first conceptualized in 2004 at ThoughtWorks for website automation and has come a long way from it’s first Web Driver version to becoming a W3C standard protocol. Selenium works with certain programming languages. These automated testing tools do not demand scripting/programming skills.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. But the gain in efficiency would be relatively small. Automating this process is simple.

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