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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. First, a bit of operating-system design context. Timer interrupts and their raison d’être.

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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. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

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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. The test cases are brittle, the failures are common, and the maintenance of automated test cases takes more time and cost than it takes to automate them.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1).

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. eBPF does more.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. In 2004, we submitted a set of rules to the Opquast community of web professionals in public online workshops. This set of “rules to create rules” is a sanity test to keep only the rules that can be accepted and used by the community. With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. eBPF does more.

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