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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. If multiple threads can synchronize or coalesce their timer waits then the system becomes more power efficient.

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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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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

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. Since then, we have produced 4 versions of our checklist — in 2004, 2010, 2015, and 2020.

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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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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 core of the process is simple, and hasn’t changed much since the early days of web testing. What’s required?

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

To learn bpftrace, I've created a couple of references: - [one-liners tutorial] - [reference guide] The one-liners tutorial is based on my [FreeBSD DTrace Tutorial], and I think is a time-efficient way to learn bpftrace (as well as DTrace on FreeBSD). in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. eBPF does more.

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