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Microsoft says they are investigating claims that the Lapsus$ data extortion hacking group breached their internal Azure DevOps source code repositories and stolen data. They went to all the effort to hack Microsoft, and all you get is Bing?
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A new analyzer should be available in .NET 7 to detect classes that can be sealed. In this post, I'll show some performance benefits of sealed classes. "Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours"
But don't put it in your will, as there's no inheritance!
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Either some of those benchmarks aren't being reported correctly, or the compiler has optimized the inner loop into a no-op.
Quote:
Method Mean Error StdDev Ratio Code Size
NonSealed 0.0668 ns 0.0156 ns 0.0138 ns 1.00 64 B
Sealed 0.0307 ns 0.0209 ns 0.0185 ns 0.50 35 B
A duration of 0.0307ns corresponds to 1 clock cycle on a 32.5ghz chip.  Even competitive overclockers using liquid nitrogen cooling can't get that fast.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Microsoft added Audio CD support to the new Windows 11 Media Player app in version 11.2202.42.0. So you can stop using them as coasters again
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Easter is approaching so let's talk Easter eggs: an intrepid and incredibly dedicated user has uncovered a hidden dialog inside Windows 1.0. May I suggest stamp collecting as a better hobby?
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Or possibly making not collecting stamps your favorite hobby.
(That was suggested to me by a guy who claimed that explicitly not being devoted to something is directly comparable to being devoted to something. He was a religious type, though.)
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trønderen wrote: making not collecting stamps your favorite hobby.
Does that mean that those who avoid going to church / synagogue / mosque / ... at all costs are as observant as those who go to all services? The mind boggles!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I have no thoughts about those claiming the existence of some deity, but fail to worship it in the prescribed way.
However: Countless times, I have been told that 'rejecting a deity is just as much a religion as believing in one'. The thing with reality is that its exists around you all the time, whether you 'observe' it or not. You may observe it to learn to know it better - that is what scientists do. But even if you spend all your time doing other activities, the Real World (tm) is there to its full extent, and free for others to observe. If you 'do not believe in' what is by quite a few people referred to as my 'religion', a.k.a. reality, then you may have a larger practical problem than if you do not properly honor some deity.
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I recall this being found before.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: May I suggest stamp collecting as a better hobby?
🎶 Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately? 🎶
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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... and the next line. <evil grin>
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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We’ve seen a lot of excitement around C++ modules since we announced support in the Microsoft C++ compiler and Visual Studio. I'm assuming this is good news to some?
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No data was provided on whether these people already have brain damage. That's probably also the percentage of people that think Elvis is still alive
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Their understanding of 'monkeys dying' is different than my understanding of 'monkeys dying.'
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In the early 1960s, Margaret Hamilton began her career as a pioneering programmer and systems designer. "No software bug was ever found on any manned space flight Apollo mission."
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Despite several well-publicized software bugs (the Mars English/metric thing comes to mind), NASA's software development methodology which Ms. Hamilton created and others have expanded upon is awe-inspiring.
Development practices during the Shuttle program were extraordinary, according to an article I read. Most of the code was in 'C' as I recall. There was a rule book that listed both mandated and prohibited practices. Validity checking on all arguments. Single exit on all functions. Argument lists had to be short. No multiple levels of pointer indirection. Certain library functions were prohibited. Automated testing tools were used a lot, and 100% test passage was required. Every line of code went through review. According to a member of the team, it meant that development was slow. It could take weeks to get a change of a couple hundred lines through the gauntlet.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: No multiple levels of pointer indirection.
Well that takes all the fun out of it! 
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If you’re one of the 4.5 million software developers in the United States, chances are that much of your experience — to use a technical term — sucks. "The cobbler's children have no shoes"
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Tool chains make our experience suck? I honestly wish it that was the reason my experience sucks. I
I would say that 99.9% of my suckage is evenly distributed between over-the-top security crap, and micro-managing managers. Most of our tool chain tools are environment and product-specific, which means we have to write a lot of them them on our own.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 22-Mar-22 5:59am.
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The fact that your toolchain sucks isn't going to go away unless you single-source everything in it, and make sure that the source you go to makes things cooperate efficiently and intelligently. Now that you're all either laughing hysterically or wondering what I'm smoking and why I didn't bring enough to share, let me tell you how we deal with the problem.
Our toolchain includes the following:
Visual Studio 2008, 2015, and 2019
Visual SourceSafe
Greenhills C compiler (embedded stuff)
Inno Setup (installer authoring)
Madcap Flare (help authoring)
Visual Studio and SourceSafe are the only two tools common to the entire team. The others are the province of single team members who do all of the development using those tools. This results in the benefits of single-sourcing the tool chain as far as the tools go, without doing so from the entire team's perspective.
The more important factor is our automation. Our philosophy is to automate any and every process that has multiple steps or for which the error consequences are significant. The automation ranges from a few simple batch files to a Windows service implemented in C# that builds our products. You can request a build from the service with a couple clicks. It extracts source from SourceSafe, compiles, builds installers and constructs install media, publishes installs to network shares, builds an ISO file for archiving the build, and emails the build results to interested parties.
If this leads you to think we must be a big group, you're wrong. Over the last several years we shrank from 15 down to 4, and we're now back up to 6 engineers. Our automation makes us more efficient since we're not nearly as worried about the process, and far more about our problem domain.
Software Zen: delete this;
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An NFT collector says he lost his net worth "in a single click" by accidentally selling an NFT for a fraction of a cent The line for passing on your condolences begins after the laughing man over there
I'd say it's not even worth $0.0012, but that's because I just don't understand...
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Yet another crypto story in two parts:
1) Dunning-Krugerrands.
2) Money with wings.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I am so stealing "Dunning-Krugerrands". Thank you so much. 
TTFN - Kent
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You're welcome. I can't remember where I stole it from originally.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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