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How can I detect that the system is running low on memory? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | past | discuss Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by birdculture 2 days ago | past | discuss C++ says “We have try... finally at home” (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 145 points by ibobev 3 days ago | past | 143 comments Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers are enough? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by signa11 3 days ago | past | discuss Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 309 points by montalbano 4 days ago | past | 124 comments Why are we worried about memory access semantics? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by HeliumHydride 4 days ago | past | discuss Why is the last letter of my string not making it to the clipboard? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by HeliumHydride 5 days ago | past | discuss C++: "We have try...finally at home" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by HeliumHydride 7 days ago | past | 1 comment Microspeak: North Star – The Old New Thing (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 26 points by rbanffy 7 days ago | past | 10 comments When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 79 points by magnat 8 days ago | past | 35 comments All the other cool languages have try finally. C++: We have try at home (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by macote 8 days ago | past | 1 comment Concluding thoughts on our deep dive into Windows clipboard text conversion (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 9 days ago | past | discuss The Windows clipboard automatic text conversion algorithm is path-dependent (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 9 days ago | past | discuss Why does Windows take the scenic route converting from CF_TEXT to CF_OEM­TEXT? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by zdw 13 days ago | past | discuss Resolving an ambiguity in the Windows clipboard automated text conversion table (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 17 days ago | past Various locale mismatch scenarios in Windows clipboard text format synthesis (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 29 points by ibobev 19 days ago | past | 7 comments How does Windows synthesize CF_Unicode­TEXT from CF_TEXT and vice versa? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 10 points by ibobev 21 days ago | past How can I read the standard output of an already-running process? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 61 points by ibobev 25 days ago | past | 33 comments Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 98 points by HeliumHydride 27 days ago | past | 83 comments How can I have a Win32 drop-down combo box with a read-only edit control? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by susam 30 days ago | past XAML breaks down when I have an element that is half a billion pixels tall (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by ingve 36 days ago | past Is Write­Process­Memory faster than shared memory for transferring data (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 40 days ago | past How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 147 points by ayi 40 days ago | past | 109 comments How can I detect that Windows is running in S-Mode, redux (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by kencausey 43 days ago | past Behind the scenes on how Windows 95 app compatibility patched broken programs (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by paulmooreparks 49 days ago | past Windows 95 application compatibility patched broken programs (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 7 points by vitplister 50 days ago | past Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 52 days ago | past Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space: Restructuring the tree (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 53 days ago | past The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 122 points by zdw 56 days ago | past | 60 comments Microspeak: Turn into a Pumpkin (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by zdw 61 days ago | past More

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