Async Wandering Part 15 — How async in C# tricks you and how to order async continuations

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This is the fifteenth part of the Async Wandering series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Why creating Form from WinForms in unit tests breaks async? You probably heard that async is all about not blocking the operating system level thread. This is the … Continue reading Async Wandering Part 15 — How async in C# tricks you and how to order async continuations

RPA Part 1 — Sharing Word/Excel between objects in Blue Prism

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It’s quite common for Blue Prism developers to use MS Word VBO or similar to interact with Word instances in workflows. However, a problem arises when we want to extend the object with some custom functionality that utilizes Word COM object. The issue is that MS Word VBO doesn’t expose the Word instance and we … Continue reading RPA Part 1 — Sharing Word/Excel between objects in Blue Prism

Pitless Pit Part 1 — Furmanek Test for consciousness

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Today I’m going to propose a framework for determining whether a being is conscious. I call it the Furmanek Test (just like the famous Turing Test). The test is based on identifying paradoxes among problems that can be proved unsolvable. General Idea According to Wikipedia, “a paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement … Continue reading Pitless Pit Part 1 — Furmanek Test for consciousness

Bit Twiddling Part 6 — Stop RDP from detaching GUI when the client disconnects

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This is the sixth part of the Bit Twiddling series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Par 1 — Modifying Android application on a binary level Today we’re going to solve the problem when the remote server disconnects GUI when we lock the workstation or disconnect. Let’s … Continue reading Bit Twiddling Part 6 — Stop RDP from detaching GUI when the client disconnects

Bit Twiddling Part 5 — Fixing audio latency in mstsc.exe (RDP)

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This is the fifth part of the Bit Twiddling series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Par 1 — Modifying Android application on a binary level Today we’re going to fix the audio latency in mstsc.exe. Something that people really ask about on the Internet and there … Continue reading Bit Twiddling Part 5 — Fixing audio latency in mstsc.exe (RDP)