Programming "In the Large"

This term (coined in 1975 in a paper "Programming in the large versus programming in the small") refers to programming large-scale software systems.

It embodies principles like modularization, high cohesion and loose coupling, as well as formal project management.

The Browser As Sandbox

A "browser sandbox" isolates pages and scripts in a restricted environment. This can prevent malicious sites from accessing your files and doing other dangerous things on your machine.

Modern browsers run rendering and JavaScript execution in low privilege processes, with a separate "broker process" (or "mediator process") controlling access to system resources (process isolation)  Renderer processes cannot read files, launch programs or interact with other applications.

Types of browser sandboxing include local sandboxing - where the sandbox is built into browsers (Chromium, Firefox, Safari), remote/cloud sandboxing where websites are run in isolated VMs streamed to your machine, and online URL sandboxes (services like Browserling which allow you to open URLs in disposable remote browsers).

Browser sandboxing is a foundational security layer in modern browsers and remote isolation platforms.

One Billion Bytes - It's Not "Big Data"

One billion bytes is not big data.  But it is a big number.  A number equal to 10^9. 

A short form for one billion is giga- in the International System of Units (SI). 

The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB.

Code 43

Code 43 means Windows disabled a device because its firmware reported a fault. 

You may see it presented thus.

"Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems (Code 43)".

In fact, the device in question may be perfectly fine.

Ralph Loops

A Ralph Loop is an autonomous agent tool that runs a coding model repeatedly to complete PRDs. 

The concept and inspiration is described by Geoffrey Huntley.

What Scale is Your Big Data

terabytes (TB) - 1000 gigabytes (10^12 bytes) - used in consumer storage

petabytes (PB) - 10^15 bytes  or 1000 TB

exabytes (EB) - 10^18 bytes or 1000 PB

Zettabytes and yottabytes are even bigger measures of memory.

Marker Icon in Microsoft Word

The "marker icon" on the Font group in the Ribbon is what determines background (highlight) colour. It can be hard to identify when the background colour is set to grey and thus blends into the ribbon.