WalterGillman

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by WalterGillman 28d ago
If you are interested in performant retro PRNGs, you can find a link to mine in my profile, if I am not mistaken. The counter is based on xorshift. As of the time of release it passed all tests that could be passed with only a 2^32-1 period
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by WalterGillman 11mo ago
I wonder how much it would take to break mine. https://github.com/waltergillman/xorshift_sbox I have not been blessed by an education so I can't be eloquent and write proofs and papers and stuff but it passes Prac
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by WalterGillman 1y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of detectable instances with compiler introducing "optimizations", but as a C "programmer" I do not mind bounds checks and any other runtime improvements that stay true to the language
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by WalterGillman 1y ago
If you forget about the security focus that only started when Theo de Raadt got pwned by N3tBSD h4xx0rz, it is one of the best OS experiences the interwebs has to offer. It has gotten a lot friendlier than it used to be too. It used to be t
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by WalterGillman 1y ago
I'm willing to write a C compiler that detects all undefined behavior but instead of doing something sane like reporting it or disallowing it just adds the code to open a telnet shell with root privileges. Can't wait to see the be
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by WalterGillman 1y ago
How? It might expedite intel gathering and psychological warfare to an extent but let's not pretend China doesn't have agents inside of all of the "friendly" platforms already.
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by WalterGillman 2y ago
> Which library has fewer dependencies. This is not insignificant. Remember xz? That could have been a disaster. That the language includes a package manager that fetches an assortment of libraries from who knows whom on demand doesn&#x2
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by WalterGillman 2y ago
Was just reading about this one the other day. Well-defined behavior and it actually solves a problem. Conceptually, I can't say it is worse than variadic functions or setjmp.