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by caned 20d ago
You are an inspiration, Cliff! I also read your book as a child in the early 90s. I had dreams of hanging out in Berkeley and hacking on Unix. I eventually did both, and it has shaped my whole career. I've been blessed. My son is a big
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by caned 2mo ago
meow
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by caned 3mo ago
The article seems to state as much minus the obfuscation. However justified they are to respond, this can be a slippery slope. We're bound to hear more reports of hidden user data exfiltration.
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Who is the Real Dennis Ritchie? (1991) [pdf](dmrthesis.net)
3 points by caned 3mo ago|0 comments
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Off By: Exploiting a Use-After-Free in the Linux Kernel(blog.exodusintel.com)
3 points by caned 3mo ago|0 comments
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by caned 4mo ago
This show captures much of what I miss about computing in the 80s and 90s. You could get your hands on hardware, be able to largely understand what all the hardware and software was doing. You mostly used computers as tools, which only acce
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by caned 4mo ago
The enforcement of read-only protection for pagecache pages (and the scatterlists and or other structures they point to) seems to be diffuse and incredibly fragile.
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by caned 6mo ago
I was expecting to read about flame retardants in car seats causing infertility.
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by caned 7mo ago
The imports themselves may be dynamic. I once did a little review of dependencies in a venv that had everything to run pytorch llama. The number of imports gated by control flow or having a non-constant dependency was nontrivial.
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by caned 7mo ago
Two words: Fabrice Bellard
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Stiffer Colon Linked to Increased Risk of Early-Onset Cancer(scitechdaily.com)
3 points by caned 8mo ago|0 comments
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by caned 9mo ago
Much like you also have a robust choice of cereals at the supermarket.
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Heart attack risk halved in adults with heart disease supplementing Vitamin D(newsroom.heart.org)
3 points by caned 10mo ago|3 comments
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by caned 11mo ago
I miss the people of her generation. I feel like we could use their perspective, experience and fortitude right now. I sure miss their music too...even though Bird Lives.
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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994)(archive.org)
17 points by caned 1y ago|2 comments
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Tennessee school book bans include Calvin and Hobbes and The Magic Tree House(bklmy.com)
3 points by caned 1y ago|2 comments
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In Air India's wake, revisiting the case for cockpit video recorders(theaircurrent.com)
1 points by caned 1y ago|0 comments
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by caned 1y ago
I might relate to this, but I also spent more time talking to friends on the phone 20 years ago. The perception of this greatness can't be disentangled from the experience of youth.
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by caned 1y ago
I like to think that the enthusiasm for retro computing can make a clearing for innovative things to happen. I imagine such an environment can support values that aren't normally represented in fashionable, modern, commercial technolog
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A Lisp adventure on the calm waters of the dead C (2021)(mihaiolteanu.me)
83 points by caned 1y ago|32 comments
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How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not! [video] (2021)(infoq.com)
21 points by caned 1y ago|23 comments
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by caned 1y ago
That is impressive. It certainly shows what is possible _if_ you are familiar enough with the intricacies of modern C++. I'm not sure how I feel about a workflow where one needs to continually address "overhead" introduced by
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by caned 1y ago
I've found adherence to C++ conventions in low-level software to be a rather contentious issue, mostly recently when working in an ML compiler group. One set abhorred the use of macros, the other any kind of polymorphism or modern C++
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Deepseek.cpp(github.com)
2 points by caned 1y ago|0 comments
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AT&T Unix PC Reference Manual (1986)(archive.org)
9 points by caned 1y ago|0 comments
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by caned 1y ago
In such a case as this, yes. Not every systems product is designed to exfiltrate your data.
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Novasaur: Run 8080 CP/M with a few dozen TTL logic chips(hackaday.io)
2 points by caned 1y ago|0 comments
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Foenix A2560M: MC68LC060 on a Mini-ITX Motherboard(c256foenix.com)
3 points by caned 1y ago|0 comments
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by caned 2y ago
Is USD 1-1.2k for a clean, recapped Amiga 1200, with newest ROMs, updated PS and TF '030 accelerator horrifying? If so, call me a fool! (FWIW, I acquired mine two years ago, and it looks like recent sales on ebay are in the same ballpa
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Search the National Public Data Breach: Were You Affected?(npdbreach.com)
1 points by caned 2y ago|0 comments

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