kahlonel

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by kahlonel 7mo ago
Wrong. I’m still doing it.
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by kahlonel 8mo ago
99% people in this thread have no idea what you mean. And that’s the reason projects like these make it to frontpage every other day and have hundreds of upvotes/comments.
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by kahlonel 9mo ago
Embedded software developer here, with very minimal professional hardware design experience. I mostly write nostdlib C, and never use malloc. I write peripheral drivers from scratch even if there’s an “SDK” for it. I spend almost 40% of my
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by kahlonel 9mo ago
Now we have vulnerabilities in two different flavors.
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Security issues discovered in sudo-rs(lists.debian.org)
24 points by kahlonel 10mo ago|15 comments
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by kahlonel 11mo ago
That's a great example of how to write C in 2025. Congrats and well done.
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by kahlonel 1y ago
PuTTY was the first tool I ever used to SSH into a machine. My mind was blown when me and my friend wrote to the same file and could see each other’s sentences.
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by kahlonel 1y ago
Flash
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by kahlonel 1y ago
Awesome write up! Please don’t mind the hostile crowd here. They don’t like anything other than their favorite language on the front page. There’s a much bigger silent majority that still loves C and the things you can do with it.
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by kahlonel 2y ago
Imagine going out, calling someone the N-word, and only getting 0.0379% of your income as a fine.
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by kahlonel 2y ago
You mean the implementation is faster than the one in C. Because nothing is “faster than C”.
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by kahlonel 2y ago
Because it’s the only language that doesn’t get in my way / add another cognitive layer to deal with. My modules can be as simple or as complex (by combining simpler ones) as I want.
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by kahlonel 3y ago
It’s “undefined behavior” because on certain embedded systems NULL (i.e. 0) is a valid memory address that can be read/written to.
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by kahlonel 3y ago
Using setbuf(stdout,NULL) also disables the buffering.
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Virgin Orbit to lay off about 85% of staff(reuters.com)
1 points by kahlonel 3y ago|0 comments
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by kahlonel 4y ago
I’m fine with it if they decrease the subscription fee to a quarter. Nobody I know has 4 TVs in their house. Charging for “4 screens” while enforcing this new policy is a simple cue to unsub Netflix for good.
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by kahlonel 4y ago
There’s nothing unpopular about this. In fact this is the most popular opinion on HN.
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by kahlonel 4y ago
Remind me when this company goes bankrupt with millions of investment down the drain
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by kahlonel 4y ago
All the best! There are many _huge_ projects written in pure C. Don’t let people tell you C is bad for your project size.
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by kahlonel 4y ago
What a nightmare. I would never own a Tesla even if I get it for free.
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by kahlonel 4y ago
As someone who likes to keep in check what’s going on back home while being permanently away from it, I HATE how twitter trends are hijacked by political parties to shit on the other parties. There trends are purely dogshit and nothing more
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by kahlonel 4y ago
Finally someone said it. Terms like “realtime” and “baremetal” are used in such vague manners that they have lost their original meaning.
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International Fixed Calendar(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by kahlonel 4y ago|0 comments
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by kahlonel 5y ago
These C-hating articles are getting out of hand on HN. I see atleast one every week on the front page. If you don't like C, STFU, pick-up whatever FOTM BS you like, GTFO of here, and leave us "normies" alone who have to get a
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by kahlonel 5y ago
Test
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by kahlonel 5y ago
C++ has all the problems that come with C plus all of its own problems. Also, OOP is pointless.
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by kahlonel 5y ago
C, GDB, an mcu dev kit, a Jlink probe, and an oscilloscope :)
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by kahlonel 5y ago
Yeah it’s not like the browser you are using, the OS you have installed, or even the firmware of the keyboard you’re typing this on is written in C.
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by kahlonel 5y ago
> At this time, Rust is the only viable alternative to C and C++ in these domains. No, it’s not. See Ada/Spark.
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by kahlonel 5y ago
No, we can’t. Because C is a necessary evil. If you stop teaching people to program in C, who is going to maintain virtually every software this world is running on?

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