spc476

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by spc476 1mo ago
It's probably easier for the marketing department to get a new domain up and running that it is for a new subdomain within their own company. Battling Business Units and all that.
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by spc476 2mo ago
The two major distinctions in computer languages (in my opinion) are declarative and imperative. For declarative, where you describe what you want, not how to get it, you have Prolog, Make and SQL (maybe others but I haven't heard of t
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by spc476 4mo ago
TCC did several years ago. It could boot Linux from source in under 10 seconds. It's wasn't that big of a C compiler. It's in the 50,000 lines of code range.
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by spc476 4mo ago
Microsoft never removed it for MS-DOS. It just undocumented the calls required for this for years.
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by spc476 4mo ago
In general, yes, the linker (if there is one) would have less to do. Position independent code (PIC) on the 6809 is pretty easy [1], but it does increase the code side a bit, but the resulting code can be placed anywhere in memory with no c
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by spc476 4mo ago
I suspect the shadow registers were there to improve interrupt handling, reserve their use exclusively to an interrupt handler, and you could save time in not having to store registers in memory.
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by spc476 6mo ago
At a previous job, the team I was on [1] had a dedicated QA engineer (unofficially---he was the only QA engineer that ever worked with our team). Before we got bought, we worked closely with the QA engineer. He had access to the source re
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by spc476 6mo ago
I went through the lists. In 1985, of the top 10 movies, you had two direct sequels, two adaptations, leaving six original movies. In 2025, of the top 10 movies, you had two direct sequels, two remakes, three franchises (maybe sequels?),
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by spc476 6mo ago
Survivalship bias. Here's a list of movies released in 1985: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_1985 >. How many of those are good? How many have you heard of? Here's a list of
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by spc476 7mo ago
I've already done that---ANS Forth for the 6809 ( https://github.com/spc476/ANS-Forth ).
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by spc476 8mo ago
When in the past you learned that the recommended value for the TTL was 64 and you didn't think any operating system would pick a value much larger than that.
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by spc476 8mo ago
I'm checking the TTL of IP packets, which is only 8-bits in size, and in practice, are decremented per hop (the early IPv4 RFCs state it is in seconds; I doubt it was ever used that way). DNS TTLs are 32-bits in size and represent the
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by spc476 8mo ago
Yes. Yes. No, it's always port 443. But yes, the destination doesn't ACK the connection. No, the TTL just means it can make more hops; it doesn't mean the connection is kept open for longer. No, the IP addresses are unique a
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by spc476 8mo ago
The destination IP address is my server, the one being attacked. I don't see the significant of the high-value octets.
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Vibe Graveyard(vibegraveyard.ai)
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by spc476 8mo ago
Yes.
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by spc476 9mo ago
Unless you whitelist the notification email, which I've has to do a few times.
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by spc476 9mo ago
In my 19 years of greylisting, I have yet to have legitimate email fail due to it. And it was one of the easiest ways to significantly decrease the amount of spam. It's been worth it in my opinion.
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by spc476 9mo ago
You forgot difficult. How do you test a system call failure? How do you test a system call failure when the first N calls need to pass? Be careful how you answer, some answers technically fall into the "undefined behavior" cate
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by spc476 10mo ago
There was (and still is to a degree) a group of people critical of TLS. One half of the group (which I think you belong to) bitch about it being mandatory. The other half bitched about the use of TLS instead of <bespoke encryption syst
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by spc476 11mo ago
Old Soviet joke: government pretends to pay us, we pretend to work.
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by spc476 11mo ago
William Gibson got a lifetime ban for calling it "Disney with the death penalty" in a Wired article.
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by spc476 11mo ago
And OpenAI was a non-profit. "Was" being the operative word.
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by spc476 11mo ago
If I didn't want opinions, I'd join a cult.
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by spc476 11mo ago
Changing a radio tower light bulb is not for the weak of heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b9LahaBJIk
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by spc476 11mo ago
Such questions can be jarring though. I remember my "Unix Systems Programming" class in college. It's a third year course. The instructor was describing the layout of a process in memory, "here's the text segment
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by spc476 11mo ago
And you can take the address of a _Bool, so it must be addressable, so the least it could be is sizeof(bool) == 1.
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by spc476 11mo ago
And in my experience, it always comes down to "you're holding it wrong" or "that LLM is older than 20 minutes."
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by spc476 1y ago
XSL is neat, and it is a functional language, but between XSL and XPath, it is quite verbose. Here's a small section of XSL I use to generate my website ( not my blog): <xsl:choose> <!-- ... other code --&gt
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by spc476 1y ago
The hardest bug I had to track down took over a month, and a debugger wouldn't have helped one bit. On the development system, the program would only crash, under a heavy load, on the order of hours (like over 12 hours, sometimes ove

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