zik

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by zik 2mo ago
> Most if not all of the bugs being uncovered are memory related I checked the stats. 73% were memory management related issues, mostly use-after-free. The rest were logic errors of various sorts.
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by zik 4mo ago
It's definitely not legal in my country (Australia)
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by zik 4mo ago
If your AI is writing bad code then you need to change your AI. No current high-end AI should be producing bad code.
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by zik 4mo ago
Why not use Qt-embedded, which is specifically designed for this kind of thing and works well?
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by zik 10mo ago
I've actually been toying with writing an Algol 68 compiler myself for a while. While I doubt I'll do any major development in it, I'll definitely have a play with it, just to revisit old memories and remind myself of its man
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by zik 10mo ago
As a fan of Algol 68, I'm pretty excited for this. For people who aren't familiar with the language, pretty much all modern languages are descended from Algol 60 or Algol 68. C descends from Algol 60, so pretty much every popular
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by zik 1y ago
In most word processing software you just type "--", or "--- " to get an em-dash. It's not rocket science.
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by zik 1y ago
> Our AC plugs are, however, the safest design on the planet. Not if you step on them with bare feet - those things are worse than LEGO. They could punch through a horse's hoof.
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by zik 1y ago
It's a patent on a physical process for measuring blood oxygen. It's not a software patent.
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by zik 1y ago
This has been in process for over a year. It's not a sudden thing. The press you saw was all part of a campaign to push the idea.
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by zik 1y ago
Wow. That's surprisingly lame.
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by zik 1y ago
I should have said "supermini". While mainframes had tried a variety of virtual memory schemes, the VAX was the first supermini to adopt the style of demand paged flat address space virtual memory which pretty much set the style f
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by zik 1y ago
Cockies are the pranksters of the bird world. They're smart and they think it's hilarious to mess with each other and anyone else. They also tear everything to pieces. So it's no surprise really that if any bird worked out ho
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by zik 1y ago
The Bellmac-32 was pretty amazing for its time - yet I note that the article fails to mention the immense debt that it owes to the VAX-11/780 architecture, which preceded it by three years. The VAX was a 32-bit CPU with a two stage pip
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by zik 1y ago
Surely he should receive a prison sentence for that alone?
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by zik 1y ago
That's one vision, but it's probably not the most likely one. People like privately owning cars, and as long as they're more convenient than hiring taxis it'll probably stay that way. Here's another vision of the fu
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by zik 1y ago
This is a very cool project but I feel like the claim is overstated: "PyXL is a custom hardware processor that executes Python directly — no interpreter, no JIT, and no tricks. It takes regular Python code and runs it in silicon."
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by zik 1y ago
I remember the excitement around VR back in the late 80s. These new polhemous motion tracking devices and LED microdisplays were going to change the world! Except the technology was expensive and ultimately it kinda sucked. It was barely us
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by zik 1y ago
His estimate the LCoE of an electric vehicle with lithium batteries is off by a factor of ten. My back-of-the-napkin calculations make it to be $0.22–0.25 per kWh. Let's compare two vehicles - an EV car vs an ICE car - in terms of thei
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by zik 1y ago
In my country (Australia), companies have been found guilty in court when making that claim. It considered false advertising to claim your product is "unlimited" when it is not, in fact, unlimited.
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by zik 1y ago
In the end it was a dumb comment by one of the Go devs which got jumped on by all the Go haters. Contrary to the popular meme, Go's not just for mid-tier programmers - it never was (and to be fair to Rob Pike, they've twisted what
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by zik 1y ago
> The public doesn't have access to RISC-V hardware and it won't have access anytime soon. There's plenty of RISC-V hardware around, and anyone can buy it. eg. [1] [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/RISC
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by zik 2y ago
The way precompiled headers work in C++ is a bit of an ugly hack. And worse, it's almost as slow as just compiling them all every time anyway.
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by zik 2y ago
Do you have a reference which shows they weren't fabricated or is this just your opinion? Because I feel if we know for sure they weren't fabricated they'd have at least proceeded to trial with it. Particularly considering th
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by zik 2y ago
There wasn't any evidence that actually happened. It appears that it may have been fabricated by the same investigators that later robbed him of some millions of dollars worth of bitcoin. Then when it went to trial the murder-for-hire
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by zik 2y ago
They dropped the contract killer charges - it appears that they were fabricated to try to turn public opinion against him and get him jailed. But as soon as they went to trial the charges were dropped for lack of evidence.
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by zik 2y ago
And it avoids the NULL == 0 ambiguity, allowing for better type checking.
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by zik 2y ago
> ...told me distainfully that the only consequence of ULEZ was that they were not going to drive as much. Did they not realise that's literally the whole point?
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by zik 2y ago
Higher levels of CO2 impair cognitive function [1]. In fact there's no floor - even small increases in CO2 have small but measurable effects. [1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthybuildings/2021/09/09&#
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by zik 2y ago
Here's some anecdotal evidence - a friend worked at CrowdStrike and was horrified at how incredibly disorganised the whole place was. They said it was completely unsurprising to them that the outage occurred. More surprising to them wa

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