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A terminal case of Linux

fasterthanli.me

Has this ever happened to you? You want to look at a JSON file in your...
Has this ever happened to you? You want to look at a JSON file in your terminal, so you pipe it into jq so you can look at it with colors and stuff. That's a useless use of cat. ...oh hey cool bear. No warm-up today huh. Sure, fine, okay, I'll read the darn man page for jq... okay it takes a "filter" and...

linux rust
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Solving Uninitialized Stack Memory on Windows – Microsoft Security Response Center

microsoft.com

This blog post outlines the work that Microsoft is doing to eliminate uninitialized stack memory vulnerabilities...
This blog post outlines the work that Microsoft is doing to eliminate uninitialized stack memory vulnerabilities from Windows and why we’re on this path. This blog post will be broken down into a few parts that folks can jump to: Uninitialized Memory BackgroundPotential Solutions to Uninitialized Memory Vulnerabilit...

c++security windows
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How to write a text editor for a 31 year old computer - dstancu@web

dstancu.net

The Apple IIgs came out on September 15, 1986. It featured a 2.8 MHz WDC 65816...
The Apple IIgs came out on September 15, 1986. It featured a 2.8 MHz WDC 65816 CPU (the same one that powered the SNES and other similar computers of that era, a 16-bit CPU with 24-bit addressing), 256k or 1MB RAM (upgradable to 8 MB), and an Ensoniq 8-bit stereo synth (which was a welcome upgrade from the bit-speak...

assembly
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Clean Coder Blog

cleancoder.com

When I was 15 or so, my father would drive me, and my best friend, Tim...
When I was 15 or so, my father would drive me, and my best friend, Tim Conrad, to the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) sales office each Saturday. This was a 30 min drive. My father would drop us off in the morning and pick us up in the late afternoon. He spend two hours in his car each Saturday hauling us around...

ios virtualization
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GitHub - roshreview/derail_specs: A simple gem that makes it easy to write integration specs outside of the rails environment with transactional rollbacks. Useful for mobile apps, react, react-nati...

github.com

ruby testing
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Vectorizing xxHash for Fun and Profit

wordpress.com

Update: Thanks to Yann Collet’s comment I have fixed the mistaken reference to Hyperthreading while in...
Update: Thanks to Yann Collet’s comment I have fixed the mistaken reference to Hyperthreading while in fact I was referring to Instruction Level Parallelism via Superscalar processing. I was doing various performance optimizations in Pcompress for the last few days and the xxHash piece caught my eye. This non-crypto...

performance
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No, We Won’t Have a Video Call for That!

xahteiwi.eu

conference practices
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Code Smell: Primitive Obsession

danielbmarkham.com

code plt practices video
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Essays: Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? - Schneier on Security

schneier.com

Random numbers are critical for cryptography: for encryption keys, random authentication challenges, initialization vectors, nonces, key-agreement...
Random numbers are critical for cryptography: for encryption keys, random authentication challenges, initialization vectors, nonces, key-agreement schemes, generating prime numbers and so on. Break the random-number generator, and most of the time you break the entire security system. Which is why you should worry a...

security
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Chris's Wiki :: blog/linux/EGLAndGLXAndOpenGL

utoronto.ca

Earlier this month I wrote a blog entry about Firefox having jank with WebRender turned on,...
Earlier this month I wrote a blog entry about Firefox having jank with WebRender turned on, in which I mentioned that the problem had appeared when I stopped using an environment variable $MOZ_X11_EGL that forced Firefox to use "EGL". The blog post led to someone filing a quite productive Firefox bug, where I learne...

graphics linux
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OCaml 4.13.0 (and 4.12.1)

ocaml.org

The OCaml team has the pleasure of celebrating the 175th anniversary of the discovery of Neptune...
The OCaml team has the pleasure of celebrating the 175th anniversary of the discovery of Neptune by announcing the joint releases of OCaml version 4.13.0 and 4.12.1 . Some of the highlights in the 4.13.0 release are: Safe points: a multicore prerequisite that ensures that ocamlopt-generated code can always be interr...

ml release
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[coreutils-announce] coreutils-9.0 released [stable]

gnu.org

release unix
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GitHub - moshix/CP-67-CMS-Source: This is the original source code for the CP/67 CMS operating system from 1969

github.com

assembly historical osdev
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Migrating from my trusty 2009 Mac Pro to a 2020 Mac Mini M1

lonecpluspluscoder.com

I’ve been using a 2009 cheesegrater Mac Pro for quite a while now. I bought it...
I’ve been using a 2009 cheesegrater Mac Pro for quite a while now. I bought it used quite a while ago - around 2013 if I remember correctly - and it’s been serving as my main photo/video/general programming workhorse, although the latter tasks have been taken over mostly by a Linux machine housed in the infamous NZX...

mac
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Release Highlights for scikit-learn 1.0

scikit-learn.org

ai python release
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OpenBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU - Cambus.net

cambus.net

OpenBSD 7.0 (GENERIC) #203: Wed Sep 22 19:24:38 MDT 2021 deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC real mem = 267927552 (255MB)...
OpenBSD 7.0 (GENERIC) #203: Wed Sep 22 19:24:38 MDT 2021 deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC real mem = 267927552 (255MB) avail mem = 246661120 (235MB) random: good seed from bootblocks mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: date 10/29/10, BIOS3...

dmp ebox i386 openbsd vortex86
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What are you doing this weekend? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help...
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

ask programming
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Django 4.0 alpha 1 released | Weblog | Django

djangoproject.com

django framework open-source python release
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My Math Confession

adriano.fyi

compsci math
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RustConf 2021 - Move Constructors: Is it Possible? by Miguel Young de la Sota

youtube.com

rust science & technology video
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Atari ST in daily use since 1985

youtube.com

historical science & technology video
1
Type Check Your Django Application

kracekumar.com

plt python
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Overview

loda-lang.org

LODA is an assembly language, a computational model and a tool for mining integer sequences. You...
LODA is an assembly language, a computational model and a tool for mining integer sequences. You can use it to generate and search programs that calculate integer sequences from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences® (OEIS®). There are continuously running miners that generate new programs every day! Getting...

ai assembly plt
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Python as a build tool

tonsky.me

Normally, when starting a Java project (or any other programming project, really), you don’t want to...
Normally, when starting a Java project (or any other programming project, really), you don’t want to reinvent the wheel. You go with the de-facto build system, folder structure, environment etc. The ones that rest of the world is using. Yet, both Skija and JWM are built using Python scripts instead of more tradition...

java python
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