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Oracle’s OpenJDK is the only one that is built without supporting Shenandoah GC.

Did you mean to have the `tmp.name` as the library passed into `CDDL`? If not, what’s the purpose of the copy?

If you’re more into watching a presentation, I recorded “A Brief History of Unicode” last year, And there’s a YouTube recording of it as well as the slides: https://speakerdeck.com…

iOS auto incorrect. It’s just ducking awful.

You might also like my recent presentation on understanding micro architecture: https://speakerdeck.com/alblue/understanding-cpu-microarchit... The presentation was recorded and is…

The link is supposed to be https://speakerdeck.com/alblue/understanding-cpu-microarchit... but for some reason HN has stripped the last parameter off, which means it is more pointi…

True, but as it turns out in 2022 we are in exactly the same problem, as our bitterly incompetent Prime Minister is trying to save his own job at the cost of thousands of lives (15…

I gave this presentation; if you have any questions, I’d be happy to answer them as best I can.

From the abstract: Microprocessors have evolved over decades to eke out performance from existing code. But the microarchitecture of the CPU leaks into the assumptions of a flat me…

> and now do little for the latest variant. Actually, the current vaccines still seem to be doing a pretty good job, even with the latest variant (and there are always more variant…

TL;DR Microsoft released a virus definition file with a timestamp/serial 220101001, and is unable to parse it into a (signed) long value since the largest value is 2,147,483,647 an…

This is the only git manpage you’ll ever need: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

Then set up an alias to do it for you. https://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/04/git-tip-of-week-aliases.h...

It’s known as the Konami code, although it’s got BA Start at the end :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code

Note that GC makes explicit the costs associated with memory allocation and freeing; languages that use manual memory management (or semi automated memory management as in Swift/Ru…

Is it this one? https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228

Where’s the CVE?

There’s a few reasons, but mostly is due to economics and the way Apple builds its own software. Swift came out of the iOS side of the company, and was sponsored to make writing iO…

The most annoying aspect of this for us was that the AWS Organizations API only has a single endpoint, in us-east-1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ao.html As a resu…

The talk itself is great, but the background to the slides and speakers is constantly moving from side to side and is pretty distracting. I would have preferred to see the video of…

I’ve used Mythic Beasts for over a decade now, and they are a great company for all sorts of hosting, not only raspberry Pis. Plus, they actually serve the Raspberry Pi foundation …

Another approach, if you are using terraform directly and running in AWS, is to get GitHub Actions to log on to AWS. While you can do this by embedding an AWS IAM secret as a GitHu…