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And kudos to you for following up with your own exploration. It's so often the case that the most interesting stuff is hidden in what other people are wrong about.

Not as much fun that way.

A valid point! Clearly the correct solution would be for the kernel module to check if the filename contains the substring "32", and if so it should load it as a 32-bit binary.

So I read the other article, and I saw that bit that disagreed with my essay. My first thought was, "Oh, of course that's how it works. How did I get that so wrong?" My only excuse…

I couldn't help myself. Despite my better judgement, I wrote an extension to my original essay specifically dissecting this response. (It's now linked at the bottom of the original…

And thank _you_ for your thoughtful response!

I don't think that's a fair characterization of the statement. It's the type of mistakes, not the bare fact of them, that suggests a lack of what we could call "understanding".

Hey, if we can distract Chat-GPT with becoming an expert INTERCAL programmer, then I say "Win-win!"

If I complain about an answer given to me by one librarian, I'm complaining about that answer and that librarian. If you can find a more knowledgeable librarian somewhere else, tha…

Look, I understand your point. I really do. But I feel that (perhaps due to one or more of your acknowledged biases) you're applying the wrong context to the situation at hand. Nam…

And again, a heady mix of accurate observations with complete bullshit. Separating out the misinformation is, as always, left as an exercise for the reader.

Unless `write()` returns an error, in which case rax will contain a negative value. I've had to ditch that shortcut many times because of this.

Nice to see another approach to this subject! Kudos to the author. I have a couple of responses to specific points brought up in the article. The author suggests that the original …

You might be interested in the sequel essay, which covers dynamic linking under ELF: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/somewhat.h...

I find I need to quote myself from 2013, as I can't really add anything further to it: > Wow. I honestly wasn't expecting to ever see this on the front page of HN again, given the …