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All information is ephemeral, but I don't honestly think that argument holds much weight here. I'm currently listening to a record which was pressed before I was born, and that wil…

Ah, of course. Interesting.

Unless that site collects personal information, it's fine isn't it? This isn't about where stuff is hosted, it's about privacy.

Yeah, there were two busses, and the bigger ones were certainly rather impressive. I built a PDP-11/23 out of spare bits gifted from a university physics department in the late 80s…

Is it only me that would have expected curl_getenv() to have an assert that it's argument isn't NULL? I know this doesn't stop runtime problems in release builds, but i'd have thou…

I think the history of this is that these operations were common with assembly programmers, so when C came along, these were included in the language to allow these developers to f…

I'm interested in the implications for the open source movement, specifically about security concerns. Anyone know is there has been a study about how well Claude Code works on clo…

On the subject of the weights and measures to check that a pint is a pint, I remember the father of a friend of mine at university who was responsible for the weights and measures …

The older Tektronix TDS540 series did this, but at much lower rates as was common in those days though. Internally there are differential feeds from the very beautiful hybrid ceram…

I failed to find this on my skim, my bad :( Interesting that it's mandated as native - i'm really not sure the logic behind this (i've worked in the embedded world where such stuff…

Just out of interest, why aren't they cross compiling RISC-V? I thought that was common practice when targeting lower performing hardware. It seems odd to me that the build cycle o…

Nobody misses the terrible optical mouse with the blue metal mouse mat though! You are right, the keyboards were great.

The way I read it, the prefix to the > indicates which file descriptor to redirect, and there is just a default that means no indicated file descriptor means stdout. So, >foo is th…

Except it has a taste. I think finding something with just the colour and no taste would be a better example of this.

Most of the effort when writing a compiler is handling incorrect code, and reporting sensible error messages. Compiling known good code is a great start though.

Just out of interest, what's the current 'state of the art' for a chip that is hardened to survive launch and any length of time in orbit?

This has reminded me that in System 7, the code for the window was a system resource (resource forks contained all sorts of code, icons, text dictionaries etc). Anyhow, if you drop…

The problem with articles like this is that they read a little like justifying a decision that has already been made. I've a feeling that if it was written in C++/Rust/Go/whatever,…

I'm interested in why SSDs would struggle with condensation. What aspect of the design is prone to issues? I routinely repair old computer boards, replace leaky capacitors, that so…

I think that's an over-simplification. There was pressure on the language to ensure that data structures were compatible with C structs, so avoiding the vtable with simple classes …

I don't see the weight reduction being very significant. If we take a Tesla model 3, I believe it weighs 1611kg, and the motor shows up at 80kg if you google it (no idea if this is…

There's the C2PA standard which has picked up momentum recently to I guess help resolve some of the issues. https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-03-c2pa-verification-news... I believ…

Ok, i'll turn the sarcasm detector up a notch :)

The UK has 1/5th of the population of the US, and 12x the population of Minnesota. The last school shooting was the Dunblane Massacre in 1996, which led to gun law changes, removin…

I think the point is that the API doesn't specify that the returned integers are positive, or are monotonically increasing, then it's fine for the service to return any unique inte…