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dtzWill

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About dtzWill

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/dtz; my proof: https://keybase.io/dtz/sigs/WJohYpePBSS1-6dIlfR4Q7JImWeMpeSKwG6yehhvA3E ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #34756661

    Title has a typo, should be "RISC-V", not "Risk-V".

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    Comment #25040585

    > and gets updates Wife and I also have pixel 2's, and AFAIK October 2020 was the last month we got updates[1] :(. (although it notes "Pixel 2 Preferred Care customers have telepho…

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    Comment #19175850

    This is actually an area of very current research. We have implemented a form of software multiplexing that achieves the code size benefits of dynamically linked libraries, without…

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    Comment #18474138

    You might have misunderstood "postInstall" -- rather understandably so since elsewhere (debian packages, ...) for precisely the issue discussed in the article: arbitrary scripts ex…

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    Comment #18473025

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux

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    Comment #18364126

    And in particular guix uses nix internally-- but (AFAIK) at an API level and very little of the nix language. So it's rather related for that reason :).

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    Comment #16444710

    If what you're dealing with is actually a git repository, in 2.0 you can just use "src = fetchGit ./.;"-- this is what the expression for building Nix itself does :). Otherwise you…

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    Comment #14766327

    FWIW jwz redirects to something unfortunate, here's the same page via nullrefer.com which seems to do the trick: http://nullrefer.com/?www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html and on archive.org:…

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    Comment #14548303

    Not sure what "the ccc" is (if it's not "corkami") but your comment and parent's led me to finding this treasure-trove of format visualizations: https://github.com/corkami/pics/blo…

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    Comment #12452958

    This is good advice, and understanding this is the key to interacting with 'hacker' types. A good document to read or link from your project's "Contact" section is this FAQ on aski…

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    Comment #12071037

    Author here. FWIW the linked paper is the extended edition as published in TOSEM 2015, not the original ICSE 2012 paper, which I was surprised by given the year in the subject. Tha…

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    Comment #11566957

    1) Challenges in understanding undefined behavior are exactly why tools like ubsan[1] exist. In a way they help /everyone/ understand when 'undefined' constructs are encountered, a…

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    Comment #11497694

    You might want to use wego[1] directly if you're interested in weather reports in your terminal, if the dependencies aren't an issue. [1] https://github.com/schachmat/wego

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    Comment #9218355

    Nothing, really. There's an argument that using a 'for' construct groups together the details of the loop (initialization, the loop condition, iteration update), which can aid read…

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    Comment #2603838

    I created an account just to upvote this, very cool and keep up the good work! :)