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"a technique for reducing the memory footprint of programs in compiled languages with C-like structures" I figure that's not the primary reason for structure packing, but rather fo…

Woohoo, this is the 2nd time Hacker News picked up one of my articles. And yeah, you should subscribe :)

Well there is this: https://lwn.net/Articles/718267/

Fancy kids and their winamps, back in the day I used to coax musical notes out of a tinny speaker from an Apple II using PEEK and POKE in BASIC. ;)

It was a random sampling of songs that I was already playing while I was writing that. All my music is either folk (with a lot of Irish and American folk), rock, or indie. If you l…

You aren't by any chance interested in separating that, in hosting a server which gives a link to a good flickr image when given a word? I searched for something like that and in t…

>UNIX-like kernels are easy, in that you don't have to have >that much running before you can run "Hello World". Well, it depends on what you mean by "Hello World". Simply printing…

How does it work? Is it a Windows container implementation that got the "Docker" branding?

On time: 35. The rate that time passes at one point in the universe is the same relative to any other point in the universe. I once talked to some co-workers of mine who doubted th…

I'm not entirely up to speed on the situation of UEFI secure boot for ARM; didn't Microsoft mandate that it can't be disabled for such devices to boot Windows? Is that the case her…

I use C as my staple language. Old and always unfashionable, but it's never going away in my lifetime.

Relevant: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2088

Feeling nostalgic for the soundtrack? This guy did a medley -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0_ZHEDZ-4

Another folk/americana fan here, and I get contemporary pop music ads between my tracks on Spotify, and there's nothing more annoying than autotuned screeching between my Bob Dylan…