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Feels like this would be a good candidate for Pike's programming rules ( https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.htm... ): "Rule 1. You can't tell where a program …

Very cool! TIL about Ghostscript: https://ghostscript.com/about/index.html Awesome to see someone continuing in the tradition of free/libre OSS: https://linuxclass.heinz.cmu.edu/do…

Interesting to see how their CLI compares with GitLab's CLI interface for stacked diffs (the only support they offer at the moment): https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/merge_requ…

If you'd like to read something that is less detailed, I4R (Institute for Replication) posted threads on X (formerly known as Twitter) and Bluesky about their investigation into th…

It seems crazy to me that vulnerabilities like this still exist today. I understand that not everything will be written in Rust, but this could have been caught by basic testing an…

Fun to see someone decide to just write a faster JSON parser because they believed it was possible. They mentioned last year that libjansson had some intermediate layer with Emacs,…

True, I was trying to find the variable storage requirements in the UEFI specification but couldn't (is it Section 3? 8?), so I resorted to linking to the struct definition in the …

Very interesting. I wonder if this a result of some "swiss cheese" effect due to constraints around UEFI and NVRAM themselves, when updating EFI variables. NVRAM must maintain atom…

While this didn't get much attention on History Stack Exchange, see ConeOfArc's YouTube video (which has 963k views as of today): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaRO_dTqO1E See al…

"The more skilled you are, the less you need advanced tools..." I wonder how well this claim holds up under strict scrutiny. At a high level, it makes sense: someone who is a maste…

Is the main idea to convert the model implementation from Python into C, then hardcode all possible values? Do you do this yourself in the generator code, or could you let the C pr…

From The Register, with more comments by Filip ("Phil") Pizlo (the author): https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/rusthaters_unite_filc... . Other memory safe implementations for …