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I was luck to know Josh Nimoy who is responsible for a lot of this in the movie, who has since sadly passed away. Josh took great pride in the fact that he was able to put Emacs an…

The things you want from C isn't C. Id advice you to use another language.

A lot of the Central UB can not be defined, because they rely on detection. In order to have a well defined behaviour (by the standard or the compiler) the implementation needs to …

The 5 stages of learning about UB in C: -Denial: "I know what signed overflow does on my machine." -Anger: "This compiler is trash! why doesn't it just do what I say!?" -Bargaining…

Mark down is great because it doesn't define a bunch of things. Headline? Its a headline, no font, no sizing, no colors... Just a headline. It means that it can be displayed on any…

Do not make the mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.

This, "If you have enough, why does it matter if someone else has more" argument doesn't really hold. Yes we can make more TVs and phones so that everyone can get one, but then get…

Thanks for the shout out. I had no idea my 2h video, without a camera 8 years ago would have such legs! I should make a new one and include why zero initialization is bad.

Yeah the idea i that school is somehow a bastion of meritocracy is misguided. Academia is better at setting clear requirements and measuring those goals, but whether these requirem…

This is awesome. I run a team that uses software I produce and i have a rule that i can’t deliver breaking changes, and i cant force migrations. I can do the migration myself, or i…

Writing in binary or cranking your own electricity is easy. Anyone can do it. There is a difference between things that are difficult and things that just take a lot of work.

Your customers will pay more for things that are hard to do. Ask ASML.

I exclusively write in C89. I'm a member of the ISO C standard board.

When ever i see "never implement your own...", i know i want to implement it myself. People say that about hard things, and I only want to do hard things. Nobody wants people who c…

Maybe the victims of gunshots wanted to be shot? People shoot themselves all the time. Should we make convictions of murder, depndent on proving that the victim dint actually want …

Yeah thats an old idea, that have proven again and again to cause misery. Its not flimsy at all. Its peer reviewed science.

Yes, Sex work can be made more safe. However none of these protects against the psychological harm that may sex workers are experiencing. There is plenty of evidence how harmful pr…

We want to protect vulnerable members of society. they come in all sizes and shapes.

I'm saying that hiring people to do a job that is extremely dangerous, and likely to cause the worker harm, especially for your own enjoyment is exploitative. Most of the jobs you …

I'm ok with outlawing adults with free wills, getting payed to play russian roulett even if five out of six wont take a bullet to the head. Adults can be exploited too. "neither ha…

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Yes, Objective C is built on some deep C calls you can call directly. I was a part of a project that built an automatic wrapper generator for C. Check it out at https://felixk15.gi…