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You went to high school with Niklaus Wirth?

You have pro surfing, but not cycling?

I guess I enjoy solving problems, and recognize that the devil is always in the details, so I don't get much satisfaction until I see the whole stack working in concert. I never ha…

So are Cygwin and WSL, though, for those who don't already have the luxury of being on Linux or UNIX (incl. MacOS). I'm sure there are uses for running full-system emulators inside…

I agree, bash, sed, etc. are great, but a VM running inside a browser seems like the least efficient way to access them. Even if you're stuck on Windows, Cygwin has been a thing fo…

But Docker is free (unless you're a fairly large business, in which case containerd is still free, and you can either pay for the front-end license or figure out how to set up one …

> The thing I most want to use this (or some other WASM Linux engine) for is running a coding agent against a virtual operating system directly in my browser. Well, there it is, th…

Definitely... http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/summer.reconstructed.pd...

The problem is that C++ stores the vtable inside the object, and the objects over which you're iterating often weren't allocated contiguously. Even when they are, if each object co…

And how does one become a maintainer, if there's no way to contribute from outside? Even if there's some extensive "application process", what is the motivation for a relatively ne…

If the goal is truly "clarity", then I fail to see how this leads to more readable programs than Knuth's Web (or cweb for a more practical implementation). If you really mean "C/C+…

Also pretty much every company with a "headquarters" of some kind in Ireland, notoriously including Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

And citizens benefit from the taxes paid by non-citizen immigrants, whether documented or undocumented. Not just income and payroll taxes that might be dodged by under-the-table ar…

The "founding engineers" behind Facebook and Twitter probably didn't set out to destroy civil discourse and democracy, yet here we are. Anyway, "full control over your keys" isn't …

That's not a great example, since memcpy() already has all the information it needs to determine whether the regions overlap (src The real purpose of restrict is to allow the compi…

>> was it the unions or executives that decided to offshore manufacturing? >Neither. It was consumers, who prefer lower prices. Right, because every executive who pursued offshore …

That's actually a terrific example, because the company already had a working, field-tested manually controlled version of their product, but they wanted a computer-controlled vers…

Modern CPUs do out-of-order execution, which means they need to identify and resolve register sharing dependencies between instructions. This turns the notional linear model of ran…

Of course you should offer some method to disable caching/compression/encryption/ECC/etc. in intermediate layers whenever those are non-zero cost and might be duplicated at applica…

The Windows product manager is also a tool.

Finding defects is a good thing, and fixing defects is a good thing. Adding new features can be a good thing as long as it doesn't introduce or uncover too many new defects in prev…

This is exactly how technical debt accumulates. You can write a comment documenting that "unsafe is actually safe here in routine X because Y will always do Z," but if the code liv…

I've often wondered how the evolution of C and C++ might have been different if a more capable preprocessor (in particular, with more flexible recursive expansion and a better gram…

There are things like Roblox that are really only usable under Windows due to a perverse idea of what "anti-cheat" should look like.