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Many companies use RHEL Workstation to run proprietary GUI applications. The application usually runs on RHEL Servers and uses X11 forwarding to show the GUI on the Workstation. Ru…

A very important part of people trusting you is them being able to understand what you say without making extra efforts compared to a native speaker. An easy way to improve intonat…

If we consider writing out of bounds to be legal, we make it impossible to reason about the behavior of programs.

Can you use the remaining SIMD lanes for processing independent data streams? Think encoding or decoding non-overlapping parts of a video.

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It implements tmux control mode. It's very useful when working with a remote server. No other terminal implements it AFAIK.

The security team cares about minimizing risks to the company and to their own careers. Deviating from what everybody else is doing makes it so that the burden of proving that your…

You can still have use-after-free errors when you use array indices. This can happen if you implement a way to "free" elements stored in the vector. "free" should be interpreted in…

Why does an optimizing compiler introduce nondeterminism? In my mind an optimizing compiler is a pure function that takes source code and produces an object file.

The problem here is that Emacs is the Elisp interpreter. They are the same thing. Emacs would have to start another process for Elisp analysis and code completion. That would be a …

It biases results towards people that "studied how to do the test" rather than studying the material that is evaluated.

English exams for ESL students are a great example. Getting good grades in those exams requires that you know the criteria for evaluating each part of the exam and how to tailor yo…

I understood that you were making an analogy between installing a piece of hardware and its associated kernel driver with installing a game and its associated kernel anticheat. Whe…

User space is not the same as kernel space. User space applications can't access hardware or physical memory. They can't bypass permissions enforced by the OS. None of that applies…

Can't the tunneling software detect when the upper TCP is retransmitting segments and drop them? That would give the lower TCP enough time to transmit the original segment.

Well, you could pick only 10% of the class for one on ones. Pick that 10% randomly or based on your intuition on the authenticity of their work. That threat may be enough to dissua…

In my case, I work with proprietary EDA tools. Vendors love messing with LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Chaos ensues when they override a system library or two versions require mutually incompat…

I don't think that Brazil is on its way to a humanitarian catastrophe. What makes you say that?

Do you think that Pakistanis don't know already that their country is poorly run and that their politicians are corrupt and incompetent? It's pretty condescending to expect a lectu…

FAANG pays very well, and money can be exchanged for goods and services. I know that having benefits like a free bike feels good, but the total compensation you are getting is much…

When Starbucks sells a cup of coffee who makes more money? Starbucks or the coffee farmer? This is the same thing. Businesses that are closer to the consumer make more money than t…

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Life as a rich person in the capital city of an Empire is great. I doubt that people in conquered territories felt the same way about the Empire.

You could store the current date and time in a global variable and have the producers just read it atomically. The consumer thread would then update it periodically. Timestamps wil…