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I don't the fanaticism around memory safe languages. We've had memory safe languages for a very long time. Algol-60, the granddaddy of many modern languages, had it sixty-five year…

I've still got mine. It's been well used but is hanging together still.

Seems like another way to deliver nukes to targets...

Under uClinux, executables can be position independent or not. They can run from flash or RAM. They can be compressed (if they run in RAM). Shared libraries are supported on some p…

Out by a factor of five or more. A $1 Linux capable ARM: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/the-$1-linux-... I'd expect that there were even cheaper processors now sinc…

I used decNumber in the WP 34S project ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/wp34s/ ) and more recently in the C47 project ( https://47calc.com ). You are correct in that the decNumbe…

It might be shorter to do some multiplications: 0x08C0C166 = 2⁴ × 3 × 5⁵ × 11 × 89 + 1 = 10⁴ × 3 × 5 × 11 × 89 + 1 Plenty of values that can be reused (11 = 10 + 1 and 89 = 10² - 1…

The initial XOR instruction isn't required, registers are zeroed as per the problem statement.

Better check his pockets on the way out :)

I think there is a spurious "and H" in the title :)

Later uClinux was available on m68k platforms without memory managers. The approach taken doesn't seem close to the one in the article. I managed to put in shared execute in place …

My favourite mathematical problem looks to have been solved.

There is a second issue with the code. The calculation of the mean isn't numerically stable. Instead use: mean_power = mean_power + (power - mean_power) / count

Algol 68 was to Algol as C++ is to C: trying to do too much resulting in over-complexity. The two page spread showing a graph of the implicit type conversions was a masterpiece.

Kind of like the "install this software" as part of the interview process. "My hourly rating for figuring out your bug is $X".

A division free integer in a range RNG has been developed: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/39143

What a crazy idea. Cost to orbit is huge. Power availability will depend on pushing enough solar up there. Data centres use lots of power. Getting rid of excess heat is a major pro…

Every time I've seen similar done in the past, it has come back to hurt the instigator.

We're all upside down here and the blood rushes to our heads. While living in the antipodes gives most of us genius level intelligence, it also prevents interpersonal relationships…

This is the easiest way to go but it's only obscuring the GUID. Format preserving encryption (FPE) would be another possibility if it's not simply a byte string.

Is California one of the more progressive states with regards to reductions? This does not bode well for the world we share.

As a career programmer, I'm not in the least concerned that LLMs will replace me. At least not in the near to mid term future. The key is to have skills that LLMs aren't good at re…

It would also be extremely inaccurate. The x^n numerators grow very quickly and digits get lost because unlimited precision isn't available. Likewise, the n! denominators also grow…

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18 Indians have signed up with Russia. More US citizens have been killed already: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/americans-killed-ukraine-rus... . This isn't a news story, it's pr…