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> Most if not all of the bugs being uncovered are memory related I checked the stats. 73% were memory management related issues, mostly use-after-free. The rest were logic errors o…

It's definitely not legal in my country (Australia)

If your AI is writing bad code then you need to change your AI. No current high-end AI should be producing bad code.

Why not use Qt-embedded, which is specifically designed for this kind of thing and works well?

I've actually been toying with writing an Algol 68 compiler myself for a while. While I doubt I'll do any major development in it, I'll definitely have a play with it, just to revi…

As a fan of Algol 68, I'm pretty excited for this. For people who aren't familiar with the language, pretty much all modern languages are descended from Algol 60 or Algol 68. C des…

In most word processing software you just type "--", or "--- " to get an em-dash. It's not rocket science.

> Our AC plugs are, however, the safest design on the planet. Not if you step on them with bare feet - those things are worse than LEGO. They could punch through a horse's hoof.

It's a patent on a physical process for measuring blood oxygen. It's not a software patent.

This has been in process for over a year. It's not a sudden thing. The press you saw was all part of a campaign to push the idea.

Wow. That's surprisingly lame.

I should have said "supermini". While mainframes had tried a variety of virtual memory schemes, the VAX was the first supermini to adopt the style of demand paged flat address spac…

Cockies are the pranksters of the bird world. They're smart and they think it's hilarious to mess with each other and anyone else. They also tear everything to pieces. So it's no s…

The Bellmac-32 was pretty amazing for its time - yet I note that the article fails to mention the immense debt that it owes to the VAX-11/780 architecture, which preceded it by thr…

Surely he should receive a prison sentence for that alone?

That's one vision, but it's probably not the most likely one. People like privately owning cars, and as long as they're more convenient than hiring taxis it'll probably stay that w…

This is a very cool project but I feel like the claim is overstated: "PyXL is a custom hardware processor that executes Python directly — no interpreter, no JIT, and no tricks. It …

I remember the excitement around VR back in the late 80s. These new polhemous motion tracking devices and LED microdisplays were going to change the world! Except the technology wa…

His estimate the LCoE of an electric vehicle with lithium batteries is off by a factor of ten. My back-of-the-napkin calculations make it to be $0.22–0.25 per kWh. Let's compare tw…

In my country (Australia), companies have been found guilty in court when making that claim. It considered false advertising to claim your product is "unlimited" when it is not, in…

In the end it was a dumb comment by one of the Go devs which got jumped on by all the Go haters. Contrary to the popular meme, Go's not just for mid-tier programmers - it never was…

> The public doesn't have access to RISC-V hardware and it won't have access anytime soon. There's plenty of RISC-V hardware around, and anyone can buy it. eg. [1] [1] https://wiki…

The way precompiled headers work in C++ is a bit of an ugly hack. And worse, it's almost as slow as just compiling them all every time anyway.

Do you have a reference which shows they weren't fabricated or is this just your opinion? Because I feel if we know for sure they weren't fabricated they'd have at least proceeded …

There wasn't any evidence that actually happened. It appears that it may have been fabricated by the same investigators that later robbed him of some millions of dollars worth of b…