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by MontagFTB 2y ago
HexFiend also has a template syntax for binary data visualization. It’s based on Tcl. https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/blob/master/templates/T...
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
Did the article come off as generated to anyone else? The tone and pace felt… off.
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
For data structures, an invariant is something that must hold true at the end of all its public APIs. For example a doubly-linked list may have to break invariants around its pointers while in the middle of a splice or insert. But at the en
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
When I bought a power drill, I didn’t throw out my screwdrivers. There are still cases where I find them essential. They’re all tools, each with their merits and tradeoffs. Few things truly move the Pareto line.
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
If it helps, hitting the spacebar will toggle screenshotting a window.
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
I don’t understand the lack of interest by journalists. What more did Williams need to do the first time he reached out to garner interest? Does ProPublica overestimate the seriousness of the militia movement? I’d think based on J6 the jour
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
I’d recommend “2,000 Years of Christ's Power” by Nick Needham. I am not sure where it falls on your theology/history spectrum but it has some of both. I enjoyed the audiobook of Volume 1 immensely. For me it did a great job descri
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
That post links to another, “Surely you can be serious,” that does a good job defining being serious, pitfalls to avoid, and steps you can take: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/surely-you-can-be-ser...
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
I consider Tracy the state of the art for profiling C++ applications. It’s straightforward to integrate, toggle, gather data, analyze, and respond. It’s also open source, but rivals any product you’d have to pay for: https://git
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
As per the article, the old domain expired and was picked up by a third party for $20. Said domain was hard-coded into a vast number of networking tools never to be updated again, effectively letting the new domain owner unfettered access i
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
That Fred Brooks quote is amazing.
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
Photoshop was originally written in Object Pascal, then transpiled to C and then C++. If Apple brings back the Macintosh Toolbox, I’ll get right on porting it back.
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
Rust is built to be memory- and thread-safe by default. Assuming you follow the prescribed rules of the language, multithreading is “free”. Amdahl’s Law still gets a vote, but at least your app won’t blow up in your face.
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
This reminds me of the story how the height of Mt. Everest was first measured at exactly 29,000 feet. The surveyor’s boss at the time added two feet thinking no one would trust such an exact number.
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
The GitHub repo [1] was made a read-only archive on Sep 30, 2020. Are there forks picking up where the original author left off? [1]: https://github.com/codilime/veles
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
Generating Sudokus is a fond area of computing for me. Great job; the website is very thorough and readable. Many years ago I wrote a Sudoku generator in C++ that was based on Knuth’s “dancing links” algorithm. It then analyzed the generate
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
If you are your family’s de facto IT support, it is worth considering Seraph Secure, which can detect when someone might be falling prey to an online scam and can notify you (among other things). https://www.seraphsecure.com&#x2F
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
I would love a website with a 3D breakdown of the Antikythera mechanism that let one peruse it in space, (dis)assemble it, and see how it functions (at least, to be best of our understanding.) Are we far enough along in what we know of it t
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
Thank you for Glider! I enjoyed it immensely as a kid.
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
+1 for HexFiend. Their template format is straightforward to extend. I’ve used it to analyze many different file formats. I also tried ImHex briefly. I have a ton of respect for the project, but found for my needs it was like using a cannon
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
For C++ applications, nothing beats Tracy’s flame graphs in value per dollar. We are using it at Adobe with great effect. It can handle mutex lock contention, runtime values and notes, arbitrary value graphs, and more. Highly recommended:
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
Lots of great 90s Apple Easter Eggs are listed here (the PDF): https://www.macintoshrepository.org/226-apple-easter-eggs My favorite one is the story of an engineer who hid an image of Paula Abdul on a CD-ROM (another versi
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
> If it's anything of significant importance, it should be documented in a place that is meant, by design, for documentation. The challenge we have found is that amazing technical documentation is often born from ephemeral conversat
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
At larger companies, data retention policies that delete old data are pretty standard for platforms like this. A lot of them can harbor conversations that can be taken out of context or were never meant to be public, so it makes sense from
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
std::deque doesn’t invalidate existing elements when new ones are added to either end of it. It’s not a panacea, and has its own set of tradeoffs, but if non-invalidation is a requirement for you it is available.
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
Who is to say Christians didn’t use their discernment to conclude that Jesus is who he claimed and did what was said of him?
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for our shareholders.”
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
The intent was to direct customers to the new “Export As” experience, which was a newer code base and handled some things SFW did not. Enough people couldn’t leave SFW behind though, and it’s been Legacy ever since. Anecdotally, SFW is the
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
It was transpiled to C and then C++ many years ago.
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
Thank you for fighting the good fight, Paul. We miss you and Alex around here.

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