crustycoder

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1. 121.▲
   by crustycoder 7y ago

   I think Linus was incredibly polite and helpful, I certainly wouldn't have been anything like as tolerant. I had barely got into the original article before muttering "What about the scheduler & preemption, you idiot" t
2. 122.▲
   by crustycoder 8y ago

   And no mention of the world's first stored computer, the one Alan Turing wrote code for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby
3. 123.▲
   by crustycoder 8y ago

   This alphabetti spaghetti of boot flags is getting ridiculous, there seems to be no central list anywhere, just random snippets across the web. Why is there not a Linus rant when you really need one? :-(
4. 124.▲
   by crustycoder 10y ago

   POSIX cares not one jot about Intel's CPU implementation, the assumption that memset is not async-signal safe because of something specific to x86 is ludicrous. As of IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2016 Edition memset() and lots of others besid