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by eichin 8mo ago
BITD the one "fd sanitizer" I ever encountered was "try using the code on VxWorks" which at the time was "posix inspired" at best - fds actually were pointers, so effectively random and not small integers. I
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by eichin 8mo ago
The easy answer is Westinghouse (look for the youtube short about "things that spin"...)
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by eichin 8mo ago
As someone who worked for Nokia around the iPhone launch (on map search, not phones directly) - I also wanted to believe this at the time. But in retrospect, it feels like what actually mattered was that capacitive multi-touch screens were
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by eichin 8mo ago
If parallelism adds indeterminacy, then you have a bug (probably in working out the dependency graph.) Not an unusual one - lots of open source in the 1990s had warnings about not building above -j1 because multi-core systems weren't
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by eichin 8mo ago
Even the specific example in the article, the non-determinism was treated as a bug and was fixed (since by 2004 that was definitely a regression - we put a lot of work in, in the mid to late 1990s, to get bit level reproducibility - and
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by eichin 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_ID in the US (FAA) at least.
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by eichin 8mo ago
What open source DNS servers have an API? (I saw someone elsewhere in the thread talking about doing this with dnsmasq, but it sounded like they'd cobbled something together, rather than the software handling it.)
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by eichin 8mo ago
Bell labs was pushed aside because Bell Telephone was broken up by the courts. (It's currently a part of Nokia of all things - yeah, despite your storytelling here, it's actually still around :-)
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by eichin 8mo ago
TCC supports 32 (and I think 64?) bit chips, SDCC only targets 8 and 16, so their use cases don't overlap at all as far as I can tell from their homepages...
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by eichin 8mo ago
Anyone else too news-aware and parsed "drone strike" as a verb the first time?
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by eichin 8mo ago
Back in the 90s gcc did a three-stage build to isolate the result from weakness in the vendor native compiler (so, vendor builds gcc0, gcc0 builds gcc1, gcc1 builds gcc2 - and you compare gcc2 to gcc1 to look for problems.) It was popular
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by eichin 8mo ago
part of why rexec is "historical" is that Guido was looking at some lockdown work and asked (twitter, probably?) the community to come up with attack ideas (on a specific more-locked-down-than-default proposed version.) After a c
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by eichin 9mo ago
Is it really creeping, though? Pretty sure I first saw the EBNF in the man page more than 20 years ago, it's just how that generation learned to write and discuss parsers. (What I'm getting at is that even if it is, that isn&#x
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by eichin 9mo ago
Wasn't the sudo-rs (rust version) already reducing that leverage even further? (and finding interesting bugs, but that's not the point here)
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by eichin 9mo ago
I've committed "--i-meant-that" (for a destroy-the-remote-machine command that normally (without the arg) gives you a message and 10s to hit ^C if you're not sure, for some particularly impatient coworkers. Never ended
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by eichin 9mo ago
"high friction landing" :)
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by eichin 9mo ago
They mention spacex rideshare by name in the article but neglected to link to it: https://www.spacex.com/rideshare advertises really cheap delivery... the lowest price they brag about is "$350k for 50kg to SSO with a
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by eichin 9mo ago
(Warning, at least on chrome the video autoplays)
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by eichin 9mo ago
The EMSL Axidraw launched in 2016...
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by eichin 9mo ago
To combine with the "but did he build a cpu" thread, back-in-the-day the term project for MIT 6.004 was "build a CPU with TTL", with a very open-ended "performance race" extra credit project at the end. (At le
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by eichin 9mo ago
Trying not to turn this into "falsehoods developers believe about geographic names", but having done natural-language geocoding at scale (MetaCarta 2002-2010, acquired by Nokia) the most valuable thing was a growing set of tagged
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by eichin 9mo ago
In a previous tech bubble I figured out that the Aeron chairs were great - if you were using good posture . Slouch at all and they'd hurt you. The humanscale chair was the one that was actually good for feet-on-desk, keyboard-in-l
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by eichin 9mo ago
At least he's not feeding real drones to the coyotes... oh, there's a link in the readme https://github.com/kxzk/tello-bench
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by eichin 9mo ago
Yeah, but even that isn't going to make me care about why Gwern is obsessing over Venice. Part of that is that I follow Overly Sarcastic Productions on youtube and "Blue" did a vastly better job of expressing/performing
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by eichin 9mo ago
Stackoverflow code has a license (not per post, but a blanket one depending on which year - https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing it's mostly CC BY-SA.) I've written corporate policies that emphasize tha
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by eichin 9mo ago
The engineers using svn were the ones who were pushing for git - I was the one saying "we can't, because none of the conversion tools competently preserve branch history, and it's even worse on repos that started in CVS"
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by eichin 9mo ago
"responsible for made up sources" leads to the hilarious idea that if you cite a paper that doesn't exist, you're now obliged to write that paper (getting it retroactively published might be a challenge though)
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by eichin 9mo ago
Looks like GPTZero Source Finder was only released a year ago - if anything, I'm surprised slop-writers aren't using it preemptively, since they're "ahead of the curve" relative to reviewers on this sort of thing...
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by eichin 9mo ago
Definitely. It's even worse in educational fads - kids thrive when paid special attention to, often despite the methodology-under-test...
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by eichin 9mo ago
My (very-)local utility will give you an overall rate discount if you send them a screen shot of your car charging app showing it's only charging in a certain range of hours. Surprisingly, this works fine, though supposedly they&#x27

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