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by jagrsw 7y ago
It's 'portable' as originally stated, across various Linux CPU archs. _GNU_SOURCE is requested by man 2 syscall. Interestingly it mentions it appeared in 4BSD, so possibly it might work (maybe with some changes) under other U
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by jagrsw 7y ago
This would be a portable C (i.e. non x86-64, but still Linux) with just 2 syscalls: $ cat a.c #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> void _start(void) { syscall(__NR_write, 1, &quo
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by jagrsw 7y ago
The amazon book page is confusing, it lists him as a co-author. The book's cover says it's just a foreword, so I guess you're right. Still, not to surrender in this thread completely, letting such type of person to write a fo
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by jagrsw 7y ago
The co-author of this book is (seems to be) Deepak Chopra who acquired quite a fame for his liberal use of quantum physics terminology (quantum woo-woo) and for producing thoughts and ideas which typically turn out be not very coherent und
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by jagrsw 7y ago
And for something completely different - but in the same vein - a stand-alone 'cd' binary - https://github.com/robertswiecki/extcd - enjoy!
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by jagrsw 7y ago
Also: Singularity/AGI from early 80's (computer AIs improving themselves): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV Ebook readers from the 60's predicted stunningly - http://i.imgur.com/e1
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by jagrsw 7y ago
Indeed. Esp. Cyberiad and Robot's tales are full of wordplays, including the famous Elektrybałt's (Electro-poet's?) poem. Comparing the Polish (my native tongue) version end the English one (not a native speaker myself), I th
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by jagrsw 7y ago
Hm.. wouldn't it bias your results in some countries too? I used to live in Poland, now living in Switzerland (both topping the chart), and in both countries it's pretty customary to drop found wallets/IDs at police stations.
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by jagrsw 7y ago
There's a great Polish sci-fi novel - Paradyzja (~/Paradise/) (wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradyzja ) which describes ever-eavesdropped society. In the end, the society develops a metalanguage (