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   Google lays off employees in Android, Pixel teams, The Information reports(reuters.com)

   13 points by ndesaulniers 2y ago|1 comments
2. 92.▲
   by ndesaulniers 2y ago

   They have out of tree drivers. If they don't ship the hardware to end users, it's not clear upstream (Linux kernel) would want them.
3. 93.▲
   by ndesaulniers 2y ago

   They still use the build system. Woof.
4. 94.▲
   by ndesaulniers 2y ago

   Most directors and above at Google are more concerned with how they will put gas in their yachts this weekend than the quality of the products they are supposed to be in charge of.
5. 95.▲
   by ndesaulniers 2y ago

   I would imagine that the use of uninitialized locals could no longer be deterministically used to exploit a program.
6. 96.▲
   by ndesaulniers 2y ago

   hello!
7. 97.▲
   by ndesaulniers 2y ago

   Thanks! I just thought it was a song from Atlanta based metal band Mastodon.
8. 98.▲
   by ndesaulniers 2y ago

   Clearly a bribe.
9. 99.▲
   by ndesaulniers 2y ago

   Can it link the Linux kernel yet? Was a useful milestone for LLD.
10. 100.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    How about ld.lld?
11. 101.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    Good.
12. 102.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    Link to the essay in question: https://paulgraham.com/woke.html
13. 103.▲
    TikTok goes offline in the US hours before ban due to come in(bbc.com)

    2 points by ndesaulniers 2y ago|1 comments
14. 104.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    Apathy is death.
15. 105.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    Keep nailing legs to a dog until you can claim it's a spider.
16. 106.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    The prompt was "lick boots."
17. 107.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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    Bay Area tech giant Meta to dump workers, then hire replacements(sfgate.com)

    14 points by ndesaulniers 2y ago|1 comments
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    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    Great read! Eerily similar to some bugs I've had, but the root cause has been a compiler bug. Debugging a kernel that doesn't boot is... interesting. QEMU+GDB to the rescue.
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    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    I had an intern try to use precompiled headers for the Linux kernel. The road block they found was that the command line parameters used to compile the header must exactly match for all translation units which it is used. This is no the cas
21. 111.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    Ah, forgot if they had talked about that pattern externally yet. Thanks for the link.
22. 112.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge in case the name is lost on anyone.
23. 113.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    Cool! Carbon is doing exactly this. I had asked leads if there was a paper on this approach, but they didn't have anything for me. I'll send them this post!
24. 114.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    The master has failed more than the beginner has tried.
25. 115.▲
    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    I don't even know what's real anymore...
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    Statement by President Joe Biden on the Passing of Former President Jimmy Carter(whitehouse.gov)

    1 points by ndesaulniers 2y ago|0 comments
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    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    What was the AI prompt that generated that? LotR but programming?
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    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    > I'd pay a healthy amount for it. I think unfortunately while a lot of people claim they would do so, in actuallity they still have a limit on how much they would fund such an endeavor, and there's not enough such people that
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    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    Does it matter what color the rat is?
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    by ndesaulniers 2y ago

    Probably could teach LLVM these tricks. Last I checked, division by double word was problematic.