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64bit computing on a budget
With all that Dec Alpha talk , and how hard it is to get hardware, and how seemingly exclusionary it is, I thought I would try to touch on a more available 64bit ‘risc’ platform, for the masses!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,211 posts.
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Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures
This is an introduction to data structure flattening, a special case of arena allocation that is a good fit for programming language implementations. We build a simple interpreter twice, the normal way and the flat way, and show that some fairly mechanical code changes can give you a 2.4× speedup.
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Tree-Structured Concurrency
For a while now I've been trying to find a good way to explain what structured concurrency is, and how it applies to Rust. I've come up with zingers such as: "Structured concurrency is structured programming as applied to concurrent control-flow primitives" . But that requires me to start explaining what structured…
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Beyond Markdown (2018)
John MacFarlane
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How to 1.5x your salary through negotiation
Discover strategies for negotiating a higher salary, potentially increasing your earnings by 1.5 times with the right approach.
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Twitter bug causes self-DDoS, related to Musk’s emergency blocks, rate limits
An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.
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The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor
The Intel i960 was a remarkable 32-bit processor of the 1990s with a confusing set of versions. Although it is now mostly forgotten (outs...
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Rust on Espressif chips
Scott Mabin's blog
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A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)
The Privacy Whisperer, by Luiza Jarovsky
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Simula – The forgotten programming language
What can it teach us?
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Get a personal teacher
Want to learn something new? Get a personal teacher as soon as possible. If you don't have enough money to pay someone, find a mentor among your friends o...
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The problem with federated web apps
Trying to make web applications federated is a popular effort. Examples include things like the “fediverse”, as well as various other efforts, like attempts to make distributed software forges, and so on. However, all of these efforts suffer from a problem which is fundamental in building federated applications built…
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Leveling up in job interviews for software engineers (2022)
How to stand out in job interviews as an engineer.
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New York Times Election Day Crossword (2009)
I recently read a book called Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose (8) [1] , an autobiography interweaved with interesting stories about crosswords. ...
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In practice, cool URLs can become inaccessible even if they don't change
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Racket frustrates me
2024-07-06 I’ve archived this post Looking for the post Racket frustrates me? You can read the original post on The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Why archive this post? It’s been about a year since I published this post and since realized something: I don’t have any skin in the game anymore. My workflow is now…
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How does Linux handle writes?
I examine the somewhat surprising way how Linux handles writes.
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Goodreads has no incentive to be good
Goodreads is full of trolls, spam, and harassment campaigns. They probably like it that way.
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The downfall of National Geographic
When the pages stop turning
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Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
I bought the iPad Pro M1 chip in hopes of a lightweight, fast, multi-purpose device that I could also code on.
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LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language
Wolfram's Version 13.3 includes a subsystem around LLMs plus new functionality in integrals, special functions, finite fields, computational geometry, live highlighting in visualizations, AR & VR deployment. See examples for those and dozens of other enhancements.
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Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions
I just published the 41st revision of my self-published book Ansible for DevOps, which has sold 87,234 copies as of this writing across LeanPub, Amazon (Kindle and paperback), and iBooks. There are multiples of that number of eBooks downloaded, as I've never DMCA'ed the sites that re-host the book illegally. I just…
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Wayland is pretty good
I started working on Flyaway with the intention of becoming familiar with Wayland, its protocols and extensions, and the wlroots library. Instead, I ended up genuinely liking all three.
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Structures in C: From Basics to Memory Alignment
Structures allow us to combine several variables to create a new data type. Some other languages support the same concept but call it “records”. If you come from object-oriented program…
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Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)
“The seeing, spiritual being, whose manifestation we commonly call conscience, always points with one end towards right and with the other towards wrong, and we do not notice it while we foll…
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Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry
I offer a high-level model for why software work feels like it sucks now: we don't treat software like creative output.