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FreeBSD had a security fluctuation in their implementation of ping(8) the other day. As someone who has done a lot of work on ping(8) in OpenBSD this tickled my interests.
A use case for ChatGPT
What features would be in that spec? Partial page updates? Animated transitions? Layered interactions?
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The upcomming standard C23 has a lot of additions to the C library clause. Most of them are small, some of them are big but optional.
They just don't care. Qatari World Cup organizers don't even hide their apathy over migrant worker deaths, including the most recent one.
But there’s a way out of the misery
By Devine Lu Linvega
A new top-level syntax for programming languages is proposed to show advantages of this method. New syntax is arguably as simple, but more consistent, better preserves visual structure and solves some issues in code formatting.
Reflecting on my work on Chrome.
This post is by Phil Price, not Andrew. I’ve had a run of luck ever since I left my staff scientist position at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to become a freelance consultant doing statistical modeling and forecasting, mostly related to electricity consumption and prices: just as I finished a contract, another one…
I thought it would be interesting to see whether ChatGPT could solve some basic ciphers (Caesar, Vignere, etc.). I decided to start at the bottom, with perhaps the easiest possible cipher: rot13. I asked it to decode the rot-13 encoding of “Why did the chicken cross the road”: So the first thing to note here is that…
Prose style and structure in The Tipping Point
Hacking on a plane, by Midjourney AI
And it is critical that we all keep that at the forefronts of our minds.
I’m down to a cost of 20¢ a year and falling.
Christmas is coming again, and generally that means christmas trees and everything in it: lights, streamers, and ofcourse baubles. The holiday is all very jolly and everything, so I decided it was lacking some doom... errm, I mean Doom. So I 3d-printed a small Christmas bauble modeled on an IBM PC, stuffed it with the…
In which I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft… and give it to you.
Why you (probably) don't need live chat on your website.
I really want to make a game along the line of Myst. I have been collecting puzzles for years, and I have almost enough. I am flexible about the visual style. I’ve considered making sets out of lego, or cardboard , or cut paper. And I’ve considered AI-generated art.
A blog about Java
A post about all the things I find good about Julia.
A step-by-step guide on improving your homepage content & copy to increase conversion
Update (Dec. 6): I’m having a blast at the Workshop on Spacetime and Quantum Information at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. I’m learning a huge amount from the talks and …
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