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Breaking up the Container Monolith
Dan Walsh, of SELinux Coloring Book fame, presented on the work he and his team have been doing with containers. Dan has long been a technical leader in the container and SELinux spaces and is an
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Markov's and Chebyshev's Inequalities Explained
A look at why Chebyshev's Inequality holds true and some potential applications.
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The structure of a GCC back end
This is part one of a series “ Writing a GCC back end ”. The GCC back end is configured in gcc/config.host and the implementation is p...
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Building on Rock, Not Sand
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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JavaScript string encoding
Node string encoding is all over the place. Let's try to straighten out how it works.
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Reducing Chrome crashes caused by third-party software
Update (04/26/2019): Third-party developers can now use this document to evaluate the impact of third-party blocking on their software. R...
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TensorFlow r1.4
TensorFlow release 1.4 is now public - and this is a big one! So we're happy to announce a number of new and exciting features we hope everyone will enjoy.
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Rust Optimizations That C++ Can't Do
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Mkfile(8) is severely syscall limited on OS X
When I got my brand-new MacBook Pro (late 2016), I was interested in testing out the phenomenal SSD performance I had been reading about, r...
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Recognizing when two arithmetic expressions are essentially the same
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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50 Bytes of Code That Took 4 GB to Compile (2013)
While doing evil things with macros and the inline assembler (trying to run a weird test whose purpose is not really relevant) I managed to write a program that caused Visual Studio’s C++ compiler …
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Gap Buffers Are Not Optimized for Multiple Cursors
Gap buffers are a common data structure for representing a text buffer in a text editor. Emacs famously uses gap buffers — long-standing proof that gap buffers are a perfectly sufficient way to represent a text buffer.
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What is “Open Recursion”?
Someone on StackOverflow stumbled onto the strange term “open recursion” and asked what it meant . Since most of the other answers to this online are pretty opaque, I started writing an answer. But then I accidentally wrote a blog post.
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A DoS Attack Against the C# Compiler
Generics in C# are certainly very useful and I find it amazing that we almost didn’t get them:
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Can you figure out how this single part boost converter works?
If you think this is easy, then I think you are missing something. This is hard. You need to know your hardware intimately to figure this one out.