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Here’s what’s about to happen with Fil-C thanks to the InvisiCaps rewrite: 👍 ptr-int unions will just work 👍 ptrs will seem to have native size (64 bits on 64-bit systems) 👍 big speedup, hopefully, because no more CAS on field initialization Stay tuned and wish me luck!

Sophisticated side-channel attacks present new security challenges for cloud providers. Learn how Microsoft is exploring defenses against emerging attacks with principled microarchitectural isolation: msft.it/6013W5fTf

Crazy figures. Would be fascinating to read an economic analysis of the forces contributing to the AI winter in the 80s and whether similarities to the current situation exist...

Great! But what would be awesome would be the last scene in don't look up, with a mission impossible face change twist! (The grey haired guy, not the US president.)

Fil-C: the memory safe C/C++ implementation you always wanted theregister.com/2024/11/16/rus…

@ChuckBaggett Chuck Baggett Peace Freedom Ad Astra Gilad Bracha Michael Snoyman Followup: an ESUG talk on LLms in GT. youtube.com/watch?v=ukgsng…

So the US’s wealthiest businessman is reforming the tax code? No, not even the world’s corruption trailblazers thought of this one

Would love the dynamic update feature. Probably would have been easy in Web 1.0 world, with an the state attached to pages nowadays, not so easy anymore. Generalized OSR for tabs would be cool to have. Iulian Neamtiu worked on live updating C, iirc.

This lets you view it in all its glory. This change is too big for GH's UI to display. 🤣 github.com/pizlonator/llv…

Reading tae kim ‘s The Nvidia Way brings back tons of memories — the misguided NV1, the fast-but-flawed RIVA128, the fantastic TNT, and the path to dominance. One underrated crucial thing Nvidia did was take over driver writing from the board vendors. In The Bad Old Days,

A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption: csdb.dk/release/?id=13…. In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to get stuck moving down and left.

How much performance would you be willing to pay if userland was 100% memory safe?

This "analysis" is so incredibly flawed, I can't believe that a real, grown up person came up with it. Peak SV think...

If you woke up this morning without a viable exploit portfolio in arsenal for the Mate target running on the Kirin 9000s chipset, you are no longer the apex predator on net. If you are just now starting to realize the implications of a post Android device ecosystem for contested

New blog: Structured Editing and Incremental Parsing

Two principles for good language design honored more in the breach than the observance: Reynolds: you can extract any computation into a functional abstraction. Liskov: user-defined data types can hide their implementation just as much as built-in ones do.

Paul Graham ... a civil law system (e.g. with contract law "header files" that can just be #included, in coder terms) will often provide shorter, clearer contracts with fewer lawyers stuffing their pockets on the way.

Hmm, looks like SQL injection to me...