New 'Combo' Meal: Dine and Surf
A Brief History Of Logic, From Emagic To Apple
Speedtest.net for iPhone in 2014
Take a look back at Speedtest.net for iPhone in 2014. Unlock your digital memories at the Web Design Museum.
iPhone First Impressions
Overall day one impression: the iPhone is 95 percent amazing, 5 percent maddening. I’m just blown away by how nice it is — very thoughtful UI design and outstanding engineering. It is very fun.
John Regehr's Integers in C
A restoration of John Regehrs famous quiz on integers in C
foone🏳️⚧️ on Twitter
It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974.This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate. pic.twitter.com/pPbkZiE57t— foone🏳️⚧️ (@Foone) November 3, 2018
Monkeypatching is for wimps. Use set_trace_func.
Most vexing parse - Wikipedia
MG on Twitter
Mr Self Destruct v1 pic.twitter.com/aFloN5VGKI— MG (@_MG_) October 6, 2017
There's more to HTML escaping than &, , and " - wonko.com
Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year - Microsoft 365 Apps
Explains why the year 1900 is treated as a leap year in Excel 2000. This article outlines the behaviors that occur if this specific issue is corrected.
Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc
The Emacs editor requires a lot of Lisp code and program state before it can start doing its job. That led Emacs developers to add the "unexec" feature to quickly load all of that at startup, but unexec has always been something of a hack. It employs a fairly ugly (and intrusive) mechanism to do its job. Some non-standard extensions to the GNU C library (Glibc) are required, so a plan to eventually eliminate those extensions was met with some dismay in the Emacs community.
A Cursed Bug - Made of Bugs
That Dragon Guy on Twitter
Open a terminal window on your computer—whether Windows, Mac or Linux—and unless you’ve fiddled the defaults, the width is almost always 80 columns. Run a code reformatter like clang-format and same deal…defaults to 80 columns. Why? (1/18) pic.twitter.com/OQLInQDaCo— That Dragon Guy (@PaintYourDragon) February 15, 2022
What About Monkey Patching? Is it as Dangerous as They Say?
Revisiting the Black Sunday Hack
One of the most impressive hacks I've ever read about has to be the Black Sunday kill. Since the original 2001 Slashdot article I read on this [http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/25/1343218.shtml] is 99.9% quote, I'm going to do the same. I can see why
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug
xoreaxeaxeax/sinkhole: Architectural privilege escalation on x86
Architectural privilege escalation on x86. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/sinkhole development by creating an account on GitHub.
Cppiceberg
Main is usually a function. So then when is it not?
It began when my coworker, despite already knowing how to program, was forced to take the intro level Computer Science course at my university. We joked with...
The GNU C Library - strfry
Hertzbleed Attack
Turning Power Side-Channel Attacks Into Remote Timing Attacks on x86
WebTV Anecdotes
@sparrowgrine@chaos.social on Twitter
Cursed computing memory hierarchy, feel free to reply with questions about some of the more obscure stuff here, sources are available for all the cursed knowledge in this. pic.twitter.com/pfZ2FmCcy5— @sparrowgrine@chaos.social (@sparrowgrine) October 13, 2021
Lace card - Wikipedia
Tales (anon)
Theories, Solvers and Static Analysis by Abstract Interpretation
The algebraic/model theoretic design of static analyzers uses abstract domains based on representations of properties and pre-calculated property transformer...
Strip
The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory: new paper by Adam Yedidia and me
I’ve supervised a lot of great student projects in my nine years at MIT, but my inner nerdy teenager has never been as personally delighted by a project as it is right now. To…
What is the '-->' operator in C/C++?
After reading Hidden Features and Dark Corners of C++/STL on comp.lang.c++.moderated, I was completely surprised that the following snippet compiled and worked in both Visual Studio 2008 and G++ 4....