I remember one of OverTheWire CTF challenges was to get the contents of a file named "-". I solved it by using "./-" as a path.

well, unsurprisingly only 10% of C++ is good enough ;)

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Dolphin’s dev blogs are some of the best technical writing on internet and not enough people read them.

My favorite is their “Ridiculous Ubershader”.

Pre-Compilation of the GameCube’s graphical effects is impossible:

5.64 x 10^511 possible states! So what do you do?

which one is more precise?

I’m developing a game where you have to go back to assassinate Adam. It’s a first person shooter.

YouTube video by acdcVEVO AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip (Official HD Video)

youtu.be/S2Z8WIlaPH4

seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between

"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"

and

"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"

The “opposite” of a GPU is kinda weird.


Graphcore has a strange chip (IPU) that loves tiny batches...but is also massively parallel.

It used to cost ~$100k. Now you can get one on Ebay for $150 bucks.

The catch is it's almost impossible to use.

How do people write things? I feel like the moment I open up my brain to write about the thing that's on my mind the idea just dissolves into aether and the words disappear

For this resolution, I guess jpeg. Tiny bit of noise for huge file size savings.

!!!!CHRISTMAS ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

the correct approach is the one that works for you and your game

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

Can you do "tagged pointers" in Rust in const fn?

tbh, I like this distro, but also I compile kernel and mesa every week from git to have the newest Intel GPU drivers, and also sometimes I'm bisecting it to find bugs

#rustlang hot take: We should rename .unwrap() to .or_panic(). (And .expect() to .or_panic_with().) "Unwrap" is a terrible name for the panicking function, especially since we also have things like .unwrap_or() and .unwrap_or_default() which never panic.

🎵A little bit of rustc in my life,
a little bit of thread_start by my side,
a little bit of _pthread_start’s what i see,
A little bit of _RNSNvYNCINvMNtCslOx is what I need

I mirrored my fixed version here in the meantime:
foone.org/ponies/zohran/

you could technically make an enum-like struct, but yeah, not having methods on enums sucks, even moreso switching back from Rust

You’ve heard of the Unix 2038 Problem.


I bet you haven’t heard of the GPS 2038 problem.


Every GPS navigation device in existence experiences an integer overflow every 19.6 years.


Last time, it wiped out iPhones, NOAA weather buoys, and a number of flights in China:

big thread of slang and emoji definitions from wiktionary that make me laugh!!!! can you favorite the ones you like to help me narrow them down I have too many saved for one instagram post!!!!!!

i forgot it's halloween

All US Nuclear Reactor incidents are public and posted online by the NRC.

My Favorites:
“The reactor cavity is full of water. [Individual] ingested some amount of cavity water.”
(Michigan, 4 days ago)

“Unit 2 is being reduced from 100% in response to the influx of jellyfish.”
(Florida, 2011)

OSHA is part of the government shutdown so now nothing is NSFW

Submitting a motion to stop using "Modern" to describe a given practice for tech fields that move so fast that a decade makes everything half obsolete.
Maybe use year? Or we need to start naming movements like architecture?
Baroque graphics engine, Neoclassic graphics engine...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

How do you program an unknown CPU?

The original specs are gone; no compilers exist, and the ISA is completely unrecognized.

It happens more often than you think, behind very closed doors.

It's almost always military hardware.