I'm deeply impressed that Rust is not just using LLVM, it's monitoring optimisations and upstreaming improvements!
miniblog.
"It is impossible to safely implement any cryptosystem providing forward secrecy in C."
Nice overview of undefined behaviour in LLVM: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/llvm-ub.pdf (looks like poison may be removed entirely!)
It's far too easy to just read the comments on HN/lobsters/etc without stopping to think about the content. I'm trying to skip them.
Why are our best tools for composing applications still copy-paste and pipes? Can we do better?
Hyperlinks aren't perfect: they're brittle, and links to specific headings break very easily. Nonetheless, foo.html#bar degrades admirably.
Adding NTP servers to public pools in order to find targets for port scanning: https://netpatterns.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-rising-sophistication-of-network.html (crikey!)
I'm fascinated to learn that compiler plugins exist that earn you about numeric instability! https://github.com/mcarton/rust-herbie-lint (Rust in this example)
The Mythical Man-Finger https://stephenramsay.us/2011/07/25/the-mythical-man-finger/ (discusses the rise of GUIs over CLIs)
Why did EA decide to write their own STL implementation? https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2271.html great discussion of tradeoffs, it's never one-size-fits-all
'C is not a simple language... it's a simple machine model for building software on bare machines' https://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4554#comment-72306
Lisp tools often have great names. Today: metabang-bind: https://common-lisp.net/project/metabang-bind/user-guide.html (it's a neat, generalised destructuring-bind)
Io is a really elegant language: https://iolanguage.org/guide/guide.html#Introduction (it's very OOP, even next to Smalltalk!)
We think of assemblers as being a simple mapping of mnemonics to opcodes, but there is ambiguity sometimes:
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