TIL that Debian folks do not consider CC-BY to be Free: v1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/04/msg00031.html v2: https://web.archive.org/web/20140202132111/http://evan.prodromou.name/ccsummary/ccsummary.html v3:
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Is Forth really a memory-unsafe language? I'm struggling to picture what e.g. a use-after-free would look like in such a minimal programming language.
RISC-V seems like a great example of "commoditise your complements". If you're getting value higher in the hardware or software stack, a royalty-free ISA is valuable.
Creating an ISA is a ton of work. Once it's basically viable, it creates interesting opportunities.
StarScan: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:base/allocator/partition_allocator/starscan/README.md
Really interesting idea for improving manual memory management security: quarantine free()'d value until you can see all references are gone!