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A Golang-style defer mechanism for C.
https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/a-defer-mechanism-for-c/
saved 2020-12-14

A defer mechanism for C
An overview of a paper that presents a reference implementation of a defer mechanism (co-authored with Robert C. Seacord) has been accepted for publication at SAC’21. The full version is avai…

Just 10 months ago, NASA asked three companies if they could do something nobody had done before.
Could they build and launch a satellite to save a $500 million astronomy mission at risk of crashing back to Earth?
What’s more, could they do it in less than a year on a tight budget?
Katalyst Space Technologies, a startup founded in 2020, presented the most compelling solution.
“They came back with a response that was technically and programmatically plausible,
an…

A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."

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Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA.
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/11/reverse-engineering-forgotten-1970s.html
saved 2020-11-16

Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA
" As I recall, those two chips were fairly large. And fairly late -- to the marketplace. We had lots of issues with them. [...] Sometimes th...

More than a million live birds imported to Asia in 15 years, report finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/more-than-a-million-live-birds-imported-to-asia-in-15-years-report-finds/

More than a million live birds imported to Asia in 15 years, report finds
Hong Kong and Singapore imported more than 1 million live wild birds between 2006 and 2020. Nearly two-thirds of the birds were from Africa.

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JavaScript got better while I wasn't looking.
https://eev.ee/blog/2017/10/07/javascript-got-better-while-i-wasnt-looking/
saved 2020-02-02

JavaScript got better while I wasn’t looking
IndustrialRobot has generously donated in order to inquire: In the last few years there seems to have been a lot of activity with adding emojis to Unicode. Has there been an equal effort to add ‘real’ languages/glyph systems/etc? And as always, if you don’t have anything to say on that topic, feel free to choose your own. :p Yes. I mean, each release of Unicode lists major new a

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Weighted round robin / weighted random integers with the golden ratio low discrepancy sequence.
https://blog.demofox.org/2020/06/23/weighted-round-robin-using-the-golden-ratio-low-discrepancy-sequence/

Weighted Round Robin (Weighted Random Integers) Using The Golden Ratio Low Discrepancy Sequence
UPDATE 6/25/2020: The bottom of the post now has a section about using 2D low discrepancy sequences with an alias table and compares results vs the 1D methods. The code has been updated as well to …

Gezien wat Wallinga allemaal al wist in februari 2020, is het RIVM in de publiekscommunicatie behoorlijk lang blijven liegen.
#pec

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Byrne's Euclid.
https://www.c82.net/euclid/
saved 2020-04-27 https://dotat.at/:/YEFV2.html

Byrne's Euclid
A reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

Former Cowboys DL Aldon Smith dies at 36 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/13/cowboys-dl-aldon-smith-obituary/90544064007/

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It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437
saved 2020-11-20 https://dotat.at/:/6EPK8.html…

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister
When the Mersenne Twister made his first appearance in 1997 it was a powerful example of how linear maps on $\mathbf F_2$ could be used to generate pseudorandom numbers. In particular, the easiness with which generators with long periods could be defined gave the Mersenne Twister a large following, in spite of the fact that such long periods are not a measure of quality, and they require a large amount of memory. Even at the time of its publication, several defects of the Mersenne Twister were …

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Is TypeScript worth it?
https://blog.logrocket.com/is-typescript-worth-it/
saved 2020-01-15 https://dotat.…

Is TypeScript worth it? - LogRocket Blog
I would like the jury to know that I am, for the most part, a TypeScript fan but I do have some nagging doubts that I would like to discuss in this post.

An analysis of 600 Elon Musk claims over 15 years finds he met deadlines 19% of the time; he achieved 75% of his 2015 goals on time, but under 50% of 2020 ones (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/0

Elon Musk Laid Out 602 Goals. We Counted How Many He Hit.
The billionaire has stated many plans for his businesses, but has delivered only some of what he said he would, when he said he would, according to a Times analysis.

Ik weet nog dat ik op Twitter verketterd werd toen ik dat constateerde. Alleen al doordat de verhouding tussen de bezetting op de IC en verpleegafdelingen eind maart 2020 compleet veranderde. Maar hoe durfde ik!!
Artsen: 'Code zwart was er feitelijk wél, honderden overlijdens door beddentekort' https://nos.nl/l/2618646

Artsen: 'Code zwart was er feitelijk wél, honderden overlijdens door beddentekort'
Tijdens de coronaverhoren stellen verschillende sleutelfiguren juist dat Nederland net géén 'code zwart' bereikte.

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SELECT WAT FROM SQL;
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/select-wat-from-sql/
saved 2020-04-17 https://

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Faster integer parsing.
https://kholdstare.github.io/technical/2020/05/26/faster-integer-parsing.html
saved 2020-06-24

Heute erscheint Subnautica 2 und ich hab es schon mal unter Linux Mint runtergeladen und warte auf die Freigabe. Bin sowas von gespannt auf das Game und wie es unter Linux laufen wird, wobei ich mir da keine Sorgen mache, hab bisher keine Probleme bei den WindowsSpielen gehabt, die ich installiert hab. Obwohl an diesen WE will ich mal den MS 2020 runterladen und testen, bin da echt gespannt drauf ;D
Edit: Subnatutica Trailer ;D

Seul(e) dans Pékin : comment les dissidents chinois contestent le régime
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/06/01/seul-e-dans-pekin-comment-les-dissidents-chinois-contestent-le-regim…

Seul(e) dans Pékin : comment les dissidents chinois contestent le régime
« Face à un pouvoir répressif » (2/3). A partir de 2020, les trois années de politique zéro Covid et leurs confinements drastiques ont provoqué de nombreuses protestations, favorisant un éveil politique d’une partie de la jeunesse. Les autorités ayant renforcé le contrôle, certains choisissent la résistance passive.

{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

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Removing PostgreSQL bottlenecks caused by high traffic.
https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/05/29/removing-postgresql-bottlenecks-caused-by-high-traffic/
saved 2020-06-03

Removing PostgreSQL Bottlenecks Caused by High Traffic
Percona's Robert Bernier writes about removing PostgreSQL bottlenecks caused by high traffic.

Anzahl der #Batteriespeicher je #Batterietechnologien in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.05.2026.
3622 nicht aktive und 0 Batteriespeicher ohne Inbetriebnahmedatum wurden a…

I just found a bunch of silicone cupcake liners and… when was I going to make cupcakes!? Was it 2020? Probably… or more likely I was going to make muffins, which are just “healthy” cupcakes.

Soo...
Niveautje bereikt.. 😀
Best lekker relaxt.
Die Rosenheim-Cops: Eine Nacht mit Folgen (S09/E01) - #ard #zdf
#RosenheimCops

https://www.captain-futura.de/2020/01/02/empoerungsjahreszyklus/

#TIL Peter Zinovieff, co-founder of EMS, sold his wife’s tiara to buy a DEC PDP-8, making him the first private individual in the world to own a computer. He used it to build a revolutionary electronic music studio in his back garden. 🎹💻 https://…

The Story Behind The EMS VCS3 in the 1970s, part 1
A musical review of a great instrument from the golden era of analog synths, the EMS VCS3, featuring The Who, Hawkwind, Roxy Music and Brian Eno.

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Linux eBPF projects and documentation.
https://ebpf.io/
saved 2020-08-12 https://dotat.at/:/WV3ZE.html

eBPF - Introduction, Tutorials & Community Resources
eBPF is a revolutionary technology that can run sandboxed programs in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code or loading a kernel module.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

#Java records & compact constructors
https://mikemybytes.com/2022/02/16/java-records-and-compact-constructors/

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

White House officials appointed
Gregg Phillips in December to lead FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery,
-- one of the agency’s most consequential leadership roles,
-- apparently due to his history of promoting election conspiracy theories, particularly in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
He came under national scrutiny in March after CNN reported on a cache of outlandish comments from his appearances on right-wing podcasts, -- including the bizarre claim that h…

FEMA official who claimed he teleported to Waffle House ousted from agency, sources say
Top FEMA official Gregg Phillips who had drawn scrutiny for bizarre past remarks — including claiming he teleported to a Waffle House — has been pushed out of the agency, four sources tell CNN.

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What science can tell us about C and C 's security.
https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafety-and-security/
saved 2020-05-28

#Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern nach Marktakteur in #Deutschland ab 2012 mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstatus „akti…

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The alias method for efficiently sampling from a discrete probability distribution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_method
saved 2020-07-02

Alias method - Wikipedia

from my link log —
Search and replace tricks with ripgrep.
https://learnbyexample.github.io/substitution-with-ripgrep/
saved 2020-09-17 ht…

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.05.2026.
419 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

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List of well-known web sites that port scan their visitors.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/list-of-well-known-web-sites-that-port-scan-their-visitors/
saved 2020-05-31

from my link log —
The old Internet died and we watched and did nothing.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/how-we-killed-the-old-internet
saved 2019-12-31

The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing
It’s 2020 — do you know where your content is?

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OLTP performance since PostgreSQL 8.3.
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/oltp-performance-since-postgresql-8-3/
saved 2020-10-08

EDB Home - EDB Postgres AI
Explore EDB Postgres AI's solutions, gain insights from experts, and learn about AI strategy behind 5x ROI. Sign up for interactive sessions & download insightful reports.

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The future of 32-bit Linux.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/838807/9b293f03c03ef0c5/
saved 2020-12-06 https://

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MLIR: a compiler infrastructure for the end of Moore's Law.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11054
saved 2020-02-27 https://dotat.at/:…

MLIR: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore's Law
This work presents MLIR, a novel approach to building reusable and extensible compiler infrastructure. MLIR aims to address software fragmentation, improve compilation for heterogeneous hardware, significantly reduce the cost of building domain specific compilers, and aid in connecting existing compilers together. MLIR facilitates the design and implementation of code generators, translators and optimizers at different levels of abstraction and also across application domains, hardware targets …

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The Odin programming language.
https://odin-lang.org/
saved 2020-03-02 https://dotat.at/:/AZP95.html…

Odin Programming Language

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Range: My least favorite Rust type.
https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/least-favorite-rust-type.html
saved 2020-09-21

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What is the Scudo hardened allocator? (used by LLVM sanitizers and Android)
http://expertmiami.blogspot.com/2019/05/what-is-scudo-hardened-allocator_10.html
saved 2020-07-01

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yubikey-agent: a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.
https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent
saved 2020-07-08 https://

GitHub - FiloSottile/yubikey-agent: yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.
yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys. - FiloSottile/yubikey-agent

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Let's build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs!
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/10/22/lets-build-a-high-performance-fuzzer-with-gpus/
saved 2020-10-22

Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs!
TL;DR: Can we use GPUs to get 10x performance/dollar when fuzzing embedded software in the cloud? Based on our preliminary work, we think the answer is yes! Fuzzing is a software testing technique that supplies programs with many randomized inputs in an attempt to cause unexpected behavior. It’s an important, […]

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Write tracking for Nim.
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/09/01/write-tracking.html
saved 2020-09-02 https://

Write Tracking for Nim (Part 2)
7 years ago I wrote how Nim would get “write tracking” as an alternative to adding const to Nim’s type system. This year it finally made it into Nim nightly! Since then the feature was reimplemented and all the details how it works did change.

#Speicherkapazität der #Batteriespeicher nach #Marktakteur in #Deutschland

from my link log —
The pain points of Haskell: a practical summary.
https://dixonary.co.uk/blog/haskell/pain/
saved 2020-06-08 https://

The Pain Points of Haskell: A Practical Summary

from my link log —
cproc: a C11 compiler using QBE as a backend.
https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc
saved 2020-08-06 https://dotat.at/:/3GNQW…

GitHub - michaelforney/cproc: C compiler (mirror)
C compiler (mirror). Contribute to michaelforney/cproc development by creating an account on GitHub.

from my link log —
Why don't we just ban targeted advertising?
https://www.wired.com/story/why-dont-we-just-ban-targeted-advertising/
saved 2020-03-23

Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?
From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.

from my link log —
Query-based compiler architectures.
https://ollef.github.io/blog/posts/query-based-compilers.html
saved 2020-06-25 ht…

from my link log —
1:60 scale model of a Boeing 777, made entirely from manila folders.
https://www.lucaiaconistewart.com/model-777
saved 2020-07-07 https://

Model 777 — Luca Iaconi-Stewart
The homepage of the work for which I'm best known — a model Boeing 777, made entirely from manila folders!

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Argdown: A simple syntax for complex argumentation.
https://argdown.org/
saved 2020-06-30 https://dotat.at/:/TFC5Q.html