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"Torvalds paused to ask how many people in the audience used AI for coding; after scanning the room, he said, ""yeah, pretty much everybody"". He said he had a love-hate relationship with AI…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukRE: https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116980915648683218
Interesting in the glibc release notes it mentions the core-math project that does proved-accurate, fast maths routines which are now getting integrated in loads of places, including glibc:
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itNew git features look amazing. I'm constantly having to rebase feature branches and deal with endless conflicts.. So 'git add foo.c; git history fixup <sha>'? Yes please!
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@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?
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@aredridel@kolektiva.socialRE: https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116601943310291922
I was one of these people.
@cdamian@rls.socialRE: https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116778299228237826
The size of these changelogs worries me.
Systemd just does everything nowadays.
I'm not against it, as it does the things I need very well.
It's just a bit much innit?
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukRE: https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116614597857566178
Damn that's a clever exploit - a file that's both a PDF and an elf!
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An update on residential proxies and the web scraper situation.
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@hynek@mastodon.socialcursed TIL of the day:
posix_spawn is a fork() and exec() in a trenchcoat1️⃣
1️⃣ on Linux
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![from the posix_spawn man page at https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/posix_spawn.3.html:
fork() step
Since glibc 2.24, the posix_spawn() function commences by calling
clone(2) with CLONE_VM and CLONE_VFORK flags. Older
implementations use fork(2), or possibly vfork(2) [...]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/698/162/310/266/462/original/a61039172baeeb45.jpeg)
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The future of 32-bit Linux.
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Fast commits for ext4.
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@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
New features in gnuplot 5.4.
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