Here at Enterprising Enterprise, we love technology, but we’re also pushing it hard, constantly trying to expand the frontier of what’s possible. Along the way, we frequently find we’ve outgrown an earlier technology choice, and it’s time for us to migrate to something new. There’s a cost to doing this, but it’s the only way to keep moving forward.
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Cosmic rays are believed by some to exist, although I’ve never seen one. Have you? Are the cosmic rays in the room with us now? It has been further claimed that these cosmic rays may interact with our computers, possibly causing strange behaviors. This sounds like pseudo scientific babble from people who don’t believe in the ghost in the machine.
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My SSD is probably pretty fast, but maybe a faster one would let me compile a kernel even quicker by reducing the time spent waiting for I/O to complete. First though, I need to determine its latency, and the benchmark tool available to me, dd, measures throughput not latency. We need to go deeper.
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A silly experiment that quickly ended up deep in the rabbit hole.
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C functions commonly, though not universally, provide information about a failure through the global variable like errno. Provide, not indicate. If there’s no error, as indicated by the function’s normal return value, the value and meaning of errno is unreliable.
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It started with a simple feature addition. It always does. And then the murders began. I don’t think I’ve ever introduced so many bugs by changing so few bits.
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Two years ago, all the cool tech influences got an Asus Zephyrus G14 laptop, and all I could think about was getting one, but then I didn’t. The ports were closed, the boat got stuck, whatever, but mostly the promised QHD screen model never seemed to materialize. Now finally it has, and it’s 16:10 even, so finally I got one.
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Some bugs, some ambiguities, some assumptions, some bad results. Nothing went too seriously wrong, but it seems like an interesting case study in code evolution. I had nothing to do with finding or resolving the issues, I’m just commenting.
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Fantasian is an Apple Arcade exclusive Final Fantasy style RPG. I liked it.
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A few thoughts on the BCBCBC vulnerability. Original report. There’s a few things not explicitly stated in the report, which I thought may be interesting.
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