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Fil-C vs CHERI vs SeL4 vs YOLO

I think hardware protection is usually easier to sell but it isn't when it is slower or more expensive than the alternative.


"Operating System Principles" (1973) by Per Brinch Hansen. A full microkernel OS (remake of RC-4000 from 1967) written in a concurrent dialect of Pascal, that also manages to make do without hardware protection support.

> Humans generating random numbers

So what you're saying is that it's not just the machine-readable documentation built over decades of the officially undocumented behavior of Z80 opcodes—often provided under restrictive licenses—it's also the "known techniques and patterns" of emulator code—often provided under restrictive licenses.

In Soviet Russia, Slashdot becomes HN!

Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of HNs?

Why not remove the human trying to use Windows from the loop and have a server at Redmond feeding Copilot slop to a Copilot agent on the next server forever?

Anyone's got the CEO's number?

Tell him I don't charge for my genius management advice most of the time.


The editorialized title brings back memories of logging into smashthestack almost two decades ago leaving and looking at graffiti on the walls.

I didn't learn much following the link itself other than it is supposed to be pronounced TIL-dee and that some people have more money to spare than others.


Totally off-topic but there are also white wines made with red grapes with white flesh by quickly separating the skins which is kind of the opposite.

real humans refuse to use both cars and ai.

> Linux: Win32 is the only stable Linux ABI :(

> OpenBSD: Whatever the C compiler produced last is the only OpenBSD ABI :D


Freecell is actually a 32-bit Windows application running through a Wine-like compatibility layer called Win32s on 16-bit Windows.

But Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2 came first with FreeCell.

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