Stories by fanf2

In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released

MessagePack vs. CBOR (RFC7049)

Futhark implements array bounds checking on the GPU

SSSE3 Fast Popcount

Understanding the F5 Big-IP RCE Vulnerability CVE-2020-5902

Color e-ink displays are arriving soon in eBook and e-note devices

Too many objects: Reducing memory overhead from Python instances

Making system(3) and popen(3) use Posix_spawn(3) on NetBSD

The computing demands of deep learning are so great that progress is stalling

ARM64 Popcount in Golang and Assembler

Xerox 48-bit absolute internet and Ethernet host numbers. (1981) [pdf]

Land of monopolists: private equity 'roll-UPS' hit virtually everything

Infrastructure: Our cyborg collective body, ourselves

Mbeddr: Integrated and extensible languages for embedded software, plus an IDE

The Prancing Pony vending machine at SAIL

Types Any and Unknown in TypeScript

C++ Hashmaps Benchmarks

The “smol” Rust async runtime

Sunrise / Sunset Algorithm

Low accuracy solar position equations