[09:19] schestowitz[09:19] schestowitzSo as regular readers know, I have largely only purchased laptops with Linux preinstalled for quite a few years. This is because as a person living within a capitalistic society, I am ethically compelled to vote with my dollar as it is the only vote I have which actually seems to matter. To make a long story short: I do not wish to reward Microsoft for their ongoing objectionable behaviors rela [09:19] schestowitz ting to Windows and I really don't much care for MacOS so Linux is my de-facto operating system of choice.
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[09:23] schestowitz[09:23] schestowitzThe APRICOT 2024 Program Committee (PC) is seeking contributions for presentations and tutorials for APRICOT 2024, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 21 February to 1 March 2024.
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[09:25] schestowitz[09:25] schestowitzComputer software is typically deterministic on paper: if you run twice the same program with the same inputs, you should get the same outputs. In practice, the complexity of modern computing makes it unlikely that you could ever run twice the same program and get exactly the same result, down to the exact same execution time. For example, modern operating systems randomize the memory addresses [09:25] schestowitz as a security precaution: a technique called Address space layout randomization. Thus if you run a program twice, you cannot be guaranteed that the memory is stored at the same memory addresses. In Go, you can print the address of a pointer with the %p directive. The following program will allocate a small array of integers, and print the corresponding address, using a pointer to the first value. If you run this program multiple times, [09:25] schestowitz you may get different addresses.
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[09:27] schestowitz[09:27] schestowitzDaniel Sockwell realized that in the week before last, a significant threshold was reached: 2000 questions about the Raku Programming Language on StackOverflow! With fewer than 70 questions unanswered!
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[09:29] schestowitz[09:29] schestowitzIve been blind to it most of my life, on account of English being my first language, and ISO-8859-1 including my native script. But it was only luck on my part being born into this convenient circumstance, and its only outdated convention that keeps it that way.
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[09:31] schestowitz[09:31] schestowitzI think Whiona hits the nail squarely on the head with this one. Writing a blog post just for the fun of it is exactly why I blog. All that ProBlogger crap - find a niche, double down, collect emails, CONVERT! Is utter bullshit.
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[09:58] schestowitz[09:58] schestowitzAgain, the solution is paper. (Here I am saying that in 2004.) And, no, blockchain does not helpit makes security worse.
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