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Stories by Moonchild

Logic as algebra (spencermortensen.com)
L 11 pts 6 comments by Moonchild Jul 17, 2022 math Science / Math / Physics thread
Fixing APL’s trigonometric notation (outerproduct.net)
L 11 pts 2 comments by Moonchild Mar 7, 2022 apl Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Programing languages characterised by their attitude towards pointers (outerproduct.net)
L 11 pts 4 comments by Moonchild Dec 2, 2021 satire Programming (General) thread
Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007) (schneier.com)
L 10 pts 1 comments by Moonchild Sep 25, 2021 security Security / Privacy thread
Binary Banshees and Digital Demons (thephd.dev)
L 10 pts 1 comments by Moonchild Sep 23, 2021 apicc++ Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Internet / Digital Culture thread
Interlisp: restoring the Interlisp-D Medley computing environment to usability on modern OSes (interlisp.org)
L 10 pts 4 comments by Moonchild Aug 7, 2020 historicallisp Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
What is the most tolerable version of windows?
L 10 pts 37 comments by Moonchild Aug 20, 2019 askwindows thread
I am looking to port some of my software to windows/ensure it works on windows. Wine will almost certainly not cut it; I don't want to have any possibility of an issue arising because of it. A VM wouldn't work either, because my computer is pretty weak, so I'm left with using genuine windows. Via...
A security vulnerability in some Intel Xeon Processors with SGX may allow escalation of privilege (intel.com)
L 9 pts 4 comments by Moonchild Aug 9, 2023 security Security / Privacy thread
What UNIX Cost Us (youtube.com)
L 9 pts 7 comments by Moonchild Jul 9, 2023 apiunixvideo Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Chased by One’s Own Tail (gbracha.blogspot.com)
L 9 pts 5 comments by Moonchild Apr 9, 2023 plt Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Another NaN-based tagging strategy for dynamic programming languages (outerproduct.net)
L 9 pts 0 comments by Moonchild Jan 11, 2023 compilersperformanceplt Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business thread
Unsigned comparisons in AVX2/SSE: a quick note (outerproduct.net)
L 9 pts 0 comments by Moonchild Aug 26, 2022 assemblyperformance Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Hashing Modulo Theories (philipzucker.com)
L 8 pts 2 comments by Moonchild May 19, 2024 plt Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
An exceedingly cute protocol for biased locking with transactions (outerproduct.net)
L 8 pts 1 comments by Moonchild Jan 28, 2023 performance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Project Everest: Provably Secure Communication Software (project-everest.github.io)
L 7 pts 1 comments by Moonchild Nov 15, 2022 formalmethodssecurity Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheorySecurity / Privacy thread
Faster hash table probing (outerproduct.net)
L 7 pts 3 comments by Moonchild Oct 7, 2022 compsciperformance Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Avoiding Source Code Spoofing (blog.unicode.org)
L 7 pts 1 comments by Moonchild Mar 3, 2022 practicessecurity Programming (General)Security / PrivacyProductivity / Career / Business thread
When Is Parallelism Fearless and Zero-Cost with Rust? (dl.acm.org)
L 6 pts 0 comments by Moonchild Jun 20, 2024 distributedperformancerust Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
My personal hell of translating DXIL to SPIR-V (themaister.net)
L 6 pts 0 comments by Moonchild Sep 7, 2021 compilersgraphics Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
Does register selection matter to performance on x86 CPUs? (fiigii.com)
L 6 pts 0 comments by Moonchild Sep 16, 2020 assemblyperformance Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Cute trick for fetch-and-add-based queues (outerproduct.net)
L 5 pts 0 comments by Moonchild Apr 16, 2024 distributedperformance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Coping with nontermination: some thoughts on stopping loops (outerproduct.net)
L 5 pts 0 comments by Moonchild Feb 12, 2023 compilersplt Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
The Elusive Frame Timing (medium.com)
L 5 pts 3 comments by Moonchild Jan 13, 2023 graphics thread
Cache missing for fun and profit (2005) (daemonology.net)
L 5 pts 0 comments by Moonchild Dec 29, 2022 pdfsecurity Security / Privacy thread
Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second (gamozolabs.github.io)
L 5 pts 1 comments by Moonchild Sep 5, 2022 performancesecurity Data / Databases / InfrastructureSecurity / PrivacyGaming / Retro ComputingMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Bitwise conversion of doubles using only floating-point multiplication and addition (dougallj.wordpress.com)
L 5 pts 0 comments by Moonchild Jun 29, 2022 programming Programming (General) thread
Why Scons is not slow (github.com)
L 5 pts 0 comments by Moonchild Sep 18, 2020 performancepython Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Leveraging the "Display Server" to Improve Debugging (arcan-fe.com)
L 5 pts 0 comments by Moonchild Feb 11, 2020 debuggingpractices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
A Tour of Program Optimization (youtube.com)
L 4 pts 1 comments by Moonchild Jul 31, 2024 compilersperformancevideo Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Compiling for Instruction-Level Parallelism (youtu.be)
L 4 pts 2 comments by Moonchild Jul 31, 2024 compilersdistributedperformancevideo Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread