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The smallest C binary

I thought of a cute problem: what is the smallest (size) ./a.out binary I can create? Here are some rules the program should follow: ./a.out must run successfully. $? must deterministically be 0. The binary must be produced by GCC only; no post-processing...

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The Anatomy of a Learning Stall – Tagide

I recently had an experience with an undergraduate student that really made me pause on how we use AI. I made a couple of posts on LinkedIn with very short snippets of what happened, but I want to write down this experience in detail, because the details...

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Stop Using Conventional Commits

You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of...

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Did Claude Increase Bugs in rsync?

A simple distributional analysis of every rsync release with bug data. Nothing complicated, answers only one question: are the Claude-assisted releases unusually buggy?

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Win16 Memory Management | OS/2 Museum

This is a kind of knowledge base article which resulted from attempts to understand exactly how memory management works in 16-bit Windows. It is not exactly undocumented, but it is also not well documented; even before Windows 3.0 appeared, the assumption...