I don’t have a good book to suggest, but one tip you may find helpful: A typical function has two kinds of assembly code: (1) The ABI-required logic for functions and function calls, and (2) Everything else, which can be … Read more
Professor Henry Jones: Well, he who finds the Grail must face the final challenge. Indiana Jones: What final challenge? Professor Henry Jones: Three devices of such lethal cunning. Indiana Jones: Booby traps? Professor Henry Jones: Oh, yes. But I found … Read more
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Airlines not flying the Boeing 737 MAX – by Country or Continent United States Out of the major airlines in the US, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines all have Boeing 737 MAX’s in their fleet. This … Read more
From what I have known and used, PuTTY seems to be the oldest software still in beta (0.79 at the moment), with it’s first version released sometime in 1998, not sure about the exact date. PuTTY’s first Git commit shows … Read more
I recently watched a talk named Maybe Not by Rich HIckey, the creator of Clojure. I can’t claim to be on his level when it comes to language design, but I will postulate that his arguments at the 7:45 minute … Read more
Ask HN: Which book would you recommend for learning Python in detail? 44 points by jacoberr 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 15 comments Hi, I know some programming. I know C and some python as well. … Read more
Which Face Is Real has been developed by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom at the University of Washington as part of the Calling Bullshit project. All images are either computer-generated from thispersondoesnotexist.com using the StyleGAN software, or real photographs from … Read more
2020/01/02 Ah, scissors. They’re important enough that we have an emoji for them. On your device, it appears as ✂️. Unlike the real world tool it represents, the emoji’s job is to convey the idea, especially at small sizes. It … Read more
Taleb’s Incerto (Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game). Opens your eyes to a wide array of fallacies that govern our daily life (unknown unknowns, “experts” explaining past events as obvious in retrospect, the news, predictions, survivorship … Read more