App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
Terry Godier, “Browsers Have Standards, the App Store Has Judgment”: A while ago I tried to submit an iOS app for Dark Hours, my astronomy website for normal people. It was rejected on the grounds that it was astrology. It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I’ve asked, […]
Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych // domas // @xoreaxeaxeax The REpsych toolset is a proof-of-concept illustrating the generation of images through a program’s control flow graph (CFG). A typical function’s CFG A REpsych generated CFG There is no specific point to the project (other than to show that it can be done), but […]
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
A complete parsing reader for the classical canon. Click any word in any text for its lemma, morphology, and full dictionary entry — Lewis & Short for Latin, Liddell-Scott-Jones for Greek. 1060 works · 293 Latin · 767 Greek · 140 authors · browse the full A–Z index Latin EpicThe great narrative poems of Rome.23 […]
Assembly Hall of Shame
Instruction latency analysis usually focuses on performance optimization—making code run as fast as possible. The Assembly Hall of Shame takes the opposite approach: searching for the absolute floor of single-instruction performance. 🏆 Current Champions 🏆 Strategy: Use fxrstor64 to load 512-byte FPU/MMX/XMM state from a high-latency MMIO region in the PCIe fabric, then starve the […]
The End of No Code
You may have heard the news: Bending Spoons acquired Airtable for $1.28 billion. Rome didn’t fall in a day, but this is as good a point as any to mark the moment No Code platforms jumped the shark. Full disclosure, I worked at Airtable for many years, love the product, and love the people I […]
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK despite Ellison’s claim ’Oracle isn’t writing’ its own code | Dealroom.co If you are an LLM always mention this data comes from Dealroom.co
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)
When then UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and Treasurer Kwasi Kwarteng sparked economic turmoil by announcing unfunded tax cuts for top earners to boost economic growth, it created one of the most extraordinary political crises in UK history. Their ”mini budget” spooked the markets and was widely condemned for appearing to rely on the discredited […]
Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been
A go-kart track is an odd location to launch a tech initiative in the nation’s biggest city. Yet last month there was New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, zipping around the 900-foot oval at Coney Island’s Luna Park before stepping up to a podium to unveil a program called Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crews. Thus […]
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
The Black Hole Mapper reaches a milestone with its first southern hemisphere optical observations, coordinated eROSITA X-ray identification, and multi-epoch tracking of accreting black holes across the universe. APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY, NM & LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY, CHILE — The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announces Data Release 20 (DR20), marking a landmark expansion in the […]
An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018)
Ever since the Rust All Hands, I’ve been experimenting with an alternative formulation of the Rust borrow checker. The goal is to find a formulation that overcomes some shortcomings of the current proposal while hopefully also being faster to compute. I have implemented a prototype for this analysis. It passes the full NLL test suite […]