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peter_d_sherman
18,478karma·5,710submissions·September 16, 2014
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Programmer, Student Of Law, Entrepreneur & Comedy Writer.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Transparency & Free Speech enthusiast.
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"The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing..."
- Socrates
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If I am understanding you correctly, you are stating that a given shell, specifically a subshell -- may not in some cases see the same shell variables as other shells... That is true. Subshells may no…
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>They're not globals, since they're copied into sub-processes; so mutation doesn't propagate upwards. If we broaden our thinking to look at a computer process as a mathematical fu…
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>"Wow, I really enjoyed writing this…
…and I hope it wasn’t a boring read." No, it was very interesting actually! An excellent deep-dive into the murky area of Unix/Linux environment…
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Related: https://github.com/Veraticus/nix-config/blob/main/home-manag... …
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Related (book): "High-Speed Serial I/O Made Simple: A Designers’ Guide, with FPGA Applications" (2005): https://www.xilinx.com/publications/archives/books/…
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The following is well-written / well-stated: >"Goals are for Games. Constraints are for Worlds. A goal is a win condition. Constraints are the rules of the game. But not all games are wor…
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>"This debugger is divided into two parts: the debugger (written entirely in assembly and running on the hardware being debugged) and the bridge, written in C and running on [a second PC runni…
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This is a very interesting OS design: >"1.1 High level overview Barrelfish is “multikernel” operating system [3]: it consists of a small kernel running on each core (one kernel per core), and …
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One of the best articles on tiny Forth interpreters that I've seen on HN for a long time, with many excellent links for further study!
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Related: https://dacvs.neocities.org/SF/
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Designing a custom datatype (which turns out to be based on balanced ternary trees !) to implement optimized FFT evaluation -- absolutely brilliant, IMHO! Related: https://news.ycombin…
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Install the Nix Package Manager -- on Alpine Linux? Apparently possible! If so, then someone would get the ("Small. Simple. Secure.")-ness (lightweightedness) of Alpine Linux ( https:/&…
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I think it's a great idea! Even if other people/groups are doing something like this, either now and/or in the future, I don't think there ever would be or could be enough software…
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Related: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.01178