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Posted on 2017/07/162017/07/12 by Justin Sherrill
Lazy Reading for 2017/07/16

There’s some meaningful links buried in here, among the trivia.

  • Undefined Behavior in 2017.
  • Unix’s mysterious && and ||.
  • Almost one and a half billion seconds since 1970.
  • The 555 chip storage ottoman.  (via)
  • Avery’s laws[1] of wifi reliability.  (via)
  • 48-Year-Old Multics operating system resurrected.  (via)
  • Why I Hate Slack and You Should Too.  (via)
  • Big Fucking TV can’t find the Fucking Shit Router.  (via)
  • XScreenSaver 5.37 is out.  XScreenSaver makes for some fun live backgrounds in Android, I found.
  • The Emacs Operating System.  (via)
  • Block-breaking game in vim 8.0.  (via)
  • Old school PC fonts.  (via)
  • A rift in the NTP world.  (via)
  • Roland McGrath bows out as glibc maintainer.  30 years is a long time.  (via)
  • Hyperproductive development.  (via)
  • The earliest known versions of Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler.  (via)

 

 

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