Shafik Yaghmour / is on Nostr

Compiler Engineer clang front end. Interests: C++, C, and undefined behavior. Martial Artist, Book Worm and Dad

Blog: https://shafik.github.io/

Last Notes

2024-07-09 18:39:50

One of my colleagues was talking about yak shaving and I was wondering what sound would a yak shaver hear?
Turns out grunts and squeaks.
Also apparently it is more like shearing than shaving.

2024-07-04 00:33:50

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A Gi-ant 🥁

2024-06-21 16:41:40

AI power center usage is causing the life of some coal power plants to be extended: https://wapo.st/3KSgQxx
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2024-06-16 22:05:16

Lol Neil Gaiman says
"ChatGPT doesn't give you information. It gives you information-shaped sentences."
This is one of the better ones I have seen.

2024-02-06 01:41:12

"So you think you know C?": https://wordsandbuttons.online/so_you_think_you_know_c.html
For folks who regularly answer my quizzes this is right up your alley.
For others you know this b/c you have been burnt before or you spend way too much time dealing with cursed code or your involved in standards.
#programming
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2023-11-30 18:05:14

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@npub1u3f…nne2 Nice, any fun articles you can point to :-)

2023-11-30 16:05:50

Cursed Architectures: Symbolics Lisp Machine 3600
"the NULL pointer is <NIL, 0>, basically a NIL list with no offset. Certainly not a bitwise zero integral value."
#programming
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