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Virtual Memory in xv6

qazpot — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:51:17 +0000

Article URL: https://ankithooda.com/2024/02/21/xv6-hacking-virtual-memory/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42343598

Points: 1

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New comment by qazpot in "The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding"

qazpot — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:04:24 +0000

> I think this is the "closing the loop" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_loop#Open-loop_and_clo... ) moment for coding AI.

> All pieces are there, we just need to decide to do it.

Another silver bullet.

Return-Oriented Programming to Bypass Non-Executable Stack Protection

qazpot — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:22:15 +0000

Article URL: https://ankithooda.com/2024/11/22/return-oriented-programming/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42255867

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by qazpot in "'Hell Joseon' and the South Korean generation pushing to breaking point"

qazpot — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:19:12 +0000

I see a lot of parallels in Korean (and other eastern countries) and Indian social expectations.

While Korea has developed economically and has become a modern industrialized country all of it's social mores and expectations are rooted in it's feudal agricultural past.

I think that similar situation will happen in India as well in next 20 years.

Maybe Western modern industrialized, post-industrialized society needs a individualistic culture as well and does not harmonize well with society whose values are derived from the older feudal, gerontocratic agricultural society.

New comment by qazpot in "In Praise of 'Megalopolis'"

qazpot — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 13:28:09 +0000

I have a feeling that Megalopolis is going to end up as one the great cult classics.

New comment by qazpot in "Zerodha Tech – Hello, World"

qazpot — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:20:28 +0000

Vishy Anand resigning was an absolute GM level move.

New comment by qazpot in "Entropy in Engineering Processes"

qazpot — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 05:03:47 +0000

I would also recommend 1st chapter of "Principles Of Computer System Design: An Introduction - Saltzer & Kaashoek" for a more general discussion on complexity in digital system.

New comment by qazpot in "A beetle that heads for the ‘back door’ when eaten by a frog (2020)"

qazpot — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:39:44 +0000

The beetle fell into a hole and came out the otherside.

New comment by qazpot in "Franz Kafka was a healthcare claims administrator and insurance underwriter"

qazpot — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 14:59:48 +0000

Kafka was not a famous writer at all or got rich due to his writing.

Cool Retro Terminal

qazpot — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:37:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36798774

Points: 305

# Comments: 89

New comment by qazpot in "India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moons water rich South Pole"

qazpot — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:15:23 +0000

50 Years is too long a time period to make any kind of useful prediction.

New comment by qazpot in "A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized"

qazpot — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:42:26 +0000

> Physics has repeatedly had to tame infinities by elaborate tricks, or by eliminating them entirely

or In case of black holes by actually interpreting infinity as a real place in the universe.

New comment by qazpot in "After Vietnam, the Philippines could be next to ban 'Barbie.' Here's why"

qazpot — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 09:09:20 +0000

Malicious people know about the Hanlon's razor and ready to use it as an excuse if they get caught.

New comment by qazpot in "55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)"

qazpot — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 13:22:28 +0000

Thanks for writing this, led me to a rabbit hole.

New comment by qazpot in "55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)"

qazpot — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 10:08:56 +0000

I wrote simple implementations (simple if/else/while and printing to stdout) with no optimizations in Rust, Python3 and C

Rust -> 23.2MiB/s

Python3 -> 28.6MiB/s

C -> 238MiB/s

Does anyone know why Rust's performance is in the same ballpark as Python3.

I thought it would be more closer to C.

New comment by qazpot in "A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science"

qazpot — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 07:33:36 +0000

If someone is interested I highly recommend Tech Yourself CS website, it is much more concise and complete set of resources.

https://teachyourselfcs.com/

New comment by qazpot in "The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget"

qazpot — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:33:30 +0000

One possible outcome of this is humans stop producing freely accessible digital artifacts like text, code lest they get replaced by machines who can mimic them and which controlled by tech moguls.

New comment by qazpot in "Proposed SEC order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets"

qazpot — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 04:14:15 +0000

Lol, you are calling an act of rebellion a crime.

Now I am begining to understand why people like Moral Relativism, it gets them gotcha moments on internet.

New comment by qazpot in "India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces"

qazpot — Mon, 29 May 2023 14:39:13 +0000

> I’m wondering if someone can comment on the cultural aspect here. It seems like adding the smiles was intended to discredit the protesters, by somehow suggesting the protest was insincere.

This was to paint them as insincere and implying that protestors are on the payroll of .

New comment by qazpot in "A mental health crisis in science"

qazpot — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:43:11 +0000

I think the part about "unrealistic goals" is applicable to a lot of spheres of life and exacerbated by the social media. Social media after all inflicts high expectations and pressure to convert your life into a performance on everyone irrespective of profession, culture, age, country.

And ofcourse the Titans of social media - zuckerberg, chamath, tiktok and 1000s of engineers, PMs will not pay for the harm their engineered products have caused because waters have been muddied enough and no true accounting of the harm can happen.

It is kind of like inventing a new synthetic highly addictive drug which is technically legal but very harmful and you can sell it to everyone.