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uptherootson Research paper is also an executable x86 program [pdf]

Tom7 the goat

uptherootson FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s

My dude what is going on with these planss

uptherootson Time Doesn’t Belong to Physics – When Bergson met Einstein

Philosophy can approach many questions that currently feel out of the realm of science

uptherootson Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking (2012)

Wow this is an awesome recommendation! Seems like a good level for me and goes over topics I've always wanted to learn more about.

uptherootson Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

Love Vimium! It's easy to ignore sites where you want to use their native keybindings, which is nice.

uptherootson Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

Maps!

uptherootson Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

Makes me think of Godel, Escher, Bach. It's been a while since I've read it but I recall Hofstader making the argument that self-reference is the key element of consciousness.

uptherootson How I survived a year in ‘the hole’ without losing my mind

I believe prisons in part serve the purpose to keep us in check. With the threat of prison, society is encouraged to police itself. As another comment in this thread mentioned, Foucault helped to develop these sort of ideas and describes the motivations and development of the prison system in his work.

uptherootson Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things

I didn't know many of these! Thanks

uptherootson Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade

I've had the same Arch installation running since Spring 2020 on a desktop from 2012 or so. It's not my daily driver, but still works just fine. Even with some long periods between updates, I don't recall any serious stability issues.

uptherootson Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)

Always loved Calvin and Hobbes.Love it even more because of this.

uptherootson The Internet from Rocks – A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet

This is a 404 for me

uptherootson Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder

FZF is one of the best programs I've ever used

uptherootson MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering

This was my textbook in college! It’s great

uptherootson Ask HN: Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures

CLRS is what I used in college

uptherootson Facebook employees are now more willing to leave, tech recruiters say

Behind a paywall very sad

uptherootson Facebook employees are now more willing to leave, tech recruiters say

Very true, lots of fun distributed systems problems can be found working in infrastructure for FAANG companies.

uptherootson William Byrd on logic and relational programming, miniKanren (2014)

One of my all time favorite YouTube videos is a lecture by William Byrd. I find myself still coming back to this video, it was so fascinating to me as an undergrad. https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc

uptherootson Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

We used this in my undergrad OS class. Great book!

uptherootson MF Doom Dead at 49

RIP. One of the best to ever do it.

uptherootson Paul's Online Math Notes

This is an amazing resource! Used it in college a lot