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🌱 Learning all about computers and networking
📊 Love optimizing and benchmarking things
💭 Once compiled an compiler via compilation
⚙️ C and C++ artifacts generator
📡 Somewhere near an antenna
🔗 github.com/DropB1t
📊 Love optimizing and benchmarking things
💭 Once compiled an compiler via compilation
⚙️ C and C++ artifacts generator
📡 Somewhere near an antenna
🔗 github.com/DropB1t
"So nature and nurture combine to make us avoid self-indulgence. But the world has gotten more complicated: the most dangerous traps now are new behaviors that bypass our alarms about self-indulgence by mimicking more virtuous types. And the worst thing is, they're not even fun."
January 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM
"So nature and nurture combine to make us avoid self-indulgence. But the world has gotten more complicated: the most dangerous traps now are new behaviors that bypass our alarms about self-indulgence by mimicking more virtuous types. And the worst thing is, they're not even fun."
"If no one else has ever successfully built your system with the schedule, budget, and functionality you asked for, please explain why your organization thinks it can."
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spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"If no one else has ever successfully built your system with the schedule, budget, and functionality you asked for, please explain why your organization thinks it can."
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...
"Memory safety is not a silver bullet, but it is a credible and cost-effective assurance technique that we as an industry should pursue aggressively."
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Memory Safety for Skeptics - ACM Queue
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November 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"Memory safety is not a silver bullet, but it is a credible and cost-effective assurance technique that we as an industry should pursue aggressively."
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Worth reading:
tn1ck.com/blog/how-i-s...
tn1ck.com/blog/how-i-s...
How I stopped worrying and learned to love the easy fix
On the balance between perfect solutions and pragmatic fixes in software engineering
tn1ck.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Worth reading:
tn1ck.com/blog/how-i-s...
tn1ck.com/blog/how-i-s...