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Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution

The Morning Paper

Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. For more than two decades, however, the programming fraternity, and through them the computer-user community, has faced serious problems achieving this. On programming, projects, and products. IEEE, 1980. What does a programmer do?

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The Working Set Model for Program Behavior

All Things Distributed

This weekend we go back in time all the way to the beginning of operating systems research. In the first SOSP conference in 1967 there were several papers that laid the foundation for the development of structured operating systems. The Working Set Model for Program Behavior , Peter J.

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On Technique

O'Reilly

GitHub Copilot (based on a model named Codex , which is derived from GPT-3) generates code in a number of programming languages, based on comments that the user writes. It’s easy to imagine a lot of software professionals saying, “Of course you’ll have to know C. In the 1950s, computers were programmed in machine language.

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Segmentation Fault – A DBA Perspective

Percona

In order to understand “segmentation fault,” it is a must to know the basic idea of segmentation and its implementation in C programming. When we need to execute any program, it should be loaded into memory first. Here, memory is divided into equal sizes of partitions where the code of a program resides.

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Copyright, AI, and Provenance

O'Reilly

Is it possible to distinguish between creative output (“Write in the style of Jesmyn Ward”) and actionable output (“Write a program that converts between current prices of currencies and altcoins”)? Tracing provenance with these more complex systems will be difficult—but with RAG, we now have the tools to do it.

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CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment

The Morning Paper

abstract capabilities are constructed only through legitimate provenance chains of operations, successively reducing permissions from initial maximally permissive capabilities provided at machine reset. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. faster for system calls).

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Taskbar Latency and Kernel Calls

Randon ASCII

The fact that this shows up as CPU time suggests that the reads were all hitting in the system cache and the CPU time was the kernel overhead (note ntoskrnl.exe on the first sampled call stack) of grabbing data from the cache. Remember that these are calls to the operating system – kernel calls. Think about that for a moment.

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