#Bytes

Eliezer Yudkowsky

ESYudkowsky

The *ideal* video compression algorithm, fed random bytes to decompress, will produce a normal movie with a coherent plot. Contemplating this may help make clear why “compression is intelligence”. It’s

Redd

reddberckley

you can't deref a void pointer because you can't tell the bounds of the memory address without knowing the size of the data type. you can return void pointers from

Oliver Hunt

ohunt

Just watched @randemtweets talking about fitting MYST on a CD, and having to worry about physical layout on a CD. It's an amazing thing to have to deal with, much

✨gwyn erso✨

gwynniepeg

We’re back! Thread of my favourite #bytes. #bytesback #bytesback by kevinsaxby #bytesback neefy (this is a complete and utter mood) #bytesback senorpequenos #bytesback milkshake_sniffles #bytesback The_Ginger #bytesback Waffingtons #bytesback beautit

Nevyn

ForkTwenty

I got to the office like 2 hours early so I wanna talk about why I used cards in GUN&SLINGER instead of dice, and also how it's ended up working

Shephali Bhatt

ShephaliBhatt

Wrote about how K-pop & Korean drama had their biggest breakthrough in India amid the pandemic as more people sought the perfect mental escape from the anxiety of the times

Dakshin Vrindavan

daksinvrindavan

Report from Dakshin Vrindavan meadowsIn a significant development, an auspicious Peacock couple has decided to make the Dakshin Vrindavan premises their home. They have nested in the meadow grounds and

Shreya Shankar

sh_reya

In good software practices, you version code. Use Git. Track changes. Code in master is ground truth.In ML, code alone isn't ground truth. I can run the same SQL query

Prashant Kalyani

PareshaantK

List of things that should come back asap. [ A THREAD ] The Instagram Following Section : IG has never been the same since this was removed. Literally the best

Madison Kanna

Madisonkanna

When you're learning to code, you might have people talk about computers and say, "It's all just ones and zeros."But what does that mean? Thread. Everything you interact with

Tetrane

tetrane

One of our users compared vulnerability research as trying to find a needle in the proverbial haystack and shared with us how REVEN makes a huge difference. This inspired us

foone

Foone

oh wow.so this DOS game (name hidden for Reasons) uses encryption, probably for anti-piracy reasons, right? But here's the thing: the encryption is the kind where applying it to an

Daniel Liu

daniel_c0deb0t

okay so hamming distance of 2 strings with 1000 (u8/byte) characters each takes 80 nanoseconds. yes, NANOsecondsthats 1 byte every 0.08 ns on my 2.7 GHz (0.4 ns/cycle) intel i7

Redd

reddberckley

How does malloc work? Wikipedia tells us that malloc is a function that, given a specified number of bytes will allocate that number of bytes in memory and will typically

L Break Into Program

BreakIntoProg

Fixed the bug in my fast filled and textured triangle drawing routine for the ZX Spectrum. I've released the code on GitHub in lib/vector_filled.z80, with an example file in Demo/demo_3D.

Ben Sigelman

el_bhs

0/ Now that organizations are building or buying observability, they are realizing that it can get really damned expensive. And not just “expensive,” but “expensive and out of control.”This is