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• • 2026-01-08 16:06:33 Viewed 163 times

    Sometimes I cry

  • The internet used to be funny, provocative, intelligent, well learned and very interesting to look at and hear in general. Every page would have rings and links and you could spend days following links in your 64 megabyte browser. It was al...

• • 2026-01-06 15:03:00 Viewed 336 times

    Getting out of the deductive logic.

  • Deductive logic is very nice : from OP(A, B) you can produce C. A logical application. That's where the term "application" comes from. You apply an operation OP to inputs A and B and the application produces C which is the result you wa...

• • 2026-01-06 01:01:21 Viewed 276 times

    Temporary variables, copy constructors, and Pthread on macOS

  • Recently I re-discovered that macOS has support for pthread. I did try before but the only way out was to entirely disable pthread for macOS.

    Then Claude-code arrived, and to my surprise it knew that copying a pthread_rwlock_t is u...

• • 2025-12-30 17:51:33 Viewed 749 times

    In the post-stack-smashing-protector world, OpenBSD is the fastest !

  • Here are some benchmarks from a real-world use case : ./configure && make -j8 && time make test in KC3. The time commands gives three results that we plot in a graph in the [→ attached PDF](https://www.kmx.io/im...

• • 2025-12-30 16:16:44 Viewed 165 times

    Never two without three

  • Never two without three is an old saying in French (my native language along with English) and it means expect a following for this. It repeats.

    But on a heavenly level I discovered something interesting : 2 and 3 are key binary sequence...