ramon156an hour ago
I love these tiny explainers! Even if I already know what it's about, having a confirmation helps throughout reading.
sanskarix2 hours ago
understanding this stuff saves you hours when debugging memory leaks or weird segfaults.
most devs skip straight to valgrind without knowing what they're looking for. knowing where your stack ends and heap begins makes those tools actually useful instead of just noise.
mhavelka774 hours ago
"mmap, without the fog"
I don't know if this is just me being paranoid, but every time I see a phrase like this in an article I feel like it's co-written by an LLM and it makes me mad...
puika3 hours ago
The article does feel like Gemini when you ask it to explain you something in layman terms, but co-authored by chatgpt with nonsense like "without the fog".
sleepytimetea12 hours ago
Website blocked as a threat/unsafe domain.
jeroenhd2 hours ago
Sounds like your security software is broken. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/9e0c8d513f58a8053284b8145...
drbig12 hours ago
False alarm.
offmycloud10 hours ago
What browser blocked it?
foobiekr9 hours ago
Umbrella seems to be blocking it, for one.
0xkatoop12 hours ago
lol
drbig12 hours ago
Instruction pipelining and this is exactly why I wish we still have the time to go back to "it is exactly as it is", think the 6502 or any architecture that does not pretend/map/table/proxy/ringaway anything.
That, but a hell lot of it with fast interconnect!
... one can always dream.
ojbyrne10 hours ago
The article is essentially describing virtual memory (with enhancements) which predates the 6502 by a decade or so.
taeric10 hours ago
I'm curious how this dream is superior to where we are? Yes, things are more complex. But it isn't like this complexity didn't buy us anything. Quite the contrary.
harry810 hours ago
> ...buy us anything.
Totally depends on who "us" and isn't. What problem is being solved etc. In the aggregate clearly the trade off has been beneficial to the most people. If what you want to do got traded, well you can still dream.
loeg9 hours ago
But why?
selasa671189 hours ago
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