James Wilcox :verified:

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assistant teaching professor, university of washington, PL and systems research https://jamesrwilcox.com/

this whole channel is gold but the visualizations in this one in particular are really nice. now I kind of understand loaders!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX5tQJhuNeY

Crafting executables from raw bytes

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@regehr @wilcoxjay this seems like a good time to mention that I am making a cassoulet right now
@wilcoxjay QUERY PLAN
`--COMPOUND QUERY
|--LEFT-MOST SUBQUERY
| `--MATERIALIZE hash(onion)
`--UNION USING TEMP B-TREE
`--SCAN butter
it's been an on-brand day: sqlite and a potful of onions

a gem from the sqlite docs:

> Note that a declared type of "FLOATING POINT" would give INTEGER affinity, not REAL affinity, due to the "INT" at the end of "POINT".

The Hoare Cube

I wrote earlier this year about my attempt to understand the repercussions of toggling $latex \subseteq$ and $latex \supseteq$ when giving a semantics to Hoare triples. In response to that post, Ya…

Wickopedia

when I grow up, I want to install the email filters:

* "[Action Required]" -> skip inbox and delete
* "[Urgent]" -> skip inbox and delete

semi automating grading intro student linked list code by typing it into dafny like a madman
did I *need* to spend a day implementing dancing links? no. was it fun? yes.