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the binary numeral system is a positional notation with a base of 2 [technobabble]

Borogoves

Went through the old posts and spruced everything up so that they at least look no worse than they did in the old theme, I think. Had an oddity with my image styling with Safari 3 and rows of thumbnails, like in this post, where the images load fine the first time, but after the […]

Folklore.org shows signs of life

Posting about this will have limited effectiveness, seeing as I’d put an upper limit of two on my readership total, but by that reasoning I’d never post anything. And I really need to get around to writing regularly. I love Folklore.org. Folklore.org is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling. It captures and presents […]

Functions I one day hope to use in a program, Part I

int fuword(const user_addr_t addr); man page [fetch(9)] The fetch functions are designed to copy small amounts of data from user-space. . . . fuword() Fetches a word of data from the user-space address addr. Also acceptable are the related functions fubyte and fulong. I’d probably have to be working at the kernel level to do […]

Initializing a struct with a string array member in C

Last week, I was writing some C code which used a struct that contained, among other members, an array of strings, and I wanted to initialize an array of these structs for use elsewhere in the code. My initial attempts failed with compiler messages that I’d never seen before, so instead of taking the easy […]

My Erdős number is now 6

[wiki] C. Butterfield, R. Mason, and S. Thede. “Sentence Selection for Extractive Summaries in PARE,” Proceedings of the Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics, Nov. 2007, pp. 53-62. A. M. Surprenant, S. L. Hura, M. P. Harper, L. H. Jamieson, G. Long, S. M. Thede, A. Rout, T.-H. Hsueh, S. A. […]

Using the C preprocessor in a bash script

Colin and I came up with three lines to stick at the top of a bash script that’ll run the C preprocessor over the script before running it. See all the sordid details at his blog. Totally going to make my next UNIX Programming assignment use this trick.

On Digg and 0F…

a detailed look at Digg and the 0F… processing key fiasco

Oh hey, it’s been two months

life recap

Software Engineering project, Part II.5: C++ Whee~

fun with order of evaluation

Software Engineering project, Part II

Important implementation information! “Write a program that find a near optimal solution to the Rubic’s cube.” Dodgy grammar and spelling aside, this makes my plan of attack much narrower in scope. Now I don’t have to figure out whether he wanted a program, or a printed mathematical algorithm, or a machine that physically solves a […]