post modern C tooling - draft 5
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‘My ties to England have loosened’: John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit | Books | The Guardian “At 87, le Carré is publishing his 25th novel. He talks to John Banville about our ‘dismal statesmanship’ and what he learned from his time as a spy”
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Towards an understanding of technical debt | Kellan Elliott-McCrea Different categories of things which all get lumped together as technical debt.
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Type punning isn’t funny: Using pointers to recast in C is bad. A common C programming technique (casting between pointers to structures) leads to problems when strict aliasing is turned on (as it is if you set -O2 -O3 in gcc).
(tags: C programming casting punning) Type Punning, Strict Aliasing, and Optimization - Embedded in Academia More on the ( Read more... )

Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever - Krebs on Security Never give your PIN to someone who called you.
(tags: phishing phone scam security) Writing system software: code comments. - A taxonomy of code comments.
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10-Best-VIM-Cheat-Sheet-02.jpg (1979×1346) A handy Vim / Vi cheatsheet
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Deep C (and C++) The differences between shallow and deep understanding in C/C++ or how to ace the technical interview.
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Delta Pointers: Buffer Overflow Checks Without the Checks Using the top bytes of pointers to implement efficent out-of-bound detection.
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Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++? | Hacker News Thread with book and video recommendations
(tags: c++ programming) Epistemic extremism - UseOfReason Contra Internet (“shoe”) atheism: I don’t need to be able to prove a thing to you before I can rationally believe it.
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Better Embedded System SW: Embedded System Safety Lecture Video Series A serious of YouTube videos and slides on safety critical software.
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Unrolled thread from @patio11 “Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows, for the same reason we keep schools open despite every subject in them having been taught before.” Mostly related to the tech business.

In that spirit, here’s some quick Things Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already.
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