Ciro Santilli Big goals:
- the pursuit of AGI
- physics simulations, including scientific visualization software
- formalization of mathematics
Just art:
- useless mathy stuff
- incredibly nifty little tools that are just so satisfying to use it is mind blowing:
- media related stuff
- FFmpeg one liners!
Examples under cmake:
- cmake/hello: just print a message in CMake itself and exit. No compilation.
- cmake/hello_c: C hello world
- cmake/option:
set()andoption()basic examples - cmake/multi_executable
- cmake/multi_file
- cmake/multi_file_recursive
- cmake/shared_lib_external
Some linker related ansewrs by Ciro Santilli:
Not possible it seems:
"automatic programming has always been a euphemism for programming in a higher-level language than was then available to the programmer" sums it up.
The ultimate high level is of course to program with: "computer, make money", which is the goal of artificial general intelligence.
Lowering means translating to a lower level representation.
Raising means translating to a higher level representation.
Decompilation is basically a synonym, or subset, of raising.
Saves preprocessor output and generated assembly to separate files.
- preprocessor:
- assembly:
Very hot stuff! It's like ISA-portable assembly, but with types! In particular it also it deals with calling conventions for us (since it is ISA-portable). TODO: isn't that exactly what C does? :-) LLVM IR vs C
Documentation: llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html
Example: llvm/hello.ll adapted from: llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#module-structure but without double newline.
To execute it as mentioned at github.com/dfellis/llvm-hello-world we can either use their crazy assembly interpreter, tested on Ubuntu 22.10:
This seems to use
sudo apt install llvm-runtime
lli hello.llputs from the C standard library.Or we can Lower it to assembly of the local machine:
which produces:
and then we can assemble link and run with gcc:
or with clang:
sudo apt install llvm
llc hello.llhello.sgcc -o hello.out hello.s -no-pie
./hello.outclang -o hello.out hello.s -no-pie
./hello.outhello.s uses the GNU GAS format, which clang is highly compatible with, so both should work in general.Reproducible builds allow anyone to verify that a binary large object contains what it claims to contain!
Bibliography:
Survey by Ciro Santilli: math.stackexchange.com/questions/1985/software-for-drawing-geometry-diagrams/3938216#3938216
Many plotting software can be used to create mathematics illustrations. They just tend to have more data-oriented rather than explanatory-oriented output.
Some notable ones:
Ciro Santilli has some good related articles listed under: the best articles by Ciro Santillis.
Good library to render text in OpenGL, see also: stackoverflow.com/questions/8847899/opengl-how-to-draw-text-using-only-opengl-methods/36065835#36065835
The fact that they kept the standard open source makes them huge heroes, see also: closed standard.
Shame that many (most?) of their proposals just die out.
Good modern OpenGL tutorial in retained mode with shaders, see also: stackoverflow.com/questions/6733934/what-does-immediate-mode-mean-in-opengl/36166310#36166310
Examples at: two-js/.
Feels good. Maybe not ultra featured, and could have more simple examples in docs, but still good.
One of the main features of Two.js appears to be the fact that it can natively render to either SVG and canvas, rather than creating SVG through DOM hacks as done by other projects.
One specific software project, typically with a single executable file format entry point.
As mentioned at Section "Computer security researcher", Ciro Santilli really tends to like people from this area.
Also, the type of programming Ciro used to do, systems programming, is particularly useful to security researchers, e.g. Linux Kernel Module Cheat.
The reason he does not go into this is that Ciro would rather fight against the more eternal laws of physics rather than with some typo some dude at Apple did last week and which will be patched in a month.
Ciro Santilli found out that he likes computer security researchers and vice versa.
It's a bit the same reason why he likes physicists: you can't bullshit with security.
You can't just talk nice and hope for people to belive you.
You can't not try to break things and just keep everyone happy in their false illusion of safety.
You can't do a half job.
If you do any of that, you will get your ass handed to you in a little gift bag.
All of this is closely linked to Ciro Santilli's self perceived creative personality and being naughty and creative are correlated.
A superstar security researcher with some major exploits from in the 2000's.
Oh yeah, that felt good. A few months before he died.
Ermm, as of February 2021, I was able to update my 2FA app token with the password alone, it did not ask for the old 2FA.
So what's the fucking point of 2FA then? An attacker with my password would be able to login by doing that!
Is it that Google trusts that particular action because I used the same phone/known IP or something like that?
The fatal flaw of OAuth is that websites have to enable specific providers, they can't just automatically select the correct OAuth for a given email domain. This means that the vast majority of websites will only provide the most widely popular providers such as Google, and the like, which means people won't have decent privacy.
So you are just better off with password logins and a decent password manager.
A cross browser, cross platform, and server-encrypted password manager is a must after Snowden!!! E.g. Proton Pass. And governments should obviously provide one to its citizens, or else be spied upon by the USA obviously: Governments should provide basic Internet infrastructure.
Do as I say, not as I do: Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow suspension for vote fraud script 2019, meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/381577/is-it-ok-to-have-links-on-how-to-create-sock-puppets-and-gain-rep-fraudulently-i/381635#381635.
- youtu.be/IH0GXWQDk0Q?t=900 mentions that Alfred Charles Hobbs commented in 1853:
Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already much more than we can teach them
Basically the opposite of security through obscurity, though slightly more focused on cryptography.
This is really good.
It allows the client to prepare a single request that gets all the data it wants to fill up a given webpage, rather than doing several separate requests.
So it only gets exactly what it needs, and in a single request.
Very sweet. This is the future of the web.
- no formatting;
- stackoverflow.com/questions/2614764/how-to-create-a-hex-dump-of-file-containing-only-the-hex-characters-without-spac
- unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10826/shell-how-to-read-the-bytes-of-a-binary-file-and-print-as-hexadecimal/758531#758531
- stackoverflow.com/questions/2003803/show-hexadecimal-numbers-of-a-file/77262369#77262369
- stackoverflow.com/questions/9515007/linux-script-to-convert-byte-data-into-a-hex-string/77262375#77262375
The author Ole Tange answers every question about it on Stack Exchange. What a legend!
This program makes you respect GNU make a bit more. Good old make with
-j can not only parallelize, but also take in account a dependency graph.Some examples under:
man parallel_exampesTo get the input argument explicitly job number use the magic string
sample output:
{}, e.g.:
printf 'a\nb\nc\n' | parallel echo '{}'a
b
cTo get the job number use
sample output:
{#} as in:
printf 'a\nb\nc\n' | parallel echo '{} {#}'a 1
b 2
c 3
c 3{%} contains which thread the job running in, e.g. if we limit it to 2 threads with -j2:
printf 'a\nb\nc\nd\n' | parallel -j2 echo '{} {#} {%}'a 1 1
b 2 1
c 3 2
d 4 1% symbol in many programming languages such as C.To pass multiple CLI argments per command you can use
sample output:
-X e.g.:
printf 'a\nb\nc\nd\n' | parallel -j2 -X echo '{} {#} {%}'a b 1 1
c d 2 2Way too few people know about this. Spread the word.
Check which you you have:
Tested on Ubuntu 23.10 I see:
which means I have GNOME Display Manager.
systemctl status display-manager.service● gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; static)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2023-12-24 10:34:50 GMT; 23min ago
Process: 1827 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/gdm/generate-config (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1850 (gdm3)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 71817)
Memory: 6.8M
CPU: 119ms
CGroup: /system.slice/gdm.service
└─1850 /usr/sbin/gdm3Bibliography: