Uncensored Onion service search engine by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
This is where "fun" stuff is likely to be.
Meteor (web framework) by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
The idea is cool. It really unifies front-and back end.
But Ciro Santilli feels the approach proposed by FeathersJS of being a glue between bigger third-party Front-end web frameworks like React and backend (object-relational mapping) is more promising and flexible.
Node.js ORM library by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Copernican heliocentrism by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Divorce of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
MacKenzie Bezos went on to marry a science teacher who taught their children.
The contrast with Bezos's girlfriend is simply comical. MacKenzie married the idealistic morally upright science teacher, while Bezos went for a silly sex bomb. Ah, bruta flor, do querer!
Sergey Brin by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Human mitochondrion by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
GDSII by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Figure 1.
3D rendering of a GDSII file.
Source.
High-frequency trading as a form of Nirvana by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli once talked to a man who had been working on high-frequency trading for the last six years.
He was quite nice.
Ciro asked him in what way did he feel his job contributed to the benefit of society.
He replied that it didn't contribute at all. It was completely useless. More than that, it so completely useless, that it was even pure. A bit like advanced mathematics, but not even providing beauty for anybody outside of the company, since everything is a closely guarded trade secret, unlike mathematics which is normally published for the vanity recognition.
A great mind can work in the most useless branches of finance, without the desire to improve the world, nor make it worse. Not to compete, nor be afraid, nor anxious. A sand mandala.
Only being. Being, in the exact fraction of a moment where bid meets ask.
Synoptic Gospels by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Rogue trader by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
University of Stanford spinout company by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
ELF Hello World Tutorial / SHT_STRTAB by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Sections with sh_type == SHT_STRTAB are called string tables.
They hold a null separated array of strings.
Such sections are used by other sections when string names are to be used. The using section says:
  • which string table they are using
  • what is the index on the target string table where the string starts
So for example, we could have a string table containing:
Data: \0 a b c \0 d e f \0
Index: 0 1 2 3  4 5 6 7  8
The first byte must be a 0. TODO rationale?
And if another section wants to use the string d e f, they have to point to index 5 of this section (letter d).
Notable string table sections:
  • .shstrtab
  • .strtab
ELF Hello World Tutorial / .strtab by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Holds strings for the symbol table.
This section has sh_type == SHT_STRTAB.
It is pointed to by sh_link == 5 of the .symtab section.
readelf -x .strtab hello_world.o
outputs:
Hex dump of section '.strtab':
  0x00000000 0068656c 6c6f5f77 6f726c64 2e61736d .hello_world.asm
  0x00000010 0068656c 6c6f5f77 6f726c64 0068656c .hello_world.hel
  0x00000020 6c6f5f77 6f726c64 5f6c656e 005f7374 lo_world_len._st
  0x00000030 61727400                            art.
This implies that it is an ELF level limitation that global variables cannot contain NUL characters.
ELF Hello World Tutorial / How to learn by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
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