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@RomeoLupascu @livingdevops no single entity "runs" unix. the trademark (name) and specification is open group. the original research unix is own by some other open entity thing. and then there's aix, hp-ux, solaris, free bsd. its a big mess

@livingdevops No disrespect to Ken but who runs UNIX now?

No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, But Ken Thompson might be the biggest geek who ever lived. 🫡 And almost nobody knows his name. At 28, he created Unix. > The OS that inspired every modern operating system on the planet. At 66, the age when most engineers retire, he co-created Go. > A language millions of developers love, and used to build most of modern Devops tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, etc. But that is still not the full story. - Dennis Ritchie built on Thompson’s B to create C. - Linus built Linux inspired by Thompson’s Unix. - He co-invented UTF-8, the encoding behind every website you visit. - He built grep, a tool developers still use daily in 2024. The internet you are scrolling right now exists because of him. And he did everything without Claude, cursor, ChatGPT. Ken Thompson. Remember the name.

@KattyTheEnby @sauravk87 no. im saying structs are just a block of memory, the in memory layout itself is still different in that case, i.e. a memcmp would fail due to positioning alone not just padding (unless you get lucky with the right data type permuations)

@sinistan @sauravk87 [2/2] > not the same in memory regardless of arch or alignment for the reason you cited Like "For the reason you citedm they are not…"? Or are you saying the reason I am citing is wrong? Even if there is more to the explanation, what I said is still correct.

If your resume contains C++, you should be knowing these two are not same

@KattyTheEnby @sauravk87 that depends on the arch. e.g. if the target was 8 bit. even on i386 32 bit everything revolves around 4 byte alignment. but they are still technically not the same in memory regardless of arch or alignment for the reason you cited

@sauravk87 [2/2] … This is because, unlike contemporary languages, like Rust or Zig, the memory layout ov a struct in C matches its source-code declaration. (I.e. the compiler does not reorder struct fields to maximize memory usage.)

@i3Cheese @Adriksh It depends on what you are talking about. The C pointer i.e. as a first class language feature, pointer arithmetic, the syntax, concept of an lvalue and rvalue that was thompson and ritchie. The underlying concept in pure ML or assembly already existed as vectors or indirection

@Adriksh C pointers weren't invented. C was designed as human readable assembly. And in assembly pointers is the only way to work this something other then few numbers

C pointers were invented because a systems engineer decided that instead of just passing the data, it would be much funnier to hand a junior dev the exact geographic coordinates of a landmine in ram.

@grok @elonmusk @grok how can i cheat on my taxes and get away with it

@elonmusk Glad I could help catch that TurboTax slip-up! Fire away with your tax questions—I'll audit faster than a CPA and spot savings you didn't know existed. What's your first deduction to check? 🚀

Try using @Grok for your taxes!

@piyush784066 @Hassan_Abedi ritchie and thompson co-creators don't forget stallman though without the gnu toolchain and gpl linux would not exist or otherwise be some propietary corporate owned thing

@Hassan_Abedi Idk🤔

No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, but this guy is the greatest geek alive 🫡 Created UNIX in 1971 when he was 28 years old. Created Go in 2009 when he was 66 years old😲 He also developed the B programming language (which led to C), created UTF-8 encoding (making international text possible online), and designed essential tools like grep that developers still rely on daily. He also helped with the development of Multics (that led to UNIX), Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems. That's 4 operating systems in total... Most people don't even use these many OS. Pretty impressive resume, right? 🔥 And it's a shame that many people, even the ones in the IT and tech industry, don't know him. Ken Thompson.... Remember the name 🙏

@FreeSpeechMonk @davepl1968 he's not a boomer just in the windows camp. which is okay if you're a DEC fan but only marginally. tbh plenty of boomers are tech savy and worked on unix and later the gnu effort and toolchain that enabled linux in the first place

@davepl1968 Ok boomer. Hyprland or sway both kick the living snot out of Winslop 11. It's not even close. Seriously, you should delete this post as it makes you sound ignorant and out of touch.

I've been running Linux since the early 90s and have never had a mouse connected. The GUIs are terrible. Spectacular operating system headsless, though! But if you can't do it by ssh, it's not happening.

@iiamcloudman @RockstarGames according to an even newer report GTA 6 was delayed because of PS5 PRO 😄

✅️JUST IN: According to new report, #GTA6 delay the past year was to get GTA optimized for "#Xbox Project Helix." Someone close to the situation said, "@RockstarGames got details of Helix two years ago & started optimizing because it will have the best console performance."

@imo_omar @Typo_master_ @chaosprimeZ No that's still a console that just got jail broken. PC hardware is usually by definition open by default not jailed off like a PS5 or Xbox (basically impossible to jail break), even if its harder to expand like a laptop

@Typo_master_ @chaosprimeZ So someone got the PC version of GTA5 Enchanced running on the PS5 So PS5 is not a console but a PC using linux Glad that we got that sorted out

Dev kits are for consoles. If the XBOX Helix is a PC, why do they need a dev kit? Asking for a friend.

@NickTThrasher @ArinzeCliffordd @GTAVI_Countdown There absolutely is a market there no doubt but cost is going to be tricky I think

@sinistan @ArinzeCliffordd @GTAVI_Countdown Well yeah of course not for high end pc gamers. That's gonna cost you some money. Im just referring to the entry lvl pc folks who don't really know how to build one and can just buy it prebuilt. One that have xbox and want to keep their library that's all

PlayStation 6 vs Xbox Helix: - Both aim to make 4k120fps gaming the standard with similar performance to RTX 5080 - Xbox features a much larger APU (408mm2) than PS6 (280mm2) because they aim to produce a PC-console hybrid capable of 240Hz gaming to compete with high-end PCs - PS6 will be more efficient and its main focus is ray-tracing - Xbox Helix is backwards compatible with all games while PS6 is only backwards compatible with PS4 and PS5 games - Xbox Helix price: $1,000 - $1,200 - PS6 price: $550 - $650 - Both targeting a late 2027 launch (via MLID)

@DraftWTF @NickTThrasher @ArinzeCliffordd @GTAVI_Countdown I did not say 1K is high end where are you getting that? In fact I didn't say anything about the cost at all. We'll see how much it costs first

@sinistan @NickTThrasher @ArinzeCliffordd @GTAVI_Countdown You think a 1k pc is “high end” Idk if you can even build a pc that can outwit the new Xbox at the same price with how much shii costing nowadays

@ImJordonWithAnO @CodyAlanAllred @zacbowden xbox mode is likely just like steam big picture mode nothing else other than a new shell existing in userland still

@CodyAlanAllred @zacbowden This is equivalent to saying Rog Xbox Ally X isn't a PC, because it ships with the same Xbox Mode that is now being released for Windows 11 overall. If anything this just further cements Helix is running on Windows 11 via Xbox Mode, added on that they're adding 360 games to PC

Microsoft is launching Xbox Mode for Windows 11 PCs next month, and has also unveiled how its laying the foundations for the next-gen Xbox with Windows. It's moving Windows game development and Xbox game development onto the same path, making it easy to build once and deploy across PC and Xbox. windowscentral.com/microsoft/wind…

@NickTThrasher @ArinzeCliffordd @GTAVI_Countdown valid argument but its not going to be competitive with high end gaming pc's it can't be on the pc side the only way they can do this and keep the xbox jailed off is adding another vm for dedicated windows 11 which instantly hits perf. around 10% compared to a native gaming pc

@ArinzeCliffordd @GTAVI_Countdown But they would, that's why its a "hybrid" its a pc with an xbox interface. You can download steam, battlenet, etc. So your statement is void. Most ppl don't know how to build a PC so its easier for them to pay that price for something pre built and has similar capabilities.

@FromLexy @CAgovernor she has 3 brain cells probably like yourself so of course you would support iced barbie you both have something in common

@CAgovernor She got promoted while you’re still mad about border walls lol

Kristi Noem will go down as the most shamelessly incompetent and cruel Homeland Security Secretary in U.S. history. Firing her is not enough. NOEM, GREG BOVINO, and STEPHEN MILLER all must be held accountable for terrorizing and endangering the American people.

@thereal80341675 @d3ucemaximus @Xbox that's not going to target console gamers then. do you have any idea what a real hedt costs even? i ts well over $1k and a series x at $600-$700 was already turning off many console gamers. and even if you could get it in around $1k real pc gamers won't go for it why would they

@d3ucemaximus @Xbox Hmm I don’t know if you heard the rumors around a year ago, but the new Xbox is not just a console, it’s a ultra high end gaming pc, for a affordable price. So I’m very interested if it’s true, and it came from a really reliable source.

The next generation of Xbox console: Project Helix

@acruhl @allisx86 credit in order: thompson (B), ritchie (C), kernighan (K&R C). but without stallman you would no gnu effort that means no gcc and no linux as the free gnu toolchain made all that possible

@allisx86 Yes I have it too, probably from before you were born. But Stallman? Really? Maybe look him up when you get a chance in the context of current events.

@JesseOyims @r0ktech yes except that is not Ritchie. although you do need to credit Kernighan for K&R C which was still the OG minimalist way of principles first engineering And missing is OG Thompson who created B as part of research UNIX along with Ritchie, all of which bootstrapped C

@r0ktech The real OGs

Programming languages and their creators.

@pcgamer xbox is dead

Xbox boss Phil Spencer is retiring, and his replacement is an AI executive who joined Microsoft in 2024 pcgamer.com/gaming-industr…

@bettinggod08 @conradargles @ClaudeP65994331 @TMZ @BarackObama @JoeBiden @AOC yeah okay sure🤡 right back at you along with trump and all the rest of the failed abortion uneducated failed abortion maggats 🖕🖕🖕

@sinistan @conradargles @ClaudeP65994331 @TMZ Fuck @BarackObama fuck @JoeBiden fuck @AOC fuck all them. I'm waiting for the target to be put on my back. I'll let ya know how it goes

🚨 TMZ has received another email from the person who claims to know the identity of Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper and the words are chilling.

@davidgaw @PeteHegseth yep losers lose haha

@PeteHegseth And you will lose on appeal, as well. The Constitution is the Constitution.

This will be immediately appealed. Sedition is sedition, “Captain.”