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True story: Back in the Olde Dayes, I worked on a project on a microVAX using one of the very first Ada compilers for VAX/VMS. We were actually a beta site for the compiler company. Compiling a package containing generics would crash VMS, something to that point I thought was flatly impossible.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Did you try turning the compiler’s knobs? Like turning off all optimizations?
I have a VAX/VMS story where their C compiler optimizer generated incorrect code for an Intro to C class. I did the rest of my labs in the Unix lab after that.
VMS was very late to the C world as it was a PITA to use C for system programming. Every C string had to be converted to a “string descriptor” to call a system function.
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And those string descriptors, along with the fact that every single system call validates arguments are why VMS has never been breached.
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Rust may get us there again. And I say that without being a fan of it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Oh, it was breached.
I had a copy of X.exe that would allow any regular user to elevate their privileges. (Only used for academic purposes!)
They had subversions just like every other system for a reason.
4.0.5 etc (I think that is version that blocked the X exploit)
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I ended up moving away from PlatformIO so I could use a newer version of GCC and it buffed right out!
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Wordle 817 4/6
🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 817 6/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩
⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩
🟨⬜🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 817 5/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 817 2/6
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 817 5/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 817 5/6*
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜
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⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨
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Second guess was ... brain dead.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
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⬜🟩🟨🟩🟨
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Very close to losing
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 817 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 817 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟨
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Wordle 817 5/6
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
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Wordle 817 4/6
🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Wordle 817 6/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
🟨⬜🟨🟨🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Every time I glance down at my taskbar these days I think I've got new email.
But no, it's just the new briefcase on the Microsoft Edge for Business icon fooling me. Again. Sigh.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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I was going to post a Who reference!
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Eminence Front would have worked as well, if a tad more subtle.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That song was going through my mind as I wrote this.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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That sort of implies you look forward to emails.
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