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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 16:04:53 JST Steve's Place

   Kids, always memset to 0 before applying data in C! You never know where those bits have been.

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 17:19:45 JST Steve's Place

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     • culpaplex

     @hp This is exactly what we all need to have printed on our t-shirts.

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     culpaplex (hp@social.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 17:19:46 JST culpaplex

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     @steter One day we'll find out that all the zero-flipping introduces a slight habituation bias to storage and all your data coverges to nil, which explains why you can't find that file anymore you swear you've saved.

     I say memset to normal distributions to be safe.