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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe

https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/4/15/when-kitty-litter-caused-a-nuclear-catastrophe

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When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe — Practical Engineering

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Late in the night of Valentine’s Day 2014, air monitors at an underground nuclear waste repository outside Carlsbad, New Mexico, detected the release of radioactive elements, including americium and plutonium, into the environme
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

When Compilers Surprise You

https://xania.org/202512/24-cunning-clang

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When compilers surprise you — Matt Godbolt’s blog

Sometimes compilers can surprise and delight even a jaded old engineer like me
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?

https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/10/28/iongraph-web.html

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Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?

Exploring a new layout algorithm for control flow graphs.
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