ThePanda

I need to write a relatively long paper somehow related to my semester long study of dystopian fiction. So far we are down to dystopian fiction 1, me none. I really like the stories, I’d be happy to write one if that is what was required, but writing about the meta-theory of dystopian fiction has me in a fix, what with dystopias being varied and hard to define. I could swear we began each of those discussion sections with an argument on whether something was a true dystopia or not. Either ways, I have productively watched Hot Fuzz today, and while this may not help my academic goals in any way, it was a nice movie.

This blog entry reminds me of a question we had in a CS166 homework, and debates about how much can you trust any single piece of binary code. But then again, seeing as the blog seems to mention Reflections on Trusting Trust, one wonders if the lessons of that particular paper are lost on the entry. Sure, having source might help, but you better be writing your own compilers, for which you better also be writing your own bootstrap compilers. Oh for the days when von Neumann was unhappy about Gillies creating an assembler (no I am not advocating a return to those days, I would not want to be employed as an assembler, and I am still a student).

Ze Panda

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