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		spenrose on Dec 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly ha... Excellent. Wish he had cited Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" from half a century ago: * https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

ncruces on Dec 31, 2024 [–]

Yeah, this many words, and not even talking about having to trust the compiler, and how hard that is.

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