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Wed Aug 20 06:14:58 PM EDT 2025
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Transcript of Chat box from BLU meeting, Wed, Aug 20. 2025
Meeting held online via Jitsi Meet

In attendance (6 total):

Speaker(s):
   * Benjamin Kallus

BLU officers:
   * John Abreau
   * Jerry Feldman

Attendees (named):
   * Brendan Kidwell
   * Violet Pfeiffer

Attendees (anonymous):
   * Chuba

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Benjamin Kallus says:brb 
19:04
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Benjamin Kallus says:ok back 
19:07
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Chuba says:What was the tech stack at the Bloomberg job? 
19:08
Chuba says:@Violet Pfeiffer (MIT Haystack)
What was the tech stack at the Bloomberg job? 
19:10
Chuba says:I get the impression that Bloomberg will prefer Docker to NixOS 
19:10
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Jerry Feldman says:I tried nixos, but there were a few issue that I didn't like. 
19:11
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Violet Pfeiffer (MIT Haystack) says:@Chuba C++, Python, Javascript. 
19:12
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Jerry Feldman says:I had the assignment to write the C runtime library for pdp11 C 
19:27
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Violet Pfeiffer (MIT Haystack) says:Why linked lists? I thought they were really slow. 
19:28
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Jerry Feldman says:In this case linked lists work fine. In the malloc I wrote, when the user request a chunk, but malloc requests a large block from the heap, and sends the smaller chunk to the user. 
19:32
Jerry Feldman says:in general, brk allocates from the heap, and nmap allocates from system memory. 
20:05
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Benjamin Kallus says:
https://pastebin.com/TxJ2sh4H
20:23
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Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:holy crap Pastebin has turned into a pile of malware 
20:24
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meeting ended at 9:15 pm