FUN WITH POINTERS

Pointers!A confusing yet curious topic. What is a POINTER?Well, it’s a variable that stores the address of another variable. We often get confused by the dual operation performed by the pointer.‘&‘ Operator is an address operator that gives the address of a particular variable.‘*‘ Operator is an indirection operator, that refers to the value pointed […]

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Sliding over 𝐑𝐒-πŸπŸ‘πŸ

It is used for the Serial interface. Other devices can be controlled through the terminal for text interface through RS 232. It was introduced in 1960 and since its introduction, it was known as 𝐑𝐒-πŸπŸ‘πŸ but it is now officially called π“πˆπ€-πŸπŸ‘πŸ. The TIA-232 describes mostly the πŸπŸ“-𝐩𝐒𝐧  connector, the πŸ—-𝐩𝐒𝐧 connector description is also […]

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Peeking Into The Assembly

Assembly is tough. How does the processing of c code takes place in assembly? What are the kinds of instructions that we could see? What is actually happening in this gigantic mesh of lines? This is my small step to look into the assembly code of a small program/ replicating a small segment of code […]

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THREADS

Let’s talk about Threads What is a Thread? – A Thread is a path of execution within a process. A thread is also known as a lightweight process. The idea is to achieve parallelism by dividing a process into multiple threads. -A thread is an active entity as it executes as a part of a […]

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THE SHAPE OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY

The universe is ever expanding. Out of the billions of galaxies floating across in the ocean of space in the universe, we live in a galaxy named Milky-Way. When we think about the universe, its size is incomprehensible. When we narrow it down to our galaxy, the size and the elements present in our galaxy […]

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FROM THE SMALLEST TO THE BIGGEST

There are various objects in the universe , from microscopic to macroscopic which are of different shapes and sizes. Apart from the sizes of what we see daily, look at these mind boggling sizes of various elements which exists at this very moment in our universe. A String – part of string theory: 1.62*10-35 meters […]

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RANDOM WRITES-1 LARGEST NUMBER

There are plenty of numbers. Few of them are finitely infinite and few of them are finite and most of them are infinitely infinite. It just depends on the way we view. They are infinite. But within the countable set, what can be the largest number?Lets see. Googol- 10100 Number of atoms in the body […]

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FREE TIME? BORED?

In the situations which we are in right now, the most important thing is to survive. Social distancing is the only way we can stop the spread of this virus. Human species came a tick closer; we are just 100 seconds closer to midnight (the doomsday clock). It is an individual responsibility to live and […]

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