Ramanujan came up with an approximation for factorial that resembles Stirling's famous approximation but is much more accurate. As with Stirling's approximation, the relative error in Ramanujan's approximation decreases as n gets larger. Typically these approximations…

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This article introduces a kind of eBPF program that may be used to monitor userspace programs. It first introduces you to eBPF and uprobes and then explores the flaws that we found in uprobes.

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