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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I think what's missing from this post is who is using a language. For Haskell it's academics/researchers. For Ada it's the US government and associated industries. That's what makes niche languages viable, not ove
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
To be precise, C does not have a defined ABI (the spec goes out of its way to avoid this). Platforms (OS+Arch) define a C ABI for their own tools. Since this ABI is required to interop with the OS APIs, this will usually become the de-facto
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
On x86/64 only the CPU vendors go down to that level. Well them and security researchers.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
> For systems running supported versions of Windows 10 a successful attack could only result in code execution within an AppContainer sandbox context with limited privileges and capabilities. Which is still not good but not as bad as it
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
If you want to delve into the details then the Apple II source code is on github: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II Along with technical documentation: http://jordanmechner.com/downl
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
One point that Jordan Mechner makes is the limitations made the game better. The whole idea of the mirror guy as an antagonist was inspired by these limitations. Here's someone who is actually in the game world (not just in cutscenes o
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Accompanying article is here: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/03/war-stories-how-princ... Which links to the transcript: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
"Assange Trial" gets far more interest from an international audience. A previous post title "The Alex Salmond Trial and Censorship" did not get any traction whereas this post is accumulating upvotes fast.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I think the three usages of containers often get conflated. 1) Packaging 2) Isolation 3) Secure isolation Containers have dong a good job of packaging and isolating applications. This is has been a boon to development. Particularly with tes
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
When W3C's XHTML 2.0 stalled WHATWG created a new "living standard" (which is subject to constant modifications and additions) to continue HTML development. W3C attempted to create fixed standards from the document (e.g. HTML
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I would note that "ratified by W3C" does not mean much nowadays. WHATWG won that war and the W3C now essentially rubber stamps whatever WHATWG decides.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
To be clear, this is not Forbes. This is forbes.com/sites/ which is an unedited blogging network. So long as a blog brings in clicks and doesn't cause problems for Forbes then they don't much care what is posted.
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Copy-on-Write in C++ and Rust(oribenshir.github.io)
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
> It could also be used for evading URl filters. If the filter is a whitelist then it can't. If it's a blacklist then there are so many ways round filters already (e.g. redirect the link) so this won't help much.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
True but the point still stands if the example is changed to: > A trivial counterexample is the protection against data races.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
If I consume your apple then you no longer have your apple and the apple will be gone once I finish with it. But because I eat apples whole, I can spit it out before I swallow and return it to you. The analogy may not be perfect but the poi
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Do you have any more info about what's in the pipeline?
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
In summary the main issue is that, according to the spec, `<input type="number">` is only for numbers that are going to be parsed into a Javascript number. It has to make sense to increment, decrement or do other numerical o
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I used to have something like that with an old machine with poor, spluttering cooling. You could really tell every time something processor intensive was running. It was actually quite useful at times. For example, if some webpage was const
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
The British response has been to still go ahead with using Huawei for potentially over 30% of their non-core infrastructure. In any case, my point is not that they aren't plausible reasons why they might not make any proof public. My p
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Reminder: US intelligence lies. They are not unique in this but it's worth repeating. They might be right about Huawei or they might not, either way saying "we totally have proof!" without providing proof is effectively meani
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I don't. Although I can easily fill up a terabyte drive, little of that is my own personal files that I need to keep if the drive blows up. Most of my stuff is source code, documents/notes and some photos (with photos being the on
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Reading about b2 pricing it says, you get "10GB of free storage, unlimited free uploads, and 1GB of downloads each day". Doesn't that amount to essentially free backups for (reasonable) personal use? Or am I missing something
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Ah, thanks for the correction.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Note that "forbidden" filenames only apply to win32 paths. "Extended-length" paths can be used to create and open such files. This can cause issues with applications that don't know how to handle them. But yes, Wind
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
> While we’re on the topic, it’s worth noting that the only other restriction on filenames is that that they cannot contain a /, which is the character used to denote directories. Filenames can contain arbitrary other binary data, i
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
This should never be reset. There was a feature update that reset some settings when it was first rolled out. This is why I advise people to delay feature updates for at least a few weeks. There's no advantage to being an unpaid QA tes
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
They actually are but it's on by default. The setting is called "Show suggestions occasionally in Start".
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
This isn't about having a minimal install. It merely removes links to paint and Wordpad. > This change does not remove Paint or WordPad from Windows 10, but you can now disable both apps and also remove traces of these apps from the
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
In regards to COM I was specially thinking about how virtual functions and methods are layed out. This cannot change without breaking a lot of code. Already this causes issues in non-C++ languages (e.g. the difference with thiscall in C++).

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