GabrielTFS

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by GabrielTFS 4y ago
These functions are in the current POSIX draft - though not published, it's quite unlikely to be removed (someone actually specifically filed an issue against POSIX to try and get it removed, basically on the basis of "it's n
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by GabrielTFS 4y ago
It is also, from what I know, the legal approach. The EU perhaps doesn't have jurisdiction over a service, but what they can do is ask all the ISPs in Europe to block access to it, for example.
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by GabrielTFS 4y ago
In Specht v. Netscape, the court declined to hold Netscape’s browsewrap (i.e. "putting a link to the ToS somewhere in the web page") enforceable because the hyperlink’s placement at the bottom of the screen failed to put users on
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by GabrielTFS 4y ago
> 2. The problem with that is that you may have infinite recursion, but you can only pass finite amounts of memory between recursion steps. This has also been addressed by https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/60978 . If I
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by GabrielTFS 4y ago
I'd argue you could use non-standard integers that are unable to be reached in a finite amount of steps but aren't infinity and are still "integers".
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by GabrielTFS 4y ago
If you want to talk about this kind of technicality, here are three other avenues through which I believe Turing completeness of C can be achieved: 1. As https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs&#
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by GabrielTFS 4y ago
I mean even w.r.t. Windows stuff, quite a large part of what he talks about is variations on "here's an interesting old anecdote from 1995" or "You know that thing that's totally useless now and doesn't matter
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by GabrielTFS 4y ago
Great idea ! Now, try to convince the 30 implementers that did the wrong choice and will tell you they'll never change it because of backwards compatibility.
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by GabrielTFS 4y ago
It should be noted that Linux generally does actually conform to UNIX standards, though, and that two actual Linux distributions (Inspur K-UX and EulerOS) have in the past obtained UNIX certification. While this doesn't make all Linux
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by GabrielTFS 4y ago
Some versions of `strings` might try to parse the file as an executable, which could expose one to any vulnerabilities that may be present in the library used to do so. However, on my Fedora 36 machine at least, it doesn't do so by def