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IncRnd
4y ago
Okay. That makes sense, then.
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IncRnd
4y ago
A comment existing in various binaries for the past 20 years is not the same as transient comments in source code that are removed prior to translation into a binary.
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IncRnd
4y ago
> If it ended up in the binary it probably wasn't a comment, in the true sense. I think you meant "in the source code sense" not "in the true sense." It could very well be a comment in installware.
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IncRnd
4y ago
That's incorrect. Each borrower has multiple credit histories not a single credit history.
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IncRnd
4y ago
> We don't have "a credit score" in the US either. We have a credit history, much like you describe. Not exactly. There are MANY credit scores in the US and several credit agencies. Different score calculations occur for d
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IncRnd
4y ago
The FCRA already is a law that governs credit reporting agencies. Given that, are you sure they are publishers in the manner you imply?
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IncRnd
4y ago
They probably want those people as customers in order to garner fee payments, but they won't extend credit to those people. Those are two different activities.
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IncRnd
4y ago
https://archive.ph/YfD7X
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IncRnd
4y ago
That's not an inference you should draw. I've known many people who have serially started companies. Starting a new company doesn't mean that the earlier companies failed or that the founder stayed at those earlier companies
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IncRnd
4y ago
Thank you! The Castagnoli polynomial, 0x1edc6f41, is used to compute a crc in Btrfs, Ext4, iSCSI and various other places.
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IncRnd
4y ago
It's always important to know which crc you are using. Looking at https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0596/2020-12/Base... , based upon the polynomial constant, the CRC32 class of instructions appe
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IncRnd
4y ago
This article is very humorous. It is also a saddening reflection on software development as it is often practiced.
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IncRnd
4y ago
It's almost like this was put together as a joke.
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IncRnd
4y ago
That is exactly the case.
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IncRnd
4y ago
The checks disclose 100% of the information that is needed to write new checks against the accounts. Those accounts could be completely drained from this. That accords with the title.
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IncRnd
4y ago
Why do you believe that is what people generally believe? I've found the opposite. We range from children learning what was discovered by ancients to people squabbling about forms of government invented and given form thousands of year
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IncRnd
4y ago
No, of course they aren't worthless. They give you the routing number, account number, and next check number in order to print your own fake checks on other people's accounts.
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IncRnd
4y ago
There are old people who use explosives. There are bold people who use explosives. But, there are no old, bold people who use explosives.
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IncRnd
4y ago
Who underestimates the wisdom of the ancients?
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IncRnd
4y ago
> If you want to continue the sandbox metaphor, which I do like, "playing in the Fed's sandbox until the bottom fell out" might work. Or even "toxic sandbox". All toxic substances are poisonous. A toxin is a poi
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IncRnd
4y ago
> But "best government is least government" is a truly toxic and self-destructive meme that has badly infected US culture. If you want to understand what you're actually saying with that sentence, s/government/ci
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5y ago
Selective breeding is a form of genetic modification which doesn't involve the addition of foreign DNA.
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IncRnd
5y ago
You're thinking of mouthwash with ethanol alcohol.
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IncRnd
5y ago
Well, actually I had a similar conversation at a startup a few years back. I wanted to be paid in stock instead of money. This is actually not an uncommon sort of conversation when you intend to work at a company, but where they want you t
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5y ago
》It’s the (apparent) tendency for unskilled people to overestimate their competence. Close. It's the cognitive bias where unskilled people greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective cr
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5y ago
I imagine it was crushed by the Mush traffic.
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5y ago
"Bitsquatting is a form of cybersquatting which relies on bit-flip errors that occur during the process of making a DNS request. These bit-flips may occur due to factors such as faulty hardware or cosmic rays. When such an error occurs
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IncRnd
5y ago
> Can you point to some less biased source than the US military? Yes. I called the 1934 document a lease, but it was actually a treaty that also included a modified form of the earlier lease's provisions. In 1934, a new Cuban-A
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IncRnd
5y ago
There was another lease, which was perpetual, signed with Cuba after that. See the link I posted. [1] "A 1934 treaty reaffirming the lease granted Cuba and her trading partners free access through the Bay, modified the lease payment
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IncRnd
5y ago
What do you believe to be incorrect in what I quoted?
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