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811.
by KMag 5y ago
It's a bit of a shame that Linux doesn't put the kernel at the low end of the address space and identity-map the kernel's address space. For one, calculating kernel address mappings would be slightly faster, and for two, it
812.
by KMag 5y ago
The problem I've always had in asking for a raise is that it seems to me in a downturn situation, dissatisfied over-performers are probably second in line for layoffs after under-performers. If you can't give them a raise, and th
813.
by KMag 5y ago
... and some of us disable swap to prolong laptop-motherboard-soldered-SSD lifetime, and Windows 10 regularly bluescreens when memory is exhausted and swap is disabled.
814.
by KMag 5y ago
I seem to remember that "bit peeling" was designed into Ogg Vorbis audio from early on, such that the data stream could be encoded in order of decreasing audio perceptibility such that data frames could be truncated at certain poi
815.
by KMag 5y ago
> Being vegetarian is also a complete defence[sic]. Tell that to deer dying of CWD.
816.
by KMag 5y ago
I suspect and hope many of these borrowers issuing dollar-denominated debt are also entering into foreign exchange futures contracts. The reason they'd want to expose themselves to US dollar FX risk and then hedge that risk is to make
817.
by KMag 5y ago
Yes. Careful selection of compilation flags can greatly improve performance. My employer spends many millions of dollars annually running numerical simulations using double precision floating point numbers. Some years ago when we retired
818.
by KMag 5y ago
Technically, you'll need to go to court to get a canonical answer. Without a court ruling, it's just expert opinions.
819.
by KMag 5y ago
I didn't say that they knew. I was saying "This wasn't done by NSO knowingly." isn't necessarily true. I think I was pretty clear about the fuzziness of the evidence as it relates to this specific case.
820.
by KMag 5y ago
> This wasn't done by NSO knowingly. In the past month or so, there was a front page story on HN about NSO and a journalist, detailing evidence that NSO-controlled servers served up the exploit to the journalist's phone. This
821.
by KMag 5y ago
Then I misunderstood "That statement was unanimously received very well and nobody realized that this is basically just sarcasm in action." and I believe the GGGP had a similar understanding to me.
822.
by KMag 5y ago
You stated that nobody realized the sarcasm, but you didn't state how you know that. The GP is basically asking how you knew nobody got the sarcasm. The GP is implying it's possible that one or more people understood you, loved
823.
by KMag 5y ago
A constant half-life is necessarily an exponential decrease (linear curve on a logarithmic plot). So, yes, if the half-life is 6 hours without qualification, then the quarter life will be 12 hours. Though, in real-life you get things like
824.
by KMag 5y ago
The really interesting stuff is the metallurgy necessary to have an oxidizer-rich pre-burner run the turbopumps without having the hot oxidizer burn through the engine. Western engineers thought it was pure fiction when they first heard ab
825.
by KMag 5y ago
I'd love some way to expose an allow-list-restricted subset of YouTube to my 7 y.o. nephew. A couple of days ago, he noticed that his twisty balloons get cold when they deflate, which opened up a huge learning opportunity for adiabati
826.
by KMag 5y ago
My knowledge is years out of date, but does WASM still require the application to request its maximum memory footprint up-front? Granted, that's what Sun/Oracle's JVM has been doing to allocate its heap from the OS for well
827.
by KMag 5y ago
I think the Greek letter Xi is where we'll hit real trouble. "zai", "k'see", and "she" are all likely ways people will pronounce the letter. I think most Americans have at this point enough exposure
828.
by KMag 5y ago
If I recall correctly, the stated reasoning is that most software construction today relies heavily on combining libraries, and the batteries-included nature of Python allows them to get to this point earlier in the semester. Also, using P
829.
by KMag 5y ago
I don't have enough context here. The first search result I found disputes claims of post-Katrina New Orleans schools doing better than similar cities[0], but maybe that's a biased sounce. Do you have some links and maybe some el
830.
by KMag 5y ago
... my young son needs night feedings.
831.
by KMag 5y ago
It was pretty stable for hundreds of years. My understanding is that the collapse of the republic was pretty rapid.
832.
by KMag 5y ago
> The top wealthiest companies in the U.S. will shove money into offshore bank accounts and refuse to spend it on the U.S. "Shove money into offshore bank accounts" makes it sound like they're moving money from inside the
833.
by KMag 5y ago
I don't think anyone is arguing that the US government is comparable to Nazi Germany. I think the implication is that the Weimar Republic rapidly devolved into Nazi Germany and the Roman Republic rapidly devolved into the Roman Empire
834.
by KMag 5y ago
There's also a graph debugger that allows you to step through the dependency graph node-by-node across the various globally distributed databases.
835.
by KMag 5y ago
That depends on your time zone. It's the 5th of November here in Thailand.
836.
by KMag 5y ago
Not just pork, but also more productive forms of legislative compromise would be affected by such limitations.
837.
by KMag 5y ago
Presumably the user would get a prompt telling them they need to log out and log back in to pick up security updates, with a "details" button that shows them which applications actually need to be restarted if they don't log
838.
by KMag 5y ago
Honestly, only kernel updates should require host restarts. Linux and BSD have had this for ages. Maybe have a flag that security updates use to flag any process using a vulnerable DLL as needing an eventual restart, and then have an admi
839.
by KMag 5y ago
Agreed. Even if firmware updates need to be signed using threshold signatures generated by hardware security modules stored in vaults, updating firmware for any safety-critical domain (aircraft, medical devices, industrial robots, etc.) sh
840.
by KMag 5y ago
Note that this isn't just a gotcha when writing your own absolute value function. The code given in the example is also how java.Math.abs() works. In C++ std::abs(std::numeric_limits<int>::min()) is undefined behavior (not even

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