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by Kamq 3y ago
> Statically linking libC is problematic in various ways. Are we just talking about standard rop gadget vulnerabilities, or is there something else that's a problem with it?
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by Kamq 3y ago
"standard" C implies default to me, so the post is probably referring to C89 or C99, which are significantly more used than C17.
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It's unlikely that the typing is their grief is around static typing, since the language they're comparing node to (elixir) is dynamically typed.
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by Kamq 3y ago
Really depends on who is in power at the time. Famously Ford refused to bail out New York when they went bust back in '75 (he did later sign legislation giving them loans, but my understanding is that those were paid back). Probably al
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by Kamq 3y ago
> there's no such thing as "decoding" IEEE754 to something else. Huh? You can totally take the raw bytes in an IEEE754 floating point number and parse them into something else (say, a decimal type) the same way you can tak
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by Kamq 3y ago
Ahh, fair enough. I'm not familiar with the material. Looks fun
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> Making even the most simple changes or basic features would often break something else in unexpected ways. As I get older I find myself valuing locality of behavior over most other concerns. I can deal with some pretty spaghetti-ish co
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by Kamq 3y ago
My source was an episode of Hardcore History. I believe the population estimate he gives is 6 million (which would make sense if there were 3 million men) with 2 million deaths and two million slaves. I'll give it a re-listen to see if
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by Kamq 3y ago
More like the third that were already most likely to be their allies (or to be receptive to being roman clients). Hence the comment about the tactics working on the "1/3 of the friendliest population".
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I would bet the majority of gamers are actually on console by raw numbers. Appliances are super useful for normies. And native desktop development is, like, 2% of enterprise development. Tops. And all the paying users are over on the mac si
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by Kamq 3y ago
> The Romans didn't kill off native peoples - they subjugated them, taxed them, and forced them to comply with some Roman norms. That's painting with a bit of a broad brush. The Romans had no problems killing off large swaths o
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by Kamq 3y ago
> Again, why go via an LLM and not a search engine to the actual source? I believe the argument presented (possibly in a separate thread) was that search engines have degraded to the point where what they show you is worse than LLM outpu
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by Kamq 3y ago
> Functional or delicious ≠ accurate to the source material. Alright, but most people aren't looking for accuracy relative to the source material. They're looking for code that does a specific thing, or food that tastes a certa
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by Kamq 3y ago
Of the examples given, game A was always a losing game, and game B was basically two games (I'm calling these sub-games) duct taped together, where one is a winning game, and the other is a game that loses very badly. This causes negat
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by Kamq 4y ago
> Entschuldigung, what time is it? Is that valid English? It will be if you use it enough. Sort of like how schadenfreude got added to english.
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by Kamq 4y ago
> You can tell they're legit because their products are listed in tables and because the styling on the website is completely out of fashion. I have noticed that the closer something looks to a 1995 HTML skeleton, the more I trust i
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> I almost never find myself accidentally sticking English words into sentences, but I will frequently mix words from my second and third languages. Which is perfectly valid english.
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by Kamq 4y ago
That's fair if you only have 100 lines of code, but I don't think it automatically follows that the best solution for 10,000 lines of code is 1,000 ten line functions. There's a tradeoff between understanding the function its
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by Kamq 4y ago
> In a purportedly capitalist system, why does unfilled demand exist in a market? Because people aren't, generally, willing to pay for things. The things people are willing to pay for, are pretty well covered. The remaining free thi
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by Kamq 4y ago
It's true that it's unpredictable for a single atom, but when you're dealing with a macroscopic object (say, a metal part), it's quite predictable. The law of large numbers helps out quite a bit here (and the number of a
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by Kamq 4y ago
1. This is a site for weird internet nerds, which has a healthy overlap with people who like cowboy bebop. 2. The site is an excellent example of a small web 1.0 site run by a single person. This is a (possibly a painful) reminder for some
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by Kamq 4y ago
> What kind of dictator are you talking about? A ruler with absolute political power. > ...modern version, of which there are many terrible examples before power transition becomes an issue? This actually reinforces my point. I never
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by Kamq 4y ago
That's a fair question, but I was answering why hijacking is worse, which implies that a hijacking can happen. I'm not saying that the current TSA theater is the most efficient way to stop hijackings.
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by Kamq 4y ago
I wonder if you could just duct tape a kernel to a modern browser and boot right into it. Ok, well, I know you can do that, but I wonder if you could get people to use it. You'd need some tinkering to open a new browser window per moni
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by Kamq 4y ago
You can fly the plane into a building and kill thousands of people (source: 9/11) As opposed to killing hundreds.
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A single dictator has never really been the problem. You can find dictators that do better than democracies throughout history (especially on long-term planning). It's the transition of power that's the problem. Like, a real bad p
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Well, it was a cesspool back then, I guess it's good to hear it's still a cesspool now. The more things change, I suppose.
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That really depends on the reasoning behind it. The far right has a number of anti-capitalist. Usually around capitalism undermining social order and traditional bonds. If we're talking 4chan specifically still, then the idea that capi
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by Kamq 4y ago
> decades 4chan hasn't... Oh god, 4chan has been around for almost 20 years. I'm getting old...

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