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by admax88q 9y ago
We should be very weary of regulation that has support from those it regulates.
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by admax88q 9y ago
Okay but you don't have to implement a 100% solution to make 90% of existing code much safer. How much C code is out there that only uses malloc/free? All of those programs could be made safer if the default string methods were a
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by admax88q 9y ago
But there has to be some way we can solve this with the blockchain. /sarcasm
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by admax88q 9y ago
Nothing I love more than HackerNews armchair engineering. It's not that simple, you're assuming the car even had some indication that something was wrong. For all we know the car's vision was showing high confidence it saw a
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by admax88q 9y ago
All my web platforms searches are now "mdn <web-thing>" cause w3schools is never informative enough for me.
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by admax88q 9y ago
That's true, although there's no reason the stack allocator couldn't record this information somewhere as well. And if the memory allocator doesn't know about the string then you could just revert to the existing behavio
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by admax88q 9y ago
The funny thing is that the memory allocator typically knows the size of the string. You call free(foo) not free(foo, 12) or free(foo, strlen(foo)); But there's no standard way to ask for this size. Why doesn't strcpy just check
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by admax88q 9y ago
> 2. A big part of limiting cheating comes down to the specific game design and implementation. You need a server implementation that is as distrusting of clients as possible, you need secure (networking) code, etc. Anti-cheat is not a c
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by admax88q 9y ago
Yes because at the end of the day an share of AMZ means you own a small percentage of that company. That includes a small percentage of all their physical assets, servers, real estate, cash on hand etc. So yeah there is some intrinsic valu
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by admax88q 9y ago
This isn't very dissimilar to being an undercover detective. If there were very clear rules spelled out in law about what you can and cannot do, then criminals could use these to develop a robust litmus test for undercover operatives.
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by admax88q 9y ago
To be fair though, if the law mandated that you make all of those available as spare parts you could. Even if many of them are not useful to most consumers, it's not like you're unable to sell some of the ceramic powder, or one p
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by admax88q 9y ago
You underestimate the absurdity of many software patents.
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by admax88q 9y ago
It seems to me the only reliable way to favour general purpose computers over specifically manufactured hardware would be to change the algorithm periodically.
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by admax88q 9y ago
What value does your system provide by limiting addresses to 100 characters and the given regex. Why not just allow any input and validate the address by attempting to send to it. It's really the only way to tell if its a real address
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by admax88q 9y ago
The experience can't possibly be that bad for everyone. Some other factor must have been at play with your setup.
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by admax88q 9y ago
It means that any expense you spend on Y isn't really an expense, since the money goes right back into your pocket. So not only do you get the extra income from other people buying Y, buy you can operate at higher margins than everyone
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by admax88q 9y ago
I think you missed the point, it's not that doing two profitable things is better than one, which you're right is always the case. It's the more specific case of running businesses X and Y where X is dependent upon buying ser
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by admax88q 9y ago
Yay it's time for HN pedantry! Bankrupt can also mean insolvent, it is not limited to the legal definition[1]. But more importantly you know what the person you're replying to meant. That they think Illinois is essentially out o
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by admax88q 9y ago
Do you have any reason to believe Beale isn't just talking out his ass trying to boost his own persona and relevance? I find it particularly suspect the way he tries to align Damore with his interests and politics. "He says he doe
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by admax88q 9y ago
How so?
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by admax88q 9y ago
JS is a mess. I think this blog post highlights the frustrating viral nature that is async functions: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
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by admax88q 9y ago
If I take all the pollution or greenhouses gases that we would dump in a 100 year period and dump them all today, it's possible that the impact from that would be unrecoverable. Total emissions isn't the only important measurement
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by admax88q 9y ago
As chief architect he probably has some sway to push FB to open source it. Even if he can't its pretty hypocritical for him to ask these people to open source their work, allowing Occulus to benefit from it rather than worry about them
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by admax88q 9y ago
Are we seriously trying to fix buffer overflows in hardware instead of just moving on from C?
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by admax88q 9y ago
It's not though. This announcement shows the direction that those in charge of Red plan to take it. If you think that's a stupid direction, then that should influence your decision to invest any time in learning or building upon
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by admax88q 9y ago
The git CLI is horribly inconsistent. http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
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by admax88q 9y ago
Reach out to what end? Say there was a customer support number you could call. What happens when you call them? You complain for a bit and feel placated?
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by admax88q 9y ago
I think you're thinking about the EOMA project. Boards are soon to go out for their production run. https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/pcb...
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by admax88q 9y ago
Google, Amazon or Tarsnap will all host it for you for a small fee. What value is there in decentralized hosting across lots of commodity nodes of your private encrypted data? As opposed to ”centralized" hosting with a few different p
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by admax88q 9y ago
> It would be possible to create a browser that displays DRM content and ignores DRM. The DMCA makes this illegal. No browser vendor is going to take that risk. Maybe some anonymous developers will release a firefox fork or similar, bu

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