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by admax88qqq 2y ago
> huge existing stock of C code I feel like the amount of effort that has been spent so far to make C safe and fix bugs due to C not being safe is greater than the effort that would have been required to rewrite all existing C code into
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
That's not how taxes work. Investing $1 doesn't count as a loss for tax purposes.
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
That really just depends on your definition of "excellent" You have defined it to mean "high brow"
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
If that $1 of investment doesn't yield any returns that's not an investment it's just an expense. So yes $1 of savings is worth more than $1 of spending.
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
Without having thought it through fully I feel like the classic "trusting trust" attack could work at the fpga/bitstream level.
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
Why? What do you do?
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
This is the type of software that is "finished". I would expect the code to be pretty frozen.
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
Usually the justification for emulation is "the company doesn't sell this product anymore, it's abandonware"
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
> Braves success Brave has <1% market share.
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
> You may as well say that moviegoers don't care about art Do they? Do you think the audience drives the genre of movies that are popular or vice versa?
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
Probably cause most users don't actually care, otherwise Firefox would have more than single digit market share.
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
From my experience most government programs are more focused on ensuring that _everyone_ has the same baseline experience rather than anyone having a better experience. I don't see why internet lines would be any different.
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
> acquiesce the reality of democracy is something entirely different though. aye there's the rub
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
Your moral outrage is not a convincing argument to those who would consider the authorities having a master key. Technology _does_ give criminals and terrorists new avenues and techniques to commit harm. If you want to convince people who t
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
> To me, government owned lines and connections makes the most sense for society. I used to think that but now I'm not sure I still believe it. I worry that government owned lines doesn't result in "everyone gets fiber to
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by admax88qqq 2y ago
Pharmas love things they can patent. You can't patent THC or CBD. That was the parent posters point.
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
This is silly and false. Corporations that inflate management expenses will generate less profit for shareholders. I don't think any shareholders would like that idea.
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
How can sshd spawn interactive sessions for other users if it's sandboxed?
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
Sure it is. If your system ever gets keylogged and somebody gets your password you are compromised With MFA even if somebody has your password if they don't have your physical authenticator too then you're relatively safe.
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
Peak HN "I want to build a robot cat" "What you really want to build is a drone because quadrupeds cannot go downstairs backwards"
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
It's different when someone wants to put something into their own body vs someone wants to put something into the air and water we all share. Stop pretending it isn't.
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
Is the affordable housing that exists int he Midwest not an incentive? Or do you think we should be giving people even more?
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
There's no way to express an out of bounds memory read/write in JavaScript. So you don't actually need an MMU, or CHERI, or pointer signing, or any of the stack smashing mitigations put in place for C. You do have to generat
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
Jesus. The amount of engineering that has to happen to protect against C is astounding.
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
Nah I don't think this counts as swallowing errors. There's nothing wrong or buggy about the printing API on Xbox returning a list of no printers instead of an exception. It's essentially the Null Object design pattern. Even
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
What makes it a security nightmare in your opinion?
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
> If after a few years, it doesn't work, you go back to the market for more office space. Isn't this what they did? It's been a few years since the big shift to WFH and some execs think it's not working and are pushin
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
The armed forces might just build new missiles. It's not like cost has often been a constraint for them.
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
https://github.com/inflation/goldberg_emulator#but-it-breaks... > It doesn't break any DRM. If the game has a protection that doesn't let you use a custom steam api dll it needs to be cracked before you us
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by admax88qqq 3y ago
Try it without steam installed, I think most of them still load steam.dll if steam is not actively running.

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