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by ajxs 6y ago
I've always felt that UW1 is massively underappreciated for the impact it had on computer gaming. It's been attested that John Carmack was inspired to create the engine that would eventually become Wolfenstein after seeing Underwo
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> "...at rates other animals will never match." This is because we make the right decision to not live in close proximity to lions, tigers, bears, apes and all the other menagerie of dangerous creatures we share Earth with. &gt
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by ajxs 6y ago
(Not my joke) At a recent real-time Java conference, the participants were given an awkward question to answer: "If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible for the flight contr
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by ajxs 6y ago
If you can't find one you should consider making your own and contributing a 'bare bones' style tutorial to https://wiki.osdev.org/ . If you're familiar with the subject matter, getting to the point of wo
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by ajxs 6y ago
Here is the document I was referring to: https://web.archive.org/web/20111219004314/http://journal.th...
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Reading through the Wikipedia article detailing serious issues with the avionics software's development[0], I can't help but think of the choice to use C++ as the standard language for development on most of the JSF's systems
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by ajxs 6y ago
I didn't expect this to be as 'Horrifying' as it was. Has anyone written a script yet to identify whether or not a given PDF contains executable script?
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Is this RISC vs CISC human language philosophy?
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> The idea is to separate the data in JSON completely to be consumed outside the browser if needed, but still render correctly in the browser... I'll accept that answer. As controversial as this comment may be, XML/XSLT is a ve
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It's a neat trick using the Browser's Quirks Mode to load JSON that can bootstrap a framework, I'm not sure I really understand the benefit though. In order to actually get to the point of bootstrapping, the server has alread
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by ajxs 6y ago
Thanks so much for your awesome article. It was a fantastic resource which gave me invaluable insight while I was working on this project: https://github.com/ajxs/jsFO
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You've made some great points! You're totally right that Gibson did not foresee this. I think there's a difference between Virek's near omnipotence, which terrifies Marly, and the modern surveillance state. The idea that
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I had the same thought regarding surveillance. At the risk of sounding like devil's advocate, had Gibson accurately predicted the high-tech panopticon of the modern day, he could create a much better thematic environment by ignoring or
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> It encourages shorter names... I can't remember my source right now, however I recall a study which indicated that having more descriptive variable names contributed more to the overall perception of code quality and legibility th
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by ajxs 6y ago
I used to own a Raketa 24H Antarktika "Frankenwatch". It contained a genuine 2623 movement, and as best I could tell the hands were the original. Other parts, such as the glass were cheap fake pieces. It was definitely a very uniq
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Facebook itself, just like other online media companies, _is_ a political entity. My view is that the risk we in democratic countries face is not from political entities co-opting Facebook, it's from companies like Facebook becoming po
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One particular sentence in this story brought this short science-fiction story to mind: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm Prominently featuring a 'recursive image' that causes fatal damage to the
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Cool project. That database schema is ridiculous though. The script creates a set of tables for each newsgroup it finds, containing headers, body, from, to, etc... Why has he done this? This could be contained in only two tables: One table
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This is a great thing for the Ada community. I hope this encourages more contribution and collaboration on libraries that keep Ada useful for mainstream development.
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Thank you for mentioning this and reminding me of this story. Tiptree's writing is amazing. The short story can be read for free here: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-is-the-plan-t...
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The article we're discussing would suggest that the attack surface for any kind of complex machinery is very wide. A car doesn't need to be drive-by-wire to be potentially endangered by malicious code affecting the engine or batte
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by ajxs 6y ago
In case anyone is interested in how a UEFI bootloader could be implemented, I wrote a deliberately simple, teachable example: https://github.com/ajxs/uefi-elf-bootloader When I was learning there was definitely a lack
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...just thought I'd mention here that I have my contact information in mine.
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Could you post any resources that discuss this? I don't doubt that you could be correct. After a quick search I wasn't able to find any material online that really supported this claim. There is the well-known condition of 'P
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> This is also how women were drugged for childbirth in the mid-20th century... Can you provide any additional information on this? I can't find anything online. Maybe I'm using the wrong search terms.
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You're absolutely right. The idea that a corporation's board would decide collectively what political stances to take is not groundbreaking. However this kind of critical thinking seems to be so rarely applied to organisations tra
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> The real Orwellian phenomenon is not some kind of scary gatekeeper separating truth from fiction, which is actually a productive use of authority and necessary in any civilisation that doesn't want to turn into a clowncar... From
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> I mean, it seems clear to me that you are a user of Facebook, and you seem to agree with me that misinformation is running rampant? No, I don't use Facebook. I haven't for a long time. While I agree that there is propagation
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> The mainstream culture was often bland but it was successful at gate keeping this kind of stuff... This is a side-effect of the legacy media organisations no longer having a monopoly on the dissemination of information. Think for a mom
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The two beliefs are mutually exclusive. If you support social-networks removing what they decide is 'disinformation' by implication you think this is the bigger risk. This is the mechanism by which they become the gatekeepers of i

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