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by anyfoo 2y ago
Good point. Though C-s is fine unless you have software scroll control enabled, and it's used in emacs and anything that follows its key bindings very often as well for incremental search forward. (It's not used in the shell even
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I like tmux a lot, but like its predecessor "screen" I mostly use it for explicitly running long-lived jobs (i.e. for its detach feature), and for very special situations where I have elaborate tmux window configurations with dedi
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by anyfoo 2y ago
tmux changed screen's C-a prefix to a more sensible C-b. C-a is pretty universally used as "jump to beginning of line", which for screen meant that you'd have to git "C-a a" instead all the time. Seriously anno
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I'm surprised brute force is even needed. As far as I know, CRC has absolutely no intent to be a cryptographically secure one-way function. It is purely used against unintentional corruption of data. With that in light, does it reall
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I mean, that's more or less the reason why it isn't Java , not why it's ultimately C#. My guess is that Java is just what they're most comfortable with, with C# being similar enough but avoiding specific limitations in
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by anyfoo 2y ago
You can, it's just harder, sometimes. Very roughly spoken, the older the platform, the "weirder" stuff that happens at runtime gets in order to make the best of the measly hardware. I'm looking at a many decades old C64
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by anyfoo 2y ago
It's an honor to get a reply from the ELKS inventor! In your own assessment, how much would you say does ELKS have in common with the Linux of back in the day? I've read you say something along the lines of "many of the struc
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Yeah. I consider ELKS somewhat closer to xenix86 and PC/IX than to Linux in concept, at least nowadays. In any case, it's a very interesting project (and so is this NES86 one).
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by anyfoo 2y ago
You might enjoy another project, which uses a RISCV32 emulator on 6502 to boot actual Linux (not ELKS) on a C64: https://github.com/onnokort/semu-c64 It takes about a week to boot, but it's fun.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
So? If they succeed (big if), then that ticket is your new priority. Maybe even for good reason, maybe not. But usually you don’t care that much which one you work on first, do you?
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by anyfoo 2y ago
> I believe the idea was constant linear velocity recording was "better" than constant angular velocity, by virtue of right-sizing the recording density across the entire surface. Yeah. If you think about it, the outer sectors
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by anyfoo 2y ago
The one factor that might be hard for them to control is "aging". Sure, the paper will likely have aged the same, but maybe the ink ages differently on paper than on a bottle. (In both potential ways: The ink in the bottle may go
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Apple devices use 16kB pages.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
There are usually no valid 32 bit addresses, i.e. the first 4GB are not mapped.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Mathematics is not a spectator sport. I had the luck of reading that quote while I was an undergrad. I did not actually pursue a career in pure math, but it certainly helps me every time I want to understand some math in order to apply it.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Thank you for that, I was looking for exactly this. I consider myself fairly competent in a bunch of DSP topics (Fourier and Laplace, and respectively the z-transform, are no mystery to me), but I have a few problems to solve where I feel t
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by anyfoo 2y ago
So instead of magneto-optic media, we can now have opto-magnetic media?
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by anyfoo 2y ago
The CCC conference is widely regarded in the US, and has significant relevance there.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Again, you are coming at this from a software engineering direction, not a computer architecture/engineering one.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
When studying computer architecture , I think the implementation details of a real architecture, even a simple one, might actually slow you down if your goal is to learn about dynamic recompilation. The commenter you replied to seems to be
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by anyfoo 2y ago
There seems to be a misunderstanding what fields those learning architectures are geared towards. They are usually not for learning about application or even systems programming, in assembly and otherwise. They are about CPU architectures (
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Can you elaborate what you don’t like about this one, LC-3, in particular? I’m not familiar with it, but just had a look at it on Wikipedia. After your comic, I was expecting something weird, but upon a quick glance, it doesn’t seem too jar
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Look up post-exploit mitigations, such as ASLR and pointer authentication. These are mechanisms that only become relevant when software has already been breached. In most cases, they cannot entirely prevent further progress by the attacker,
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by anyfoo 2y ago
The “cost” includes all resources, including time. Some classes of attackers will be significantly slowed down by this.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
It’s literally an arms race. You make it more expensive for attackers to progress. Yes, security through obscurity is bad on its own, but it’s not necessarily useless as an additional measure. For a similar concept, look at the delay you ge
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Can’t have harmonics (i.e. harmonic oscillations, or any oscillations really) without e, though. sine and cosine are both sums of e, and if you look at the beauty of analytical sinusoid signals (which only have one component in the entire s
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Doesn't seem very well thought out to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5pWqpPCy7c
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Me too, I loved that thing. One of the first things I saved up for when I started earning my own money, so it was extra special. I had the fully "decked out" version with better speakers, two tuners (picture in picture or two pict
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by anyfoo 2y ago
5 years ago, by state level actors. How many state level actors are trying to breach the Xbox? Your original statement was “there are kernel vulnerabilities being fixed, therefore iPhones are less secure than the Xbox one”. It’s just not th
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I sometimes wistfully look back to the days where I had a bunch of books and printouts open on my desk for programming. Of course, that's more than likely romanticizing things quite a lot...

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