armitron

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by armitron 3y ago
You're imagining things, there is no memory corruption mechanism. The payload is delivered into the process address space by dynamic linking through a shared dependency and hijacks a function via GNU_IFUNC.
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by armitron 3y ago
That would have certainly been a lot better for the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians that went straight to an early grave.
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by armitron 3y ago
Are you aware of the Monroe doctrine? Cuban missile crisis? Can you imagine the US reaction if Russia placed missiles in Canada or Mexico? Mearsheimer explains the perceived threat aspect very well: it doesn't matter what YOU, the Amer
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by armitron 3y ago
Everyone that recommends nativecomp as a way to fix perceived Emacs slowness in this topic is basically parroting something that's completely and utterly wrong. Native compilation should make no difference in perceived "slowness&q
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by armitron 3y ago
nativecomp is pretty much a gimmick and should make absolutely no difference in perceived Emacs slowness during actual usage and not stupid microbenchmarks.
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by armitron 3y ago
Run 'emacs -q' (no add-ons loaded) and it should be a lot faster than VS Code. Which means that a library you loaded is the culprit. Things like Doom Emacs are notorious for unexpected slowness since they're not very well put
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by armitron 3y ago
It's supremely naive to think that Russia wants to fully subjugate Ukraine and instead of allowing one to observe clearly how this war is unfolding, such thinking creates a false reality that is ripe for exploitation and susceptible to
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by armitron 3y ago
You are, his explanations are clear and logical. Yours are touching mysticism. Plausible deniability works, in the real world, today. There's nothing contrived about it.
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by armitron 3y ago
Do you realize how many security issues exist in applications written in memory-safe Java/PHP/JS/Python ? Memory corruption is but the tip of the iceberg.
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by armitron 3y ago
Universal healthcare is a disaster in every country similar to the US (UK, Canada). The Scandinavian model is an exception, and would never work here given social factors such as population makeup and numbers. I'll keep my reasonable t
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by armitron 3y ago
> What a weird definition of failing. > I wonder if you call Russia's invasion of Ukraine a success. Ukraine already lost 20% of its territory, territory it won't get back and hundreds of thousands of its men with nothing to
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by armitron 3y ago
That's all well and good if you're willing to leave a lot of money on the table. All the companies that hand out half-a-million to a million-dollars/yr total compensation packages operate using similar hiring processes. That&
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by armitron 3y ago
It was a "sequel" in name only. In reality, a kickstarter cash-grab with neither attention to detail nor significant effort put into it. Not as bad as the utter fiasco that turned out to be "shroud of the avatar" [0] but
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by armitron 3y ago
I have lived in the US for nearly 20 years (originally from Europe), SF for ~10 but I've since moved to a less progressive state in order to raise my kids in a better environment. I don't tip, ever. I've been pestered with wh
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by armitron 3y ago
Sounds like fun. To founders: Any plans to open source it so that it’s not lost in the sands of time?
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by armitron 3y ago
How has that worked out so far? A legacy of ashes as the CIA book goes. US foreign intervetionist policy of the last 20 years has been nothing but one colossal disaster after another.
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by armitron 3y ago
Ukraine is a broken country and the more this war goes on the worse it's going to get. So I'd say it certainly benefits a lot of Ukrainian men who are destined for an early grave "that there should be peace". Every reali
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by armitron 3y ago
Singapore has strict immigration policies based on what some see as borderline eugenic criteria. The immigrants that fuel criminal gangs in Sweden would never be allowed to live there.
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by armitron 3y ago
> Blue-collar/lower income workers might take offense in that, as they'd look at someone making US$200-400k/year as part of the elite, it does not mean that workers earning that shouldn't look at themselves as they ar
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by armitron 3y ago
You'd be wasting your time with that. Go read the bible (Computer Organization and Design by Patterson) instead.
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by armitron 3y ago
URLs that Google banned show up on Bing just fine. Another nail on the coffin.
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by armitron 3y ago
Calibre has a server mode that comes with a HTTP UI allowing downloads but also has a built-in reader.
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by armitron 3y ago
> As will an american, unless they're going to go without healthcare? Unless you're doing some _wild_ saving, paying for health insurance as you age is going to necessitate working. In the US, most highly-skilled senior enginee
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by armitron 3y ago
I've lived in both USA and Germany. For highly skilled tech labor, US is so much better that there's no point comparing. Still, let me attempt to: - Salary caps in the USA are orders of magnitude higher than in EU. You can easily
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by armitron 3y ago
Porn is a scourge to society and I'm perfectly OK with pornographers being shunned. They're little more than addictive drug peddlers.
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by armitron 3y ago
Unaligned memory access is UB period, no ifs no buts.
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by armitron 3y ago
Pretty much everything you wrote in that comment is wrong since you're interpreting the spec in a way that's clearly not what the spec describes (e.g. the spec is talking about alignment requirements for conversions, but you gener
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by armitron 3y ago
The "abstract machine" is present in the first C standard, published in 1989.
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by armitron 3y ago
Unaligned memory accesses are undefined behavior in C. If you're writing C, you should be abiding by C rules. "Used to work correctly" is more guesswork and ignorance than "abiding by C rules". In C, playing fast&am
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by armitron 3y ago
Right, especially Polosukhin's blockchain startup valuation of 1+ billion cracked me up.

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