burfog

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by burfog 11y ago
It's a very biased walk-through of a bad example. You'd do better to look at xv6. That's like v6 UNIX, minus permissions, plus SMP, running on 64-bit x86. It's very clean and modern C99.
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by burfog 11y ago
In other words, like GNU HURD. That design is very very hard to make correct and fast. Correctness suffers because the UNIX API has all sorts of interactions between different parts. This includes atomicity. It's a bear to get this rig
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by burfog 11y ago
Some things are more important than political positioning. Even an incorrect belief that leaders are corrupt will influence culture, making corruption more acceptable to society. Laws can be changed back and forth, and walls can be torn dow
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by burfog 11y ago
Would this include companies that play offense, selling to government? If so, does it matter if they sell to many governments (as did Hacking Team and VUPEN, selling to places like Egypt and Sudan) or if they only sell in the USA to the NSA
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by burfog 11y ago
San Francisco owns a big chunk of the bay. They could fill it in. With proper construction, earthquake-induced ground liquification is of no concern. (build like a boat) If you really want "green field" space, of course there is t
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by burfog 11y ago
Everybody already knows everything worth knowing about philosophy. This includes people who know nothing about it. :-)
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by burfog 11y ago
Something changed a couple decades ago: everybody started using 32-bit DOS extenders.
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by burfog 11y ago
Nope, non-leaf functions don't really need a stack. Normal compilers will do it, but there are plenty of registers that can be used instead.
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by burfog 11y ago
Same here. I guess this relates to why it is so difficult to hire people. Just a couple days ago, somebody crashed and burned in the interview by not knowing how to do bit manipulation. Why are these people allowed to graduate?
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by burfog 11y ago
So this is Turkey's fault. They ought to redirect the river into the Black Sea or directly into the Mediterranean Sea. Other solutions are selling it as bottled water (with a suitably high price: buy this water or the children die!) or
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by burfog 11y ago
Note that this isn't time-of-day consistency for working hours. That's nice, but what you really need is consistency for off hours. It's not terrible if the worker's scheduled hours jump all over within a 13-hour window
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by burfog 11y ago
Well yes and no. You normally need to teach IDA once, and sometimes it needs a reminder. This means setting a proper prototype on the function before you attempt to decompile it.
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by burfog 11y ago
It's not just minimum time between shifts. People fall apart from jet lag if the shifts happen randomly. This increases workplace accidents and lowers productivity. Some places require by law that there are 11 hours between shifts. To