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by byuu 10y ago
I really think that messing with the underlying DNA of plants is more severe than trying to cross breed and selectively breed certain desirable traits. > Also, out of curiosity - what sort of "devastating effects" could you rea
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by byuu 10y ago
I have to admit that the science side of this is very compelling: zero documented negative health outcomes is pretty compelling evidence for its safety. And it's a much easier solution than trying to scale up global food production nat
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by byuu 10y ago
> Plenty of work makes it to the public domain; it just need to be noted as such by the creator, and creators do do that from time to time. Every time I try and release my source code to the public domain, I invariably get people telling
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by byuu 10y ago
Sigh ... as much of a supporter I am of the public domain, I'm really thinking we just need to end the charade that a "public domain" even exists anymore. Because, increasingly, it doesn't. Let's face it ... I'
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by byuu 10y ago
Not making a comment either way on whether they should be doing this, but ... I think we all know what's going to come next :( //add random number to stop Chrome from disabling autocomplete //--number is s
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by byuu 10y ago
> Ever since 7 / 8.1 got telemetry backported in, they're on equal footing with 10 from a privacy standpoint. I primarily run FreeBSD. But when I run Windows, it's a fresh SP1 install with updates disabled. I am not worrie
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by byuu 10y ago
> Windows 10 fixes this. You can resize the window and it wraps text better than any other terminal out there. Don't want to derail with Windows 10 arguments, but for me, that's a total deal breaker at this time. But thanks for
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by byuu 10y ago
> I think it's pretty logical and I actually quite like it (after the first half an hour of familiarisation, each time I have to use it). It's just different. Interesting! I never realized the logic behind it, thanks for expand
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by byuu 10y ago
It's really, really, really, really really bad. It doesn't even have a logical history. Despite having used it for many years, I still don't understand why when I type one command (eg make), and then another (eg out.exe), I
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by byuu 10y ago
They are pretty words, for sure, but I'm not sure what "intricately designed blooming flowers" (baroque efflorescences) is supposed to even mean in this context. It feels like a sesquipedalian circumlocution by an ebullient i
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by byuu 10y ago
So, less than zero minutes for the vast majority of desktop users? Hell I barely even touch init (rc.d) scripts on my BSD servers.
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by byuu 10y ago
Certainly! I'd be very interested in purchasing a small batch of these, and would be eternally grateful if you could help us! :D The part we are using now is the Samtec MEC2-(30,40,50)-01-L-DV card edge connector. Here is the high leve
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by byuu 10y ago
This is an awesome story! We faced a similar problem trying to locate someone that could manufacture otherwise non-existent parts: a 28-pin card edge Super Nintendo expansion port connector. The only company we could find that would even co
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by byuu 10y ago
Is your point that I should ignore my convictions because I find the defendants detestable? Because while I don't feel Gawker is quite as awful as a group of white supremacists, I do very much dislike Gawker and would not be saddened t
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by byuu 10y ago
Funding a secret lawsuit against a company to try and destroy them for outing you as being gay is not good behavior. This has dangerous precedent for freedom of speech in journalism. If what Gawker did was illegal in outing him, he should h
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by byuu 10y ago
"I can't believe Scott Adams holds such a crazy opinion!" -- said nobody ever. I see no reason to take sides on this debacle. Both Nick Denton and Peter Thiel are guilty of absolutely awful behavior. Denton for outing people
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by byuu 10y ago
> I happen to agree that strict W^X should be used everywhere possible I agree. I just feel there are exceptions, one of which is dynamic recompiling emulators. > it could be a deal breaker for more security-conscious projects that mi
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by byuu 10y ago
I agree completely, but from the linked article: > One day far in the future upstream software developers will understand that W^X violations are a tremendously risky practice and that style of programming will be banished outright. Whoe
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by byuu 10y ago
Why do you feel [1] is a silly reason? You can build my software right now in one step: "install TDM-GCC"; anything additional complicates things and reduces portability. There's also versions that don't require assemble
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by byuu 10y ago
It has an ARM implementation, but there are lots of subtle ARM variations. You'd probably have to tweak it a tad, but the core ARM cothread switching code is a mere three instructions, so it shouldn't be too hard to adapt: 0
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by byuu 10y ago
Just a fair warning, setcontext is horrendously slow . It seems to be doing kernel transitions or something. It's about 600 times slower than longjmp with jmpbuf stack pointer hacking, which is itself already about twice as slow as
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by byuu 10y ago
An emulator is a very different use case than Firefox's JIT. Take Dolphin (the Gamecube / Wii emulator) for example: you have a 4GiB DVD, it has a massive 80-hour game's entire code engine on there. You cannot recompile the e
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by byuu 10y ago
I've always been in favor of all OpenBSD security enhancements I've seen, but I have to say, and please hear me out, this is an objectively terrible idea. Yes, most programs should disallow W|X by default. But trying to banish the
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by byuu 10y ago
RedHat? I don't. Had that happened, Java, ZFS, MySQL, VirtualBox, etc would now likely all be required components of systemd. (Yes, I'm being a little facetious, but I really believe RedHat has some sinister ulterier motives. They
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by byuu 10y ago
To me, legacy code has cost. Great cost. You can't just leave old code alone and the features remain. Any time you go to restructure some code, or support some other mode, or do some other kind of action, it ends up affecting this old
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by byuu 10y ago
> I just think this is a perfect illustration of how backwards-incompatibilities that means users can't just upgrade and keep working introduce friction against upgrading, and once you get too much friction significant portions of y
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by byuu 10y ago
Certainly, backward compatibility is critical and has always been a weakness of mine. I've always been an idealist there. But in xkas' case, this was code from before I really learned how to program; let alone design a proper pars
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by byuu 10y ago
It's a native code execution exploit. He exploits the parser to corrupt the stack frame, and executes raw x86 instructions embedded in that file. How exactly it converts that pile of gibberish into a valid x86 program is beyond even
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by byuu 10y ago
There's a reason I stopped associating with that scene/site years ago. Almost everyone in it is toxic and stuck in their rebellious teenage years. Case in point: http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/
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by byuu 10y ago
I couldn't find said example (sorry), but I did find one of his other examples of abusing the assembler: http://bin.smwcentral.net/u/1686/boredom.asm You won't believe me unless you try it for yourself,

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