canucker2016

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by canucker2016 6mo ago
PREfix wasn't designed specifically for finding exploitable bugs - it was aimed somewhere in between Purify (runtime bug detection) and being a better lint. One of the articles/papers I recall was that the big problem for PREfix w
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by canucker2016 6mo ago
Intrinsa's PREfix static source code analyzer would model the execution of the C/C++ code to determine values which would cause a fault. IIRC they were using a C/C++ compiler front end from EDG to parse C/C++ code to a f
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50 years of Apple with the only original employee still there(appleinsider.com)
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Apple's Fitness Chief, Who Was Accused of Harassment, Is Retiring(nytimes.com)
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by canucker2016 6mo ago
another link - https://nypost.com/2026/04/03/business/apple-exec-who-joked-...
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by canucker2016 6mo ago
Kilobaud Computing had died out. Byte and Dr Drobbs had the odd technical article but gone mostly mainstream by the 80s. But one of my classmates showed me an issue of Hardcore Computist (renamed Computist) and I was hooked. Technical knowl
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by canucker2016 6mo ago
O2O system - https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/artemis-ii-will-use-...
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by canucker2016 6mo ago
You'd have to track down some 16bit Win3.x software to install. Probably on floppy disks since CD-ROMs weren't common.
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
The feature is called "unified inbox" - faxes appear as a PDF attachment in an email inbox somewhere. If the government department had a unified inbox for emails/faxes accessible by workers, then there wouldn't have been
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
The guidelines for trans female athletes for the 2024 Paris Olympics involved transitioning before the age of 12/puberty to be eligible. There's more info at https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/p
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
It's even worse than the key derivation. from the poster's Github repo, https://github.com/jtsylve/spice-crypt/blob/v2.0.1/SPECIFICA... : Modes 0–2 use a custom DES variant that retains the
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
Another link, video is slightly different (but collision is the same) - user is trying to select a region of the video I think https://www.instagram.com/p/DWO75cTju2e/
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
Video of the collision - https://x.com/airmainengineer/status/2036116651167384018
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
Tapping the Windows key on the keyboard can also bring up the Start menu (or another key combo like WindowsKey+X brings up the Power User/WinX menu ). With the Windows Key next to the Alt key on many keyboards, the user could press the
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Judge bars 2 Quebec men accused of fathering 100s of kids from donating sperm(globalnews.ca)
7 points by canucker2016 7mo ago|1 comments
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
FTA: On Nov. 6, 2024, she counted 162 children or ongoing pregnancies resulting from Normand’s sperm donations and 451 children or ongoing pregnancies resulting from Seelos’s sperm donations.
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
> ... the start button is somehow in the middle of the screen ... If you take a look at the size of widescreen monitors, you can kinda guess why someone decided to move the start button/menu to the middle of the screen. I know Sams
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
The wikipedia entry lists a reference explaining the history of mollyguard, along with a pic of Ed and little Molly, but an HN comment has the relevant text excerpt. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26633835
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
Samsung learned about molly guards the hard way - recall of millions of products after accidental fires from people/pets activating the front-panel dials. see https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/s
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
Do HP and Boeing recruit from the same candidate pools/train using the same employee manuals??? I was going to say that the Hewlett and Packard families should ask that the company stop using their family names, but a quick glance at t
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
from his instagram for his last birthday ( https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtiSHbETbX/ ) I don’t age. I level up. I’m 86 today! Nothing like some playful action on a sunny day to make you feel young. I’m grate
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
They might also look to Israel to see what they're doing that's working so much better than other OECD countries - see my other comment in this post. But Israel's advantage seems to be partly cultural and I don't see any
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
You don't mention the outlier - Israel stands out in the OECD fertility rate race - 2.89 in 2023 (if I'm reading https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/fertility-rates.html correctly) while the nex
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At the last minute, Meta decides not to kill Horizon Worlds VR after all(arstechnica.com)
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
Here's the more important data point - Canada lost to the USA in three 2026 Winter Olympic Hockey finals. The whole country is hanging their collective heads in shame...
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
Look at the history of Lotus Notes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_Notes#History )Development began in 1984. 64MB was large back then, maybe 64GB total was seen, but multiples of 64GB? I guess Lotus/IBM decide
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
They took the Computer Associates (CA) playbook and ran with it. But IBM targeted companies that techies had heard of, while CA seemed to go after only enterprise software that ran in the backoffice.
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Woman sneezes out maggots after fly larvae get trapped in her deviated septum(arstechnica.com)
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
and for our eastern neighbours: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (and Boise too) My years of french class steered me wrong there.
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by canucker2016 7mo ago
Detroit, MI

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