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by cbd1984 11y ago
The difference is that when people talk about hardware, they're talking about the equivalent of film, not abstract "this is central to being a camera which works with visible-spectrum light" concepts. > you will always hav
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Those aren't the fundamentals of CS. The fundamentals of CS are data structures and algorithms, as the Good Book says. Hardware is important, practically, but don't let practicality blind you to the actual core of the field: Pract
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by cbd1984 11y ago
No, they hate it because they think hating it is a good way to troll people. It isn't honest hatred, it's just dancing around making ugly faces, like a six-year-old.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
You're really looking for a way to blame systemd.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
systemd couldn't have fixed it, because removing the offending code from systemd wouldn't have prevented any other program from, innocently or maliciously, triggering the same bug. The kernel is where the buck stops when it comes
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by cbd1984 11y ago
This is a firmware bug. How is it related to systemd?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Utter nonsense.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Except too many things would be transparent to that wavelength to use it as a nightlight. The light cell towers use would make floors and walls pretty close to transparent, for example.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
We can eliminate entire classes of attacks by using certain languages and technologies. Simple, forgotten example: You can't just patch a running OS kernel from an application program anymore. There's hardware in the CPU called an
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Is patching this bug on any server a matter of running `sudo apt-get update` (or the equivalent of the linux flavor in question) - and then rebooting afterwards? That's how a well-configured server works by definition. How much do
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It draws too much attention to itself to be body text, yes. It requires the reader scan the letters more than recognizing the shapes of words and moving on. (Yes, this is why we miss misspellings and even missing words. It isn't my job
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Do you know of a language called "C", as opposed to C?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
This has absolutely nothing to do with Keynesian economics, unless you've redefined the term to mean "everything I do not like in the world".
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Because it's difficult to read.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> r1.3 added blinking to the page. ... because epileptics should suffer, apparently.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Given that fonts are attack vectors, why style text at all?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Ok, so Debian is a developers-only distribution? This might not be a bad characterization of where it sits now. If you want a hand-holding "user-friendly" (and I use the term advisedly, based on the common, flawed conception
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I say we should write it in "Rust", as opposed to Rust.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The x86 ISA already has bounds-checking opcodes which can be used to ensure array accesses don't go off the deep end.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> "C" to OS There's the solution! Replace C with "C", a garbage-collected version of C! The quotes mean it's safe! /s
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Right. That's an application which actually cares about solar light levels in a region. Most applications care about local time, because when it's 7 AM in December in northern Montana, you're getting out and going places rega
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Which is why cars, which are now 100-year-old technology, come with their hoods welded shut and you need special manufacturer-authorized tools to even change the oil.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> try finding a PC that can run operating systems from 1984 all the way through 1996 Why would this be hard? The x86 CPU boots into 16-bit real mode, the video card emulates the IBM PC text mode, the hard drive supports ISA, and everythi
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by cbd1984 11y ago
http://qntm.org/abolish Abolishing time zones isn't necessarily a good idea.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Unix timestamps aren't vulnerable to the Year 2038 Problem unless you deliberately make it so they are.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
One of the things ad-blocking will force people to reconsider is deals of the form "Person A pays Person B for the time and attention of completely unrelated Person C, who is not only completely unrelated to A and B but who is not even
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Yes, that is indeed what I feel when I read comments such as yours.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I got all the way to the twaddle about general relativity.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> the Bible is very clear Well, that's just the problem, isn't it? The Bible is always very clear that I'm right and you're wrong. The traditionalist horror at postmodernism and poststructuralism is that they give the
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> human dignity is worthy of protection as it is given by God. Except if those humans are gay, or Turkish, or Muslim...

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