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by codys 7y ago
Teams with better people being more productive and getting paid more seems like a normal thing to expect. It seems weird to expect all people and teams to be only to be average, and to see deviations from this as highly risky. It doesn&#x27
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by codys 7y ago
Big companies make decisions all the time that harm long term prospects (sometimes in ways that are difficult to measure) in favor of obvious short term gains. As an example, when I worked for IBM, they furloughed the entire Systems technol
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by codys 7y ago
Because it's legal for a platform to perform page deduplication as long as from the perspective of the program the correct operating model is followed, many operating systems (including Linux) have a "zero page" that is used
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by codys 7y ago
I've struggled through doxygen generated docs for C++ before, and I think one of the things that helps make javadoc more readable is due to the "stricter" (in a sense) structuring of the java language vs C++: namespaces &
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by codys 7y ago
I think the confusion here might be a lack of clear distinction in the discussion between "ssh password auth" and "ssh pub key auth". My impression is that the result of some of the design decisions might make "ssh
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by codys 7y ago
I think you may be misunderstanding what I'm referring to as "RF" in my comment. In the specific case of old consoles (and VCRs and other equiptment, though this isn't really relevant), there is a built-in or external &q
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by codys 7y ago
In reading this I'm reminded of some efforts to produce a software decoder for Laserdiscs by using a ADC sample the exact data on the disk [1] 1: https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=978 I wonder if there's some wa
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by codys 7y ago
Other google services are also affected: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status https://i.imgur.com/pcqwwA4.png
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by codys 7y ago
In other words, they have plausible deniability because of how the backdoor was designed.
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by codys 8y ago
I've configured gpg to use keys from "smart cards" before, and didn't really fall in love. After the setup, things worked ok, but there were a few limitations that made me more happy with just having the key on my comput
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by codys 8y ago
While this is useful, I don't think it would completely resolve the noted "tons of send syscalls" issue. QUIC performs it's own flow control and I don't think it can just send all the packers composing a file at onc
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by codys 8y ago
One thing to note is that it is not guaranteed that values are ever dropped. In rust, it is "safe" to leak memory (it wasn't possible to make it unsafe in rust).
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by codys 8y ago
The `n` may be any assignment-expression, and as a result values like `n` are appear to be allowed by the standard. I've used this in code compiled with gcc and clang. Both accept this construct, but I'm not sure how effectively a
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by codys 8y ago
I agree that implicit conversions in C/C++ are something that ideally wouldn't exist. IMO, though, the only way to avoid having those rules is by requiring explicitness on the part of the programmer. All other options just substit
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by codys 8y ago
The comment you're replying to contains: > Someone this year made a bot that did it in about 5 minutes. It's also the case that it's plausible one can interrupt & resume the sequence (at the cost of 4 extra button pres
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by codys 8y ago
Can you provide a reference to both of those affecting _ABI_? "VLAs as [...] function arguments" sounds like it would just be normal passing of arrays. It's not clear that VLAs have any effect here. "VLAs as struct membe
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by codys 8y ago
More than just "using it for GMRS service": the real issue is that most purchasers of these radios leave the channel configuration in the shipped default, which tends to overlap with a bunch of public safety and commercial frequen
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by codys 8y ago
pcc, tcc, and icc all appear to support variable length arrays. It may be more accurate to state that "msvc is probably the only C compiler that didn't bother to support it"? (Though it would be interesting to perform a more
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by codys 8y ago
> you have full control on the stack usage, unless you have a user controlled recursion IMO, the reality with C is that one needs to be aware of input, whether using VLAs, recursion, or any number of other mechanisms (overflowing calcula
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by codys 8y ago
_theoretically_ a C implementation could track the maximum stack size it has allocated, detect would be overflows, and report them. guard pages are one mechanism for doing that.
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by codys 8y ago
Though that is true of a lot of elements of C.
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by codys 8y ago
> You can't expose a VLA's size through the ABI, for instance. Can you clarify what you mean by this? It's not clear to me what it would even mean to expose a VLA in the ABI: they are function scoped and as a result it do
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by codys 9y ago
Reading the NXP thread, it is not yet clear that NXP considers this errata, only that it is something that is desirable to avoid. Does anyone have a link to the changes to FreeRTOS & use of libclang mentioned in the article? NXP thread:
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by codys 9y ago
`src/main.cpp` is not a _generated_ C++ file. It can be seen inside the template project here: https://phabricator.kde.org/source/rust-qt-binding-generator...
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by codys 9y ago
Politics? It's reasonable that the UK Government may not agree if the appearance is bad and would cause political backlash. It's also possible that they're harder to lean on than as smaller, weaker, lower GDP government. I me
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by codys 9y ago
> As for how this was all handled by the companies involved, well this could be described as a textbook example of how NOT to interact with the Linux kernel community properly. The people and companies involved know what happened, and I’
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by codys 9y ago
> several data formats using custom binary and several data formats using JSON You may not realize it, but you've presented a false dichotomy here. The alternate to JSON isn't "custom binary", it's standardized b
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by codys 9y ago
> JSON text format for metadata It seems like it could be better to use some easier to parse binary format that allows the same flexibility that json does, like cbor/msgpack/bson. Using JSON here is a very strange choice.
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by codys 9y ago
It is, in linux distros at large. Arch, however, does not publish (or even generate) those debug files (which contain the debug info & symbols that were stripped out).
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by codys 9y ago
If you build packages yourself, one can either include debug info, or generate a split package that includes debug info. The piece that may still be missing is the inclusion of source code in debug packages, which is necessary to get any co

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