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by comex 5y ago
> I can still run kernel-level code without jailbreaking/rooting the hardware on Macintoshs. Only if you’re willing to accept the loss of Apple Pay via Touch ID as well as the entire iOS-apps-on-Mac feature. It’s been years since A
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by comex 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what effects are you talking about?
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by comex 5y ago
C23 will make calling realloc with a size of 0 into undefined behavior. [1] [1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2464.pdf
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by comex 5y ago
> is the onus on an artist or on an "auction house" to vet buyers. If post sale it turns out the money was fraudulent, does the artist need to pay it back? No. Normally you have to return items that were stolen from someone ev
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by comex 5y ago
There’s a long list of tools that follow a general pattern: they take an input file and produce an output file, but the output file doesn’t just depend on the contents of the input file; it also embeds its modification time somewhere. Some
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by comex 5y ago
One more point: It's not just polkit. It's actually extremely common for programs to misbehave when invoked with argc == 0. Try it out yourself. Build this program [1] and run it on random programs in /bin and /usr&#
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by comex 5y ago
The human accident rate is about one per 500K miles, so if they were able to get in that range, then yes, they would have succeeded; drivers would be able to stop paying attention to the road without putting themselves and others in danger.
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by comex 5y ago
Rust already supports partially de initialized structs - that is, moving out of a struct field by field - and there’s no fundamental reason it can’t support partial initialization too. Indeed, there’s an open issue for it: https:/&#x
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by comex 5y ago
> The ptrace APIs also can’t write to read only memory Sure they can. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49442087/how-does-ptrace...
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by comex 5y ago
Another comment on this thread tried something similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30094398
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by comex 5y ago
Deprecated on Linux. But I for one can’t consign them to the dustbin of my memory, because on my Mac, they are not deprecated, while the `ip` command that replaces them on Linux does not exist. With this part of macOS being derived from F
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by comex 5y ago
> If this is possible, then device makers should do it, ship the free-software firmware on the device, and then get it RYF-certified. No blobs needed, ROM or otherwise! Problem solved! The device maker could ship with programmable propri
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by comex 5y ago
There is nothing about the design of strtol that makes it particularly fast. If anything, the extra checks and accesses to errno (which on modern systems is generally an implicit function call) that are required to use strtol correctly rep
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by comex 5y ago
The problem is that neither option is correct if `size` and `len` can both be arbitrary unsigned integers. They can both overflow (counting underflow as a type of overflow). To be correct regardless of their values, you would have to wr
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by comex 5y ago
> The overwhelming majority of Texas homes are outfitted with electric heaters that are the technological equivalent of a toaster oven. During the most severe cold fronts, residents crank up those inefficient units[..] What does this mea
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by comex 5y ago
Rust has affine types, and uses them extensively: types that own memory, as opposed to borrowing it, are generally affine. In principle you could implement a form of borrow check with linear types (I don’t think affine is good enough), bu
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by comex 5y ago
Their post would have been labeled [dead] and only visible to users who have the showdead option enabled. It’s no longer dead, so BugsJustFindMe or someone else probably hit the “vouch” link on it.
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by comex 5y ago
Led to, not led.
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by comex 5y ago
Perhaps you mean iBook or PowerBook? The "MacBook" brand was introduced at the same time as Intel processors.
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by comex 5y ago
However, if you jump through those hoops, you lose certain functionality, namely Apple Pay and the ability to run iOS apps on Mac.
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by comex 5y ago
Getting a new phone is a lot cheaper than getting a new car.
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by comex 5y ago
You can leave what? What causes?
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by comex 5y ago
Perhaps people mark OOO autoreplies as spam after receiving them in reply to their mailing list posts or other mass emails.
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by comex 5y ago
It doesn’t know what it’s doing, but I wouldn’t say that’s related to the terminology. Today’s AI is infinitely more capable than what was called AI in the 1960s, and if hypothetically we manage to create a true general intelligence someda
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by comex 5y ago
Dcache impact? Of accessing the state which, for a non-cryptographically-secure PRNG, is often 128 bits? I'm not seeing it. Even CSPRNGs don't usually have state that's all that much larger. Surely there would be much h
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by comex 5y ago
Citation?
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by comex 5y ago
> If any trolls try it, all they get is GPL compliance, so they have no incentive to try it. Not necessarily. The Conservancy chose not to ask for monetary damages, but that doesn't mean their legal theory inherently precludes aski
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by comex 5y ago
Anecdotally, as a novice, I was left really confused by Veritasium’s video, whereas after watching this video I feel (hopefully accurately) like I basically understand the situation. If people are missing the point of Veritasium’s video, m
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by comex 5y ago
There is some distinction if you know where to look. “no evidence so far that the disease can be passed through human contact” “No clear evidence Wuhan coronavirus can spread before people show symptoms” “‘No hard evidence’ new corona
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by comex 5y ago
Are you allowed to modify the list? Edit: I think I figured it out!

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