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841.
by dooglius 7y ago
That has nothing to do with kernel space vs user space and everything to do with different projects having different attitudes. The comparison is to the case where Linux instead ships a special "linuxso.so" that all processes and
842.
by dooglius 7y ago
> glibc by design lets random stuff on the system MiTM symbols like read Can you elaborate on this? I'm aware of things like LD_PRELOAD, but if an adversary controls the environment, he could just change PATH to point to a rooted ve
843.
by dooglius 7y ago
The difference really doesn't have to do with backward compatibility (which Windows does to arguably an even greater extent than Linux) but with where the stable interface boundary is. Windows puts the boundary in ntdll, Linux puts it
844.
by dooglius 7y ago
> Ring said it would not provide user video footage in response to a subpoena, but would comply if company officials were presented with a search warrant or felt they had a legal obligation to produce the content . [Emphasis mine]
845.
by dooglius 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_unclonable_function
846.
by dooglius 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20418577
847.
by dooglius 7y ago
In rats. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11119-7
848.
by dooglius 7y ago
Title should be changed to something like the interpretation section: "Dairy consumption was associated with lower risk of mortality and major cardiovascular disease events in a diverse multinational cohort." The study does not, a
849.
by dooglius 7y ago
It says "All edits attributed to this IP (besides those resulting from a server misconfiguration in 2013 and another one in 2015) have been made by one of Wikimedia's system administrators" with links to discussions of the tw
850.
by dooglius 7y ago
Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:127.0.0.1
851.
by dooglius 7y ago
You're giving the scientific definition, not the way the term is commonly used.
852.
by dooglius 7y ago
>this is an impossible problem to solve when the goal is to create an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform where your identifier is your phone number Right, the use of phone number as identifier is flawed by design, and not secure
853.
by dooglius 7y ago
>Phone numbers are terrifyingly easy to port to another account. Which is precisely why they should never be used as an identifier.
854.
by dooglius 7y ago
So is any kind of disruption impossible then, if everything has already been thought of by other big players? The "big drawback" could be that it takes a big investment to try this, and it's a big risk as to whether that inve
855.
by dooglius 7y ago
Considering that both of these things require years of training and dedication to be the best, I think it is quite likely that only career basketball players and runners are going to be the best.
856.
by dooglius 7y ago
That seems to be the conclusion of the mailing list thread as well, there was an initial bad gcc bug report that didn't understand the problem, seemingly no follow-up with a proper bug report.
857.
by dooglius 7y ago
Why does RISC-V being "promising" and an "up-and-comer" make it more compelling than an ISA that been around for a long time?
858.
by dooglius 7y ago
How do you prove to another party that the data was random, or that you didn't just keep sampling until you got a desired result?
859.
by dooglius 7y ago
Breach of fiduciary duty can be a criminal matter in addition to a civil one.
860.
by dooglius 7y ago
It doesn't work because the sizes of the numerator and denominator generally increase at an exponential rate, even if using variable-width integer containers for them, you end up squaring the running time of an algorithm.
861.
by dooglius 7y ago
And this fact was pointed out on 4chan several days ago
862.
by dooglius 7y ago
In other words, Microsoft literally committed a federal crime (extortion presumably across state lines)? A shame the police did not get involved.
863.
by dooglius 7y ago
Wouldn't time dialation around the black hole be very extreme? As in, from the perspective of just outside the black hole where the flare presumably started, it would have lasted only a very brief amount of time.
864.
by dooglius 7y ago
Well, it is his job
865.
by dooglius 7y ago
It is very fortunate that it wasn't a zero-day then! I'm not sure if it was a "scramble" since it sounds like from the ticket it was ignored until the deadline got close... although it would be interesting to see the act
866.
by dooglius 7y ago
Or the national rate is far from uniform. Google tells me the Ohio State rate is 27.1 percent. I wonder what it's like in neighboring counties, or for people in the same area who get a different judge.
867.
by dooglius 7y ago
Since the stated motivation is work toward AGI, I think that such an approach would be highly in the spirit of the contest.
868.
by dooglius 7y ago
AGI would probably be sufficient, but not necessary.
869.
by dooglius 7y ago
Intel supporting ECC RAM would not preclude them from doing so
870.
by dooglius 7y ago
> If gamers are willing to overclock their CPUs then they probably don't much care for slower memory. And $cost. Then they can continue to buy and use non-ECC memory

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