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by drv 13y ago
The encoding looks like valid UTF-8, at least for the first few pages that I glanced at. I did notice the section references look a little strange in vim, e.g. "act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 1" near the top; it consists of c2 a7
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by drv 13y ago
IANAL, but by my reading, the GPL does include build scripts as part of the source code, e.g. from GPLv3: "all the source code needed to generate [...] the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activit
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by drv 13y ago
Big fat disclaimer: I work for Intel, but these thoughts are my own, and I have played no part in defining the UEFI specification. I'll be the first to admit that the UEFI specification is not perfect - and I use it in my day-to-day wo
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by drv 13y ago
My JavaScript is a bit fuzzy, but I think those last two lines actually parse as `return chicken.Chicken;`, so the last Chicken is actually significant.
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by drv 13y ago
I used to use PuTTY; however, Cygwin provides a more consistent environment with other Unixy systems (standard OpenSSH with all of its normal configuration files and key formats, plus an X server), and MinTTY provides a nice native-feeling
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by drv 13y ago
The goal of openness is laudable, though I don't understand the software/hardware distinction that appears to be common in GNU/FSF circles; convert proprietary firmware or software into equivalent hardware, and magically it b
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by drv 13y ago
He probably asked the compiler to emit the assembly it generates (e.g. gcc's -S option); disassembling or decompiling would be overkill.
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by drv 14y ago
The first thing that showed up when I visited this page (in Chrome, no less): "This page is in Spanish; would you like to translate it?" Other than that, it seems to be just stuck on the loading screen.
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by drv 14y ago
I am from the midwestern US, and my friends and family all called them "Legos". We would say things like "play with Legos"; the alternative "play with Lego" sounds stilted to my ears. I guess the reasoning is that one block is "a Lego", s
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by drv 14y ago
The worst part, in my opinion, is the refrain/chorus/hook/whatever; it sounds really stilted, especially the "po-cket". The last line is a non sequitur; why is only having $20 awesome, enough to warrant an expletive? Then there's the miss
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Big design vs simple solutions(blog.cdleary.com)
2 points by drv 14y ago|0 comments
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by drv 14y ago
As a side note, the Google translation from Dutch to English seems pretty bad. I submitted a few improved translations; I did not know this feature existed before, and I'm curious how it works behind the scenes. Presumably a human has to r
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by drv 14y ago
Pretty neat hack. However, it's a bit odd that it parses the intended-for-humans NASM documentation instead of the machine-readable insns.dat that NASM actually uses to generate opcodes: http://repo.or.cz/w/nasm.git/blob/HEAD:/insns.dat
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by drv 14y ago
"All the major C compilers have committed to implementing these features": including MSVC, which doesn't even implement C99? "Static compile-time assertions allow the use of sizeof() and friends" could already be done with the preprocessor
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by drv 14y ago
Purely pedantic nitpicking, but the title feels poorly worded to me. "Everything is not equally good": for all x and y in the universe of things, x is not equally good as y - seems nonsensical "Not everything is equally good": there exists
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Systems programming at my alma mater(blog.cdleary.com)
2 points by drv 14y ago|0 comments
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Mark Shuttleworth Answers Your Questions(news.slashdot.org)
4 points by drv 14y ago|0 comments
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by drv 14y ago
Here's a list of games available via Steam for Linux currently: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?os=linux The link provided just redirects to the front store page for me: http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/
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by drv 14y ago
But that is true whether the array is sorted or not; the indexes (and therefore memory accesses) in the loop are still in order even if the contents of the array are not sorted.
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by drv 14y ago
As hinted at in the original article[1], this sort of attack relies on running code during the EFI boot phase, and so it would be prevented by secure boot, since the attack code would not be signed and thus would not run. See also Matthew G
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by drv 14y ago
First imagine how this routine would look if it could assume that count was a multiple of 8: register n=count/8; do{ *to = *from++; *to = *from++; *to = *from++; *to = *from++; *to = *from
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by drv 14y ago
Even better, the page is entirely unreadable until the font loads - it's been spinning for a minute, and what I assume is the text is pure white.
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by drv 14y ago
This one's interesting: "I'll just write everything this way from now on." - pg as Paul Graham 3 months ago http://www.braintripping.com/trips/4f90ad9fb3b88b0300000f3a
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by drv 14y ago
NOT, at least in x86, is bitwise, so it won't do the right thing for values other than 0 and ~0 (-1).
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by drv 14y ago
Originally from ELER [1], I believe, but the shop is no longer in operation. [1] http://geekz.co.uk/shop/
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by drv 14y ago
The "ceiling" symbols (left/right square bracket upper corner) at the beginning of the explanatory text are displayed as unknown character boxes here (Win7/Chrome).
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by drv 15y ago
Visual Studio has some fairly decent tools ("Find all references", "Go to definition/declaration"), although they tend to fall over in macro-heavy C++. A lot of my coworkers swear by Understand, but I haven't tried it myself.
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by drv 15y ago
Windows Me was released in 2000, after Windows 98, but I agree with your premise in general.
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by drv 15y ago
Articles about bandwidth should try to get the distinction between gigabytes (GB) and gigabits (Gb) correct; otherwise, figures will be off by almost an order of magnitude.
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by drv 15y ago
You can see the release history at http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html Here's number of releases per year (from all branches): - 2011: 6 - 2010: 7 - 2009: 5 - 2008: 5 - 2007: 5 - 2006: 4 - 2005: 6 - 2004: 7 - 2003: 5 -

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