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by eridius 7y ago
The flavored nicotine is the part that's intended to hook kids, and as I already mentioned, the advertising was pretty blatantly targeted at kids.
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by eridius 7y ago
Some time ago the MUNI stations in SF were absolutely plastered with these ads.
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by eridius 7y ago
Right, because intentionally designing a harmful product to appeal towards kids and get them hooked on nicotine is perfectly fine, just as long as we eventually crack down on the ads.
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by eridius 7y ago
What, ban the use of illegal products? Novel idea!
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by eridius 7y ago
Adults like flavored nicotine too, but have you seen the ads? They're blatantly targeted at kids. Hell, I saw one once that showed a vape plugged into the USB port of a kid's laptop in class, where the advertising was basically
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by eridius 7y ago
Vaping plus flavored nicotine is marketed at kids. If vaping were strictly an alternative to cigarettes, marketed at existing smokers, as a harm reduction alternative then it would be fine. But it's not, it's marketed as a hip new
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by eridius 7y ago
Nitpick: The installation instructions aren't very friendly for someone who hasn't installed Rust before, as it asks them to install 2 different toolchains even though they presumably only need one, and then install a separate mus
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by eridius 7y ago
You're focusing on the wrong detail. The lack of compiler message isn't the actual problem, it's just a symptom of the fact that in Go, everything has an implicit zero value, and this leads to bugs. Hell, just the other day I
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by eridius 7y ago
Right, but those weren't originally allowed for TLDs. It looks like internationalized ccTLDs were finally approved in 2009.
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by eridius 7y ago
I didn't realize there even were non-ascii TLDs. I thought non-ascii domain name components were restricted to everything but the TLD.
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by eridius 7y ago
Yeah, but it's simpler just to move the additional args to `set` calls than to remember the syntax for disabling the directive. It's just irritating, and especially so because, for some reason, in VSCode it ends up highlighting li
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by eridius 7y ago
> We're providing an incentive to be irresponsible if we reward Flint. Right, contaminating drinking water with lead and letting them go years without help is "providing an incentive to be irresponsible". Give me a break
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by eridius 7y ago
Probably the same thing that stops them from assuming that anything with "spank" in the name is a reputable financial institution.
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by eridius 7y ago
macOS appears to support multiple args just fine. Which is why it annoys me that Shellcheck bitches about using more than one arg even though I'm writing a script for macOS specifically.
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by eridius 7y ago
Good point, I forgot about HIR, though isn't HIR largely just a desugared representation of the AST?
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by eridius 7y ago
Oh I see. I was thinking that calls to Fortran functions were actually recognizable by the compiler, but you're right, the code snippet right at the top shows a manually-inserted strlen(s) in the C code.
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by eridius 7y ago
My point is you can't say "oh this approach may have poor behavior once Spectre mitigations are put in place", because the browser has already implemented Spectre mitigations.
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by eridius 7y ago
If the breakage is ultimately caused by compilers like GCC omitting the length for single-character strings, why doesn't this discuss the fix of simply changing GCC to start putting the length there for single-character strings?
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by eridius 7y ago
This kind of mitigation really only makes sense on shared machines (such as servers). On a desktop OS, if an attacker is in a position to read memory from other processes, it's pretty much game over already. Browsers implement Spectre&
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by eridius 7y ago
That just indicates that it's regulated. Where's the "over" part? Personally, it sounds like a rather good idea to have regulation over who's allowed to use the word "bank", given the assumptions that the
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by eridius 7y ago
If you're going to precompile your JS, why would you want to emit this bytecode instead of just going to WASM?
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by eridius 7y ago
Haven't all the browser engines already implemented their own mitigations for Spectre/Meltdown for JavaScript code?
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by eridius 7y ago
Swift and Rust also have their own higher-level intermediate representations that they translate their AST to before even going to LLVM IR (SIL and MIR respectively). Rust used to translate their AST directly into LLVM IR but they switched
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by eridius 7y ago
What about BancList indicates that the field is over-regulated
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by eridius 7y ago
It sounds like you're saying the technology as it currently exists is as far as it will ever go and nobody will figure out how to refine this attack?
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by eridius 7y ago
It's not clear what the chart is actually demonstrating, or why it had a "Source" link that just goes to a 4-year-old blog post about concurrency in Rust that contains no benchmarks. My guess is the benchmark chart is just th
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by eridius 7y ago
Because this doesn't require putting a transmitter on top of the vehicle. As the article itself mentioned, this sort of GPS spoofing has already been demonstrated to be effective at range. For the purposes of Regulus's tests they
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by eridius 7y ago
Same thing though. Once you get a fix it's all satellite. Maybe if you're deep in a valley between mountains you'll have an issue as the mountains will block most of the sky, but as long as you can get signal from a few satel
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by eridius 7y ago
Not just lost; you can make them drive exactly where you want them to go. As long as a human is behind the wheel this won't be terribly effective except as a disruptive tactic, but once there's nobody behind the wheel you could us
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by eridius 7y ago
I would assume that GPS actually works much better in rural areas. Maybe a bit longer to take a fix if there's no good cell signal to use for AGPS, but once you get a fix, it's all satellite so being in a rural area means no large

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