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Go: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly(bluxte.net)
3 points by f2f 8y ago|0 comments
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Go += Package Versioning(research.swtch.com)
4 points by f2f 9y ago|1 comments
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by f2f 9y ago
I've always enjoyed your opinion on alternative operating systems and languages. I love plan9, I wore my thesis in it, but that was based on the knowledge that other distributed operating systems existed at the time, amoeba being the m
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by f2f 9y ago
fork was alright before other people tacked on multiples of cruft like threads and whatnot onto commercial unixes and they became mainstream. the current problem is that you don't want to have to copy all file descriptors if all you&#x
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by f2f 9y ago
hunter2 is the industry's accepted PoC password.
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by f2f 9y ago
I love this... So much hope :) The search for Dyson spheres was happening. Here are summary of results so far: https://home.fnal.gov/~carrigan/infrared_astronomy/Fermilab_...
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by f2f 9y ago
We keep getting less and less extraordinary the more we look. Whereas at the time of Asimov's or Sagan's writings (a few decades ago, the first exoplanet being detected in 1988) we didn't know of a single planet orbiting anot
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by f2f 9y ago
Here's the presentation slides of the guys who figured it out: https://www.troopers.de/downloads/troopers17/TR17_ME11_Stati...
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by f2f 9y ago
i think the only way to counter this is to try to make a meme out of everything.
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by f2f 9y ago
It also had a Streisand effect on the LATimes article. Which many people (including myself) would not have otherwise read.
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by f2f 9y ago
No community which experiences overpopulation will survive... If you want a good walkthrough of historical evidence that population control leads to a stable community check Jared Diamond's "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail
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by f2f 9y ago
Tom Petty's heart broke :(
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by f2f 9y ago
There are/were six-wheeled cars that got shut out because of market forces unrelated to how well they ran in competition. Google Tyrrell's Formula 1 Six Wheeler
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by f2f 9y ago
I used to work there right after finishing grad school. It was just when the systematic dismantling of that organization had started taking place. New bosses, new umbrella organizations, new rules (for profit vs non-profit). Within 12 month
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by f2f 9y ago
The title a word.
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by f2f 9y ago
Don't forget the nail in the coffin: the windows nt-based SGI workstation...
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Crafted TIFF files can buffer overflow in many browsers (CVE-2017-2870)(blog.talosintelligence.com)
1 points by f2f 9y ago|0 comments
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by f2f 9y ago
> You can always implement these yourself Check the discussion, as usual things aren't as simple as they seem: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18616
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by f2f 9y ago
I think ESR summarized it very well for the layman almost 20 years ago in "the art of unix programming": http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html
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by f2f 9y ago
A little bit of history: Forsyth did the 64-bit compiler for the Plan 9 on Blue Gene project. http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/blue_gene/ (I contributed to the project too: I did the photochop of glenda on the side of
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by f2f 9y ago
7) Ke Jie claimed he would beat AlphaGo [1] 1: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1219091...
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by f2f 9y ago
don't know who to respond to, but i really enjoy the way he thinks. he tends to take over the commentary a little bit, and i'd love to hear her opinion, but the commentary is very respectable. kudos to them,happy to hear he's
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by f2f 9y ago
i love the commentary. for somebody who knows the rules but is not a frequent player it's just the right amount of detail i need. same guy who did the alphago commentary too, i believe.
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by f2f 9y ago
are you considering that the no-knead recipe calls for preheating the enclosure, and then gives additional tips to get the temperature even higher than the maximum possible in a given oven (for example turning the broiler on and leaving the
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by f2f 9y ago
I make no-knead at least twice a week at home. it's all we eat in terms of bread. i don't bake anything else, just bread (and pizza using the same dough). it has not failed me in 5 years.
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by f2f 9y ago
i store all my images in .rgb format, i'm safe too :)
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Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm(blog.talosintelligence.com)
179 points by f2f 9y ago|66 comments
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by f2f 9y ago
Cisco's TALOS team just published an analysis: http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/05/wannacry.html
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by f2f 9y ago
Why write a glob engine at all when you already have a fast regex you didn't read the article. there are glob implementations that do just that.
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by f2f 9y ago
i added wireframe resize to Rio 15 years ago. people didn't like it :) http://mirtchovski.com/lanlp9/rio/index.html

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