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by fafner 12y ago
I think there recently was a proposal for reallocarray in glibc. Not sure what happened to it though.
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by fafner 12y ago
Michael Meeks' (LibreOffice developer) response https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2014-06-25-openxmlsdk...
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by fafner 12y ago
I like that KDE avoided the trend to dumb down the tools. E.g., Dolphin has an integrated terminal (F4). Which is extremely handy. I don't think that this is something the Gnome folks would ever add to their file manager. That's w
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by fafner 12y ago
LXDE - the ultra light weight DE - is switching from GTK+ to Qt. I think Canonical is switching Unity from GTK+ to Qt as well.
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by fafner 12y ago
They are out of service in the British forces though. That should make reactivating them a bit more difficult.
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by fafner 12y ago
You mean during Desert Storm? Stealth was very new (I think the F117 had been used in Panama for the first time though). 8 years later the Serbs were able to track and shoot down an F117. The Russians and Chinese and probably every other de
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by fafner 12y ago
I think you Brits are stuck with the F-35 because of the new carriers. Both are designed for VTOL aircraft. There were plans to build at least the second one with a CATOBAR configuration. But this was turned down due to the high costs. So i
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by fafner 12y ago
The F/A-18 is designed by Boeing. The F-35 as well as the F-22 are designed by Lockheed.
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by fafner 12y ago
To see how corrupt and defective the whole military acquisition is in the US just look at the US Congress forcing the US army to buy tanks... https://news.yahoo.com/army-says-no-more-tanks-115434897.htm...
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by fafner 12y ago
RFC7238 is still marked as experimental.
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by fafner 12y ago
If you care about privacy don't use a closed source browser especially not from Google...
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by fafner 12y ago
Talk about this: video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maBOorEfOOk (audio kinda broken) slides: http://cr.yp.to/talks/2014.05.13/slides-dan+tanja-20140513-4...
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Effects Analysis in Guile(wingolog.org)
53 points by fafner 12y ago|1 comments
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by fafner 12y ago
SystemTap is a tracing framework for GNU/Linux without such license issues and available on several distributions: https://sourceware.org/systemtap/
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Oracle continue to circumvent EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
151 points by fafner 12y ago|63 comments
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by fafner 12y ago
As the article mentions most image hosts simply don't scale to the reddit user base and once an image gets too popular they either pull it or break down under the load. And more importantly many other image hosts add aggressive advert
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HTTP2 Explained(daniel.haxx.se)
9 points by fafner 12y ago|0 comments
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by fafner 13y ago
Ah, the wonders of XML. Somehow somebody decided to use XML to store some text data. Because after all you already have a parser for this in the approved tools. So why bother using something different?! And look it does all the cool stu
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by fafner 13y ago
> Are APL's typically JITed ? No.
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by fafner 13y ago
The "side-channel silent" improvements should help improve the security of RSA. Here is a paper about it: https://gmplib.org/~tege/modexp-silent.pdf
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GMP 6.0 release notes(gmplib.org)
5 points by fafner 13y ago|1 comments
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by fafner 13y ago
Google was probably more worried about the potential consequences of breaking the non-solicitation agreement than about Jobs. Breaking it would have meant Apple starting to hire Google engineers as well. And even if they didn't care ab
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by fafner 13y ago
The FQA is silly and out of date.
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Announcing the C++ FAQ(isocpp.org)
14 points by fafner 13y ago|2 comments
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by fafner 13y ago
What does it take to switch to a new ATC? AFAIK they were in the process of switching to the Vietnamese ATC and in fact the last message was a "good night" to the Malaysian ATC. Could the process of switching to the new ATC mean t
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by fafner 13y ago
Couldn't a fire in the electric turn off the telemetry minutes before it gets noticed?
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by fafner 13y ago
> On the contrary, I think that any such alternative plan to kidnap and interrogate a handful of the Freescale guys would probably seem at least as risky if you described it in some detail, then looked at it with as much scepticism as yo
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by fafner 13y ago
Yes, really. You are looking at it after the fact. Paying off a pilot who is skilled enough to fly the aircraft evading all radar and land it unassisted at night or early dawn on some remote airbase would be a major expense. Paying someone
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by fafner 13y ago
But why not make it public?
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by fafner 13y ago
The hijackers would probably want to make it public. It's an insurance for their safety right now. A government might simply bomb the parked aircraft and blame it on a crash or the hijackers.

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