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by feelix 9y ago
While there are more than 100 million users of it they should continue to supply security updates for it. Otherwise a widespread virus like this is 100% inevitable.
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by feelix 9y ago
From the article: >A month prior, on March 14, Microsoft had released a security update to patch this vulnerability and protect our customers. While this protected newer Windows systems and computers that had enabled Windows Update to a
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by feelix 9y ago
I have had to restore a backup once, so I restored the most recent version, which was restoring an old version of the file. I ended up frantically restoring all the different versions of the backups, and one of them was the most recent vers
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by feelix 9y ago
For local bootable backup I use Mac Backup Guru, which I also wrote: https://macdaddy.io/mac-backup-software/ It's useful because it's the only software on OS X besides Time Machine which makes versioned (inc
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Quantum entanglement between a single photon and a trillion rubidium atoms(phys.org)
55 points by feelix 9y ago|9 comments
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by feelix 9y ago
It appears that hacker news users upvote anything with machine learning or tensorflow in it. This is merely a fifo queue implementation, which is not particularly significant any way. Why it was submitted, much less upvoted, is nonsensical
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by feelix 9y ago
I wish that when elevators were built, they would build a spiral slide for those descending next to it. That would instantly reduce the traffic by about half considering that I believe most people would opt for the slide.
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by feelix 9y ago
From the article: "The app saves the raw frames captured from the sensor as DNG files, which can later be downloaded onto a PC for processing."
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by feelix 9y ago
If a computer costs $3000 and you save up $1000 a year to buy it, in 3 years you can buy that computer.
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by feelix 10y ago
> every plant and animal is not actively trying to kill you It's the opposite here. There are no harmful animals anywhere. You can go walking through the wilderness bare foot (which I have done many times) without fear
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by feelix 10y ago
Strict aliasing does not preclude using the bytes however you want. All that does is prohibit type casting in certain situations. By using different syntax you can still interpret the bytes how you want to (even if, in extreme situations, y
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by feelix 10y ago
He was trying to illustrate the concept that in C you deal directly with blocks of memory. It can be useful because instead of worrying about the implementation of the language which you're using, you can think about what the hardware
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by feelix 10y ago
Why would you say that "Cello isn't really C"?
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by feelix 10y ago
That's like saying "Why not just use lisp?" to a python programmer. They're entirely separate languages (albeit it they do share some commonalities, but not as many as you might think). C is my main language and I dabble
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by feelix 10y ago
For anybody interested in performing CRISPR in their kitchen with $150 worth of pre-packaged materials, I would encourage them to take a look at The ODIN. It is a kit to get you started, and it comes with tutorials to take you all the way f
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Faster memory comparison in C(macosxfilerecovery.com)
1 points by feelix 10y ago|0 comments
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Scientists unveil a giant leap for anti-aging(sciencedaily.com)
3 points by feelix 10y ago|1 comments
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DNA-repairing drug could fight aging and radiation damage(newatlas.com)
1 points by feelix 10y ago|0 comments
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by feelix 10y ago
It uses qsort and bsearch in practice
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by feelix 10y ago
Interesting. And also interestingly, they use the same method in their "fast_memeq" implementation: if (* src1_as_int ++ != * src2_as_int ++) return 0; /* compare as ints */
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by feelix 10y ago
Yes, that's true, because memcmp returns the sign based on the first byte, and this compares four bytes, on little endian architectures it may return the sign differently from the built-in memcmp(). That should be mentioned along with
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by feelix 10y ago
It checks that it wont overflow beforehand by making sure the length is >= 4 (and it's still faster). And I'm not sure why you think inlining would result in the speed increase? I believe the compiler will inline it when the st
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Faster memory comparison in C(macosxfilerecovery.com)
4 points by feelix 10y ago|9 comments
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Faster memory comparison in C(macosxfilerecovery.com)
6 points by feelix 10y ago|1 comments
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by feelix 10y ago
Things like this are why I will never trust any computer with privacy. There are processors and memory systems everywhere. There are so many entry points for snoop attacks which can be completely invisible unless you know exactly what to lo
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'Huge advance' in fighting world's biggest killer(bbc.com)
2 points by feelix 10y ago|0 comments
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by feelix 10y ago
The first line of the article is: "The solution to all of Earth’s metal problems, or the space rock that would completely obliterate the world economy"
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by feelix 10y ago
writing random data on it, rather than zeroing it out, will avoid block de-duplication and successfully completely fill it up. Here is a tool written for exactly that (although not intended for securely erasing a drive, it will have that ef
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by feelix 10y ago
To someone who has not tried living overseas this may sound like a classic 'first world problem', and I suppose it is. But what I can't stress enough is how severe it can be. I went and lived in various places around the
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by feelix 10y ago
I have found that the source device often reveals more than expected with public figures. Here's Tim Cook's, for another example: https://saucetweet.com/?username=tim_cook There is a lack of tweets from a Mac comp

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