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931.
Constant-Time Callees with Variable-Time Callers (CVE-2016-7056)(eprint.iacr.org)
2 points by gbrown_ 10y ago|0 comments
932.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
Neato! Thanks for the link. Sorry if the tone of "only compiler I am aware of" came of as snotty it was meant as an expression of my naivety on the subject.
933.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
> The other thought I had here, is that AFAICT IR is not a standard. There is no requirement that it remains compatible in 50 years or 5 months. Correct. Libfirm[0] is the only compiler I am aware of that attempts to use a "firm&quo
934.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
The source repo contains a summary. https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/master/doc/threa...
935.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
> Does anyone know what the release date will be? CES is next week, we'll likely get more details then, shipping products are still likely a few months out.
936.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
> Just drop 1.0 support and require 1.1 The point is applications won't be able to easily do this. As the post points out it's likely many distributions will adopt the 1.0 release series due to the length of support. So if you
937.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
> Hmm... I don't think this is actually a secure approach, as by default X is not secure. I think the post is more about containing what the browser has access to in terms of Unix permissions in the event of it being controlled mali
938.
DieHarder: Securing the Heap (2010) [pdf](people.cs.umass.edu)
38 points by gbrown_ 10y ago|1 comments
939.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
> It is a fantastic guide, as I have always been hesitant to trust the "passed" of the SMART test. I'd say you're right not to trust such things. A single piece of S.M.A.R.T. data in isolation seldom tells you much. M
940.
Intel CPU security features(github.com)
3 points by gbrown_ 10y ago|0 comments
941.
Kaby Lake Systems with Intel Optane SSDs Coming Soon(anandtech.com)
71 points by gbrown_ 10y ago|35 comments
942.
Bespoke Superoptimization(oilshell.org)
4 points by gbrown_ 10y ago|0 comments
943.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
Here's a presentation from Theo de Raadt on how OpenBSD does its releases, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pkyDUX5uM .
944.
Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads(arxiv.org)
1 points by gbrown_ 10y ago|0 comments
945.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
For all of Apple's App Store vetting one would think this kind of behavior would have thrown up a flag at some point no?
946.
DTrace at Home(medium.com)
1 points by gbrown_ 10y ago|0 comments
947.
A Skip List for Multicore [pdf](poseidon.it.usyd.edu.au)
2 points by gbrown_ 10y ago|0 comments
948.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
Discussion that came up the other week for those that missed it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13057797
949.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
Data Structures for Text Sequences by Charles Crowley? https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf I recall coming across this when hearing about vis.
950.
Screaming Fast Galois Field Arithmetic Using Intel SIMD Instructions (2013)(web.eecs.utk.edu)
97 points by gbrown_ 10y ago|34 comments
951.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
Yes, dtruss would be a closer equivalent but it is using dtrace under the covers.
952.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
> It actually doesn't matter. It just has to be energy positive and cost competitive. Very true.
953.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
Yes sorry my comment was in response to the tone of "poised to deliver?".
954.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
> “We are convinced we can deliver hundreds of megawatts through Iter,” up to 10 times more energy than is put in, says David Campbell, the director of science and operations at Iter (which means “the way” in Latin). That doesn't so
955.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
> not a leaked version of it. It's a fork. If you're interested how it came to be check out this epic talk by Bryan Cantrill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
956.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
> Because of the overheads, I wouldn't trust the high resolution timestamps also included in the blog post. Naive question why would the timestamps be inaccurate, surely each step of the program's execution should just be slowe
957.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
As this article points out the 130PF number is single precision, the Top500 lists super computers in rank of their double precision FLOPS. An article in HPCwire[0] speculates the double precision target of this machine to be ~33PF. [0] http
958.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
I would simply say OpenBSD runs. It runs with it's hardening mechanisms always on. Ports are considered in whether a new mechanism or aggressiveness of an existing mechanism is suitable. The idea is to have a platform where good qualit
959.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
A recent addition is vis[0], which incorporates sam's structural regular expressions. [0] https://github.com/martanne/vis
960.
by gbrown_ 10y ago
There was a similar CVE way back, also to do with modelines CVE-2002-1377. I've never understood the idea of modelines, executing arbitrary commands from any file you open? Sounds like a bad idea to me. I've long had the following

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