hardburn

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by hardburn 2y ago
Down in the "practical use" section, one use case is bypassing copy protection on consoles.
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by hardburn 2y ago
Most aerospace stuff is. The thing is, they have reams of very specific rules about how it's coded, how to verify that code, and how to verify the compiler of that code, and how to verify the code output from that compiler. It's n
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by hardburn 2y ago
Thank you!
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by hardburn 2y ago
I actually met a programmer who worked on military jets. According to her, Ada is only used anymore for the older jets that were already programmed in it, and she worked in C++.
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by hardburn 2y ago
No
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COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it(wumpus-cave.net)
425 points by hardburn 2y ago|437 comments
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Moore's Law is dead, but not for the reasons everyone says(wumpus-cave.net)
2 points by hardburn 3y ago|0 comments
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by hardburn 3y ago
I wouldn't trust USB flash drives with anything long term. Best archival method would be to print something out (perhaps an encrypted message in a QR code), have it put away somewhere secure, and use that for a key to unlocking everyth
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by hardburn 3y ago
Which also gives away some gaps in the author's knowledge. Perl wasn't following the PCRE standard. It was the PCRE standard. Everything else was following it. Usually with some piece missing--far more implementations should hav
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by hardburn 3y ago
It doesn't go the speed of light in copper, either. In fact, that study has a nice table on page 5. Looks like other than thick coax, fiber is a bit faster than most copper options.