iforgotpassword

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2431.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Hah so basically not at all more involved than when we still assumed modern platforms are just safe and trustworthy. Phew.
2432.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Wouldn't that be something the os scheduler had to do, since the process doesn't know when it's moving from one CPU to another? So it could be a privileged instruction.
2433.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Good point, so could we make it "just write back but don't evict", something like fsync() for memory...?
2434.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
OK so this might be only partially related, but earlier today I checked out the poc code for spectre and saw that it uses that instruction to discard a cache line. That reminded me of that performance issue ryzen had after launch in some ga
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by iforgotpassword 9y ago
I never understood this behavior. Opera presto had a dedicated "fill with saved credentials and submit" button in the toolbar (or ctrl-enter). Problem avoided. Autofill never made the overall process faster. On the contrary, if I
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by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Seems quite laggy, although its probably worse due to hn front-page. I tried writing a multiplayer tron when I was around 16 which was only meant for lan and it still suffered from lag in really close combat situations. Granted I didn'
2437.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
I got annoyed by this too much a couple years ago, also the fact that they seem to be able to detect most if not all tunnel types and randomly inject packets that will break the connection. So I proceeded to quickly hack up a simple tunne
2438.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Agreed; but they were probably referring to big beefy GPUs, so you only have team green and team red.
2439.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Because it's a pointless answer that basically just repeats part of the question, providing absolutely no new information.
2440.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Biggest mistake IMO was not clarifying what a distributed OS is supposed to be. Especially nowadays with all the cloud hype I could think of at least three different meanings right off the bat, then clicked all the links on the landing page
2441.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Because he likes watching US Netflix shows.
2442.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
I remember your name. I think it was from reading about the Minecraft protocol, which makes sense if you wrote a server.
2443.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
It's not out of context. He first gave a specific example of what kind of "thanks" he doesn't like, but then with the part I quoted he made clear that he not only doesn't like those hypocritical thank yous attached
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by iforgotpassword 9y ago
No it was exactly what he said. First he complained about those feature requests with a meaningless "thanks in advance" attached (OK fine with me so far) but then with the phrase I quoted he made it clear that he doesn't like
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by iforgotpassword 9y ago
> Honestly, being thanked in any shape or form does nothing for me So a genuine "hi there, thanks for all your work, I've been using your lib for months and its awesome" is an annoyance to you? You must be fun at parties.
2446.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
They're choosing backwards compatibility over bad security (kill everything instead of reporting and fixing bugs). Applying duct tape everywhere instead of fixing things can hardly be desired. And as a side note, backwards compatibilit
2447.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
No. First, you never know if an invalid access or integer overflow can actually be exploited, and even if, you don't know if it can remotely be exploited. If you run a server hosting sensitive data by all means, use grsecurity but on m
2448.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Servers: yes, phone/home PC: no. Maybe my dev machine but my wife wouldn't be happy with a kernel panic while writing an email. Like Linus said, this would go unreported with the average user because they just reboot in annoyance.
2449.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Yep, adding more and more bs so it's impossible to fully understand it ever. Understanding C thoroughly is already hard, but C++ is a whole new level. "But then only use the new and modern parts of it" No! You cannot simply
2450.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
The field was set to 0 by a function it was passed to previously.. It didn't do that in older kernel versions so it kept the proper value, so a classical miscommunication (or none at all) between devs.
2451.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Because it is irc.
2452.
by iforgotpassword 9y ago
Yeah you see this kind of post about freelancer.com every now and then. Don't get how anyone can still consider using them. Some of the stories are scary as shit.