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by jagrsw 3y ago
Played around with coverage-guided fuzzing using honggfuzz and Intel BTS/PT a while back. Didn't have much time to fine-tune, but it seemed solid. It'd need a couple of months to properly dial in and see real results. The cov
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Are you trying to be 'technically correct' here? :)
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by jagrsw 3y ago
A cool article by Maciej Ceglowski ( https://pinboard.in ) in the spirit of the original article (and times too): https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm Not that I agree with it, just another witti
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by jagrsw 3y ago
> where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair What is the academic impact of holding an endowed chair like the 'James and Carol Collins chair'? It it related to any specific advantages or responsibilities? Those titles se
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by jagrsw 3y ago
In US it also seems to be popular to use L for liter (or litre:)
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Somehow 500m high tsunami destroying "only" 3.5 sq.km. of land doesn't strike me as monstrous. I was thinking it can maybe reach 5-10 km. into the land.
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by jagrsw 3y ago
I may be mistaken, but does JSON offer the ability to define a schema with default values? Utilizing a single .proto file, I can tackle both the issues of default values and configuration structure, eliminating the need to manually check fo
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by jagrsw 3y ago
nsjail author here (the original one, as the tool is also maintained by others), good job! Irrelevant nit: .proto files are protobuf definition files (like this one: https://github.com/google/nsjail/blob/maste
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by jagrsw 3y ago
> you will be subjugating a possibly conscious mind into servitude. Is the distinction between a protein-and-salt-water model versus an electronic-gates-and-memory model meaningful? From a computational standpoint, they both manipulate s
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by jagrsw 3y ago
There's one register called CCR on m68k and CR on PPC, so that's probably not an accident ;)
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Since the 1990s PowerPC/POWER has been touted as viable alternative to the x86 architecture. Initially, they gained traction through PowerMacs and Amigas with accel-cards, as well as via PPC versions of Windows and OS/2. Next, the
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Incorrect. It's a bit problematic to compare EU as a whole, because countries join and leave, but if you compare bigger EU countries to Canada, Canada is not significantly better. Also Canada has a higher real population growth which s
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by jagrsw 3y ago
In the current Confidential Computing landscape, trust is being shifted from the cloud service provider to the hardware vendor. Whether it's AMD-SEV or Intel's SGX/TDX, the trust "root" becomes the entity responsibl
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by jagrsw 3y ago
> In order to have any chance of successfully rallying of people you do need > to appeal to some of their base instincts I understand your point about the role of nationalism in Russian politics. However, it's crucial f
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by jagrsw 3y ago
While Navalny's courage in facing political persecution is commendable, it's important to contextualize his earlier views to understand him fully. Before his imprisonment and prior to the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict
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by jagrsw 3y ago
What's the theoretical max bandwidth in LEO's near-vacuum? Could we use a wide 1GHz-1THz channel for directional beams to hit 1Tbps, given a decent SNR? Cosmic dust and H atoms seem like non-issues for 1000km links? Would power or
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Violence during uprisings is often targeted at military structures and is generally not classified as terrorism under international law or ethics. This is obviously not a case in the discussed topic. Blanket condemnation oversimplifies a co
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by jagrsw 3y ago
In the limit sure, but technically it was Anatolia (Asia Minor) or Caucasus (Asia).
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Or Europeans displacing the peaceful Neanderthals from their homelands.
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by jagrsw 3y ago
malloc can use mmap (aside from s/brk) - it's impossible these days to sandbox any more complex program and not allow mmap (arguments can be limited though to only a subset of flags).
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Polish radio (Program 1) brodacasted (and maybe still does) a time signal at 12:00 every day. It's a series of beeps and the end of the last and the longest beep marks 12:00. Here's how it sounds: https://www.youtube.co
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by jagrsw 3y ago
HN comments' section most likely :)
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by jagrsw 3y ago
I vaguely remember those days, late '80s and early '90s, and a lot of it probably had to do with IBM's reputation. Amiga had its pro uses - like smaller TV stations using it with VideoToaster or Scala for broadcast management
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by jagrsw 3y ago
While I get the sentiment, implementing full Unicode support directly in the keyboard firmware would pose challenges. Consider mechanical keyboards where keys are swappable; you'd need a mechanism to inform the firmware of the current
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Quick nitpick on Polish keyboard layouts. The "Polish (standard)" is more often referred to as the "typist" layout in Poland. IBM's docs say this is required for government contracts. I haven't seen it in any d
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by jagrsw 3y ago
The idea here is that in Polish it's 'herbata' - which is 'herba' 'thea'
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Both come from PIE "wódr" for water. Romance languages descended ftom a synonym "ekeh" which resulted in aqua/agua/eau/... and the word itself meant "a body of water" like a lake or a river iirc.
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by jagrsw 3y ago
English is increasingly using the singular 'they' as a workaround, since alternative options like 've,' 'ze,' 'zhe,' and 'xer' didn't gain traction. This comes with its own set of issue
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by jagrsw 3y ago
The Radio-Stop was not exactly a secret - I remember talking about it with an amateur radio operator ca. 2002. He was back then saying that the railways will start operating GSM-R in the near future, and the problem of the unauthenticated R
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Hamming distance (and popcnt) is also used in gradient descent scenarios. Eg. here's part of fuzzing engine code, where it tries to produce an input which matches some form of variable check inside the fuzzed code: https://g

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