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by jepler 5y ago
"The Estates" are the corpse of SCO, and "The Trustee" is the court-appointed trustee for The Estates. So, it would seem that IBM is going to pay $14 million to the corpse of SCO.
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by jepler 5y ago
It seems like many of the code examples are incorrect in the pdf for example, figure 6b vs the file in the actual dataset experiments_dow/cwe-787/codeql-eg-PotentialBufferOverflow/Copilot -- lines are truncated at the first &
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by jepler 5y ago
Largely just re-publishing Intel's slides, but still interesting. "Intel’s Gracemont Small Core Eclipses Last-Gen Big Core Performance" compares to Skylake (2015) core performance which seems a bit more stale than "last-
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by jepler 5y ago
Huh, I naively expected constants to be loaded similar to 32-bit arm, where usually they come from a table of constants placed just after the function code itself. But both clang and gcc emit a series of mov + 3 movk for arbitrary constants
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by jepler 5y ago
> A demand-side platform (DSP) is a software system used by advertisers to manage the buying of digital ad space from across multiple ad exchanges through a single interface. Of course, adblockers that also operate ad networks on the sid
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by jepler 5y ago
Missing is the analysis of the amount of entropy in an unaided "three random words" password. I'll try: people are lousy at random picking. Their choices are highly likely to come from the most common 1000 words, and very ve
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by jepler 5y ago
Maybe I've just been away from C++ for too long (~2 years) but I wasn't able to follow what was going on there. What does `sizeof` have to do with anything (doesn't work without it, though)? I would have enjoyed an article
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by jepler 5y ago
correct URL https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/376520
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by jepler 5y ago
My effort in this space is "furss", though it starts from an rss feed then aims to scrape the full article instead of an extract. https://github.com/jepler/furss
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by jepler 5y ago
[cw: discussion of suicide]
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by jepler 5y ago
10:35p ET: Looks like the snapshot will take 10 hours to make. Ordinarily this wouldn't be a problem becuase the service is running and a snapshot would be made on a secondary DB. But all of the Mongo DBs faithfully deleted their data,
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Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage(newsblur.com)
457 points by jepler 5y ago|316 comments
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by jepler 5y ago
_Why_ is it faster? (particularly on Linux, I see you're using syscalls on mac that mac's cp doesn't, since apple doesn't really maintain their unix userspace)
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by jepler 5y ago
754.0000000000001 Binary floating point used
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by jepler 5y ago
Interesting, I thought I had invented this function myself (even giving it this name), but apparently it dates back to plan9 even (as seprint, rather than seprintf -- https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man3&#x2F
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by jepler 5y ago
At $OLDJOB we used to use nfs extensively, and a common desire was to run some command on the system where the files actually resided, after navigating there (with cd in a local terminal). To that end, we developed a script called "yon
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by jepler 5y ago
I wonder if they investigated a format for relative coordinates that used 3 bytes .. in the example ivg it would potentially save a lot of bytes, but at the cost of less exact coordinates.
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by jepler 5y ago
[2018]
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by jepler 5y ago
Does `let middle = (high + low) / 2;` risk overflow? Does rust diagnose this at runtime, or silently use modulo arithmetic? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17358806/fixing-binary-s...
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by jepler 6y ago
leolabs' next anticipated contact with SL-8 R/B 12443 is at 21:06UTC https://platform.leolabs.space/catalog/L5136#next-planned-pa... next anticipated contact with OPS 6182 at 20:00UTC https://platf
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by jepler 6y ago
If your VC isn't plumbed all the way into your editor, you can't tell changing a typo from deleting and re-typing the whole file when it comes time to create a delta.
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by jepler 6y ago
Yes,-ish. However, there's also the question of what operations are efficient. (Diff feels very performant in git but) maybe having the diffs as the first-class objects enables doing something efficiently that git doesn't do. (p
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by jepler 6y ago
I'm not sure, but from a cursory bit of searching the mining of phosphorous may include radioactive trace elements which might be removed or concentrated at various steps of the production of fertilizer. I found e.g., https:/&#x
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by jepler 6y ago
I'm relatively confident I had MP3 decoding software running on a 486 circa 1994/5. Even today, mpg123's website states "Plays Layer 3 in stereo on an AMD-486-120Mhz or (of course) a faster machine." and of course
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by jepler 6y ago
Besides the number of qbits, is "multimode memory" real or hypothetical?
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by jepler 6y ago
I skimmed the paper. It looks like gate size grows as the square of the number of bits. I was unable to tell how the size of the "multimode memory" scales with the problem size, but that could just be a problem with how quickly I
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by jepler 6y ago
[Note: this is about static code analysis generally, I haven't programmed under MISRA C] I have certainly seen in my professional life that "modify the code until the static checker stops showing a diagnostic" is not a good w
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by jepler 6y ago
It seems likely you're measuring something other than what you intended to measure, like the start-up time of the Python interpreter, time to byte-compile Python source, etc. fib(40) itself runs in 1.1us/loop on this Ryzen 3700X
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by jepler 6y ago
That's a good point, but in practice, it works fine on Linux. It looks like the static content of the disk, including CURRENT.UF2, is all at the start, so the only time you could have a mix of CURRENT.UF2 content and the uploaded uf2
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by jepler 6y ago
UF2 is really, REALLY handy. I work with Adafruit on CircuitPython. We use it on basically every microcontroller device that can possibly support it. The recently announced Raspberry Pi Pico / RP2040 microcontroller have given UF2 a

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