jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
When in doubt, assume the worse so that you might only be pleasantly surprised. Assume there is a J. Edgar Hoover 2.0.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Yeah, and the Mongolians once sacked the world. Should we be afraid of them too?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think you may be my doppelganger, but I started off on a TI-83+. ;) There is some special about introducing yourself to programming on limited hardware like that. It's the sort of device that you can grow into, and which challenges
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Why do you think that a binary distribution of LUKS deserves less suspicion than binary distributions of Truecrypt? If everyone were using LUKS instead, one would hope that people would attempt to verify that trust in binary distributions L
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by jlgreco 13y ago
True, though I suspect you are going to be doing that already since you will undoubtedly fuck up your homebrew CPU in novel ways many times while building it, and spend many hours debugging each piece of it. ;)
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The problem is that hypothetically any tools you use on a computer could be compromised (by their compiler, or otherwise) to not show you truthful results on your screen. IDA Pro (and other tools at your disposal) may recognize certain p
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If all of those compilers share an ancestor compiler (in other words, if we think GCC is compromised and if Clang was originally bootstrapped with a compromised GCC), then I don't think that would be effective (although code that &#x27
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by jlgreco 13y ago
When searching for "BP", all of the results are relevant, but none are about Deepwater Horizon. Interestingly though, at the bottom of the page, I see Google has an "In-depth Articles" section that has three articles, al
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Create a piss-poor barebones compiler (compiler A) by hand (literally, if possible. punchcards would allow you to hand-verify the contents of the program in a way that is not susceptible to Thompson's attack (there is no risk that yo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
There is a difference between recognizing the current state of reality, and embracing it.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You can use the side of your finger with a sort of rolling action to lift the tab. I learned that a few years ago after I had my finger slammed in a doorframe pretty hard.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Evaporative beer cooling.. very clever. I wonder if there is a market for a product dedicated/optimized for this (incorporated drawstring/hanger, ideal material, etc.)
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'm sure the outside of your bottle/can has seen worse horrors than that. If you are concerned by that sort of thing, you should probably make a habit of wiping them off before consuming anyway.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Salt, and water to increase the contact area with the can/bottle (unless you want to wait for the ice to melt).
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by jlgreco 13y ago
So in other words particular people are unwilling to draw a specific line in the sand, but we nevertheless think that a democratic process is valuable? Morality by committee. Wonderful.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Franklin and I are bros and all, so I don't mean to dis him, but he's a shite programmer.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
My computer is new, was expensive, and has 30GB of storage. Of course I knew what I was getting myself into, and my usage patterns make this limitation somewhat academic. ;)
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I would say that not being able to program is the new "not being able to write a novel". I don't know if there is a word for that.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "hashed passwords" Take a wild guess at what they are storing this time around.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Why the hell not? Heroin from Bayer would not have the quality control issues Heroin typically has. It only becomes problematic when you consider that the user is getting themselves into a situation that they do not fully understand and po
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Stable internal ABI has been beaten to death. It isn't going to happen, nor should it.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Correct. I like the phrase "GNU/Linux", but only in recent years with the popularization of other userlands that makes the distinction has become useful.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Linux on the Desktop is like owning your own Cessna. It's not something that you do unless you have a very good reason to. You need it for work (crop dusting)? Great, it can accommodate you. You need it because you have an exceptio
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Android has millions of casual consumer users, and the state of that ecosystem is unmitigated shit. Worse free driver support there than the traditional distro scene for desktop computers had a decade ago . Striving for widespread deskt
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Previous (killed) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600829
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> School is free until high school in France Friendly fyi: "until" is generally exclusive in English. An similar word that is inclusive is "through". So "I'm on vacation until Monday" implies they w
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Not all factual discussions free of fallacy are productive. An Emacs user and I could easily talk past each other for hours.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Is a cut artery from plastic bottle shrapnel more "cut artery"ish than a cut artery from a smashed duty free bottle? And before you say "bombs hurt multiple people, sharp things only hurt people one at a time.", let me s
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> 1. Turn off comments A few days ago, on the topic of turning off comments when there is a flamewar, instead of knocking the entire post down/off the front page, I said this: "[killing the discussion entirely] is a good thi
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You really think nobody can legitimately have something capable of cutting an artery in an airport?

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