johnlorentzson

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by johnlorentzson 6y ago
Some things are best optimized by the actual compiler.
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
This kind of makes me wonder why PDFs can even act maliciously in the first place. Why does it have the ability to do these things?
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
There's quite a bit of engrish on that page. That combined with the logo doesn't really give a good first impression. That aside, it looks pretty interesting.
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
UNIX and everything surrounding it is built around the shell though.
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
Because it's become a standard that almost everyone is expected to use.
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
The tickets have no way of identifying you unless you register on their website. You could always just get rid of your card and get a new one when you want to.
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
Ah, right. I don't know how I forgot about cache and RAM.
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
Forgive me if this should be obvious, but why would a simple read from a pointer take so many cycles?
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
It can be simplified as "than is a comparison between two things, then is for referring to a time".
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
Looks like I know where I'm going if Sweden turns to shit.
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
I never thought I'd see "IBM" and "holocaust" in the same sentence, but here I am.
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
Swish and its identification system "Bank ID" are both owned and operated by for-profit companies. The clients only run on certain operating systems and they're actively preventing custom clients. An app on your phone is not
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
I'm Swedish and this stuff makes me really worried. Especially since the main way for two people to exchange small amounts of money is through a proprietary app that uses a proprietary ID system (owned by a for-profit company) that onl
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
If you go so far as to modify the hard drive firmware, you probably already use full-disk encryption.
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
Genera runs best inside a virtual machine of an old version of Ubuntu. I was able to install it when I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12USa3gU_oU .
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
This reminds me a bit of the Dynamic Lisp Listener from Symbolics Genera-based Lisp machines.
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by johnlorentzson 7y ago
Automatic gender detection should certainly not be used for data entry where the data is of any real consequence (even if we ignored trans/non-binary people), simply due to the fact that it can't be proven to be perfect.