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by josefx 2y ago
I seem to have skipped over the part where it mentioned that the JMP issue was in a factorio specific veryfier, despite reading the section several times.
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None of these help you if you are dealing with users that move executables for convenient access or think updating the sofware just involves dragging and dropping the new executable into the existing installation folder. Customer support ha
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The interesting takeaway I got was how badly the Lua developers failed on their bytecode veryfier. Not some complex issues, but simple ones like of by one errors when modelling basic instructions like jmp or the issue that the Lua interpret
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by josefx 2y ago
> There are silos, storage tanks, essentially duct work to transport ingredients from bulk storage to production How hard would it be to just have a set of sesam free plumbing for specific products? I mean they also manage to keep a sepa
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Their goal was to limit what support Galileo could gain for his works in public discurse. It most likely helped with that. It also did not stop scientists from improving on the copernican model without incurring the wrath of the church, the
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by josefx 2y ago
> we imported renewables from the alps and scandinavia How large are those power lines going from scandinavia to Germany? Afaik we already have issues getting north and south Germany properly connected. It doesn't help that there w
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by josefx 2y ago
Meanwhile we had significant protests over the ever expanding surface mines feeding those coal plants.
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by josefx 2y ago
Chrome on Android is a completely different issue. It isn't that Android comes with Chrome or any other browser by default. It is that Googles PlayStore licensing outright allows Google to retroactively brick any phone by a manufacture
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by josefx 2y ago
The government doesn't even have to remove them from existence. A judge most likely wont care how you leaked information you where told to keep secret and will just throw the book at you wether you used a canary to do so or not.
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by josefx 2y ago
The blog explicitly mentions them but describes them as questionable. Basically claiming they where fabricated by a person with close ties to the police after their attempt to push the first set of rape accusations failed when the original
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The works of Copernicus circulated for almost a century before they where put on the index for their association with Galileo.
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> If employees had ownership over which changes they think are best, a good employee would act on bringing the alerts back to zero before they take on new features or a new project That requires that you have good employees, which can b
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> The ruling was mostly not about board's competence Because showing that was so trivial that it barely needed to be done. People working directly for Musk asserted they had no financial ties to him or any of his companies. The boar
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They would not ban it, they would insist that only they have the moral high ground to use it. Whenever laws like these come up they write explicit exemptions for themselves into them. They don't see themselves as merely human, they con
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Yes, you can try to automatically guess the wrong encoding based on statistics that only work some of the time when given large amounts of free flowing text.
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by josefx 2y ago
> If that's the case the winning move is get the bytes, and convert them to UTF8 That would require knowing the original encoding. > or just process it as bytes As long as the APIs you have to use take bytes and not u8 strings. &
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by josefx 2y ago
> What was the problematic outsourcing decision here? Buying from an untrusted source without any verification of your own in place. > Buying your titanium from a titanium supplier? For all we know they bought it on wish.com. > I
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by josefx 2y ago
> Wait, why is that a problem? Using UTF-8 only is the closest to programmer's ideal. I have a lot of archived data with various unknown encodings. APIs that blindly try to force an encoding when all I have is "bytes" tend
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by josefx 2y ago
Assessments by EFSA/ECHA are mainly based on studies and reports collected by the manufacturers. They rely in those being complete and honest. Monsantos internal email correspondence was rather explicit on how they would rather reach o
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> . You shouldn't take it personally or make negative assumptions if someone doesn't get around to your pull request. Wether the submitter took it personally or not is not even apparent and it does not change the fact that prog
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> All I remember is that their were multiple times over the years when patches were sent and when changes were requested each time the submitter just vanished but I might be misremembering. The original bug report contained multiple comm
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> a big part of parenting is making sure your kid actually is at school Quite sure that is the schools job. At least where I live the schools tend to assume several of the rights and responsibilities that normally fall on the parents. &g
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You dropped the -v . Modern day Google seems fine tuned to return results that contain everything except for the words I searched for.
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by josefx 2y ago
Public/private does nothing to change the problems a developer has to deal with. On the JVM side the most widely "hacked" private API was sun.misc.Unsafe, which just could not be implemented using pure Java and Oracle did not
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You assume that a modern day tech giant would hire an army of experts, instead of just outsourcing it to the lowest bidder in the current third world country of choice.
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> But the actual information in depfiles doesn't require the full Makefile syntax; only a subset of it. That seems to be the problem, the information introduced for the module support[1] apparently cannot be handled with just the de
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> At first you run into all the usual tool roughness that you'd expect from new experimental features. For example, GCC generates dependency files that don't work with Ninja. To sum the link behind that statement up: The defaul
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Parody tends to fall into various exemptions. Of course one might argue that OpenAIs work itself is a parody of AGI.
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> you spend 10 years doing python, only to go back to C++ and realise that all this private/protected stuff is a crock Just a friendly reminder that two leading underscores wont protect your member functions in C++. Even if people i
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by josefx 2y ago
> No. An unprecedent fraud undid them all. It was plain old accounting fraud. > And nobody saw it coming. Nothing to see if you do not look. > Put it all together and there really was no good reason to refuse the buyout. He claime

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