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by jwilk 2y ago
It was a thing back in 1996/1997: https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=bf079e19f50d64a...
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by jwilk 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43462783 got more traction (14 comments at the moment).
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by jwilk 2y ago
> methane doesn't persist in the atmosphere nearly as long as CO2 does Technically correct, but very very misleading. Yes, methan degrades quickly, but it degrates to CO₂ . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane
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by jwilk 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43403821 (100 comments at the moment)
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Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default(lwn.net)
231 points by jwilk 2y ago|227 comments
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by jwilk 2y ago
You forgot Poland. :-P
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by jwilk 2y ago
5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055999 (10 comments at the moment)
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by jwilk 2y ago
Previously: 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34465455 (45 comments) 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27500624 (124 comments)
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by jwilk 2y ago
Sounds a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener%27s_attack . (It's not a good article when it comes to the attack details, unfortunately.)
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by jwilk 2y ago
There's no scrollback on fbcon either.
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by jwilk 2y ago
> Git renamed the branch master to main No, it didn't. Git's default branch is still "master", although it warns you the default is subject to change.
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by jwilk 2y ago
First part discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40835274 (113 comments)
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by jwilk 2y ago
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42546216 (> 150 comments)
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by jwilk 2y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bidens-photo-carters/
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by jwilk 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/204/
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by jwilk 2y ago
Discussed in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24020254 (43 comments)
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by jwilk 2y ago
No, they're unrelated.
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by jwilk 2y ago
> the behavior of leap years at the end of a century (where they're skipped if a year is divisible by 100 unless it's divisible by 400) is not accounted for. The article cites the original edition of POSIX from 1988. The bug in
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Tim Peters returns to the Python community(lwn.net)
5 points by jwilk 2y ago|1 comments
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by jwilk 2y ago
What do you mean? https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=keypub.sh says the cert is OK.
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by jwilk 2y ago
Direct link to the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fffJnNTcLog
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by jwilk 2y ago
Or if you can't stand the lkml.org UI: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_b8b1qZF8_obMKpF+xfYnPZ...
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Debian opens a can of username worms(lwn.net)
249 points by jwilk 2y ago|288 comments
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by jwilk 2y ago
Isn't xcancel.com a Nitter instance?
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by jwilk 2y ago
"if (( num==42 ))" can exectue code from $num too.
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by jwilk 2y ago
It's R = 2/5, G = 1/5.
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by jwilk 2y ago
The Financial Times article discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38202885 (22 comments)
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by jwilk 2y ago
I see "content-type: image/jpeg" in Firefox's Network Monitor.
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by jwilk 2y ago
Hover over the photo at the top, then click the arrow to see the next one. Direct link to the critter photo: https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/image/399151/screen
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by jwilk 2y ago
At some point the argument type changed from "unsigned int" to "byte" aka "char". But "char" is signed on many popular architectures. So this return c is 127 or c < 32; no longer does the r

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