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by lmm 4mo ago
No, people focus on a handful of things like null, buffer overrun, and use-after-free because they still make up the majority of security vulnerabilities that we see exploited in the wild. You may imagine that subtle logic errors are more c
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by lmm 4mo ago
> You cannot save the world from scratch in every little function. You still have a job to get done, and you have to move on. Or you can take all of 10 minutes to put sanity-check assertions at the start of all your public-facing API fun
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by lmm 4mo ago
I don't understand your comment - dereferencing a null pointer is unsafe, in the sense that it does not reliably crash but may do other things, as we saw in the kernel case we're talking about. Yes that particular case was only ex
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by lmm 4mo ago
> In general on a system where you trap when accessing the zero page, this optimization should be safe and a null pointer dereferences should (safely) trap. If you mean that C compiler writers "should" prioritise sanity over hi
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by lmm 4mo ago
> it's >> 99.9% true that this will just crash even though it's acshually UB, nasal demons and so forth. Is it though? Linux saw enough bugs from that kind of issue that they now build with -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Seems like you just validated my point - a place without open borders is where a major outbreak of xenophobic violence is occurring, as opposed to mainland Europe. We know exactly what caused this outbreak of xenophobic violence, it&#x
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by lmm 4mo ago
> I am not insane so I did not spend $1300 on a used vinyl record, I found mine for $2 at Goodwill. How is holding onto it instead of selling it for $1300 any less insane than buying it for $1300 in the first place?
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by lmm 4mo ago
Why do you want those commits though? In my experience people only look at history a) to see who wrote the code / when it was last changed, which works equally well with any approach, b) to see which feature it was part of, for which
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by lmm 4mo ago
That's a completely different claim from the one you were making in your previous comment. > avoid changing any of the circumstances that cause the behavior The normalisation of unsafe driving is the circumstance that causes the b
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by lmm 4mo ago
Some have. But certainly many continue to use letters beyond those 26, despite the difficulty of using those letters in various technologies.
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by lmm 4mo ago
> I live here, I think I'd notice if events like the current Belfast riots happened on a more regular basis. The island of Ireland has had pretty low immigration (not to mention not even having open borders in the sense usually mean
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by lmm 4mo ago
> hasn't facilitated any increase in xenophobia that I'm aware of Then you haven't been paying attention. > South Africa by contrast does not have open borders, and is currently going through another bout of violent xen
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by lmm 4mo ago
> the claim that something by itself is enough has to explain why most companies are able to be destroyed, even though they have really good leadership I think most of us are happy to believe that most companies simply have bad leadershi
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by lmm 4mo ago
And yet other languages have managed to resist those simplifications. So it's clearly not 100% forced.
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by lmm 4mo ago
It all makes sense once you realise the purpose is to maximise the amount of car storage. You're allowed to build car storage in every zone. Many zones even have a minimum amount of car storage required to accompany anything else you w
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by lmm 4mo ago
Friedrichstraße was famously like that during the Cold War (West Berliners riding the lines were not permitted to exit into East Berlin), although of course the stairs physically existed. I think it's unusual for an underground station
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by lmm 4mo ago
I'm upset that we allow people like you to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, possibly indefinitely, so anything that makes that harder even "accidentally" is ok by me.
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by lmm 4mo ago
If the alternative is carrying a tablet then a folding phone is smaller.
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by lmm 4mo ago
Holy shit, all that and then they paid? Worse, decided to use this product on an ongoing basis? I'm not sure who I hate more, Blacksmith for doing this or OP for being such a doormat about it.
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by lmm 4mo ago
Meh. You can fall back on might makes right and a Hobbesian war of all against all, or you can recognise that the Westphalian system has brought immense value to humanity and is worth trying to preserve and build on. There will always be di
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by lmm 4mo ago
> GDPR Only applies to EU citizens' personal data, so while technically extraterritorial it doesn't feel like overreach in the same way. > Universal jurisdiction laws Rightly controversial when applied beyond things that are
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by lmm 4mo ago
US sanctions law saying that you must not transfer X from the US to Iran, directly or indirectly, is reasonable. US sanctions law saying that you must not transfer X from Brazil to Iran is gross overreach. Yes, of course the US can apply
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by lmm 4mo ago
There are many autoantonyms in traditional English, e.g. cleave.
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by lmm 4mo ago
Organisations that are serious about promoting privacy should have been avoiding the US since the '90s and/or '50s, but the second best time to reincorporate in a safe jurisdiction is today.
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Incorporating a subsidiary in a foreign country doesn't make the parent company immune to the legal obligations it has in it's home country. We're not talking about legal obligations in its home country though . I can b
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Which has approximately zero to do with the anthropomorphization of the car itself. You don't think people talking about the car doing things has anything to do with anthropomorphising the car?
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by lmm 4mo ago
People are weird about their cars and make major errors in judgement as a result (e.g. we tolerate incredibly high rates of people getting killed because they were "hit by a car", as though the driver had nothing to do with it). P
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by lmm 4mo ago
Some companies trade at a discount to book value (very normal for banks, for example, especially those from e.g. Pakistan).
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Being fired means you lose healthcare and much needed benefits and of course a paycheck and all of that stuff, right? I think there's some law that lets you stay on health insurance for a few months at least, and you can save up a
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by lmm 4mo ago
Yes. I remember reading that Ostrich eggs are the largest single cells (in terms of mass/volume; Blue Whale nerve cells are longer).

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