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by maxton 9y ago
This is awesome! I had been using retdec.com since before Avast bought AVG (where RetDec was originally developed). I'm very excited to do away with the limits the website imposed.
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by maxton 9y ago
When I click the down arrow, I am brought to the bottom of the page with the links to other articles but there is no article between the big picture and the links, just the "Read Our Other Stories" header. EDIT: Resizing my browse
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by maxton 9y ago
Is there supposed to be any content here? All I see is a giant image of some watermelons and links to other images of fruits and vegetables. The links are under "read our other stories" so I assume there is supposed to be text.
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by maxton 9y ago
There might also be a connection to Weird Al's parody of that song, titled "I Think I'm A Clone Now" from 1988: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kw_d3d0XAo
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by maxton 9y ago
That would depend on the cipher mode, no? Assuming the container is using something like CTR, the diff should only consist of changed bytes.
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by maxton 9y ago
I don't think that's true for every project, as I have contributed to an open-source project[1] started by a Googler, and never had to sign a CLA, nor is the project hosted under the Google Github org. 1: https://github
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by maxton 9y ago
Important to note is that this code is not the source code, but rather was generated by dotPeek, a C# decompiler, as mentioned in the repo's README: https://github.com/csnxs/Terraria/
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by maxton 9y ago
It's rather frightening that a bug as serious as this one got past Apple's QA. It seems like the list of known problems with the new Disk Utility is growing - recently there was a submission about how High Sierra's Disk Utili
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by maxton 9y ago
Past discussion of this project can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8565665
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by maxton 9y ago
This is a very smart move by Facebook, and a win for the open source community as a whole. Why it took so long for the license change is a bit of a mystery, but removing the complications of software patents from their licenses will help fu
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by maxton 9y ago
> "Rather than exploit an existing vulnerability in the fqzcomp program, as real-world hackers do, they modified the program's open-source code to insert their own flaw allowing the buffer overflow." So really, this is not
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by maxton 9y ago
I don't think you can compare .io, a ccTLD, with the new gTLDs. It's apples and oranges.
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by maxton 9y ago
That line from the C/C++ "fix" is an atrocity; `low`, `mid`, and `high` should never have been declared as signed integers in the first place, since array indices are never negative. It's unfortunate that in Java there i
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by maxton 9y ago
It's sad that some of the same companies that have shown their support of net neutrality also support the adoption of EME. What's the point of an open internet if we have a closed web?
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by maxton 9y ago
This must be an issue with Google's data provider. Their graphs still show the correct stock price.
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by maxton 9y ago
I think the headline here is misleading. What they are offering is a prize to decentralize the internet - the actual network to which people connect in order to use the web. Judging from the other comments here, I don't think a lot o