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by meinersbur 2y ago
My impression is that this is due to their non-robust programming style. They do not add fallback behavior when e.g. receiving a null object. It would still be a bug, but could be a log entry instead of crash.
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by meinersbur 2y ago
> Deletion is not some unbiased cleanup. Pages are chosen are a reason. While I don't see a need to delete articles when storage is not the limiting factor, the bias here is likely benevolent sexism. Some writers, projects and organ
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by meinersbur 3y ago
I just had to think about how ironic it would be if "Jia Tan" turned out to be a Post-Doc from the University of Minnesota continuing that research on hypocrite commits.
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by meinersbur 3y ago
One of the patches that the University of Minnesota was banned for from contributing to the Linux kernel. They were trying to introduce a use-after-free (Fig. 9 in their paper). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670
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by meinersbur 3y ago
https://archive.is/e9kFC
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by meinersbur 3y ago
The greater concern should be how many other sleeper contributors are out there. Anonymous contributions are accepted every day, and we know of cases with malicious intent such by "James Bond" ( https://lore.kernel.org&#
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by meinersbur 3y ago
Autotools are not backwards-compatible. Often only a specific version of autotools works. Only the generated configure is supposed to be portable. It's also not the distribution model for an Autotools project. Project distributions wou
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by meinersbur 3y ago
Kahneman's book was praised a lot, but I found it more questionable than useful. It has its good parts, like elaborating on System 1 and System 2, but my favorite concept was regression to the mean. It might by obvious in some cases, b
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by meinersbur 3y ago
In practical terms, if you assume that the internet backbone at the ISP's peering node is not saturated, you can also assume that the latency from the peering node to your destination is constant.
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by meinersbur 3y ago
> ⊞ Win + Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + Alt + L Opens Website LinkedIn > ⊞ Win + Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + Alt + Y Opens Website Yammer > ... Non-short shortcuts, but another example of how Microsoft uses its OS for things an OS should be neutral about.
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by meinersbur 3y ago
The changed the title, including the subtitle. Before: https://archive.ph/cZNYh Now: https://archive.ph/oYWK7
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by meinersbur 3y ago
Here is Fefe's blog entry about filing this bug: https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=bb5517a4 > Update: Here's the bug, and as you can see, the gcc guy who's to blame for the problem (he admits as much in the other p
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by meinersbur 3y ago
For textiles, but not print or computer screens. Also, it is a GSA guideline for use by US government agencies themselves only (along with quality standards when the federal government purchases things from private vendors such as chocolate
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by meinersbur 3y ago
The article uses the USA flag as an example of how to precisely specify a flag, but the USA is one of the countries which does NOT define its flag in any precise manner, to the point that different US agencies use different flags (Most noti
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by meinersbur 3y ago
libav was the fork [1], and libav is dead now [2,3] (and many developers returned to ffmpeg). libav was forced to rename their project because Fabrice Bellard, still owner of the trademark and the ffmpeg.org domain, did not hand it over. ff
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by meinersbur 3y ago
Do you mean the other way around? The manpage of find contains examples, including searching for files by name. This alone make the manpage somewhat usable for beginners. The grep manpage does not have any examples. The grep manpage spends
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by meinersbur 3y ago
It's not sponsorless. Nike and ebay are still featured.
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by meinersbur 3y ago
Thank you, I looked specifically whether this was discussed here already and found your reference.
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by meinersbur 4y ago
> Douglas: [...] It doesn’t look like it should be complicated. It’s just angle brackets, but the semantics of XML can be really complicated, and they assumed it was complicated for a reason. > Adam: [...] He also wanted people to use
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by meinersbur 4y ago
I abandoned my tile and am considering getting an iPhone just for AirTags. Tile is close to useless for tracking lost items [1] except when it's in you own home. Also, I am very annoyed they try to get you into a subscription model for
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by meinersbur 4y ago
Not at all. In LLVM-IR, all pointer were always allowed to alias each other, regardless of their type. Type-based no-alias information (as by the frontend language semantics) is added by metadata called TBAA [1]. [1] https://llvm
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by meinersbur 4y ago
It's not that unusual, especially in games. For instance,"The Witcher 2" version 3.3 [1], "Dota 2" version 7.32c [2], but also "Struts 2", version 6.0.3 [3]. Some others may be more considered a product na
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by meinersbur 4y ago
> Unfortunately, I have to inform you that Moore’s law isn’t a law of nature. It worked for conventional computers because those could be miniaturized. However, you can’t miniaturize ions or the Compton wavelength of electrons. They’re a
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by meinersbur 4y ago
Started with Fischertechnik as well. The "Computing" set came out before LEGO Mindstorms. The flowchart programming tool was called "Lucky Logic", but it could also be programmed in C. Here is how it looked like: https:
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by meinersbur 4y ago
Wikipedia only shows the 1939 Kiddicraft design. The 1947 design and LEGO resemble each other much more: https://youtu.be/iFELcl75CiY?t=239 The entire video is about how LEGO's only own innovation seems to be the tube
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by meinersbur 4y ago
4k on Netflix isn't worth the additional cost. Only Netfix' own productions are 4k, and the additional resolution is consumed by an excessive amount of artificial film grain.
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by meinersbur 4y ago
Can you provide some details? The state where I am living (Illinois) goes through hoops to ensure that everyone can get an ID card, such as it being free if you are homeless.
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by meinersbur 4y ago
Nothing surprising. Many (misbehaving) programs did check on every start whether they are still registered as startup program an just set the registry key again if not. So instead of removing the key when disabling it in Msconfig, Microsoft
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by meinersbur 4y ago
That's just another kind of latency. Additional time has still passed from you (or the enemy player) doing an action, and you seeing the results of that action on your screen. By contrast, the server rolling back the game state is indi
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by meinersbur 4y ago
My first contribution to a Rust codebase was < https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/commit/da2934fcc2ed2a4ae2... >. It is adding the -fminimize-whitespace flag to the preprocessor command when available (Ne

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