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by nneonneo 2y ago
FWIW, Hacker News itself appears to be blocked by the Great Firewall. Techies, of course, will have no problems getting through, but I’m genuinely confused as to why it’s banned in the first place…
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by nneonneo 2y ago
You might want to double check with objdump if the loop is actually vectorized, or if the compiler just optimizes it out. Your loop actually performs signed integer overflow, which is UB in C++; the compiler could legally output anything. I
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by nneonneo 2y ago
If they’re low-hanging fruit, why not do that before posting about it publicly? All that happens is that you push yourself into a nasty situation: people get a poor first impression of the system and are less likely to trust you the second
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by nneonneo 2y ago
gets() might be (mostly) gone, but scanf(“%s”, buf) still exists and produces no warnings or errors from the compiler.
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by nneonneo 2y ago
I have a bunch of USD-denominated stuff for which my brokerage doesn’t always issue complete tax slips for, so it required going over my statements to double check that everything was being accounted correctly. My wife’s (uncomplicated) tax
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by nneonneo 2y ago
I did my Canadian taxes for me and my spouse on a free filing site last night, in less than two hours, for $0. Everything was prefilled; practically the only thing I had to fix was to convert an imported investment statement from USD to CAD
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by nneonneo 2y ago
I mean, it’s not going to be 0/10 because smoking causes cancer. Cancer itself isn’t deterministic. This isn’t news. There is virtually nothing that is 100% guaranteed to produce cancer, but there are things that massively increase ris
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by nneonneo 3y ago
I'll bet good money that this gets turned into a timing attack soon - it's a prototypical address-dependent delay.
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by nneonneo 3y ago
There was some news story a while back which claimed that the receipt checking was for the benefit of the consumer, but no: it’s mainly loss prevention. See https://www.businessinsider.com/why-costco-workers-check-rec... fo
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by nneonneo 3y ago
A guarantee memorably parodied in the setting of Snow Crash.
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Check out the algae in question: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braarudosphaera_bigelowii It surrounds itself with twelve pentaliths, forming a perfect dodecahedron! This is such an incredibly cool organism.
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Sure, but there’s more than one answer listed. If the right answer isn’t clearly up to date, try a different one, or sort by recency if you want to see newer answers. And, if the accepted answer is hopelessly outdated, suggest an edit to ad
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by nneonneo 3y ago
As someone who was very active answering questions on SO, I can say that duplicate or low-quality questions were a pretty big issue on the site. It might be fun to answer “what does * do in a Python function call” once; it’s quite another t
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Every sizable manufacturer of floppy disks has exited the market. There are no more (major) suppliers for the tech. They’ve likely been depending on a dwindling supply of functional disks; if at some point they find themselves without enoug
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by nneonneo 3y ago
https://archive.ph/Thdh0
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Note that the association is for levels far higher than those used in drinking water. An updated meta-review ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99688-w ) also suggests an association between high fluoride intak
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Yes, but clearly an insurance company will go to the trouble of flying a plane around my house. Whether it’s manned or unmanned is immaterial - I wouldn’t want them to do it.
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by nneonneo 3y ago
I would definitely mind if the police were following me personally in an airplane…
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Had a rental car once where the parking brake was essentially nonfunctional - the brake itself was hidden down next to one of the pedals (instead of by the center console) and it was clear that many people had simply attempted to drive off
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by nneonneo 3y ago
In the case of vaccine cards, which the OP uses as the case study, it's better to have the entire card offline for both privacy and offline use purposes.
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by nneonneo 3y ago
https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js/pull/624 has a bit more information - looks like this is just updating an internal parameter (maybe to match what the real client does)
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by nneonneo 3y ago
So, please don't make (or invite) comparisons to Rust if you know you aren't there yet. Not everyone will agree that you are just making such a comparison "tongue-in-cheek". "Safer than Rust" is an extremely hi
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37536186
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Xr0 makes a "limited subset of C89" as safe as Rust, after adding cumbersome function annotations to every function and limiting the types of allocation patterns that can be used. (Also: "Buffer overflows/underflows&quot
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Figure 33's hexdump and Figure 35's binwalk output look suspicious to me. The hexdump is too sparse - lots of zero bits but no long runs of 0x00, consistent 0x00, 0x01 or 0x10 in odd-numbered positions, etc. It might be valid, or
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Please provide a raw .pcap file! There's a lot of information missing from the screenshot.
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Agreed - this is a great type of question. Being able to dive into a new codebase and read code at speed is a critical skill. Even when working on "the same old codebase", sometimes you run into weird corner cases that have you
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by nneonneo 3y ago
1. Do assholish things that make people want to flock to Apple 2. Give Apple such a high market share that they get sued for monopolistic practices 3. ??? 4. Profit
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by nneonneo 3y ago
This is generally called code golf, and there’s a whole forum for it: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ I think once you try to get something small enough the code will naturally tend towards obfuscation.
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by nneonneo 3y ago
FWIW, class loading isn't necessary for log4j to be bad - unchecked Java deserialization is sufficient for pretty bad pwnage. So we really should add "no unchecked deserialization" to the list of things that a safe language s

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