oblong

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by oblong 8y ago
Nooooooooooo...
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by oblong 8y ago
> It's only broken when the left hand side is not safe to evaluate more than once. The brakes on my car aren't broken most of the time, it's only when I push down on the pedal!
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by oblong 8y ago
> "side effects" A side effect would be like submitting an order for am Amazon Echo by mistake. This is a bug, a serious bug, that leads to variables being assigned the wrong value.
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by oblong 8y ago
Steve Ballmer is jumping up and down screaming "developers!" somewhere right now.
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by oblong 8y ago
I guess something has to move packets from interface A to interface B.
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by oblong 8y ago
You know you can get back that behavior through accessible settings?
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by oblong 8y ago
> could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes They prefer inaccurate drone strikes that kill innocents?
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by oblong 8y ago
It's hard to use the internet or live without a web browser, I suspect most people get along just fine without letting a startup with a cool name scrape their browsing history.
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by oblong 8y ago
> install the company’s browser extension which collects their browsing history Yeah I think I'll pass thanks. What person would install such a thing?
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by oblong 8y ago
Wait...so is this about having an ssd on the memory bus...or non-volatile paged memory?
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by oblong 8y ago
What saves the page table between reboots...the OS must have specific support for this surely...?
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by oblong 8y ago
> This UB was leading to disclosure of little bits of kernel memory back into user mode because Windows engineers assumed that = { 0 } was the same as leaving the variable uninitialized and then memsetting the whole thing to zero But wha