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1. 511.▲
   by poizan42 11y ago

   Maybe, but the step away from assembly has been more about portability than avoiding the language.
2. 512.▲
   by poizan42 11y ago

   JavaScript may very well have the doubtful honor of being the language that people have spent most resources to avoid writing in.
3. 513.▲
   by poizan42 11y ago

   "Legacy" is as much said. It still forms the basis interface that is used by WDF. Also you still need to use the WDM directly if you are writing a filesystem driver. Besides that, the WDF source is available under a MIT license, s
4. 514.▲
   by poizan42 11y ago

   I meant it's written in C++[0]. The interface is exported through standard C functions, but the header files also have the declarations guarded with "extern "C"". Microsoft do have some sample drivers that are writt
5. 515.▲
   by poizan42 11y ago

   This is not at all true. Microsoft has recommended for a long time that new drivers use WDF which is a C++ library
6. 516.▲
   by poizan42 11y ago

   And a perfect way to feed the conspiracy nuts.
7. 517.▲
   by poizan42 11y ago

   Unfortunately it seems that it won't install if you are running as a domain user: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfZhLruXEAEp56x.jpg:large It works if I try as a local user on the same machine. Also Windows Store oth
8. 518.▲
   by poizan42 11y ago

   How does this new fork differ from the already existing NtCreateProcess with a NULL section handle that was used to implement fork in the old SUA/POSIX subsystem?
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   by poizan42 11y ago

   FFI is a bad model for long term sleep deprivation since massive neuronal loss is also involved.
10. 520.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    If you are reading RFC2616 closely enough then you'll see that you don't really need to implement anything more complicated than what is in 1.0. E.g it technically requires you to support Keep-Alive, but it also states that the se
11. 521.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    You can just increase the length of the suffix since that is equivalent to talking about the last digit in a power-of-two base. E.g. if the prime ends in 11 in binary then the following prime is less likely to end in 11, since this is equiv
12. 522.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    That's a really good example of a side-channel attack
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    by poizan42 11y ago

    Reference counts are best done using interlocked increment/decrement primitives.
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    Show HN: Windbg extension for debugging 64-bit dumps of 32-bit .NET processes(github.com)

    7 points by poizan42 11y ago|0 comments
15. 525.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    The Internet Archive is absolutely fearless when it comes to risk of litigation for copyright infringement. One could fear that it will be their dead.
16. 526.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    Is it even op to the font to decide this? It seems that there's some confusion about whether it should combine with the previous or the following character.
17. 527.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    Something seems to be wrong with how Chrome renders this: http://imgur.com/a/z1tLz
18. 528.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    Why are people giving this word so much flak? Yes it's a neologism, but it's a useful one. A decompiler is a compiler to, it just goes from a low level language to a high level one. Do you suggest that we stop using the word decom
19. 529.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    For x86, sure. For other architectures you end up with larger code size for unaligned access, so it also becomes a tradeof between code/instruction and data cache usage.
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    by poizan42 11y ago

    Also Naur did have a good deal of the responsibility for getting support for recursion into Algol 60: https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-... Just think how the programming language la
21. 531.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    There's some very big ifs in that. We really have no idea what sort of breakthroughs might happen the next 125 years
22. 532.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    > reversible randomness Yeah, we have a word for that: encryption
23. 533.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    Yeah, I think I (as well as other users) got confused by it being "unclassified in 2011" as the title said previously.
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    by poizan42 11y ago

    This was published in JACM Volume 12, 1965: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=321264.321274 . So for it to be unclassified it would have to somehow have been classified after being publicy published.
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    by poizan42 11y ago

    > why was this classified?? It wasn't, it isn't clear to me what it even has to do with NSA. It was published in Journal of the ACM, Volume 12, 1965: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=321264.321274 . Actually
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    by poizan42 11y ago

    How does this go along with ISPs being classified as common carriers? Are they actually allowed to modify the data they are carrying?
27. 537.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    Yes Windows has allowed this since at least NT 4.0 with the \\?\ prefix. But the .NET filesystem apis didn't allow you to use the prefix.
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    by poizan42 11y ago

    But why does the malware need curl in the first place? It seems perfectly capable of downloading things without. And it's running on windows where it's guarenteed to have a http library available anyways.
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    by poizan42 11y ago

    I'm not sure I follow? The point here was to show that a language can't represent the decimal fractions exactly.
30. 540.▲
    by poizan42 11y ago

    Just say (0.1+0.2)*10-3. That works everywhere no matter the amount of rounding.