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by qb45 10y ago
On her desk :) Why does it matter to you to see this damn paper? It seems to me that the OP deliberately avoids naming concrete people and publishing whatever paper trail she has. Which is probably a good thing, after some known cases of on
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by qb45 10y ago
Yes, BASIC was all the rage, 30 years ago. Today everything is Web and Cloud. I liked computers because I could make them do things which were cool then. Now I would probably want to do things which are cool now. As long as the kid is fine
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by qb45 10y ago
> What are any of our membership credentials aside from being people who program? Haha, nice provocation. I'll try though: some people will say it's pwning boxes, others will say it's writing open source software (others s
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by qb45 10y ago
> Some people have both I don't think this particular combination is possible, for the record.
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by qb45 10y ago
> In order to be entryism, the speaker would have to be an outsider, right? It's a member of the community speaking up about the values they care about. Hmm, what are the author's membership credentials besides being in awe of
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by qb45 10y ago
The idea of Han unification doesn't seem right to me. Cyrillic alphabet for example got its own set of codes, even though some letters resemble Latin letters. But, even though those letters look the same, they sometimes sound different
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by qb45 10y ago
I think it is, considering that hackers traditionally tended to value hacking above certain other mundane, authority-governed pursuits, as noted by the OP, and now she wants them to care.
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by qb45 10y ago
Somewhat related: all things that have already been discovered will be subverted to reach utopia because those who enjoy discovery don't enjoy them anymore while utopia is a Big Thing™ which will be delivered Any Time Soon Now™, this t
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by qb45 10y ago
Hey, I didn't want to say that you were taking favors from the guy. I reacted to your defense of him here on HN - you initially described him as awkward and sexist but later said that he was just treating you fairly. If he was awkward
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by qb45 10y ago
> what am I even supposed to do? Extracting information from self-contradictory accounts is a bit of a black art, but this being said my guess is that he actually did something to deserve these labels just the OP isn't comfortable
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by qb45 10y ago
> What he did was not the point. But the way you talk about him totally is. You shouldn't defend people who give you undeserved favors at the cost of others, if this is what he did. And you absolutely shouldn't be surprised by
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by qb45 10y ago
Not sure, this seems to encourage hotplugging which can damage AT and PS/2 keyboards or motherboards. I think the real reason was: if (err) { puts(strerror(err)); puts("Press F1 to continue"); }
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by qb45 10y ago
You are being generous, the article is complete bullshit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A20_line And, of course, as pointed by sibling poster, the i8042 is on the motherboard, not in the keyboard.
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by qb45 10y ago
Probably it was a joke though one can imagine the size being configurable which surely would lead to interesting results if somebody sets it to 1 for some reason (like troubleshooting).
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by qb45 10y ago
Makes sense, thanks.
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by qb45 10y ago
> Using FFT to decompose someones speech, I'm getting peaks at 300Hz, 600Hz, 900Hz etc.. My crude understanding is that those are all related to one another, though I can't quite fathom why. This is not a quirk of FT but a resu
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by qb45 10y ago
And includes XFS implementation in just half KLOC, not bad at all ;)
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by qb45 10y ago
> some value I think you have answered your own question here :)
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by qb45 10y ago
Last time I heard NVIDIA had to divert some of their people to work on Tegra support in nouveau because their ARM customers want open drivers so I'm not sure if they are in position to laugh their asses off.
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by qb45 10y ago
Um, ok. I'm not up to date with the state of the art in Unix administration so is this some new Good Practice™ to have an account with unlimited sudo instead of a root password or just another instance of unrealistic interview question
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by qb45 10y ago
Only nano and mcedit zealots are allowed to joke about :wq. The first time I started emacs I had to kill -9 it :p
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by qb45 10y ago
> You can just type "set -o vi" in your shell I use the following instead, applies to bash and all other programs using readline. cat >>~/.inputrc <<EOF set editing-mode vi EOF
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by qb45 10y ago
WTF am I reading. What about su ?
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by qb45 10y ago
I doubt that this can be used for VM escape because it requires access to the physical LAPIC and afaik hypervisors wouldn't allow VMs to touch this. It also doesn't work from userspace so pretty much all you can do with it is hack
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by qb45 10y ago
That's somewhat hard to answer because I've been accumulating knowledge from many sources over many years, and it started with some dead-tree book from the '90s :) Maybe Agner's site, in particular his microarchitecture
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by qb45 10y ago
Not sure what to love here, it's a debug feature which, according to your source, Intel promised the US Mil to remove for some reasons but ultimately didn't. There certainly are undocumented debug facilities in modern CPUs. For on
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by qb45 10y ago
Annotated die photo of a single-core VIA Nano chip from some 10 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VIA_Isaiah_Architecture_d... As you can see, caches are merely half of the chip and half of the rest is abou
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by qb45 10y ago
> Were it not for the explosion of mobile phones, they'd stay in the "nice but expensive for the performance" niche. s/smartphones/smarteverything/ Reportedly only 1.5B phones have been sold in 2015, compare
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by qb45 10y ago
But it's only fair to compare Skylake with at most a dozen or two of 6502s because that's how many cores are included in the Intel chip.
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by qb45 10y ago
If you think it's easy to understand that some people believe in God while others don't you probably aren't curious enough :)

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