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by rst 3y ago
The RAII/ref-counting technique often works great, but not always. Cyclic structures are a problem -- so, if you've got, say, a global tree structure with bidirectional parent/child links, you'll need some kind of speci
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by rst 3y ago
Boeing's Starliner is now expected to have a crewed flight test in April (after two shaky uncrewed test flights, the first nearly disastrous). Of course, by the standards being applied to SpaceX here, that could be described as "
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by rst 3y ago
Upgraded versions of the even older 737 are competing with the neos just fine, if you go by sales placements.
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by rst 3y ago
Those are the 767 tankers I mentioned -- the KC-46A is a modified 767.
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by rst 3y ago
It was Meta that released llama -- a move which Harris specifically cites as irresponsible and dangerous. So he's certainly not writing in support of them -- rather the opposite. There are plenty of reasons to disagree (Steve Bannon&#
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by rst 3y ago
Well, looking at another part of the organization distant enough that top management (the C-suite) is pretty much all they have in common: They had massive quality problems on their space capsule (Starliner). (They launched the first te
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by rst 3y ago
Likewise the 757, which current Boeing management scrapped when market trends were against it, but is now the plane they want -- so instead they're trying to cheap out with 737 retreads.
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by rst 3y ago
DDoS-for-hire services exist. They don't have to build their own.
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by rst 3y ago
"Nobody was willing to solve" is a bit of a stretch when upstart got shipped at pretty much the same time. (Sponsored by the commercial home of a particular Linux distribution -- but so was systemd.)
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by rst 3y ago
It's easy to construct inputs for which the correct solution would not be the LCM of the cycle lengths. (Just take the input you got, and insert a few extra steps between the "start" point for one of the "ghosts"
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by rst 3y ago
Apple's mitigation was in fact to alter boot-configured memory mappings to deny access. (And as to the mappings... if they were in the middle of a range of documented registers, or close to one, sloppiness and poor internal communicat
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by rst 3y ago
Being able to put together tooling with these capabilities makes the attacker an APT by definition. These are generally assumed to be national intelligence services, though that is an assumption. (Among other things, there are multiple co
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by rst 3y ago
... which, in a weird bit of back-to-the-future, is exactly how Grace Hopper's original "compilers" worked, compiling (hence the term) patched versions of hand-built stencils. (The first few, A-0 and immediate successors, ha
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by rst 3y ago
The guy's boxes were confiscated by the FBI, which was why he'd been forced onto cloud storage.
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by rst 3y ago
The second stages are still single-use only, and they're still occasionally building a first stage, if only to be sure they don't lose the capacity. (They're less public about engine replacements, but those are still probabl
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by rst 3y ago
To Fred Saberhagen's Berserker stories -- about interstellar war machines which exterminated their creators, and then kept on exterminating all other life whenever they could find it. "Goodlife" is the Berserkers' term
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by rst 3y ago
The planned nominal trajectory for the first flight (and, I presume, this one as well) set Starship up for re-entry without a deorbit burn, so they're not planning to properly enter orbit at all. This is to avoid the prospect of an
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by rst 3y ago
Nontrivial amounts of the source are PDP-11 assembly -- a lot of it in the kernel, but also bits of userland.
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by rst 3y ago
This omits a bunch of others -- WYLBUR supported interactive program development on IBM mainframes at several universities, for example. (The "large scale" qualifier here is also a little bit dubious -- it seems to be a way of sa
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by rst 3y ago
AT&T sold its Unix-related IP to Novell, which then relicensed some of it to SCO. Whether Novell transferred enough to provide a basis for the lawsuits is itself a question that was argued in court -- and ultimately not decided in SC
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by rst 3y ago
As a practical example -- it's pretty common for companies to delegate email to a provider like Gmail. Some infosec folks consider this best practice, and Google will allow you to configure DMARC to say that only messages originating
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by rst 3y ago
As a practical matter, you also have to include the floating point chips -- each attached to a 32-bit slice of that data path with a custom glue chip (the "SPRINT chip", which also allowed a form of indirect addressing); this hard
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by rst 3y ago
This doesn't seem to have been a hoverslam, though -- the probe was hovering at, I think, 150 meters for quite some time, and then maintained a steady and slow rate of descent while still under power.
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by rst 3y ago
It depends on what you're using it for, and whether it competes with anything Hashicorp does -- or might do in the future. If you can guarantee that's "none", you're in the clear. But as the man said, prediction i
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by rst 3y ago
Most of Jules Verne's work was unambiguously Science Fiction in the modern sense, including books that were hugely popular in English translation (e.g., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, with its "electric" submarine) -- and this
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by rst 3y ago
What I take to be the TOS for Google Meet (it's a little hard to tell!) makes no specific reference to AI, but does mention use of customer data for "developing new technologies and services" more generally. https:/&#x2
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by rst 3y ago
More specifically, the article assumes that the only way "AI"s will ever be produced is the way that LLMs are -- by being trained off pre-existing human generated media, and existing as static objects after that. In particular,
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by rst 3y ago
Or a second referendum held once the terms of the actual withdrawal deal were known, and fell far short of the Leave campaign's promises of, in effect, retaining all the benefits of membership. The EU was still declaring at that point
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by rst 3y ago
Blue Origin is another company that talks a good game, but they've yet to put anything in orbit. If NASA is casting about for a second supplier, there were other rejected bidders on the current human space transport contracts (e.g., S
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by rst 3y ago
But if they know there was a malicious update, being distributed through infrastructure they control, why not immediately block it altogether? (The notion that they have an explicit list of every, say, bank, stockbroker, crypto exchange, e

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