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If you want to know what the state of computing was when you were born, visit the computer history museum timeline. For 1968, it was the year of the Apollo guidance computer, Kubrick’s 2001, Dijkstra’s “goto considered harmful” and “the mot
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One other thing is, many of you could write something like a mouse driver in a weekend. That is not enough for the business however. The UI needs to be Electron based for easy maintenance, and you need to add telemetry, because how else wil
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IIRC They have bought some but they were hesitant to depend on what was then unproven technology. Intel thought they could achieve smaller chips using the previous generation’s technology.
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Oh, somebody made it up. It’s just not proven that he was the one who made it up. It could be someone at the insurance company, or some student paid to type it in. Less likely perhaps, but not impossible.
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Great article!
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Small criticism: the histogram from the UK DoT uses varying size buckets, that makes the data look like a normal distribution. The histogram from the dataset is plotted with constant size buckets. It does not affect the conclusion though.
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DNA animations by wehi.tv for Science-Art exhibition (2018)(youtube.com)
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It won’t. I was thinking more about backend components where you allocate a fixed per request memory budget. It would work best if you could apply the budget per in-flight request. In case a request goes over budget, only the affected (pre
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Why not budget how much memory your rust component needs, and allocate a pool ahead of time? This is how it’s sometimes done in embedded systems. It depends on what your rust code does of course, but if it’s runtime memory use depends on un
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And I think that is the right way to think about it. I think people stay on 0 because they think they have to implement all ideas and edgecases before it you can call it 1.0. You can also get stuck on 1.x releases in the same way (notably J
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There’s two sides to that coin. In visual studio, most of the time you don’t need to bother to see what’s under the hood, and you can focus on feature development. In that way, their ignorance can be a good sign. The flip side is when your
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Ok, will rewatch, thanks.
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When was that then? I saw the spin animation, she did not refer to it then … although I was baking cookies at the same time so I might have missed a remark here or there.
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I recall from quantum physics classes a long time ago that some elementary particles are not identical to themselves 360 degrees rotated. You need a 720 rotation for that. I recently learned that quaternions have that same property. Would t
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It has always sounded like wishful thinking to me, especially since server developers switched to macs (pretty and unix on the inside).
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According to wikipedia, they have been around since early pleistocene, about 2 million years ago. So their contribution has been part of a sustainable equilibrium for that long.
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Now the question is: why did he think it was acceptable to disembark? The report says this was an experienced engineer with a clean record. If it had worked, he probably expected he would get away with it. That’s the real problem.
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Given that apk’s, and office docs are zip files, the ambiguities might be used as an attack vector. You might be able to construct a file that looks different when it is audited versus when it is used/run, due to differences in the zip
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If you have an hour to spare and are interested in what quantum computers might be good for in the long run, I recommend this interview(podcast, Sean Carrol’s Mindscape): https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/202
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Masquerade: A cryptic children’s book, a treasure hunt, and a mysterious winner(thisiscriminal.com)
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The vast majority of replacement valves implanted today also use animal tissue (bovine and pig). They are much more similar to the original valves than metal replacements.
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It should be at least as profitable (per hour) to find and fix kernel out of bound writes as writing full exploits. The risk is you’re doing legwork for bad actors. Of course the exploit is published after the fix, but not all devices are f
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I liked your page. I might even use it!
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Interesting point, but a better post about compilers exploiting this type of ub is ryg’s: https://gist.github.com/rygorous/e0f055bfb74e3d5f0af20690759...
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Hey Google, if you’re still into this, how about disabling autosuggest and autoplay for anyone on youtube?
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Yeah tools like linters (or strict compiler warning rules) can cause a lot of distraction. Sometimes the rules are dictated, with no possibility for appeal. Sometimes people don’t dare to to be that guy who suggests to dial down on quality.
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They were apparrantly working on a patch. The interesting question is whether they had reason to assume the software was compromised. If so, they should have informed their customers.
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Kaseya was tipped by white hats of vulnerability in advance(bleepingcomputer.com)
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Yeah looks like I was confusing “software rot” and “bit rot”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot
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I am used to ‘bit rot’ refer to code becoming obsolete due to lack of maintenance. Can’t we use another term for actual hardware errors?

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