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wyldfire
4y ago
> However unlike Linux, I could find no official statement of support so do not assume this will always be the case. TBI is used by memory tagging extension (MTE; primary ingredient to "HWASAN"). I'd be pretty surprised if
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wyldfire
4y ago
Another option for dynamic bounds checking on heap allocations is Electric Fence or scudo. It probably wouldn't find that issue with pop_front() though.
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wyldfire
4y ago
From https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_macros... > Undefined by default. When defined, compiles user code using the debug mode. "user code" here seems to indicate it's sa
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4y ago
It looks like the website does show a "through the lens" still photo as a part of a chat/endorsement bottom left hand side of the front page. "yeah super excited that our devkit has launched. here's me testing rep
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4y ago
> a 15-pin VGA socket that I use regularly I'm very relieved that the XPS13 series does not include a VGA header. That would have been a huge design error on their part. This particular need of yours does not match the market need
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4y ago
I don't doubt that everyone else in this thread has had reliability problems. But as a counterpoint, I'm on my third xps13 laptop and all three have worked really well. Maybe I just got lucky.
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4y ago
Deactivate the propulsion before peeing. Maybe even drop anchor? If you fall overboard you could probably get back onboard.
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4y ago
> rather than colonizing the rest of the world like every superpower before it. I guess the colonialism has eased up in the last half-century or so. But the US definitely did our fair share. EDIT maybe my fellow USians don't see th
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4y ago
Saturation might have worked, actually. > the main computer interprets the data as real navigation data and considers it as an indication that the rocket is wildly off-course Not clear what sort of magnitudes we are talking about but sat
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4y ago
At least for open source projects, there's SOS [1]. More great rewards available there. [1] https://sos.dev/
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4y ago
Oh phew I thought they'd changed the card backs. That would be a big change - a strong partition between new and old. I really like that they've kept it as-is.
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wyldfire
4y ago
Probably useful for Amazon to leverage: * similar subsidies that Intel benefits from * public resources that Intel benefits from * population/education/employees/housing that Intel draws to work there
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4y ago
From Google's point of view they likely believe that a microkernel could more easily be secured than a monolithic kernel. Also, it's probably great [from their point of view] to have control over their OS and its "community&
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wyldfire
4y ago
> why isn't every App Store's 30% developer fee a much more obvious monopoly? It is also a monopoly. [1] [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/will-appl...
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4y ago
Once I started playing around with different system clocks and understanding their design, I realized that there's a lot of opportunity with bugs when writing system software related to clocks. One interesting bug that I have made mys
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4y ago
> Prepare for “route around the damage” moment where districts are going to start requiring teachers to get media specialist certified just to avoid the legal headache. If the certificate is a prerequisite for all teachers to get jobs th
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4y ago
That is weird. I guess we can agree to that principle but do we need to be draconian about it? Do we need laws to make teachers focus on curriculum? Didn't you ever read a book that wasn't prescribed by the curriculum?
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wyldfire
4y ago
With "conceive" (when used as a transitive verb), the subject is the parent(s) and the object is the child. There's potential for confusion because of some ambiguity but the only reading that makes sense in the context is th
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wyldfire
4y ago
Any discussion of "state machines" is not complete without a mention of Statecharts (or Harel Statecharts) [1] [2] [3]. The hierarchy and triggered actions are a really excellent way of representing a state machine. [1] https:&#
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4y ago
> I believed enabling checking globally on a program full of unrelated memory issues would be too noisy to be of use. I generally think that all the issues ASan reports are worth fixing. And for a mature program that's had many kin
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4y ago
No - the linker is there to resolve references among sections and can do so without PLT/GOT indirection when creating things like static archives. There may be a code size cost in some architectures - that since the call destination ca
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4y ago
The assembler laid out the code within the sections and generally it's not changed after that (except for targets that do linker relaxation). However with -ffunction-sections the compiler would put each function in its own section whic
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4y ago
Of course - this principle is an excellent one and applies to very many areas of government. But there are exceptions and I'd argue that many/most of the exceptions are good things. Exceptions include: * voting records - many&#
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4y ago
In order to have the safe language I believe you would need to decompose the code shown here in show_smaps_rollup(). If the null deref occurred in the unsafe portion it would likely still do an oops. If the null deref occurred in the safe
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4y ago
I always assumed that the disclosure rules for publicly traded companies would require them not to give anyone notice in advance of the public.
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I have not quite stayed tuned in to all the chatGPT comings-and-goings. But examples like this are just stunning. This is just the most incredible cognition "act" ever. It's impressive not just because it's convincing
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4y ago
Just pass it when you invoke it. cmake -G'Unix Makefiles' -S $SRC_DIR -B $BUILD_DIR cmake --build $BUILD_DIR -- --shuffle
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wyldfire
4y ago
Speculating - what if we only consider craft piloting errors? That would rule out many fatalities - Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia.
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> autopilot starts braking even slightly and it shouldn't, I immediately take control I think this is the thing that makes the most sense. But if I were to bend over backwards giving the benefit of the doubt - is it possible the dri
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4y ago
> Why, I don't know a single person who has it! Yeah ... he had it! In his glory days he would talk proudly about Jonas Salk but after decades of watching the Two Minutes Hate he may not be such a big fan anymore.
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