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by yew 13y ago
Common Lisp's condition/restart system is very nice. It solves the context problem, which (at least in my experience) is the biggest problem with exceptions in day-to-day programming. CL's dedication to the debugger also grea
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by yew 13y ago
The problem with exceptions (in certain contexts, of course) is precisely these assumptions. Changes in low-level routines can change what your function is able to handle. Sometimes "just let it crash" isn't an option, peri
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by yew 13y ago
The OOM killer is more likely to kill some other process and trash your server. Thankfully that sort of behavior has been vastly reduced since the thing was introduced, but disabling overcommit for high-reliability applications is still a
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by yew 13y ago
Skepticism and rooting for failure are not the same thing. There are plenty of people here and elsewhere who are mindlessly critical of everything, but not all the critics fall into that category. The greatest challenge for radically transf
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by yew 13y ago
The gap between 'Joe Chucklefuck' and the lead developer for glibc is wide enough to fit a whole lot of people who can triage a bug without necessarily being skilled (or interested) enough to submit patches. I think describing the
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by yew 13y ago
The simplest solution (from the implementor's perspective) is probably to leave it to the user to reassign one. Allowing multiple-letter specifiers helps here. Coming from a C perspective, that's what I would prefer. You could wor
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by yew 13y ago
I've always felt that the 'right' solution was to emulate glibc and provide facilities for registering new format specifiers[1]. Then libraries could provide specifiers for everything that made sense and users could pick and
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by yew 13y ago
I'm well aware of the mechanics, thank you. The state has already satisfied itself sufficiently to reverse a murder conviction. If the investigation that led to that course of action was causally descended from an article written by a
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by yew 13y ago
. . . I don't recall mentioning journalists? I also wasn't aware that journalists could unilaterally free convicted felons. I think the state's own findings are quite sufficient. The trick is to incentivize their use without
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by yew 13y ago
You can't have official legal "findings" until you institute a law suit . . . You can have official legal findings whenever the system says you can have official legal findings. One option would be to close the loop and hav
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by yew 13y ago
I'm not disagreeing with your observation - just making one of my own. I happen to think they're mutually informative.
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by yew 13y ago
In a coldly rational sense, the shape of the legal system contributes to the cultural context that informs the future actions of the courts and their apparatus. True, if primary cause isn't challenged the legal system doesn't cons
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by yew 13y ago
Minor correction: The article says that the JBIG2 patch size might be the size of the scanned text. JBIG2 actually has the capability to detect regions of text and compress them using a specialized technique that operates on individual symb
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by yew 13y ago
Sure. My point is there's no guarantee the attacker will be able to compromise the TPM or BIOS just because they can compromise the disk controller. I'd bet most systems see different disk controllers more often than they see di
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by yew 13y ago
Ought you? Those are all different bits of hardware. One being subverted doesn't mean the others are - if nothing else, the attacker isn't likely to have a vulnerability for every combination of firmware and chip. This sort of att
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by yew 13y ago
G forces are less problematic when launching bulk materials (fuel, air, water, foodstuffs, metals - as I see the project proposal suggests). If you're 'catching' the payload at the other end, you can make the launch vehicle v
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by yew 13y ago
It is not philosophical, it is routine everyday choice every one of us make. There is no answer that's not philosophical. Refusing to quantify your philosophy is philosophical. It amounts to asserting that taking a position is wrong
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by yew 13y ago
Any details on routing protocol? Identification, uniqueness guarantees, route discovery? The dev wiki has what's described as a proposal - is that actually in use, or something for future development? Providing mesh networking in a use
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by yew 13y ago
Some people do, of course, believe that the TSA has literally never caught a weapon. Some people also believe that the TSA is secretly protecting us from the lizard-men from Mars. It is fairly easy (even here) to find someone on most any si
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by yew 13y ago
What looks like a related paper can be found here: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/494.pdf (I don't see this linked in the repo.)
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by yew 13y ago
If this turns out to actually become an issue, it would probably harm Microsoft more than anyone . . . It would probably harm Microsoft eventually . It would harm whoever gets turned into a legal test case immediately - which is the
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by yew 13y ago
For anyone who's played 'Thomas Was Alone', On my system (running Linux) whenever the game starts playing a new song it keeps playing the previous song too. The longer I play the louder it gets - eventually it's impossible to hear the narra
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by yew 13y ago
The theory was that this was protected as free speech. There's a very strong precedent for the courts protecting arbitrary printed text. It's difficult to say one way or the other whether it would have held up in the long run because the go
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by yew 13y ago
An interesting email on the actual scanning process is available here: http://www.pl.pgpi.org/files/pgp55scan.txt There's a link to the same content on the main page, but it seems to be broken.
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The PGPi scanning project(pgpi.org)
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by yew 13y ago
I agree. I'm quite happy with the current freight rail system, though I'd enjoy more passenger rail for mostly aesthetic reasons. I don't think that's a good reason to be too disruptive towards the freight industry.
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by yew 13y ago
Not at my primary computer at the moment, so can't check this. That's not the case as far as I'm aware - but I'm not an Amtrak expert. A citation (the Wikipedia article doesn't provide one) would be nice. [EDIT] Looking around, it seems tha
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by yew 13y ago
Trains didn't die as an industry. Actually the US has an exceedingly good (privately-owned) freight rail system, compared to the rest of the world (assuming you're talking about the US from the Amtrak reference). What did happen is that
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by yew 13y ago
Don't do that in your .bash_profile unless you run login shells on all of your terminals! Setting HISTFILE propagates that setting to child shells - unsetting HISFILE does not.
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by yew 13y ago
The biggest strike against the Moon is gravity - its gravity well is deep enough to make rocketry expensive, even if nowhere near as expensive as on Earth. Even very large asteroids are mostly much less massive than the Moon. For the same r

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