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by zde 8y ago
> But since they both used the same program to generate random prime numbers, there’s a higher-than-random chance that their public keys share a prime factor BS
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by zde 8y ago
Knuth's DLX
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by zde 8y ago
> The Combi has a cruising range of 350 kilometers and can go from 0 to 100 kilometers in roughly 6 seconds, so says the company. That's Mach 48.59!
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by zde 8y ago
A message format that requires parser to understand both UTF8 and UTF16, cool!
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by zde 8y ago
Single pass compiler with back-patching. No intermediate code representation, very simple optimizer (just constant folding and dead code removal). C Preprocessor integrated with parser code. Back-end generates instruction opcodes instead of
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by zde 8y ago
Increasing system's entropy is bad, bad, bad! There's no way back, you know?
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by zde 8y ago
“The aspiration is to have a working power plant in time to combat climate change." Let's combat global warming by producing even more heat, converting 40% of it to electricity.
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by zde 9y ago
To understand DNS, you must first understand DNS.
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by zde 9y ago
s/annoying/attacking/
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by zde 9y ago
Reminds me of dieselgate. "Our product is ok unless operated out of spec" didn't work, iirc.
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by zde 9y ago
Loved the part that explains how to prevent your servers from being hacked. You must "defend it" with energy drinks.
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by zde 9y ago
Sadly, they miss the important ones. http://noname.c64.org/tracker/manual_online.php
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by zde 9y ago
It is common, and you will probably get 2 or 3 counteroffers, but (unless you bluffed) none will make you stay.
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by zde 9y ago
Guido said in some interview they used tagged pointers in some project before Python, and it didn't work well. Apparently there is some benefit in "value is always a reference" (less code paths?) that outweights somewhat larg
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by zde 9y ago
That's not weird but pretty common knowledge. IIRC 1-char strings are interned too.
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by zde 9y ago
> When the server is done processing a request, the allocator goes out of scope and all memory allocated for that request is deallocated. Forking servers, reinvented.
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by zde 9y ago
Python startup latency is horrible, and unfixable. It got much worse in python3 because it loads much more modules (think of all the unicode crap).
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by zde 9y ago
String.intern() would suck much less if strings had an "IS_INTERNED" flag which would prevent hashtable lookups for already interned strings. Really sad given the insane overhead Java strings have.
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by zde 9y ago
Beware: Wikileaks are Russian. She said so.
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by zde 9y ago
Likely not, managed code tends to avoid nulls. They are problem in the return path though.
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by zde 9y ago
In the time frame spent to test these hacks I would have written a perfect C module that runs circles around it.
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by zde 10y ago
Could you elaborate? The Wiki page does not seem to mention any other case of radiation poisoning.
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by zde 10y ago
That's not how state actors kill people.
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by zde 10y ago
Surprised nobody mentioned the "Python unicide" http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/
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by zde 10y ago
> had to cheat to pass inspection What, VW bribed the comission? FBI should arrest them too..
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by zde 10y ago
It's some time since I read the details but I remember that lots of people agreed it was not the actual usage, which btw made detecting it so easy. The acceleration was unrealistically long and slow, for example.
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by zde 10y ago
> separate problem Nope. When doing business, the only thing that counts is formal, verifiable spec. Crying "You have cheated since I wanted somehing else" should be irrelevant in any country that honors rule of law. > speci
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by zde 10y ago
> Your statement would be true if test performance varied from real-world performance due to environmental factors, but that's not the case. ..or due to engine temperature, speed, gear, gas pedal position and tons of other variables
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by zde 10y ago
It seems that the main difference between law evasion (which is illegal) and law avoidance (which is legal) is that evasion is concealed. https://www.crunch.co.uk/blog/startup-advice/2015/05/20/tax-.
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by zde 10y ago
/sarc?

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