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91.
by zgs 4y ago
Seriously, good.
92.
by zgs 5y ago
Personally, I have little doubt that there is misinformation coming from both sides. My local media is only demonising one side of the conflict which makes for a good narrative but seems unlikely. This definitely doesn't make either
93.
by zgs 5y ago
Remove malloc from your libc and catch this entire family of problems at link time.
94.
by zgs 5y ago
and brokenness :)
95.
by zgs 5y ago
The skills needed to write good crypto are different to those needed to use it. There is some overlap of course, but less than is implicated here. Probably the best advice for using crypto is to use algorithms for what they were intended.
96.
by zgs 5y ago
They are completely different and are meant for very different things...
97.
by zgs 5y ago
NATO has a vested interest in increasing the number of casualties. Russia has a vested interest in decreasing the number of casualties. We will only know the truth years after the event (if ever).
98.
by zgs 5y ago
I used to work for a company that made VPN routers for one of the largest pump producers. I wasn't aware of any vulnerabilities in our part of the solution. Which doesn't mean there weren't any of course. Still there is a l
99.
by zgs 5y ago
He a delusional media whore. He'd need to buy the Ukraine before he could offer it up as a prize. This isn't going to happen I'd give him maybe sixty to ninety seconds against Putin before he was dead -- you don't get a
100.
by zgs 5y ago
The first thing that stuck me was distinguishing the `SSO' part of the union from the rest. It requires the `ssolen' field to align to the later `type' field which isn't guaranteed. There might also be issues with the `
101.
by zgs 5y ago
The implementation isn't endian friendly :(
102.
by zgs 5y ago
I remember seeing a paper that concluded the expansion should not be more than the golden ratio (ϕ = 1.618033988749). Given how widespread the golden ratio, I'd hypothesise that it's probably optimal. The first three fractions ap
103.
by zgs 5y ago
Wordle is a spam engine. The game isn't that difficult -- it's been solved by several folks and it can always be won. The "share" button is the spam engine. If you play to enjoy it and don't press "share&quot
104.
by zgs 5y ago
Until the fine is based on percentage of revenue or something that hurts the company, it will be ignored. Trivial amounts like this are irrelevant to a company as large as Apple. They are just a cost of doing business.
105.
by zgs 5y ago
The HP 35 calculator was introduced in 1972. The early models aren't quite fifty years old yet, but will be later this year. Many (most?) of these still work just fine from the mains adaptor or once you replace the batteries.
106.
by zgs 5y ago
Do *not* implement your own cryptography. There are a lot of nuances. This is a very dangerous article. The basic RSA algorithm is quite simple to implement, although the most difficult part isn't done in this article -- multi-precis
107.
by zgs 5y ago
After society collapses, how much will silver be worth? It's not useful for a lot apart from decoration. Food, clean water sources, construction metals, tools, etc will be far more useful.
108.
by zgs 5y ago
The one I've got I suspect :)
109.
by zgs 5y ago
Video conferencing.
110.
by zgs 5y ago
No mention of Smalltalk that did something quite similar a little earlier.
111.
by zgs 5y ago
Nothing to see here, move along. 2's complement is negative biassed. 1's complement (unmentioned in the article) is zero biassed. Neither surprise me. Seriously, who cares? Very few of us. I'm one but this isn't a prob
112.
by zgs 5y ago
Over the years I've worked in many different places both small and huge -- only two considered code quality as even remotely important. One being an open source project and the other was very heavily involved in open source. All com
113.
by zgs 5y ago
I solved this problem in a more general way for no-MMU uClinux on the m68k/ColdFire processors back in the early 2Ks.
114.
by zgs 5y ago
Assembly is faster and safer than rust. Rust is a fad it will fad.
115.
by zgs 5y ago
Encrypt at your end using modern strong algorithms, then it doesn't matter when the data are stolen. The data will be stolen, that's guaranteed.
116.
by zgs 5y ago
I couldn't see it. I could describe a dog.
117.
by zgs 5y ago
A difference between the fused instruction and the two separate ones is expected. The fused instruction is designed to avoid a rounding step between the multiplication and add. The article makes no mention if the fused instruction is produ
118.
by zgs 5y ago
I've never had any objection to a probation period. However, I'd never enter one that was asymmetric or with reduced pay.
119.
by zgs 5y ago
The proposed solution is crazy. Logarithms are extremely expensive to compute. No way is this code more efficient than the loop it "replaced". That there then are numeric stability issues and a pretty gross fudge factor is used
120.
by zgs 6y ago
Seriously, a waste of time_t: #include <time.h> #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { while (time(NULL) > 0) putchar('9'); putchar('\n'); return 0; }

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