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by zlynx 9y ago
If the URL is "on the wire" it had better be 7-bit ASCII. Actually even more restrictive than that. Because that's the spec. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 In user interaction with a browser or wher
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by zlynx 9y ago
In this case the CPU does function exactly as designed. Any correctness prover would agree. It does show the problem of all theorem provers: they are only as good as the specification.
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by zlynx 9y ago
I have an older Dell laptop with a 4K touch screen running Fedora 27. The touch screen works very well with Gnome and Chrome. So Linux users can get the same benefit that Windows users get.
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by zlynx 9y ago
The bug affects transistions into kernel mode. Virtual machines have one extra transistion. A read() call in the guest calls the guest OS which calls the host OS.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Most web sites seem to work well enough. But the real killer is on mobile devices like laptops. After the recent Firefox update I had to run without Noscript for a while, until it got updated. My laptop battery really took a hit. Loading we
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by zlynx 9y ago
I guess I'm doing something right because even though I use a static IP and no VPN, and I've been continuously seeding some torrents since 2012 that site does not list any of my downloads. It probably only looks at popular movie d
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by zlynx 9y ago
This is an interesting example because the kernel's open() interface blocks for 4,000 ms all the time. Heavy swapping or the ext3 journal is full and some other app just called fsync(). Apps have to handle it. If they don't, becau
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by zlynx 9y ago
I heard about a case where someone built a phone app backend without rate limiting. Someone found this hole and successfully attacked 70,000 accounts by running password dictionary cracks against the authentication API. Modern distributed s
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by zlynx 9y ago
Chrome is IE6 all over again.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Doom 3 inadvertently did this for me one time. It loads data from pak/zip files and does a checksum verification. Which is how I discovered a defective RAM stick I'd used in a new system build.
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by zlynx 9y ago
I have a very similar setup: a Dell m3800 and a 4K external monitor. Wayland, or rather gnome-shell, seems to do EDID detection a bit differently than Xorg. Getting a higher quality DisplayPort cable fixed it for me. The earlier cable did O
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by zlynx 9y ago
Because Rust knows about lifetimes and C++ doesn't. What C++ needs is a way to specialize types so that they automatically know if they need heap or stack storage without the programmer having to be explicit.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Yes, well, as long as it covers the basics somewhere. Someone living on only basic income won't be able to afford to live in Manhattan. They'll have to move to rural Alabama.
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by zlynx 9y ago
If the rules "are there for a reason" then black cabs would be obviously superior and wouldn't be at a competitive disadvantage. So, obviously those rules don't matter as much to customers as convenience, price and avail
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by zlynx 9y ago
The infrastructure collects fees to pay for itself, generally. It isn't provided to private enterprise for free.
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by zlynx 9y ago
There was one I helped suggest fixes for on StackOverflow a while back. The program searched DOM nodes, found its target, split the node, inserted the two new nodes, and continued searching in the new node it had just inserted. The result o
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by zlynx 9y ago
But pixels are a lie! Pixels are being scaled all over the place these days, up to 300-400%. The only reason pixels appear to "work" is that everyone uses pixels, so the software has to be written to lie about pixels. And so they
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by zlynx 9y ago
I generally use Firefox myself. What I think is hilarious is that a lot of sites are half-broken by my NoScript settings, but I never realized they had a preference for Chrome because that code doesn't even run.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Present your argument that we'd be better off with 500,000 people employed as farmers and ditch diggers working by hand without automation and equipment.
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by zlynx 9y ago
I thought it made the point that if you aren't vectorizing your code then it hardly matters if you use an optimized data format. SSE makes a huge difference. With AVX and multiple threads you can actually exceed the memory bandwidth of
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by zlynx 9y ago
One of the best things about these thrusters is how they look exactly like a science fiction space thruster should. This would not look out of place on a Star Destroyer or a Federation Constitution class cruiser.
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by zlynx 9y ago
This seems worse than using a standard keyboard. ABCDEF are on the left hand and 0-9 on the number pad.
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by zlynx 9y ago
I already use a Das Ultimate keyboard. No key caps. It's pretty straightforward to learn the keyboard if you don't fall back on looking. It's like full immersion in a foreign language. If you _have_ remember things, then you
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by zlynx 9y ago
Intel GPUs support Panel Self Refresh. Tablet and laptop panels can go very slow. Less than 24 FPS, for sure! It is whatever the low end is on their LCD controller (they forget over time, like DRAM). This article has some diagrams and expla
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by zlynx 9y ago
The only way universal basic income even approaches making sense is if it replaces _everything_ else. No housing benefits, education benefits, welfare, unemployment or social security. Dump it all. Yes, instead of living in large urban cent
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by zlynx 9y ago
With so many people wanting to abuse our social media profiles, it only makes sense to use fake accounts. That way our "real" one looks OK to our employers, parents, acquaintances, etc. Our fake profiles can have all of what we ac
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by zlynx 9y ago
Not really. Now instead of having to break the application, then break the kernel it's running under and then attack the VM host, you only have to attack the app and can then go directly at the VM host. Unikernels just remove a whole s
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by zlynx 9y ago
There's other speculation that Glacier is using high density Bluray optical recording with something like 400 GB per disc.
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by zlynx 9y ago
If you don't have it then your voice conversations go to crap during heavy network use. It's very noticeable.
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by zlynx 9y ago
File contents as compared to file names.

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