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KingLancelot

Re:Why Conservatives Are Attacking 'Wokepedia' on Saturday October 04, 2025 @04:02PM (#45476246)
I mean it's very lopsided in the sources it accepts.

Huffing Post and Jezebel are acceptable sources?!?

That sort of bug wouldn’t be caught by rust, and his example of making two return structs and using them in that way would work in C too.
Re:Overly Long Variable Name Could Have Been a Comment on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:00AM (#44455751)
I disagree.

Comments are to explain why, not how.

Apple started the Clang project buddy, you’ve got your cause and effect backwards.
Re:Why 32GB of RAM is becoming the standard on Friday January 12, 2024 @07:35PM (#38976107)
Silicon, silicone is fake boob plastic.

And that’s a blatant lie from Apple, if anything, the GPU shares memory with the CPU therefore Apple Silicon needs MORE memory, not less.

Re:It's the future – you can stop using JPEGs on Friday December 08, 2023 @05:29AM (#38567392)
Looks like a lack of color correction/Gamma profile stuff in XP’s viewer.
Re:Canadian government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @11:31AM (#38461537)
Countries are now extorting American tech companies, that’s what’s really going on here.
Re:Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:00AM (#37999287)
Why not treat it like Unicode does and just have two marker instructions before and after the compressed ones?

Start compressed instructions <size>

Compressed instructions

End compressed instructions <size>

Re:Zig is now also a Windows resource compiler on Saturday October 21, 2023 @08:27PM (#37971785)
#Embed is in C23, std::embed is hopefully coming in C++26.
Re:Jon Stewart's Show on Apple Is Ending on Friday October 20, 2023 @11:00AM (#37957055)
Yup, Hollywood studios vs Theaters supreme court already ruled was a monopoly, so is this.
And he was 13 apperantly
Re:iPhone 15 Pro Max vs. DSLR photos: Real world camera comparison on Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:52PM (#37624986)
Compare it to a modern missorless camera like the Nikon Z9 or Z8.
Re:Mold 2.0.0 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:46AM (#36878584)
I don’t get why Apple doesn’t sponsor the project and make Mold the default linker in Xcode.

Give him a stack of cash for his work and make all well with the Universe.

It’d be so easy for them.

My thing is, they sanitize the fuck out of everything to the point that it’s useless.
Re:Checked C on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @02:49PM (#34085501)
Fat pointers are a good idea, but I think it’d be a better idea to store the start and evd pointers instead of a pointer to the first element and a size_t.
Re:Linux Desktop Environments System Usage on Monday December 12, 2022 @04:32AM (#33952718)
Dude, right?

Where has all this new resource usage come from?

In middle school my family XP computer had 512MB of RAM total, and absolutely nothing has changed since then.

Why is everything so fat now?

That tells you all you need to know about the federal governments involvement with Israeli spyware maker famous for Pegasus, NSO Group.
Re:Why CVE-2022-3602 was not detected by fuzz testing on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:35PM (#33698305)
Nice deflection, but you still didn’t answer the question.

Have you ever written in a memory safe language like you’re telling others to do?

Re:Why CVE-2022-3602 was not detected by fuzz testing on Monday November 21, 2022 @03:22PM (#33697423)
I see a lot of people pushing memory safe languages, far more people than actually write systems code.

What is your primary language?

Re:Why CVE-2022-3602 was not detected by fuzz testing on Monday November 21, 2022 @01:20PM (#33695930)
OpenSSL is known to be broken.

All this bickering over language misses the real problem.

The actual solution is that open source, widely used code is a target for hackers.

By using one library used everywhere for everything, you’re painting a target on your own back.

The real solution is we need the software ecosystem to have more competition and decentralization.

Use alternative crypto libraries.

If you want a drop in replacement, use LibreSSL which was forked and cleaned up by the OpenBSD guys due to HeartBleed.

But the long term solution, is more competition by using smaller, more specialized libraries, or even writing your own.

Kind of a biased sample tbh
Re:Trump to Be Unbanned on Twitter on Saturday November 19, 2022 @08:28PM (#33677110)
Where are the mods? Every other post is about President Trump getting unbanned.
Re:Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says on Saturday November 19, 2022 @03:58PM (#33674603)
Bidet himself said he’d blow it up, not to mention it cuts Russia off financially.

And American ships were in the area.

Re:Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:25PM (#33672261)
American ships were there, and America had the motive to do it.
Re:ASML looking to finally get ahead of Moore’s Law on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:11AM (#33650639)
Zeiss isn’t small lol
Re:APL deserves its Renaissance too on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:35PM (#33642485)
Is the author insane?
Sucks that AMD cpus aren’t available, i think my sister would like it but Intel only is a deal breaker.
That’s a really cool and innovative way to fix the world without using pesticides, use lil robots.