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Re:ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @03:46PM (#29408919)
There are 634 CVE Records that match your search.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=imagemagick

There have been a number of zero days.

My entire interaction with Imagemagick has been removing it. Often with great difficulty because there is some odd dependency.

Re:Great Vowel Shift on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @04:08PM (#26812371)
Glotalization of T https://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/deddingt/t-glottalizatio...

My anecdata says we covered this dialect in intro linguistics back in the 80s. I have been hearing it from New Jersey natives for a long time.

Re:Fashion Freedom Initiative on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:02PM (#15845368)
I guessed from the title that this was looking to secure a right to dress as one wished in the EU. In particular to wear a head covering or full body covering that might be associated with a particular religion. Like it would be cool to wear a miter even if you aren't a Roman Catholic bishop.
Re:A bus that runs on formic acid on Sunday July 02, 2017 @10:56PM (#14685576)
Mixing "hydrozine" with hydrazine gives a hydrazone.

"bug juice" seems like a better name.

Re:An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:27PM (#14581390)
There is a lot of fiber running in railroad right of way.

Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications, or SPRINT. The telecommunications name survives. The railroad is now part of Union Pacific.

I suspect that the folks putting fiber in railroad right of way know how to avoid crushing failure.

Re:Scheduling Algorithms in Big Data: A Survey [pdf] on Saturday November 19, 2016 @08:34PM (#12996772)
It's dated. Uses references to Hadoop 1.2 documentation. Hadoop is at 2.7 currently with 2.8 and 3.0 coming soon.

In particular it refers to slots. YARN no longer use slots.

No mention of Tez, Storm or Spark?

F1 "power units" are at 47% thermal efficiency but there a complicated hybrid system.

https://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/latest/inter...

Re:The Twelve Networking Truths on Monday November 02, 2015 @06:49AM (#10491348)
Re:Larry Wall on why he wrote Perl on Monday August 13, 2012 @07:39PM (#4378708)
Like http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/Senate/Minnesota/A...

Lots of chuckles there. But you don't have to buy them, they are free.