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Re:Anthony Bourdain has died
on Friday June 08, 2018 @07:51AM (#17264408)
Nooooooooooo...
Re:Java: "+=" applied to String operands can provoke side effects
on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:08PM (#17250084)
> It's only broken when the left hand side is not safe to evaluate more than once.
The brakes on my car aren't broken most of the time, it's only when I push down on the pedal!
Re:Java: "+=" applied to String operands can provoke side effects
on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:06PM (#17250069)
> "side effects"
A side effect would be like submitting an order for am Amazon Echo by mistake.
This is a bug, a serious bug, that leads to variables being assigned the wrong value.
Re:Microsoft acquires Github
on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:10PM (#17229883)
Steve Ballmer is jumping up and down screaming "developers!" somewhere right now.
Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-controlled n...
on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:17AM (#17219024)
I guess something has to move packets from interface A to interface B.
Re:Google quits selling tablets
on Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:32AM (#17213098)
You know you can get back that behavior through accessible settings?
Re:Google Is Said to Not Renew Pentagon Contract That Upset Employees
on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:50PM (#17211153)
> could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes
They prefer inaccurate drone strikes that kill innocents?
Re:Flattr now deletes your web browsing history within 3 months
on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:14PM (#17210929)
It's hard to use the internet or live without a web browser, I suspect most people get along just fine without letting a startup with a cool name scrape their browsing history.
Re:Flattr now deletes your web browsing history within 3 months
on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:29PM (#17209138)
> install the company’s browser extension which collects their browsing history
Yeah I think I'll pass thanks. What person would install such a thing?
Re:Intel Announces Optane DIMMs
on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:13PM (#17193230)
Wait...so is this about having an ssd on the memory bus...or non-volatile paged memory?
Re:Intel Announces Optane DIMMs
on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:34PM (#17191505)
What saves the page table between reboots...the OS must have specific support for this surely...?
Re:Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard [pdf]
on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:41PM (#17189775)
> This UB was leading to disclosure of little bits of kernel memory back into user mode because Windows engineers assumed that = { 0 } was the same as leaving the variable uninitialized and then memsetting the whole thing to zero
But what on earth were they doing with the padding bits?