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"Three simultaneous lightning bolts strike ground"

Funny how the waves are always extra blurry when that happens.

Re:Deno Is Webby on Thursday March 17, 2022 @02:39AM (#30708301)
Do you have a reasonable example of why a library that would call location or history?

All I can think of is "using query string as getenv() for random debug hacks" or "using history as a hack to synchronously reach the structured clone algorithm", neither of which a library should do (but both easily emulatable).

Re:EC2 Boot Time Benchmarking on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:19AM (#28208203)
Where did you get 3? The fastest numbers I could see in the post add up to 7-8s
Imagine what Facebook's app would do if they didn't have to play within App Store rules.
Re:3D printing boats is becoming standard practice on Monday December 21, 2020 @02:56AM (#25492970)
Creality has one.
Re:The Base58 Encoding Scheme on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:18AM (#25289615)
It's safe to leave behind one of each group (1 is still there).
Re:New powerful malware obfuscation technique on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:50AM (#25121870)
So the big idea is "simulate user keypresses and mouse events", and it works if the user answers "yes" to the prompt "Program X wants to control other programs on this computer".

To be fair, Steam games request that permission, so users may be trained to accept it.

Re:Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:18AM (#24505684)
OnShape what now? I'm still on the free-but-everything-is-public plan. Is that going away?
Re:Doom running on a pregnancy test on Monday September 07, 2020 @04:16AM (#24397586)
I thought so too, but the paper version apparently has a ridiculously high (user) error rate. When the failure mode is an extra human it might be a net win.
This sounds like a great way to solve the “vaccines don’t give recurring income” problem.
Re:Safely Reviving Shared Memory on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:51PM (#23910873)
Yes, ignoring the problem is easier.
As before? This just means there are no longer two full copies of every system library on disk.
Frees up a gig or two of disk space. Good.
Have they been making a moral argument that they deserve a cut?
Re:Metafont (1984) on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:08AM (#23465012)
Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:21PM (#23380219)
Yep. Producing the book is free.
Re:The Trolley Problem Problem on Monday June 01, 2020 @08:07AM (#23377607)
I don't think you're allowed to sneak "when I kill it has societal benefit" into the "context".
Re:Ask HN: Why No Smart Phone Esque IoT Device? on Friday May 08, 2020 @04:30AM (#23112647)
Buying a phone and replacing the software will be cheaper unless you're making truckloads of these? (There are a dozen brands of point-of-sale systems that are an iPod Touch or similar with a magnet attached to the headphone jack)
I’m curious what properties this has that aes(0||id) doesn’t.
Re:Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (2016) on Sunday February 16, 2020 @06:39AM (#22341105)
Because 100 to 200 is twice as much and 700 to 800 is not
Re:CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions on Monday January 27, 2020 @03:27PM (#22163431)
"CacheOut is effective even in the non HyperThreaded scenario, where the victim always runs sequentially to the attacker."