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Re:A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:47PM (#48680176)
what does it say?
Re:Moving beyond fork() + exec() on Sunday June 07, 2026 @07:18AM (#48433762)
How can you write for LWN and not have heard of clone(CLONE_THREAD) and multithreading?
Well I guess they can be last in the line to get oil.
Im pretty sure the subscription is optional, and if you don't subscribe, you dont get the AI "features" and copilot.

Seems win/win to me.

260ft is around 79m. The bombs can penetrate around 60m of concrete. So one bomb, probably not, but they are able to follow each other in quick succession meaning 2 or three should be able to do the job quite easily, with accurate GPS positioning.
The question is unexplored territory, pun intended.

The FAA could deny approval for launch, but its unclear what the basis would be. What happens on Mars is out of it's jurisdiction, literally.

The UN governs Earth, not Mars. It could expand to cover Mars I suppose. It's the sort of pointless activity you could imagine the European Parliament obsessing over, but there is little they could do about an American launch company.

But the reality is we are centuries away from something approaching a land-rush on Mars, or actual competition between nations for control of anything.

I suspect it will be a "watch and wait and see" situation.

Re:Lemon64.com and Lemonamiga.com Hacked on Sunday July 14, 2024 @07:45PM (#40964107)
> The passwords in phpBB3.3 use an exceptionally strong and secure method of encryption

I thought passwords were supposed to be hashed, not encrypted. This is bad.

Exactly.
From what exactly? Turkey?
Re: on Thursday April 18, 2024 @05:57PM (#40081186)
Hopefully when we go to Mars we leave cockroaches like you behind.
Most memory vulnerabilities are use-after-free which due to the nature of C is a very easy mistake to make.

Buffer overflows are simple inexcusable, especially if its "we didn't bother checking" rather than "we got the size wrong due to human error".

The first case is not normal, people like that should not be programming HTML let alone C code.

Am I the only one who finds it highly annoying that exclusive domain names are registered for individual CVEs?
No, but I would never, ever, ever, EVER write data to a buffer without specifying the buffer size or reallocing where necessary.

This just smells so much like a Javascript script kiddy who wanted to join the cool brigade and write something h4kor1sh in C. Ugh.

Re:Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment? on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:20AM (#40009347)
For robotics sake, I hope not.
> By reading the source code, I realized that the incoming data was put into a fixed-size static buffer in the stack, and the payload was decrypted into another fixed-size buffer. There’s no boundary or size check.

This is not normal. It's amateurish in the extreme that leads to the only conclusion that whoever wrote this ZeroMQ thing is not a real software engineer. I.e. stay away at all costs.

Re:OpenAI makes ChatGPT 'more direct, less verbose' on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:47PM (#40009214)
The more I use ChatGPT, the useless I realize it is.

It looks impressive at first, until you realize it is like a trick pony. Don't get it to haul your luggage.

It gives apparently good summaries of sometimes complex topics. But then you ask it to explain things in more detail...welcome to a special hell of circular reasoning, inherent contradictions, and surprising about-faces that occur even when you ask a complementary question (complementary as in congruent not admiring).

ChatGPT: <long verbose answer...>

Me: Oh so your saying X implies Y but not Z? (which previous answer did)

ChatGPT: Apologies for causing confusion, I misspoke.... (go on to give a worse response now)

Me: But your first response was OK, I just wanted to clarify XYZ...

ChatGPT: <now gives a response with directly conflicting statements>

How many times have you seen this?

After spending billions of dollars on a light attack/recon heli that will never fly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%E2%80%93Sikorsky_RAH-66...

Re:Public Has Mixed Views on the Modern American Family on Sunday February 04, 2024 @04:53PM (#39254895)
How could a leading research organization not have heard or divorce and child support?
Gak, as someone who has lived in both this is missing the real question which actually also answers this question...

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD DRIVE A CAR IN SYDNEY???

Re:Python 3.13 Gets a JIT on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:28PM (#38959362)
> The initial benchmarks show something of a 2-9% performance improvement. You might be disappointed by this number, especially since this blog post has been talking about assembly and machine code and nothing is faster than that right? Well, remember that CPython is already written in C and that was already compiled to machine-code by the C compiler.

WTF has this to do with JITing the code written in Python?

Re:Happy New Year HN! on Sunday December 31, 2023 @02:14PM (#38826631)
So will this be the year of the Linux desktop?
Re:Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:29PM (#38758430)
Imagine a language with an entire system of honorific speech required when speaking to one's superiors. Oh wait...they already exist.
Re:C Object Oriented Programming (2014) on Thursday December 21, 2023 @06:32PM (#38728684)
> is essential to nearly any large, complex software system

> in performance sensitive code

Those two things are not the same.

Re:Tell HN: YouTube app on Android disabled loop video option on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:28PM (#38214744)
yes
There's something about that title...
The reality is Gaza could be a wealthy Mediterranean paradise if the population was more interested in building an economy than destroying the only democracy in the middle east.
Re:Tell HN: YouTube app on Android disabled loop video option on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:13PM (#38212130)
Not for me. Maybe your getting ABed.
Re:Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly on Sunday November 05, 2023 @02:13PM (#38154539)
It's a classic victim of shitty, shitty software developers who blames tools rather than taking ownership.

Or shitty software dev companies that push out crap to meet marketing deadlines.

Either way, take your money elsewhere.

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