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This would achieve the same but is far more readable: while(status != SUCCESS) { status = syscall(...); // do something with status }

That brings me back. All .exe were blocked. However it turned out that you could rename them .bat or .cmd and they would execute just fine. I think Doom 2 multiplayer was extra fun…

You can't click through a UAC prompt to elevate if you don't have local administrator rights.

It's nothing like that because in that case, the latter directly sampled the former.

"Foreign language" is well understood as a concept and is used in the opening sentence. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language . Arguing otherwise is just arguing for t…

I've mentioned before how disappointed I've been to watch hackerone move from a platform helping responsible disclosure to a platform helping companies hide vulnerabilities. It use…

I'm not sure why your comments are attracting downvotes; from the title I assumed programming language.

I don't have anything to contribute to the challenge but this is very much needed and I hope this challenge produces a richer visual language. Here's the BBC's "cyber attacks" page…

This is my complaint about the styling issue, that the important technical notes get lost in the 'noise' of styling issues.

Depressing to see reviewers waste review bandwidth bringing up issues such as "wasted newline" and "incorrect comment format". Do kernel developers not use auto-formatters?

In the UK there have been effects, but it's too early to tell the full picture. Many drinks cut down their sugar content to avoid the tax and full-sugar drinks are often excluded f…

I refuse to buy into the idea that ecological destruction is benelovent because we couldn't otherwise support such a drastic level of poverty and inequality. The same argument coul…

Sure, let's do that. And the money raised could be re-invested in technology / r&d to improve and cheapen recycling.

A potential "solution" is to price in the externality and tax the use of plastic in manufacturing. Then the market can decide whether it's "worth" using plastic for disposable wate…

As someone who played the base game when it came out, it was a complete game at the time and doesn't require DLC to be fun.

Oh, Prime in the UK comes with free next day delivery on everything.

There's a significant difference between "next day" and "2-3 days", and the valuable different is not getting it sooner, it's knowing exactly which day you'll get it.

It's funny you should mention google maps, as that's recently regressed to semi-unusable in firefox.

Half the people here are discussing the headline not the article because people don't read articles, they read the headline and jump to the comments. In this case it drowns out dis…

You lack imagination. I'm a professional software developer and I open excel every day. Let's say someone emails me a list of figures and I want to quickly add them up? Sure, I cou…

I'm guessing you're not in the EU then? I see this everywhere.

This is all you see when clicking techcrunch articles: https://imgur.com/a/mId1Jfi If you "manage" your settings to block everything it'll just be back next time. As a consequence,…

This is why I consider bug bounty programs problematic, because they've been co-opted from a system to manage responsible disclosure to a system to contain and manage non-disclosur…

> could have But they didn't, that's a detail you can't just conveniently drop to argue in the abstract.

We discussed this 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341354