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I dunno, pointers were kinda small on 8/16 bit platforms

Any example ?

Plenty of niche ways that are limited enough to not require program wide architecture change https://muxup.com/2023q4/storing-data-in-pointers#some-real-...

> What’s the best price/performance for a home lab server running Linux with ECC these days? Bonus points if it is rackable. Old used enterprise server. None of them will be great …

> However, as a provider I can totally see a situation where I (proverbially, I'm not in this business) sue you for disclosing what amounts to a trade secret (depending on what's i…

> The destruction of the Twitter branding seems more out of spite than business development goals Or just incompetence. Plenty of that. Assuming just because he is billionaire that…

Well, admitting otherwise would be admitting failure of managing that company and we can't have that!

Actually, why there is not? Company should be able to just get cert for wifi.company.com and then be allowed to just call its network wifi.company.com...

> Even in the US the Afroman raids show the police about to rip drives out of the security system .. if there'd been a decoy box | real time cloud backup there'd be more footage of…

They are also often on switch with single uplink to the recorder so if cameras are connected with 1gig you could just flood recorder itself, downing every camera connected to it.

Funnily enough modern machines have ISA in form of LPC bus used for few of the common peripherals (TPM) that can be used in ISA-compatible mode, and you can get LPC to ISA adapters…

Returning CSV is an api thought. A terrible one, as "CSV" means a dozen ways of how to encode the special cases/escaping in the column

Designing does. Building and using it is for confirming or revoking any prior assumptions you had about the initial design to improve it. Most of the thinking should be put into de…

Yeah but getting consistent is the bar you need to get to first before you can even be considered decent. Being 1s faster than everyone best lap but having ~2s lap-to-lap inconsist…

I agree that grams are inconvenient to use for flours and liquids, so litre/desilitre/millilitre just seems the logical option. It works for fluids but it is complete mess for any …

They are eyeballing everything, then have to make a recipe out of it. The recipe didn't include all of the "fixing" of the spice/salt balance they do during cooking.

> Why not get rid of xz completely? ... you mean compression package used by most big distros to make their packages? Do you really need to ask > Hoe about using a simpler piece of…

The start of the attack was few fake accounts trying to shame the maintainer for not "developing" it constantly and so give maintainer rights to someone else. And there wasn't real…

Pretty much; updating say libssl in a "traditional" system running app, or maybe 2-3 dependent apps fixes the bug. Put all of them in containers and now every single one needs to b…

> Agreed, as a developer: minimize your dependencies while providing your core function. Don't grant dependencies permissions they don't need. Be granular about it. Austral lets yo…

I'm now imagining a department where every single worker is a spy for different government and they play endless game of "add exploit, close off the other people's exploits". And a…

Backdoor relied more on compromising supply chain than on particular glibc feature. And the fact the notify support in sshd wasn't implemented directly but via libsystemd that is t…

We removed tens of thousands of lines of code for fixes for those "simple" init scripts when migrating to systemd. They are never "simple", there is always some fucking edge case, …

> The perfect solution to this problem is creating a script that automatically adds a new app to all the relevant places and stuffing it into a Justfile, but that's a pretty big pi…

> Those botched together mains wires alone look like a fire risk. There is nothing inherently unsafe with bolting power strip onto the wall. > Quite apart from the circumstances of…