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But it is: bringing the new stack into the cache, and eventually flushing the dirty one back to memory, is essentially the same as copying it.

Nothing in the C standard prohibits parts of the executable from (a) being outside the "program" and thus many of the limitations of the standard, and (b) running before main. Ther…

Go back to JavaScript, dear. You'll learn about real systems languages when you're older. Seriously. This just isn't how computers work. Main doesn't just get magically called in a…

> The function called at program startup is named main, Incorrect. On Linux usually _start is called first and this can be freely changed at link time. LPT: Knowing a bit of JavaSc…

> if it was smart it would have figured out that the value never was initialized. But that's false, which just goes to show that the compiler writers know way more about this than …

They did. "Undefined" doesn't mean "unconsidered by the committee", it means "do what you must for optimization".

And? This is only "unfair" if you assume that people should be taxed as a percentage of their income, but by moving to consumption taxes we discard that assumption.

Your conclusion is entirely unfounded. Returning the same result for the same input does not in any way refute the claim that it's random. It could just as well seed the RNG with t…

Indeed, this is "guilty even when proved innocent".

> There are no ... Windows subdistros That's a pretty naive trust in Microsoft's branding / marketing team. Of course there are heaps of different Windows distributions. They don't…

> This is obviously not acceptable in a society that considers itself "free speech". It's free from legal consequences but when you shut opinions down due to "other consequences" y…

Those aren't products. Google's main products are advertising and user data. They can't be monopolists in markets they're not even participating in.

I have been assured by innumerable statists that the government invented the internet. But I'm not sure in what market exactly Google is a monopoly? I'm pretty sure there are plent…

> should be split up It may be weird that no one is arguing that (maybe it's just no one you're listening to, or being allowed to listen to, though?), but it's not weird that it's …

And to top it all off, they demanded a protection fee in cash and goods (the device) in order to stop the illegal hacking.

You're right; they're not all conspirators. However, as a non-expert I feel there is a good argument that there's probable cause that each account has evidence of the conspiracy.

But when you request the records of 1.3 million conspirators to riot and commit other terrorist acts, in order to find the 200 who actually did, that's quite reasonable. The stated…

It's a website created for the sole purpose of promoting terrorist acts at a certain time and place. I think that's enough to say that every individual user account is suspect. I c…

> they will find ways to circumvent any AI model Not so; there's an easy and reasonable (/s) solution to the problem: only permit pre-approved speech. This can be done through AI a…

However, a significant (not large , significant ) proportion of Americans believe that the phrase "kill all the Nazis" is not hate because , or at least is "justified hate", whatev…

> Can they potentially go to a new registrar and register it there, without additional hassle, and assuming there's a registrar willing to service them? Not within 60 days, apparen…

The title of this HN post should mention that this is ZFSonLinux. This is good news, but I'll definitely want to wait a good long while before enabling this in production. Yes, off…

Could this not have been fixed by prefixing the '--' argument on the command line, and requiring that all ssh implementations must implement that in order to be compatible? Serious…

Buzzfeed has a lot of good journalism, apparently. I never go to their site and seek it out, but when it's linked it's very good like this piece. It shouldn't be so surprising; if …

I wonder - did they take steps to replenish the cave's oxygen? If not, it's useless for the next person... I guess this is kind of silly and naive, but it's what I would do.