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This will be a problem when trying this on Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/ systems. Currently the onl…

fake news: inaccurate thermometers in urban heat island

This would seem to have some similarities with Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI). The project has matured to the point of a complete FreeBSD stack with nearly …

Asian longhorned tick? "the ticks can attack en masse and drain young animals of blood so quickly that they die—an execution method called exsanguination" https://arstechnica.com/s…

https://www.stclairsoft.com/Go64

I used everolimus, which works the same way as sirolomus, for a few years. Like a fair proportion of people taking this class of drug, I developed severe proteiuria. Large protein …

is it practical to use fully-qualified domain-names everywhere, which means no search path or ndots entries are needed. it can be interesting looking in nameserver logs for hosts m…

similarly with Trump's tax cuts which largely did not end up in pay rises or investment.

posted at least 5 times over the past 4 days some responses treat as serious, others consider clickbait https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20592774 https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

Don't blame central banks so much. They only directly control one lever in the economy, interest rates augmented by QE-purchase of company bonds in Europe & US. In retrospect, they…

The rationale is that the reference NTP implementation codebase was old and would benefit from a large cleanup. It was in a similar position to openssl in that the code was used by…

"SQLite is used by literally millions of applications with literally billions and billions of deployments. SQLite is the most widely deployed database engine in the world today." h…

I believe global economies have fundamentally changed post GFC, so previous indicators may no longer be relevant. Interest rates have already gone below historic levels so it's not…

perl5's DateTime "is a class for the representation of date/time combinations" Apart from the modules included in the DateTimeDistribution, there are many others as returned by htt…

obviously FF not running these through POSIX inet_pton "The inet_pton() function does not accept other formats (such as the octal numbers, hexadecimal numbers, and fewer than four …

for time enthusiasts, rubidium oscillators were one approach as second-hand ones became available from CDMA shutdown even to the point of hacking one http://phk.freebsd.dk/hacks/HP…

rambus touting benefits of open hardware ecosystem, no irony here