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I’m not saying that 1 Syntactic constructs in general should and do have meaning. The meaning isn’t inherent, but nothing has inherent meaning. log(x) has no inherent meaning, but …

But your formulation isn’t right because it’s not about the UB code being detectable at compile-time or run-time, it’s about describing how the UB code should behave regardless of …

It doesn’t need to be unable to be precluded at compile-time to be UB. The expression “1 Doing something at runtime is a different concept from having a runtime. In any case, C, in…

Undefined behavior doesn’t exist to ease portability per se, it exists to handle meaningless yet syntactically valid constructs. Shifting by a negative number is meaningless and is…

Agreed, why not attach it to the internal USB bus? Maybe it’s a sourcing / business deal thing. I’m theorizing most laptop manufacturers have made a deal with m.2 pcie wifi produce…

Inspiring story. My uncle was in prison for most of my childhood, when he got out my dad helped train him for a job in IT. It wasn’t easy since the idea of making money using a ski…

I wish there were more technical details on kaleidoscope. Just seems like lots and lots of borderline-meaningless high-level overview.

That’s my point.

How about they all pose a serious threat to privacy?

Wasn’t sure which direction he was going in but now I see. That’s incredible satire. Thumbs up.

Yeah the “fake news” narrative only serves the large media corporations that want to maintain their monopoly on content. Over time more news sources, including “fake” ones, will ac…

Yeah it’s completely untrue. There were lots of very powerful weapons available in those days that rival today’s assault weaponry (even from medieval times) and the 2nd amendment m…

Never made that claim but thanks for the info.

The first amendment isn’t intended for physical speech. It exists to protect opinions and ideas. It’s for this reason lots of non-verbal “speech” is protected under the first amend…

And they are totally wrong because there were all sorts of machine guns and powerful cannons available in those days, even some used in the Revolutionary war. Projectile weapons ha…

The Founders had more foresight than you think. These were enlightenment thinkers who were well versed in the history of governments and technological progress. The Bill of Rights …

It’s not clear that throwing money at the problem will fix it. I don’t know if critical thinking is even really taught in school.

Being able to physically run your mouth in public has little to do with free speech, including shouting fire in a movie theatre. Free speech is the ability to express any opinion o…

The market isn’t static, it’s dynamic. The plethora of news sources will over time force consumers to think more critically about their information, since there is an inherent desi…

I think a big problem with metadata-aware “file systems” is that the metadata is lost once the file is exported out of the system. This is a problem with ID3 tags for instance. Ano…

What did I just read?

Desperate for book sales.

The same terminology being used for distinct concepts is indeed a potential source of confusion. If you were to say “this is a constant time algorithm” I would need more informatio…

No. I’ve known about timing attacks for as long as I can remember. In any case, any specific individual’s familiarity with timing attacks doesn’t change the fact that using the ter…

There exists a constant, K, such that T(n) Furthermore, even though T(n) is bounded by a constant, it is not constant itself and its runtime is proportional to the amount of prefix…