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Does this mean that 0 Hz bandwidth leads to the ideal clock?

Fun fact: GB 18030 is a Unicode Transformation Format. Example: \N{THINKING FACE}\N{FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY}\N{FACE SCREAMING IN FEAR}\N{SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES AND THREE HEA…

I assume this uses thunks not unlike some lazily-evaluated languages?

Doesn't this mean that non-blocking reads from /dev/urandom can now potentially return -EAGAIN (at e.g. very early boot time)? I think that's enough to subtly (nondeterministically…

To be fair, it has computed the page at least once at some point...

a truely randall number

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/membarrier.2.html provides a good example of when a processor memory barrier is eliminated but a compiler memory barrier is still required.

Are you mad? I didn't even criticize Unix at all!

> I think that an operating system where you can't rename or delete a file that is open by some process is idiotic beyond words, This is not an inherent limitation of the VMS or NT…

How about static inline functions?

This is the insight I wanted. Now I want to hear what FSF has to say about this...

> it's almost mandated by law that there can't be. FCC regulations require that devices be made resistant to attempts to change their function in an effort to limit people's abilit…

>"They should die for the cause." In his stance, more like "proprietary driver vendors are holding hostage of patients."

See https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html for the rationale. Basically, FSF had to make a compromise here. If you use Flash ROM (or other writable medium), the firmware coun…

Make sure you don't roll your own crypto on your way, though. Unless when it somehow becomes the absolute necessity...or it's for your dissertation.

Talk about lockdowns...

It's worth noting that Fedora/RHEL's postinstall is generally less intrusive than Debain's, though. For instance it doesn't just automatically create databases or starts/enables se…

Clearly you haven't heard of HasThisTypePatternTriedToSneakInSomeGenericOrParameterizedTypePatternMatchingStuffAnywhereVisitor http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.aspectj/…

(Commenting here since the other thread is going nowhere) To clarify, the main property of a non-blocking algorithm is that it's exclusively composed of simpler, smaller ("atomic")…

OpenBSD does something similar but in a reverse manner. It's called Kernel Address Randomized Link (KALR). What it does is bundling kernel object files into an archive, which is li…

Related: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190902-00/?p=10...

Is there anything else that should be done except flushing D-cache and invalidating I-cache? I'm genuinely curious.

It's AllocDStoCSAlias.

Is there something wrong in particular for using built-in fixed-point types for timestamps? Yes, overflow/underflow issues and yada yada, but virtually every type can be mised in i…

...why are you even talking to some stranger here then, is it worth enough to risk being exploited with a RCE 0day Like, uh, just define a clear threat model, accept risks, and mov…