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> The presence of EMTE leaves Spectre V1 as one of the last avenues available to attackers to help guide their attacks, so we designed a completely novel mitigation that limits the…

Am I misreading this or is that "How close is Spanish from Different Countries" graphic kind of jank? There's intersecting lines that are missing, like Puerto Rico and Dominican Re…

that's amazing, do you know why it works?

For anyone else that’s confused, TLS = thread local storage

"apps my mom could build" kind of describes Excel workbooks. People effectively use excel to build (highly constrained) GUIs for processing data using custom logic that they specif…

The .NET standard library docs are a thing of beauty because they intermingle autogenerated javadoc-style documentation with generally well-written freeform "remarks" sections that…

>Don't all great projects start young and gain interested folks to make it widely used? The counterpoint to this is that making a robust cross-platform GUI library is a massive end…

sort/index the db table by string length, start your search with the closest length strings (bigger and smaller) and then stop if you find a levenshtein distance that's smaller tha…

Spotify vs Google Play Music is the perfect showcase for this. They both get the job done but Spotify is better in so many small ways. Meanwhile, instead of being improved, GPM is …

what about local filesystem access, os integration, and all the other things that you expect a desktop app to be able to do (like in this case executing a separate binary) which vi…

I think you're overestimating how much development at tech companies is done using newer languages. Java is the dominant language at both Amazon and Google.

Looks like the Iran connection came from a guy with a history of opportunistically jumping in on big security news stories: https://mobile.twitter.com/imdeaconblues/status/11050468…

I always wonder why Google didn't just keep improving/extending Hangouts. Was the codebase just unsalvageable? Was it something to do with Google's internal politics?

I think that’s one of the reasons that WPF never saw much use in terms of widely distributed desktop apps. You couldn’t assume the presence of a particular version of the framework…

Most people who buy EC2 instances at scale won't want most of them to have persistent storage attached. Storage is handled by a DB or S3.

It's funny how all these replies are almost an answer in an of themselves. You laid down a basic truth: the only thing technically distinctive about a blockchain is the trustless c…

>Utility tokens exist to provide access to a good or service on a decentralized, blockchain-based network. [...] Siacoin is specifically designed as a utility token and has never b…

I'd really like to see his proposal as something you can toggle when you navigate to someone's twitter profile, since when I do that I'm usually only interested in things they wrot…

Does their patch also disable root accounts that were enabled using the exploit?

It seems like the concepts are orthogonal though. The reason powershell works is that it replaced the entire shell toolchain with object-oriented equivalents. Without that you're f…

There was a reddit comment I came across years ago and saved because it sums up the limitations of shell scripting so well: I think I've just come to realize a sad fact though: pro…