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> The practical benefit of FIPS 140 is less that your crypto is better and more that your systems will fail to establish connections with anything not using FIPS mode, thus reducin…

But MEPs can't even introduce legislation, they have to get all of Parliament to ask the European Commission to initiate legislation, and the Commissioners are pretty far removed f…

From the news release "What does this mean?" section: "This update to the Covered List does not prohibit the import, sale, or use of any existing device models the FCC previously a…

Is there really any correlation between tax revenue and spending at the federal level anymore? It seems the U.S. government is willing to spend at huge deficit levels. If everyone …

Ha,you beat me to it! That book was my first thought when I saw this post. I have a copy sitting here on my bookshelf. Just to expand on how bonkers this book is... they assume tha…

> very common OS feature since 90s And if you want to go farther back, even if it wasn't called "mmap" or a specific function you had to invoke -- there were operating systems that…

From everything I've read about aphantasia, I'm certain it described me -- I have absolutely no ability to consciously "visualize" things in my head (I was also surprised to learn …

> What is the point of setting up your own email server if all of your sent messages go to spam for the majority of gmail/o365 users? I set up a new mailserver a few years ago and …

I don't remember ever seeing that in The Economist. I think you're thinking of New Yorker magazine, perhaps?

Now all we need is for Apache Guacamole to add support into its RDP client for whatever old version of RDP NT 4 Terminal Server uses. Access all those old NT 4 applications through…

That was it, yes! Thank you!

I'm looking forward to see how this develops. There was a program a long time ago, classic Mac OS days, and I don't remember the name of it but I think it was " Consistency". I lov…

Hercules is _not_ used by IBM's own developers. Being found with Hercules on your computer at IBM gets you in trouble. I know people who work on mainframe-related stuff inside IBM …

Coconut trees are in the palm tree family. All coconut trees are palm trees, but not all palm trees grow coconuts.

> This naively (or maliciously perhaps) maintains that the "purpose" of the certificate is to identify an entity. [...] identity is not the primary purpose certificates serve in th…

I think multibrot here refers to setting the exponent (under "Render Settings") to a value higher than 2.

> Value Database > Smalltalk and another esoteric programming environment I used for a while called Frontier had an idea of a persistent data store environment. Basically, you coul…

> I would like to note that Linux is the only kernel which will allow you to do this! I'm pretty sure that MVS syscalls (that is, the numbers you use with the SVC opcode) have rema…

The Mythical Man-Month, by Fred Brooks. Chapter 16 is named "No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering." I'll type out the beginning of the abstract at the begi…

"Documents must be utf-8 and should have a byte order mark." No. If you're using UTF-8 (which is a good choice), the use of a BOM should be discouraged. Given that the format speci…

> Do they still use 0-terminated strings/char* as the main string type? Of course, it's still C. > Is the usage of single linked lists still prevalent as the main container type? A…

The article addresses this: what happened with .su is part of what caused ICANN/IANA to update their policies to not have defunct country codes stick around.

It doesn't matter who "owns" it (the country probably outsourced management of it to another entity, I assume); the domain exists because it exists as an ISO country code. When the…

"Microsoft Notepad." "BMP image format." Seemed like the definition of "programming language" was quite odd (given the title of the submission to HN is "Where are programming langu…

Yes, Biblioteca Joanina in Portugal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Joanina