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That ruling was overturned on appeal. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/citigroup-wins-appeal-ove...

I found this video to be quite informative and addresses a relationship between the information incorporated into a chemical process and its function. Nobel laureate Jack Szostak f…

This kind of ambiguity is rampant in technical writing. Example: "There are situations where developers do X instead of Y which is the wrong thing to do." Wait, is X wrong or Y?! Y…

If this is a Severance reference, it's doubly hilarious.

> Also why not just go 10 days in a row and pull out 1k? In the US, this could be considered "structuring" to avoid reporting requirements which is a federal crime with a sentence …

I'm not the person you asked, but if I rephrase your question to "Then why do some places with low crime have less police?", then the answer just seems to be common sense.

In some encodings? One zero is sufficient for UTF-8.

Thank you. This is pretty much the comment that I was going to write but you saved me the time. There are judges in Seattle that appear to disagree with the notion that serious vio…

Brings back memories. I was a MS support engineer on CompuServe around 1989. I supported Windows/286 and 386, Excel, and Word for Windows. I posted around 25 to 30 messages a day. …

This project compliments the stage0 project (featured on the HN front page earlier today) which builds a C compiler using an assembler that is bootstrapped from hex. However, those…

I appreciate the extra context. For what it's worth, I was not aware of the previous discussion and I just thought it was an interesting post. (I really don't have any feelings abo…

Are those issues really so egregious? There is a tremendous amount of content geared towards "informing the reader" and I'd prefer to draw my own conclusions about the author's int…

Flagging this post strikes me as shameful censorship of an unpopular opinion. You may say it's the snark/anger/frustration that got flagged, but I suspect it would not have been fl…

Yeah, I'm avoiding modern interfaces due to my peculiar bootstrapping requirements (e.g. must run on old HW; no SW dependencies). virtio is probably a better choice for anyone tryi…

From the PDF: "It is true: in our quest to make full use of the CPU, we must abandon all of those helpful routines provided by BIOS. As we will see when we look in more detail at t…

I worked with Nick's brother Paul for many years at F5. Several years ago I asked him if Nick was Satoshi and he said Nick denied being Satoshi and Paul also added that it wouldn't…

The link below is a relatively simple example of differential fuzzing between implementations in different programming languages using AFL. It works by reading and writing to a sec…

If you are willing to adapt to a different structure and workflow, you can filter the scope of git down dramatically with sparse checkouts (as @WorldMaker also mentioned). https://…

Tree-sitter uses JS for grammars and I'm sure there are others: https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/creating-parsers#t...

I have a similar impression as you but I also found this quote illuminating: "I never read the Pricipia Mathematica; almost no one has. You know it's not really traditional in Phys…

I agree that loss of focus can put someone in the danger zone of looking for other options without really resolving the underlying problem. However, I think the article is implying…