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Who's firing? Me. You're fired.

SIM cards are not secure either, you can glitch them. The ones in phones and credit cards, that is.

> Why don't all silicon chips have glitch and overvoltage detection? Reliability. This is basically the microchip version of Boeing's MCAS. The circuit you describe is not only an …

> what positive things that can be gained from faulting China? Changes in their behavior.

Did you read what he wrote?

Why does hacker news display the best comments in such hard-to-read light gray?

ZONING PERMITTING BUILDING CODES PLANNING DEPARTMENT nestron = moron

> Why, in this process of events isn't he appealing to the local government more Gee maybe because they stick their fingers in their ears and shout "lalalalalala!" Vote with your f…

What makes you so sure they can?

CPS introduces more callbacks ("continuations") -- lots of them. One for every call site. Way more than 256.

Brave is Chrome(ium)

Too late, it's the only good browser engine left. I've given up waiting for firefox to get their act together. Instead they pay people to play with VRML and WebVR. After wasting so…

I am convinced that DJB is actually the reincarnation of John von Neumann. Seriously, how many other people make contributions in areas ranging all the way from number theory to ha…

This is horrifying.

> 'no debt' option means you must find a home in a market where nobody else has access to a lender. > the person who lends the money tips the scales and decides who gets resources …

Um, collateral damage? I'm supposed to be penalized for colocating my gear in a data center (i.e. routable prefix) that hosts a tracker? If your scheme were implemented the tracker…

I don't get why either of these people are being downvoted. So please, downvote me too. Downvotes make me feel less lonely.

> block “rogue” (read: tracking) IPs. With IPv6 that's as impractical as blocking "rogue" FQDNs.

troll?

Profilers profiling profilers. Because why Do It Right The First Time when you can slap another layer onto the stack?

For C++ and Python only. And those Python bindings are laboriously backported by hand from the C++ API. QT will never be a language-independent toolkit, and the world will always n…

Mister The Plague.

Halftone magazine printing? Check. Videocasettes? Check. Internet? Check. Thank heaven for prurient smut, driver of all great technology. Without it we would still be in the stone …

Peano Numbers? Srsly? Look, I love Rust, but what one can expect of its type inference is unpredictable and poorly documented. It gets confused often, and frequently cannot explain…

Gift cards are getting a lot less useful now that merchants can auto-reject them by setting the "this is a recurring payment" flag. All newly-issued gift cards (in the US at least)…