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You don't get reliable wall clock time unless you're working in RTOS. In a threaded OS everything in userland is async to an extent. In this school of thought, having to specify th…

await/promises/etc mostly exist to solve the problem that JavaScript doesn't have threads so it can't wait for callbacks. About JavaScript, many other languages have had async/awai…

It's insane that we're still using systems without ECC RAM. As memory shrinks bit errors get progressively more common. The more memory you have the better chance of corruption as …

Probably not but I was thinking either ML or VR could help

Eh, most developers I know are lazy and won't even measure the performance of the thing they're building if it's "good enough". I can't remember the last time any of us fired up a …

> undermining the success of the CEO search Travis legally has control of the company just like an owner would. Nobody can "force" him to leave on run his company as certain way. B…

They have nukes and working ICBM's... It's not that hard to put the two together. Submarine launch is harder and the warheads must be smaller, but ICMB's are already considered uns…

Well, North korea has been working on nukes for like 40 years and there hasn't been a war yet so I don't think the US is as eager as you think. You don't see anything wrong with a …

Whoever authorized the operation decided it was worth the many millions of damage it could do to Juniper.

add/remove is a better UX than the Windows Store even though it's barely been touched for 20 years :)

They are a current feature but not the baseline which means in practice implementations are buggy or non existent. I've had a few nicer routers where I could turn the options on bu…

I'm not a crypto expert and I'm sure even if I was it would be difficult to explain. Wiki page on SRP has a good description though: Like all PAKE protocols, an eavesdropper or man…

You can't brute force a nonce offline when you don't know if you answer is right unless you ask the AP. Different protocols than sending hashes where you can tell if your hash is c…

It doesn't give you a hash to crack. It reduces your speed of guessing passwords from "how quick can you hash X", which is millions of times per second, to "how many times can I at…

Yes, this is still a major problem with WPA. Also the fact that certain control packets aren't authenticated is nearly unforgivable. If correctly designed the only reasonable attac…

Wifi password cracking is only around 1000X slower than a SHA256 brute-force if I remember right. So your password needs to be secure enough that if a hash of it was leaked it woul…

I'm not sure why this is amazing enough to make the first page but W/E it's HN :). Just so less informed are aware, this has been feasible for maybe 7 years (since GPU calculation …

this is sick

this is sick

This does NOT bode well for the future of humanity. It seems that war is only war when people on your side are dying. Once everything is sufficiently automated it will be possible …

Did you read the rest? I appreciate a reply from the core team but you must understand your potential audience of Rust users is a highly gender/racial biased cohort. If Rust become…

Are you implying that Rust should be the first programming language of these minority groups? Given the complexity of low level programming that doesn't sound like a good idea. If …

The beginning of the end for Intel. Microsoft is clearly going to pivot win10 into the mobile market and leave Intel in the dust.

In this case I would say the lack of details is a good thing. It must work so well that they can keep it a secret from major vendors. If it wasn't near native speed or had bad x86/…