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chisel made from steel may be but even then... try it on concrete or rock just for experiment (I tried). But if chisel is made from cooper or iron ... good luck ... may be you have…

How did they make this tomb. Even ignoring weight factor, what type of saw could they employ to cut it from the block? Right now companies use diamond wire blades to cut granite an…

this is a smart dude, he invented one of the most popular algorithms of finding a shortest path in a graph.

I do use docker. Do not worry about this part. But first of all development without docker is much faster. Setting up a docker container takes some time (especially with a custom b…

for everyone who wants to expirience a hell of developing software for linux under OSX i suggest to try to build apache httpd server from source on mac. it seems to be a trivial ta…

Not a good read to be honest. Author does not sound like a solid programmer. Examples he is giving actually say he might be a “change chaser” - A person who would make a change jus…

I doubt it is possible to be done on JavaScript. Timing cache access is a challenging task for such high level language. The key to the attack is to figure out latency of memory ac…

yep, corrected. at the end it is a bit more complex than that as cache is populated in 32-128 bytes increments but I leave it out for simplicity

Here is the same in 10 lines of pseudo-code http://zergo.me/meltdown.html

There is a strong racial component everywhere. However a grown up person already knows what to expect from mostly black-populated city. White people leave such area for a reason. N…

Can any news from Detroit be presented now without giving story a racial twist. I clicked the link expecting get details of what had happened and found a person giving me a moral l…

weight is probably a driving factor. When you save 100-150 pounds of weight by using some aluminium parts you can use this weight elsewhere. Not sure I am right. Just thinking.

If you are not getting subsidized because of income, you have to pay for everyone else who is subsidized. I was buying plans from health care exchange for 2 years and my last plan …

Price of healthcare is driven by a luck of supply (medical professionals, hospitals, affordable drugs) and supply is limited by regulation (expensive and ridiculously long educatio…

Uruk is a derogatory word in Russian language commonly used to discribe immigrants from Muslim countries.

all private security firms ? name one, please

everyone is innocent until proven guilty... there is no any prove in report that hacking even took place, date, time, size of materials, exact mechanism of attack, which email addr…

nobody except complete amateurs is using its own computer to do hacking. there are thousands if not millions of compromized computers in aws cloud and similar hosting services that…