Tiddles-the2nd

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by Tiddles-the2nd 3mo ago
The check isn't important; what's important is being predictable so the CPU can guess which way the check will go. I don't know exactly how it works, but after the first couple of loops, the predictor will assume it's al
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by Tiddles-the2nd 9mo ago
This is disgusting and unconscionable conduct by Apple. Your whole life is locked into your account (digital data and physical devices), and they either don't care or don't have the processes in place to fix it. This is the kind o
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by Tiddles-the2nd 3y ago
> A state projection concluded that the connector collapse had cost $90 million, based on a $6 million per day economic impact estimate. This includes a $491,000 loss in toll revenue for the Oakland Bay Bridge Sounds like $200,000 a day
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by Tiddles-the2nd 4y ago
When it comes to ad links I've always wondered if it's ignorance or done deliberately to make you click on the ad.
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by Tiddles-the2nd 4y ago
Also this is just weird, it tries to be EE but it just ends up being convoluted without applying the patterns correctly. E.g. all the logic is executed in the constructor of HelloWorld.java - I can't imagine that ever getting past cod
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by Tiddles-the2nd 4y ago
Obligatory Fizz-Buzz EE. https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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by Tiddles-the2nd 4y ago
If the test was done on a single processor and not repeated it's possible only that particular chip has this unique behaviour.
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by Tiddles-the2nd 4y ago
> “I decided it was probably not worth $7,000, [to sue Google]” he said. This is a big part of the problem, technically you have a recourse, but the cost for individuals is a barrier to justice. Organisations have a lot of freedom to act
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by Tiddles-the2nd 4y ago
As an interpreter, it could be very powerful for development, prototyping, and developing POCs.
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by Tiddles-the2nd 4y ago
Not a useful comment 20 minutes into an outage. The internet is an interconnected web of dependencies. Unless you are Cloudflare/Akamai/Amazon/Google there is no self-hosted anymore. You can host in your basement if you like
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by Tiddles-the2nd 4y ago
That's the point, take a look into salting + hashing passwords
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by Tiddles-the2nd 5y ago
I'll also plug pwndbg[1] here. Like Gef it greatly extends the utility of GDB, and is oriented around exploit development. [1] https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg
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by Tiddles-the2nd 5y ago
Visually it looks very cool, but I agree it's not very helpful. At the very least each result and RC should be in a different colour.
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by Tiddles-the2nd 5y ago
xchg %ax,%ax is the nop instruction. I would have expected to see <nop> written instead but the opcode (0x90) is shared by both. It's also possible that xchg %ax,%ax is has been decoded from a multi-byte nop (to align memory) be