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by breadbox 7y ago
Thank you for the compliment, but I hope my essay convinces you that it's actually not as hard as it sounds!
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Bootstrapping Understanding: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering(muppetlabs.com)
148 points by breadbox 7y ago|10 comments
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by breadbox 7y ago
Yes, part of the usual process of making a tiny binary is jettisoning much of the overhead that debuggers depend on in order to find their way through an external program. Not just the debugging symbols themselves, but things like section h
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Battle of the bulges: Have astronomers been wrong about spiral galaxies? (2019)(syfy.com)
5 points by breadbox 7y ago|0 comments
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Emoji, part 6c: to infinity and beyond?(shadycharacters.co.uk)
31 points by breadbox 7y ago|31 comments
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737: The Max Mess(bit-player.org)
35 points by breadbox 7y ago|44 comments
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by breadbox 7y ago
Fascinating! Thanks so much to the company for writing this followup -- every year or so I've wondered how this company was doing and if the experiment was still going. It's heartening to learn that it is.
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Reflections on Rereading “Slaughterhouse-Five”(charlespetzold.com)
2 points by breadbox 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A Colorized Hexdump Tool(muppetlabs.com)
3 points by breadbox 7y ago|0 comments
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Bootstrapping Understanding: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering(muppetlabs.com)
3 points by breadbox 7y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 8y ago
I typically end up playing card games -- either various forms of solitaire, or something like Hearts with AI opponents.
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The trouble with emoji (part 6a)(shadycharacters.co.uk)
1 points by breadbox 8y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 8y ago
I found Kopp's article easier to follow after reading Siegel's, myself. YMMV
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Is There a Fourth Neutrino Out There in the Universe?(medium.com)
128 points by breadbox 8y ago|41 comments
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Is There Really a Fourth Neutrino Out There in the Universe?(medium.com)
1 points by breadbox 8y ago|0 comments
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Chinese translation app with built in censorship(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
4 points by breadbox 8y ago|0 comments
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Goolnik Gets Google to Forget Story About Him Getting Google to Forget About Him(techdirt.com)
1 points by breadbox 8y ago|0 comments
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The Mind Wanders(bit-player.org)
1 points by breadbox 8y ago|0 comments
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Author Trademarks the Word 'Cocky,' Earns the Ire of Romance Writers Everywhere(eff.org)
2 points by breadbox 8y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 8y ago
Of course it's a bummer. Reading about sexual abusers getting away with same is always a bummer. But remember that this heads-in-the-sand attitude of I'd-rather-not-find-out is how these people get away with it in the first place.
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by breadbox 8y ago
Me, I'd put it on my resume.
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by breadbox 8y ago
And therein lies the issue. Everyone does just that, causing needless clashes. If you're writing a library, you can either switch back to the standard type names in your external header file, or you include the typedefs/macros the
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The 4 Scientific Lessons Stephen Hawking Never Learned(medium.com)
2 points by breadbox 9y ago|0 comments
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The Secret Racist History of Clickbait(elsewhere.org)
3 points by breadbox 9y ago|0 comments
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The Threats to the Net(bit-player.org)
1 points by breadbox 9y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 9y ago
While the article is strongly sympathetic to Padgett's answer, various hints seep through that Padgett is actually a bit of a crackpot, and his solution is a bit of a Bible Code. Nothing too obvious, but the sort of thing one recognize
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Is there a practical limit to how much can fit in Unicode?(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
2 points by breadbox 9y ago|0 comments
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How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates Unicode's Standardization Efforts(nytimes.com)
1 points by breadbox 9y ago|0 comments
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The Hubble Space Telescope Is Falling(medium.com)
2 points by breadbox 9y ago|1 comments
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“Artist=President Barack Obama”(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by breadbox 9y ago|0 comments

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