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by jacquesgt 3mo ago
While hinting is disabled for most fonts, there are some fonts that require hinting to render correctly. We have to support hinting for those fonts, and it was easier to make it secure by rewriting hinting in Swift than it would have been t
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by jacquesgt 3mo ago
If you want to help improve the security of OS software through the magic of memory safe languages, the team that did this work is hiring: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=Spear&sort=releva... Knowledge o
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by jacquesgt 11mo ago
Liron is an incredible photographer. Well worth checking out his instagram at https://www.instagram.com/liron_gertsman_photography He and another photographer recently did a project to photograph a bird in front of erupting
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by jacquesgt 3y ago
The names of some birds still reflect this. For example, the ring-necked duck has a ring around its neck that’s almost impossible to see a on a live bird.
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by jacquesgt 6y ago
Apple | Software Engineer | Cupertino, CA/San Diego, CA/Portland, OR/Austin, TX | Onsite We’re the team that designs and develops the operating system for the Secure Enclave used in iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and macOS devices. We d
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by jacquesgt 6y ago
Apple | Software Engineer | Cupertino, CA/San Diego, CA/Portland, OR/Austin, TX | Onsite We’re the team that designs and develops the operating system for the Secure Enclave used in iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and macOS devices. We d
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by jacquesgt 6y ago
Apple | Software Engineer | Cupertino, CA/San Diego, CA/Portland, OR/Austin, TX | Onsite We’re the team that designs and develops the operating system for the Secure Enclave used in iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and macOS devices. We d
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Nanoprintf(github.com)
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by jacquesgt 7y ago
You may be right about the averaging. From rereading the accident report, the Pilot Flying took back control of the plane after the Pilot Not Flying engaged his controls and tried to pitch down. But, it’s the same basic idea. The PNF though
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by jacquesgt 7y ago
Part of the issue may have been that the plane had slowed down so much that the stall warning stopped (it disengages below a certain airspeed apparently). When he stopped pulling up, the plane sped up and the stall warning started again. Pu
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by jacquesgt 7y ago
AF 447 wasn’t all that different from this situation. One of the co-pilots was trying to pitch the nose down to recover from the stall. The other was panicking and trying to pitch up. The plane averaged their inputs, without giving feedback
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by jacquesgt 7y ago
I used to work in the industrial controls industry. The systems are often designed by application engineers working for the industrial control equipment’s manufacturer or distributor. In the case of distributors, the engineering work is oft
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by jacquesgt 9y ago
I'm not seeing how it's unpredictable and inconvenient. It's predictable if the stack address can be leaked (via a frame pointer leak, for example). It doesn't seem that inconvenient. Instead of including the address of
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by jacquesgt 9y ago
I feel like I’m missing something here. An infoleak is required to successfully ROP against ASLR (otherwise the attacker doesn’t know what to overwrite the return address with). Once an infoleak is available, the address of the stack can be
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by jacquesgt 9y ago
I believe they're Zigbee Home Automation, not ZLL. Either that or they're improperly reporting that they support ZHA instead of ZLL, which causes issues for 3rd party bridges like Philips Hue. https://developers.meethue
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by jacquesgt 10y ago
If you find yourself starting a comment with “not to sound rude”, you might consider whether skipping the comment altogether is the best way to not be rude.
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by jacquesgt 10y ago
Their theory is spelled out pretty clearly in the article. There are 1800 taxicabs permitted to operate in the city and many more Ubers/Lyfts. The fact that people who use Uber and Lyft have to wait less is nice for them, but not so ni
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by jacquesgt 10y ago
Yes, the treatment of their employees in the workplace is very much Google's business. Accomodating LGBT employees is not only the right thing to do, it's also supported by many of the binary/cisgender/straight/non-
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by jacquesgt 10y ago
But see also: > In particular, I’m still conflicted about whether all those type system extensions were warranted. Certainly immutability helped with things far beyond safe concurrency. And so did the side-effect annotations, as they com
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by jacquesgt 10y ago
The proposal was to allow for as-of-right development if the development adhered to local zoning ordinances. That means no variances. As soon as a developer wanted a variance, they'd be back under the current system.
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by jacquesgt 10y ago
I think you’re missing the fact that "There are a lot of rules you need to be aware of that are not naturally-occurring results of the fundamentals."
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by jacquesgt 11y ago
Not that I’m speaking for everyone on HN, but the problem is generally with wide-ranging surveillance of the entire populace in the hopes that they can data-mine their way to victory. Figuring out techniques like this to surveil actual terr
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by jacquesgt 11y ago
Which is a perfect example of why their approach is better. Less arithmetic to get right with their approach.
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by jacquesgt 11y ago
This is a remarkably content-free posting. > People become corporate do-nothings because it’s easy to become disconnected from the act of creating when you’re at a big company. Even at the best big companies, employees can just do things
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by jacquesgt 11y ago
That's the point. Paris is the second-lowest on that list. The other places listed are all Parisian suburbs. "Because they exiled all future high rises to some far neighborhood like La Défense, they were segregating growth."
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by jacquesgt 12y ago
Non-stack variables can be static instead of global. Either file-scoped or function-scoped.
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by jacquesgt 12y ago
AFL isn’t a source-level fuzzer. It interposes between the compiler and the assembler to add instrumentation to assembly code emitted by the compiler. Shouldn’t it be possible to do the same thing via binary rewriting or emulation in cases
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by jacquesgt 12y ago
Slimy is telling a woman she can't be called a cofounder because "she's a girl". Slimy is threatening to fire a subordinate if they won't date you. Slimy is ignoring complaints from an employee about sexual harassme
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by jacquesgt 12y ago
Why is this question only directed at men? Are women's views on this matter invalid because they're held by women?
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by jacquesgt 12y ago
It’s covered in the article: "The benefits of connecting with others also turn out to be contagious. Dr. Epley and Ms. Schroeder found that when one person took the initiative to speak to another in a waiting room, both people reported

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