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by showdead 3y ago
From 2008, but still applicable: https://nealabq.com/blog/2008/09/15/bugs-returned-mem-refs/
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by showdead 5y ago
Oh, the irony. https://iili.io/qkNFd7.png
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by showdead 6y ago
Someone tracked this down to a piece of software called Live! Cam Avatar: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56010156
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by showdead 6y ago
> x86 is notable in that you can cause a branch or jump without calling a branch or jump instruction. I'm curious what you are referring to here. Are you talking about CMOV? Or INT/SYSCALL/SYSENTER? Or just the ability
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by showdead 7y ago
It's because they have the "American dream" of rising to the top. https://youtu.be/xxD9nGL3NLY
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by showdead 7y ago
Not disputing this, but the UX of navigating to a bank's website using Chrome on XP and getting redirected to a "Download Chrome" link when there isn't a newer version for your OS isn't a great experience either.
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by showdead 7y ago
Or just turn off javascript for the site, and the paywall doesn't happen.
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by showdead 7y ago
Less effective at cooling, more effective at dehumidifying (it seems there is a presumption that dehumidification is roughly linear with operating time.)
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by showdead 7y ago
I think this is what is being referred to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052
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by showdead 7y ago
For N=104, if you look at the PDF and zoom in, you can see the blue circles have a line rather than a dot. Admittedly, it is hard to see why the blue circles do not have enough freedom to move slightly away and become magenta (particularly
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by showdead 7y ago
> So they have a duty to select a CEO who doesn't enable the unnecessary waste of corporate money on optional taxes. Waste is one of a very short list of categories that are considered something no one wants: https://med
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by showdead 7y ago
That might be true, but the reason for this recommendation is because botulism spores can exist in honey and the systems (mostly gut bacteria, from what I understand) of infants are not developed enough to deal with it, unlike older childre
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by showdead 7y ago
> I'm not sure I've ever seen the design you're referring to I think this style is what was being referred to: https://www.amazon.com/Stansport-Aluminum-Scout-Canteen-1-Qu... This particular item does not
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by showdead 7y ago
I basically gave up on twitch after it stopped working on the Xbox 360. The app just shows thumbnails but never streams. It doesn't work right in the browser for me either, probably due to running an old version of Chrome, but it use
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by showdead 7y ago
Nothing. It made the news in 2009 in Phoenix: http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/airport-luggage-theft/
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by showdead 7y ago
The paper talks about dynamic networks where nodes are being added or removed. If m and k are fixed, does it set an effective upper bound on the number of nodes? How do you address the possibility of multiple nodes having colliding ha
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by showdead 7y ago
If you have array @foo in perl, $#foo is the index of the last element of the array, which is just the size of the array -1. So if @foo is undefined, $#foo is -1. Using a variable instead of 'foo' is a symbolic reference, so this
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by showdead 7y ago
It is much older than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell,_book,_and_candle I believe in contemporary use it has become associated with witches, and I have seen it used as a general "occult" reference.
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by showdead 8y ago
The popularity of lobster is generally attributed to it being canned and served on the railroads (thinking that they could get away with serving cheap meat to customers in the midwest unfamiliar with it) and then people developing a taste f
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by showdead 8y ago
Calculator is interesting in that there is a physical button on (many) keyboards to open it. Ironically enough, I encountered a bug with the Windows 10 calculator that caused it to crash upon opening: the window would draw, then a second l
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by showdead 8y ago
I remember getting a free polo shirt with the AltaVista logo embroidered on it. I don't recall the specific circumstances that led to being sent a shirt, and I wore holes in it so I no longer have it, but it really was superior to the
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by showdead 8y ago
The US does have a television network called PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) which is a non-profit organization although it is only partially government funded (they generally ask for donations from viewers about once a year). The qualit
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by showdead 9y ago
The term comes from the history of firefighting: http://www.firehydrant.org/info/hist-fp.html
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by showdead 9y ago
Well, there is this approach: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdint.h> #define FIZZ(x) (x & 0x0924) #define BUZZ(x) (x & 0x0210) #define FIZZBUZZ(x) (x & 0x4000) #defi
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by showdead 9y ago
I am reminded of this comic strip every time this comes up (despite it being from about 7 or 8 years ago): http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1883
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by showdead 9y ago
Apparently you can file separately in order to not take spousal income into account, then file an amended return to make it joint instead without recalculating the debt relief. Seems a bit shady to me, but apparently not uncommon.
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by showdead 12y ago
Glad to see that this was not dropped! I did notice that matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/ has been returning a 404 for the past month or two. Will there be a way to automatically submit / advance, for those of u
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by showdead 12y ago
That doesn't really do much for those of us with backgrounds that do not include Javascript / web development. Such as embedded processors, just to use an example that might be exactly the type of people who would find this challe
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by showdead 13y ago
This is one of the points where British English and American English diverge. Candy in the US is the generic word with the identical meaning as what in the UK is just called "sweets". Same thing as trousers / pants, althoug
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by showdead 14y ago
I got to level 6 before I quit. I'm certain I could complete it but I could not justify spending any more time on it. In contrast to their previous ctf, this time the contest itself seemed less technically robust. The site didn't work in

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