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scdlbx··on I'm going to build my own OpenClaw, with blackjack and bun
Nothing is secure.
scdlbx··on Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
The starquakes can make life difficult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starquake_(novel)
scdlbx··on Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?
The projects are more interesting and feel like they are actually benefiting humanity, rather than making money for some random company. Though there can be a lot more bureaucracy and friction. Pay is certainly less, though sometimes the benefits can be better.

There's also annoyances coming from political things, such as the budget not being done on time so no one gets paid or there are furlough days.

scdlbx··on Potential Impact of Spectre on Processors in the Power family
Not sure if the content changed, but the article currently states: "AIX and i operating system patches will start to become available February 12."
scdlbx··on Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk
My burner phone, with disabled wifi, bluetooth, and data, was owned this year.
scdlbx··on Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae
Try something like Glucerna. It's like Ensure but for diabetics, so it has a lot less sugar and carbs.
scdlbx··on Sed – An Introduction and Tutorial
I would consider 'sed 4d' to be significantly easier than doing the same in Perl, but I don't disagree that it's not that hard to do in either.
scdlbx··on Sed – An Introduction and Tutorial
It's a lot easier to delete specific lines using sed. Also you can have sed do replacements to the n'th instance of something. Doing that in Perl is a bit more complicated and a lot less succint.

$ echo "foo foo foo foo" | sed 's/foo/bar/3'

foo foo bar foo

scdlbx··on Life in New York City, Where Arrests Are Down and Tickets Are Rarities
That literally kills me.
scdlbx··on Watch This Tesla Drive Itself at the Press of a Button [video]
It varies state by state and can depend on what kind of road you are on. Most states define a default speed limit for roads and highways.
scdlbx··on Obama: NSA Must Reveal Bugs Like Heartbleed, Unless They Help the NSA
Allowing vast portions of the internet to be vulnerable to an exploit that leaks passwords and private keys seems like it is not in the interest of the security of the nation.
scdlbx··on Armored Car Used to Potentially Block Minuteman-Missile Launch (1987)
If you can maliciously drive an armored car onto a missile silo in a military base, you have already owned the military base.
scdlbx··on Pretty Perl
There are also decent SDL bindings for Perl. http://sdl.perl.org/
scdlbx··on Windows 8 to support ARM, System on a chip, architectures
Why? For the sole purpose of getting Win8 running on an iPad.
scdlbx··on Title Junk
An unfamiliar favicon lets me know I am not somewhere I normally would be, and to regard the site I am at more suspiciously. Without familiar favicons, I would treat every site that way before looking at the page more thoroughly. Obviously I do not rely solely on favicons, but they are a good initial way of orienting myself when looking at tabs.
scdlbx··on Title Junk
I can distinguish the icons of every site I visit on a semi-regular basis.
scdlbx··on Backscatter Machines Not Effective at Detecting Plastic Explosives
The assailant's body did a pretty good job of containing the explosion. The assailant didn't make it, but everyone else relatively okay.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/28/eveningnews/main53...

scdlbx··on Navy Sets World Record With Rail Gun
It is not that big compared to the guns on a destroyer or a battleship. It is still large and bulky, but not that far off.

Current destroyer's gun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%22/54_caliber_Mark_45_gun

Iowa Class gun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16%22/50_caliber_Mark_7_gun

scdlbx··on Ask HN: Has HN been slow/spotty loading for you?
I have not had any noticeable problems in the past week.
scdlbx··on The abominable strtok()
Always use strndup(). Never trust your input.
scdlbx··on Most common words unique to 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews
I would guess it is along the lines of "I am surprised Apple allowed this app in the AppStore"
scdlbx··on Scene-Demo running on ATM-machine
It could easily be a live ATM. Using the methods described by Barnaby Jack at this year's Black Hat and DefCon, they could have installed their software instead of Jack's Rootkit.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9179844/Barnaby...

scdlbx··on 25 Best Hangman Words
phlegm works fairly well, too.
scdlbx··on Your code should be taken out back, lined up against a wall, and machine-gunned
Actually, since st1 is a char* and the sizeof char is 1, that is a valid declaration. It just probably isn't doing what the writer expects. It allocates 5000 bytes and then moves the pointer to point at the very last byte.

edit: Though free()ing it would not work so well until you move the pointer back to the beginning of the 5000 bytes.

scdlbx··on My Google Interview
Positive that 'a' is on /dev/sda1. Running CentOS 5.5 and /dev/sda1 is ext3.

I get similar behavior on the other partition:

echo "a" > a; du -sh a

8.0K a

dumpe2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 | grep "Block size"

Block size: 4096

Though if I 'touch' the files to create them, they are the blocksize. Which seems odd, since on my AIX and HP-UX boxes that gives files of size 0.

scdlbx··on My Google Interview
That doesn't exactly work.

echo "a" > a; du -sh a; rm a

2.0K a

dumpe2fs /dev/sda1 | grep -i 'Block size'

Block size: 1024

scdlbx··on Poll: How do you use the comments and articles on HN?
I skim the beginning of the article to get a sense of the topic, then read the comments in an attempt to see if reading the article is worth while. If it appears that it is, I read the whole article.
scdlbx··on 300 actions a minute? Truly mastering StarCraft
Civilization?
scdlbx··on Xz
Software that was released 9 months ago isn't particularly new.
scdlbx··on USB True Random Number Generator
If the application running on the server needs to generate a lot of random numbers, yes.
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