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vadiml··on Fixing memory leaks in popular Python libraries
You're 100% right... In this case the shutdown is called with RDWR... so the author could simply call close!
vadiml··on Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp
I doubt that people were building paper planes thousands of years ago given the fact that cheap universally available paper is pretty recent invention
vadiml··on Is “KAX17” performing de-anonymization Attacks against Tor Users?
There are news coming from russian Twitter bloggers that Tor is blocked in Russia.
vadiml··on The machine that saved Moore's Law
They say in that article the Intel will produce chips based on 10nm tech in 2025. However Wikipedia says the Apple M1 chips are currently using 5nm tech... How come?
vadiml··on An Implementation of J – Incunabulum (2008)
I did some APL coding like 40 years ago.... I did like it at the time, but this family of languages provokes WRITE ONLY coding style.... While you actively working on some code, it's ok... but when you come back to a code written couple of month ago or written by someone else you're pulling you hair out trying to understand it
vadiml··on Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer
Well, you should not promise them to return wit tanks and they will be pretty welcoming
vadiml··on Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]
Usually you can't patent facts. If it is natural (not synthetic) gene sequence they shouldn't be able to patent it...
vadiml··on Show HN: TidalWaves API – live, tokenized news metadata from around the world
In the json data sample the site shows, what does 'tone' field means?
vadiml··on AWS Copilot
The example yaml file contains cpu: 1024, but the text says deploy on 1 cpu?
vadiml··on Sortition
Don't you personally know somebody who you consider be a good candidate? I do...
vadiml··on Sortition
Suppose the candidates for the sortition are selected using following method: Phase 1: Each citizen has a right to nominate one candidate. We assume that citizens will nominate persons with whom they are acquainted personally and whom they believe are honest and competetnt. Phase 2: We count nominations for each potential candidate end keep in the pool only these who have between 10 and 50 nominations. This way we select only person who are considered honest and competent by at least 10 people, and who are also NOT public figures. Phase 3. We implement sortition between the candidates left in the pool. This way we have excellent probability to have parliament full of honest and competent people.
vadiml··on Sortition
Suppose the candidates for the sortition are selected using following method: Phase 1: Each citizen has a right to nominate one candidate. We assume that citizens will nominate persons with whom they are acquainted personally and whom they believe are honest and competetnt. Phase 2: We count nominations for each potential candidate end keep in the pool only these who have between 10 and 50 nominations. This way we select only person who are considered honest and competent by at least 10 people, and who are also NOT public figures. Phase 3. We implement sortition between the candidates left in the pool. This way we have excellent probability to have parliament full of honest and competent peuople.
vadiml··on Hydroxychloroquine Covid-19: a multinational registry analysis [pdf]
The study say nothing on what stade of infection the treatment was applied. The HCQ + AZT treatment was shown effective on initial infection stages, before heavy symptoms appears.
vadiml··on An animal that doesn't breathe oxygen
This is proto-zombie animal
vadiml··on Equality Is Hard
Hm...

let john = { Name = "John"; Age = 15; Offspring = [] }; let jane = { Name = "Jane"; Age = 47; Offspring = [ john ] } let sue = { Name = "Sue"; Age = 35; Offspring = [ john ] }

Not very realistic :)

vadiml··on Show HN: Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium
I've been using SiculiX for GUI testing.... It has GUI and OCR, i wonder if helium could be in SiculiX scripts
vadiml··on K7 Tutorial
K7 like it's ancestor APL is extremely powerful language, whit great signal to noise ratios. However it is kind of "write-only" language.. When trying to read a code not written by you (or written by you couple of monthes ago) you struggle to understand it...
vadiml··on The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
I wonder, given the fact the C&C were identified, wouldn't be external firewall configuration much cheaper mitigation method than motherboard replacement?
vadiml··on Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life
What a shitty reporting: no reporter name, no scientist(s) name. Coming from the country where secret services are known to fake urine samples from sportsmen... I wouldn't take it at the face value...
vadiml··on The Refuseniks
He probably does not remember the details. It was long time ago and he was under a lot of stress
vadiml··on Open Source Project Name Checker
Typing git... Nothing happens
vadiml··on How I implemented my own crypto
Hi,

I've browsed through the code and i don't see why say it is not good in MT setting... an first view the code is completely reentrant...

Another thought: i strongly suspect that inlining these store_le... and load_le... function will show pretty significant performance boost

vadiml··on Pillow-SIMD – Fast, production-ready image resize for x86
Great work and great article. One question though: Did you consider to replace convolution based filters by FFT based ones ?
vadiml··on CIA malware and hacking tools
This is TOTALLY wrong.... All code developed by US Governement is PUBLIC DOMAIN.
vadiml··on SQLite and Android N (2016)
I would suggest another approach: 1) Import the source android.database.sqlite package while renaming it to my.database.sqlite 2) modify it trivially to load your own instance of sqlite....
vadiml··on Show HN: Q8, an In-Browser VM for Learning and Visualizing Bytecode Programming
Great stuff... However in the sidebars containing disassembly for first 3 samples all adresses seems to be offset by +1 (or memory image contents is offset by -1)
vadiml··on Why isn't memset() async-signal-safe?
I was under impression that signals are delivered to a process only when process is executing a syscall. Given the fact that memset or memmove are note executing any syscalls they will not be interrupted by a signal handler. Am i wrong?
vadiml··on Elementary proof that e is irrational
He writes 'but the left side is an integer'.... IMO the left side of the last equation is equal 0.... Any comments?
vadiml··on Nommu Linux
What is difference between nommu linux and uclinux?
vadiml··on 150,000 IoT Devices Behind the 1Tbps DDoS Attack on OVH
Simply set up your firewall to drop outgoing packets with source address not belonging to your subnet. The DDOS slaves are usually sending packets with spoofed source ip addresses
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