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what does it say?

How can you write for LWN and not have heard of clone(CLONE_THREAD) and multithreading?

Im pretty sure the subscription is optional, and if you don't subscribe, you dont get the AI "features" and copilot.

Seems win/win to me.

260ft is around 79m. The bombs can penetrate around 60m of concrete. So one bomb, probably not, but they are able to follow each other in quick succession meaning 2 or three should be able to do the job quite easily, with accurate GPS positioning.

The question is unexplored territory, pun intended.

The FAA could deny approval for launch, but its unclear what the basis would be. What happens on Mars is out of it's jurisdiction, literally.

The UN governs Earth, not Mars. It could expand to cover Mars I suppose. It's the sort of pointless activity you could imagine the European Parliament obsessing over, but there is little they could do about an American launch company.

But the reality is we are centuries away from something approaching a land-rush on Mars, or actual competition between nations for control of anything.

I suspect it will be a "watch and wait and see" situation.

The passwords in phpBB3.3 use an exceptionally strong and secure method of encryption

I thought passwords were supposed to be hashed, not encrypted. This is bad.

Fair.

Exactly.

From what exactly? Turkey?

Hopefully when we go to Mars we leave cockroaches like you behind.

Most memory vulnerabilities are use-after-free which due to the nature of C is a very easy mistake to make.

Buffer overflows are simple inexcusable, especially if its "we didn't bother checking" rather than "we got the size wrong due to human error".

The first case is not normal, people like that should not be programming HTML let alone C code.

Am I the only one who finds it highly annoying that exclusive domain names are registered for individual CVEs?

No, but I would never, ever, ever, EVER write data to a buffer without specifying the buffer size or reallocing where necessary.

This just smells so much like a Javascript script kiddy who wanted to join the cool brigade and write something h4kor1sh in C. Ugh.

For robotics sake, I hope not.

By reading the source code, I realized that the incoming data was put into a fixed-size static buffer in the stack, and the payload was decrypted into another fixed-size buffer. There’s no boundary or size check.

This is not normal. It's amateurish in the extreme that leads to the only conclusion that whoever wrote this ZeroMQ thing is not a real software engineer. I.e. stay away at all costs.

The more I use ChatGPT, the useless I realize it is.

It looks impressive at first, until you realize it is like a trick pony. Don't get it to haul your luggage.

It gives apparently good summaries of sometimes complex topics. But then you ask it to explain things in more detail...welcome to a special hell of circular reasoning, inherent contradictions, and surprising about-faces that occur even when you ask a complementary question (complementary as in congruent not admiring).

ChatGPT: <long verbose answer...>

Me: Oh so your saying X implies Y but not Z? (which previous answer did)

ChatGPT: Apologies for causing confusion, I misspoke.... (go on to give a worse response now)

Me: But your first response was OK, I just wanted to clarify XYZ...

ChatGPT: <now gives a response with directly conflicting statements>

How many times have you seen this?

After spending billions of dollars on a light attack/recon heli that will never fly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%E2%80%93Sikorsky_RAH-66...

How could a leading research organization not have heard or divorce and child support?

Gak, as someone who has lived in both this is missing the real question which actually also answers this question...

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD DRIVE A CAR IN SYDNEY???

The initial benchmarks show something of a 2-9% performance improvement. You might be disappointed by this number, especially since this blog post has been talking about assembly and machine code and nothing is faster than that right? Well, remember that CPython is already written in C and that was already compiled to machine-code by the C compiler.

WTF has this to do with JITing the code written in Python?

So will this be the year of the Linux desktop?

Imagine a language with an entire system of honorific speech required when speaking to one's superiors. Oh wait...they already exist.

is essential to nearly any large, complex software system

in performance sensitive code

Those two things are not the same.

yes

There's something about that title...

Not for me. Maybe your getting ABed.

It's a classic victim of shitty, shitty software developers who blames tools rather than taking ownership.

Or shitty software dev companies that push out crap to meet marketing deadlines.

Either way, take your money elsewhere.

I always browse with JS disabled, and it loads fine for me just now.

Unlike in the 21st century where 100% of the population has exactly the same sleep pattern and sleeps exactly 8 hours a night from the same time to the same time.

/s

Lifetime of microeletronics is often quoted at around 30 years. So that's once a millisecond. For a refresh cycle that does not seem extraordinary.