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Pop quiz: what virus is in the smallpox vaccine? What about the monkeypox vaccine? Nope .
We have cryptographically-appopriate RNGs, do we now need medically-appropriate ones?
We've talked about emoji as an encoding before but now, shockingly, it's also an attack vector . Presumably, they set this up after buying a VM from a vending machine but before the floods .
Turns out, we had ignition a while back.
Query wikipedia via sql . Maybe soon via postgres in the browser ?
Ever see a 56k modem handshake? Good visualization of DTMF , too.
Very enjoyable journey to setting the world HATERIS record .
We thought we knew how color worked for a hundred years and we were wrong .
Sigh .
Living in a van, down by the moon pit .
Eww. Clever, but ewww .
Amazing how your dreams change between freshman and sophomore year.
"It's just metadata, what could it hurt?" Validate the correctness of complicated systems by making sure it keeps doing what it was doing before .
We don't need no stinkin' function bodies .
Linux mdraid lets you do some evil, evil things .
Hyphenating words is easy, right?
Don't worry, the faked Alzheimer's research is bad but we've been wasting our time for much longer than that .
I have no snarky comment here. Please don't let robots near humans .
I did not have "4chan was a Hatsune Miku underground marketing play all along" on my 2022 bingo card.
Little things matter .
That is a lot easier way to explain calculus, isn't it? Now that is a great idea. All the amps are right there, after all .
I'LL TAKE FIVE DOZEN From the we-are-living-in-military-sf department: "Don't worry Sergeant, the armor can tell that the bullet missed eveything important , it's some real star trek shit and we can just grow you a new gall bladder anyway. Now get back to work, we have to load the reactor on the C-17 , right next to the isolation lab . Once the boffins extract the data from that chip , we'll be able to disable all those robot dogs . Oh the reactor is quite safe. If the explosion goes backwards, though , your armor's geiger counter will push the fun button ."
The real He Who Shall Not Be Named .
536 was not the worst year, the cat gap was much worse. Proailurus is definitely the name of my pussycat dolls gegorian chant cover band.
It is a certain kind of hardcore to get wireshark to read from an oscilliscope .
Sigh, it has been zero days since a wildly insecure crypto system was utterly hacked .
Sadly, it has also been zero days since a brand new NIST standard was blown wide open so I guess there's plenty to go around. "Is there a simple way to explain the magic ingredient? Nope. Go learn about Richelot isogenies and abelian surfaces. "
Look, when just-in-time stops working and you need critical supplies, you do what you need to .
oh, good, more bleed .
Build your own quantum computer for pennies, sort of .
It's more than a little ironic that the first really interesting non-financial blockchain concept comes to my attention just as the rest of the industry is having shall we say a bad time.
Microsoft published a causal inference library a while ago and I somehow missed it?
Oh, you're still putting your headers at the beginning ?
Not all water is blue .
Want to learn to use a mainframe? I had never thought of thinking of mutexes as a graph to avoid deadlocks but apparently it's quite well known
Only the purest zipfiles served here .
HAL, eat your heart out .
Linux 5.20 To Support Async Buffered Writes For XFS + IO_uring , Rust (?!).
Searching for planets by occultation, Pluto edition . Is our solar system unique?
Detect radiation with only your smartphone .
"Progress in each of these domains is at or near the human clinical-trial stage, bringing the audacious goal of vision restoration within sight." Please check out my new comic book, Cyborg Insect Cancer Scanner .
SQLite is great but did you know it can do a lot of wild one-liners on CSV files?
I wonder who the main consumers of a lower-latency path from Europe to Asia will be .
pew pew
Really loving what oxide is building .
Has that thing you're worried about ever happened, even once, to anyone?