The result I get has an entire section dedicated to scammers using the company name. The only links in that section go to a wikipedia page that doesn't mention any scams and a police help page that doesn't mention the company.
> due to how easy it is to trick them into installing something
You have tools from large corporations where the official installation procedure involves copy pasting a command from a random blog post, run it with sudo and watch it download and execute a script from a random filehost. This is somehow deemed acceptable by everyone involved.
Meanwhile I can't use teams in our meeting rooms, since any form of internet access was deemed a security risk in rooms where customer projects could be discussed. This is in a day and age where 90% of customer meetings are done over the internet.
Anyone trying to follow sane practices in this industry just asks to end up in a padded cell.
> Meanwhile I can't use teams in our meeting rooms, since any form of internet access was deemed a security risk in rooms where customer projects could be discussed. This is in a day and age where 90% of customer meetings are done over the internet.
I hope this is in jest. Are you saying in order to discuss any customer project you have to book a meeting room? So no discussions of customer projects at the open plan desks or even in your boss' office for fear that something might overhear that conversation? Or is this only when the customer happens to be on-site to discuss their project? Does your organization assign U.S. Military style NICKA code names to everything?
vfork() does NOT stop the world in many / most implementations. The ones that do stop the world do it because someone misunderstood the whole "vfork() stops the parent process" -- yes, it stops the parent process in a pre-threads world, but it doesn't have to stop any other threads but the one that called vfork(). Indeed, many implementations don't do that.
(Someone once tried to make NetBSD's vfork() stop the world because that's what the pre-threading man page said it does. I did my utter best to keep that from happening at the time, and it didn't then. Hopefully no one tried again later.)
> In modern CPUs a mispredicted branch is much more expensive than a memory write.
Mostly because of caching. The writes either go to the same address as a previous one or move only a small increment, so most writes are likely going to hit L1 cache. If it wrote to a random memory location after every iteration the cost of a misprediction would probably disappear in the noise.
That was an unrelated issue from an audit that had been done before the heist.
One of the theories right after the heist was that the thieves where former security guards. France had just laid of most of the museums security, the alarm triggered just fine, there just wasn't anyone left to respond.
> If some architecture traps on unaligned access, then the compiler can and should simply generate the correct code so that it loads the integer piece by piece instead.
Wouldn't the compiler have to assume that every pointer access might be unaligned and do the slow "piece by piece" access every time? It can hardly guess the runtime value of a pointer during compilation.
It should be able to make a lot of inferences. For example, taking the address of some value allocated by the compiler itself results in an aligned pointer unless the programmer overrides it. Compiler should be able to trace it from there. Pointers from malloc are also aligned.
If compiler is not doing it for some reason, __builtin_assume_aligned can be used to explicitly mark a pointer as aligned.
> produced one of the largest open source ecosystems in use (.NET)
Are they going to ship an official cross platform UI library any time the next century? Decades after the Java lawsuit they still ship only a crippled copy of their scrapped Microsoft JVM for other platforms.
> Microsoft is a huge open source contributor now
Aren't almost all of their contributions for integration with their proprietary technology?
> Sorry to say, but believing nothing with MS has changed is deranged.
Yes, they got worse. They maintained Windows XP for ages and you could actually feel the improvements they shipped. Windows 11 meanwhile makes me wait for them to add a robotic arm with a knife as hardware requirement, to improve the backstabbing experience.
> Are they going to ship an official cross platform UI library any time the next century?
So because they haven't produced your pet project means they haven't changed?
> Aren't almost all of their contributions for integration with their proprietary technology?
No. They didn't have to make .NET cross platform and run equally well on Linux, they didn't have to join the Linux foundation and make contributions to the Linux kernel. There are hundreds if not thousands of examples like this that would have been unthinkable under Gates and Balmer Microsoft.
> Windows 11 meanwhile makes me wait for them to add a robotic arm with a knife as hardware requirement, to improve the backstabbing experience.
Microsoft is much, much larger than just Windows. You seem to have a very limited understanding of everything they do.
The MA hate is real and well deserved but there actually was a period of time where IE was the browser of choice for all the right reasons. People forget that part, but Microsoft has really made good products when they want to.
Plus IE got the box model right in the first place. It really was a good browser and had an interesting design with COM / MSHTML for embedding. The problem really was that it stagnated and had no real competition until Chrome (even though Firefox was slowly gaining traction)
Plus during this time there was little competition on the desktop market in general. iPhone and smart phones, and the Apple resurgence, was yet to come.
Yep, the IE 6 era felt like it lasted forever. It was a solid browser, relatively stable and fast (compared to Netscape, at least.) IE was also the main browser on Mac OS X for the first couple of releases!
I am not a facebook user, but going by that post they seem to go a step further and outright block any links pointing to news sites. The article mentions some provisions in the Italian law that prohibit restricting visiblity of the news sites, at least during negotiations, so that kind of salted earth move could backfire .
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