The floor strikes again, in this 5 years old open* problem 🗿 have fun solving it! NYEH HEH HEH!
* there is nothing open about this problem, I’m just kidding. In fact, even the set of solutions isn’t open.
My IP was too clean on https://t.co/j9MJwKtzz9, they wouldn’t let me hang with the console cowboys in cyberspace, so I bought this pre-infected android TV box at Walmart for black Friday to join a residential IP botnet that’s whitelabeled and used by commercial AI data scrapers
Root cause was a bug in newish Rust code. The larger config file merely triggered that bug. Don’t blame the input. The Rust code should have handled it gracefully.
Cloudflare went down because a ClickHouse change made a metadata query return duplicate columns. That blew up the size of a config file, it spread across the network and one module couldn’t handle the larger file and crashed. Everything after that was basically fallout from this chain reaction 😅
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Your display has 5 rows of dots moving right, 5 rows moving left, etc. CM5 display in Jurassic Park simulated two sheets of dots moving across each other, with dot patterns combined using “OR”. Each row had a pattern of dots moving right, and another pattern of dots moving left.
Remember the Thinking Machines CM5 in the background of Jurassic Park? I wanted to copy the CM5 LED effect for my VAX, so I reached out to one of the original designers, Tamiko.
He said that Thinking Machines' president, Sheryl Handler, had asked if the CM lights could be made to blink in a "Random and Pleasing manner". Apparently, Don Aronson wrote the R&P effect for the CM-2, but I'm still waiting to hear back from him!
In the meantime, I did my best take based on what you see in the movie...
Safe Pointer Handling in C (Easy)
Null pointer dereferences are a classic C gotcha, killing your program if you don’t watch out.
Always initialize pointers to NULL and check them before use. Here’s a tight, secure C snippet to handle pointers like a pro, keeping crashes at bay.
1/ The most powerful hacker in the world right now is femboy·cat who is able to control 5% of Internet hosts, making them the all-time champion of the IPv4 Games.