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Do you know that its little brother, the arithmetic overflow, is NOT checked for by default in C# projects? You have to navigate thru the properties of your project, to the Build tab, click the Advanced button, then mark "Check for arithmetic overflow/underflow". Otherwise, no run-time exception will be thrown when multiplying a million by a million with 32 bit integers.
Since those bugs are so old, nobody cares anymore, and they will become much more common than they are now. Sure.
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: the arithmetic overflow, is NOT checked for by default in C# projects?
Amusingly, I had tested that last week when I wrote the article on hashcash, because I wanted to verify that it did throw an exception on overflow, and lo-and-behold, it did not. 
Didn't know about the option to enable it though. I'll have to look to see what other gems there are under Advanced.
Marc
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I thought companies these days ran code analysis software like Klocwork or similar product to find these errors.
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At Caltech, a group of researchers led by Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Lulu Qian is working to create circuits using not the usual silicon transistors but strands of DNA. I just sneezed a NAND gate
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Hello my name is: "00010110010000011111......"
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Bots appear to behave differently in culturally distinct online environments. A new paper says the findings are a warning to those using artificial intelligence for building autonomous vehicles, cyber security systems or for managing social media. Yo mamma was written in VB
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Quote: The average time between successive reverts for humans is 2 minutes, then 24 hours or one year, says the paper.
Why wasn't I informed that the meaning of "average" has changed?
Glad I don't have to read the whole paper.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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have an 's'. Clearly the author's describing a multimodal distribution with 3 major peaks.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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So I'll need "p", an "e", an "a", and a "k", to go along with that "s".
If he wanted to say "the peaks averaged at~~" then that's what he should have said.
If people don't speak/write clearly, when explaining complex things, then their explanation is worse than no explanation, because you can't trust it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Good article on the Wikipedia bots in The Guardian[^] today.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I think this could be restated as:
"Humans are violent social primates oriented toward dominance hierarchies, and the acquisition, and defense, of territory.
Computer bots, created by humans, imitate their creators."
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Someone knows how to sell "concurrency".
"What, no, the problem is not that the database isn't normalized - it is under attack by the clients!"
I can guess which department this 'science' comes from, this must be marketing 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The world of job interviews for these experienced (or older) developers is a world of subtle discrimination and having to explain why their skill set is still valuable, despite it being labeled as obsolete or outdated. I'm not old, I'm ripened
But not ripe.
I hope. :sniff:
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Just keep your arms by your sides, eh? Canada's not that far away.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A new study finds that tech reporting is generally more pessimistic now than in the past, and for two very different reasons. You see? It's not just me.
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How in Hell is anyone expected to report optimistically about the antics of ms, google, etc?
And look how long it took for the technophobe card to be played.
When that's the knee-jerk reaction of twats who don't know a tenth of what we know about computing, do they really expect us to be all sunshine and lollipops?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You can already use Visual Studio 2017 for Coroutines, Modules, and Ranges through a fork of Range-v3. Now you can also learn Concepts in Visual Studio 2017 by targeting the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In case you're unclear on Concepts
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If you've got an air-gapped computer, it might be time to cover up the hard drive's leaky flashing LED lights. Of course, if you let drones fly in your server room, you've got bigger security problems
"If an attacker did manage to infect an air-gapped computer, they could steal data semi-remotely..." Kinda big 'if' on that 'security problem'.
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"Yes, but it is in the cloud"
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Is it the first of April already?
What an absolutely moronic "discovery".
"Hey, I've got a great idea! Let's get access to that air-gapped server, so we can install and configure malware on it, then we can spend a day or two at the server's KVM, grabbing secret stuff, and then sit in front of the server with a bulky ultra-high-speed movie camera to read the data off really slowly!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google’s Jigsaw unit, as part of a larger effort to battle online trolling, said earlier today that it was releasing a new tool called Perspective, software that uses machine learning to detect harassment and abuse online. Does it report this as "fake news"?
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Will this mean I can't post here any more??
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I detect Kent.
That wasn't difficult.
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Wow!
This image[^] from the article shows that it could be really useful!
Quote: “Bad hombre” is 55 percent similar to comments people labeled as toxic.
heh
Maybe someone should start looking for a new nickname.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The SHA1 collision is documented in a research paper published Thursday. It presents two PDF files that, despite displaying different content, have the same SHA1 hash. The researchers warned that the same technique—which costs as little as $110,000 to carry out on Amazon's cloud computing platform—could be used to create collisions in GIT file objects or digital certificates.
Saying it's dead - as opposed to saying it should be sent to the great server farm in the sky - is overstating it. We all know a decade from now that along with MD5, and plaintext, SHA1 password dumps following breaches will be horrifyingly common.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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