Hasnain says:

Security is hard

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A cool way of using the rust borrow checker and type system to prevent misuse of micro controller APIs

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Stay classy, bay area

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I love these blog posts because they're always so well written and accessible.

And a 10-15x speedup is no laughing matter.

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Has anyone else run into this issue?

I guess this explains why my wifi would always get slow/useless every evening for months. I thought it was a load issue, but it might simply have been the fact that I got home at that time...

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Yay, now I can save the few hours I was planning on spending this weekend to save memory

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Definitely vibes of the gold rush

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I've already been so excited to play this game since my friend Laura has been working on the writing (and she's great) - this is only increasing the hype

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Such a sad and horrowing story

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This was a great read on gaming, and the importance of building software tooling.

"Look at all these internal engines... for example, Frostbite has more advanced rendering features than we have and they're producing prettier pixels than we are in a lot of cases, but Unreal developers can produce content much more productively, maybe 30 to 50 percent more productively, which means that a team half the size can produce a game that's just as good. They can iterate on it more, and polish it more than they could with these less polished toolsets. So, everybody should really make a conscientious decision to either fully invest in producing awesome tools for internal use, or not."

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"Subject to some limitations, the measure would eliminate restrictions on the number of houses allowed to be built within a half-mile of train, light-rail, major bus routes and other transit stations, and block cities from imposing parking requirements. Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), the bill’s author, said the state needs the housing to address affordability problems, maximize recent multi-billion-dollar transit investments and help the state meet its climate change goals."

woot!

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Compiler fixes for the recent CPU bug. Even more of a performance hit..

"When using these patches on statically linked applications, especially
C++ applications, you should expect to see a much more dramatic
performance hit. For microbenchmarks that are switch, indirect-, or
virtual-call heavy we have seen overheads ranging from 10% to 50%."

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Should we all just hang up our boots and head home? This is just nuts.

"Don’t serve user-specific or sensitive content from URLs that attackers can predict or easily learn. Attackers can load such URLs in their attack pages (e.g. ) to get the sensitive information into the process rendering their page, and can then use out-of-bounds reads to discover the information. Use anti-CSRF tokens or random URLs to break this kind of attack."

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This is pretty damning. He sold all his stock, down to only holding what he legally had to hold per his contract.

Intel was made aware of the issue in June and the sale plan was put thru in October.

Someone at the SEC is going to have a field day

Hasnain says:

A lot of the gory details of the bug that is scaring a lot of people in the tech world

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This is fairly scary. The slowdown will be massive... It's also interesting that AMD isn't affected

"tl;dr: there is presently an embargoed security bug impacting apparently all contemporary CPU architectures that implement virtual memory, requiring hardware changes to fully resolve. Urgent development of a software mitigation is being done in the open and recently landed in the Linux kernel, and a similar mitigation began appearing in NT kernels in November. In the worst case the software fix causes huge slowdowns in typical workloads. There are hints the attack impacts common virtualization environments including Amazon EC2 and Google Compute Engine, and additional hints the exact attack may involve a new variant of Rowhammer."

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Don't know how to process my feelings regarding this one.

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I really don't know how to think about this..

"Pure water can be obtained by using a reverse osmosis filter, the gold standard of home water treatment, but for Mr. Singh, the goal is not pristine water, per se. “You’re going to get 99 percent of the bad stuff out,” he said. “But now you have dead water.”

He said “real water” should expire after a few months. His does. “It stays most fresh within one lunar cycle of delivery,” he said. “If it sits around too long, it’ll turn green. People don’t even realize that because all their water’s dead, so they never see it turn green.”

Mr. Singh believes that public water has been poisoned. “Tap water? You’re drinking toilet water with birth control drugs in them,” he said. “Chloramine, and on top of that they’re putting in fluoride. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it’s a mind-control drug that has no benefit to our dental health.” (There is no scientific evidence that fluoride is a mind-control drug, but plenty to show that it aids dental health.)"

Hasnain says:

The level of detail this write up goes into.. whoa.

Also I feel sorry for the apple security engineer who's going to have their new year's ruined.