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Comment · 5 months ago

Well, indexing and searching is kind of Google's thing. It also helps that they're using a unified build system. They can instrument the compiler to get cross references from the build instead of trying to figure out out by parsing the text themselves.

They open sourced the tool to do it- https://kythe.io - but I think it would be a pain to make it work for anything like GitHub that supports arbitrary languages and build systems with untrusted code

Comment · 2 years ago

One of the rules of Mario Maker is that in order to post a level, the creator has to clear it, to make sure that all posted levels are possible. But the creator of this level admitted recently that their clear of the level was tool-assisted. The team that was working on beating all the levels don't consider such "hacked" levels in scope.

Comment · 3 years ago

StingRay is a brand name. The generic term is IMSI catcher. Basically a portable fake cell tower law enforcement can carry around that will capture the identities of every phone in the vicinity. They can also pretend to be 2G-only towers to trick phones to use an insecure protocol so more data can be captured.

Since it tracks everyone in the area, there's major privacy concerns about how they're used, and police have been caught repeatedly lying about their use. To the point that if the defense in a case discovered police had used a Stingray to identify their client and challenged it, the police would drop the case rather than letting anything about the Stingray enter the public record. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/fbi-would-rather...

Comment · 3 years ago

Even beyond ramping up a new project, it can be important for maintaining existing ones. If a service outage costs a company millions of dollars a minute, it can be worth it to keep a team around that can resolve the occasional outage a few minutes faster even if they have almost nothing to do the rest of the year.

Comment · 3 years ago

Then it's a derivative work and copyright law covers that too.

Comment · 3 years ago

There's four ways for code to not be copyrighted (in the US):

1. The author died more than 70 years ago or it was owned by a corporation and it's been 95 years since publication

2. It was written prior to 1989 and did not include a copyright notice.

3. It was written by the government

4. The author explicitly released it into the public domain

1 and 2 probably don't cover much code on the Internet. So unless it's a government repository and/or explicitly marked with a public domain notice, you can probably assume it's copyrighted.

Comment · 3 years ago

Right but it depends where the device was sold. A Galaxy S22 intended for Europe is built with a vulnerable Exynos SOC but a Galaxy S22 built for the US has a Snapdragon.

Comment · 3 years ago

If there are 150,000 results that match your keyword, which results show up first?

Comment · 3 years ago

You don't want a spam filter in your email? Everything should go straight to inbox? And that's not even mentioning the processing they have to do to figure out whose email it is in the first place.

Comment · 4 years ago

Is that single phase or 3 phase? Most homes in the US have somewhere in the range of 100-200A single phase hookup.

Comment · 4 years ago

Yes, very. outlook.com (formerly known as Hotmail) is an email provider. Outlook is an email client which can be used with any email provider.

Comment · 4 years ago

I Bond rates are recalculated every 6 months. If inflation goes to 20%, the rate will be great. If inflation goes back down to 2%, not so much

Comment · 4 years ago

Total compensation

Comment · 4 years ago

The title says clone. The article says client. Those are very different things.

Comment · 4 years ago

Breakfast stopped at 10, not 8. Dinner started at 6, but most people didn't stay for it.