calcopiritus @ calcopiritus @lemmy.world

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If criminals only used cars from brand X and nobody else used brand X, it would be viewed the same.

There are plenty of currencies out there, which normal people use. Cryptocurrencies are mainly used by criminals though.

The coin itself is not a scam.

However, its main usage is to receive payments from scams or any other kind of computer-related crime really.

It still goes to show that there's no fully tested C code. I'm sure OpenSSH has had the eyes of thousands of security researchers in it. Yet it still has memory-related bugs.

If you do it with fixed-size arrays you can accomplish multi-dimension with just int*. Lots of pointer arithmetic needed though. Probably still faster than n levels of indirection.

Just recently a bug was found in openssh that would let you log into the root user of any machine. With extreme skill and luck of course, but it was possible.

OpenSsh is probably one of the most safe C programs out there with the most eyes on it. Since it's the industry standard to remotely log in into any machine.

There is no such thing as fully tested and safe C. You can only hope that you find the bug before the attacker does. Which requires constant mantainance.

The the about rust is that the code can sit there unchanged and "rust". It's not hard to make a program in 2019 that hasn't needed any maintainance since then, and free of memory bugs.

I have absolutely no idea about Chinese or Japanese characters, but if they did that there's probably a technical reason like retro compatibility or something. Unicode has free space left for millions or billions of characters.

The US lifted sanctions in exchange of Venezuela having fair elections. That was the deal.

Then why would the US be as interested in the fairness of the election.

The fairness of the venezuelan one was literally a condition of the deal.

Ocamm's razor.

If they didn't want to lift sanctions, they would just not lift them. If they did lift them, it's because the US actually wanted fair elections. There's not more to it.

The purpose of Unicode is to be able to represent everything humans have written. Doesn't matter if correct or not.

There are some Chinese characters that appear only once in written text, but they happen to be just typos of copying other text. They exist in Unicode.

Lots of Americans say they preferred trump to any other president. I don't know what point you're trying to make.

Did the US remove sanctions on Pakistan on condition that they run fair elections? I ask because I don't know. What I know is that they did so with Venezuela, and yet maduro didn't run free elections.

The US removed sanctions against Venezuela on condition that they would run fair elections. Of course they are involved, they need proof to know what to do with the sanctions.

Depends of how you look at it, it might be even worse.

At least with casinos you know that mathematically, the more you play the more you lose. With stocks though, you have the hope that you can win it back.

Stocks also give you a percentage of the company, which means decision making. Which has value, it's not only dividends.

Nothing ever goes wrong taking "free money" advice

IBM fell. Ford fell. Facebook (the social media site, not the company) fell. Yahoo fell.

Sure, they haven't stopped existing, but their relevance is nowhere near their peak. There's no such thing as "too big to fall".

It's actually more confusing/less correct to close bodyless elements in HTML. Since HTML treats "/>" the same way as ">" which could lead to a "/>" tag not actually being closed, if it is used on a non-selfclosing tag.

This meme has the logos of the OSs from around 2007. Back then there weren't many Linux non-IT users.

Making them more efficient makes energy usage lower, which means lower emissions.

Switching the power source doesn't make them use less energy, they will use the exact same amount.

The energy power source they switched to could power other industries/homes instead.

Unless the mandate is "generate as much green energy as you're consuming". Which would probably mean they'd find some loophole like buying energy companies or something.