Hacker News: TwoBit

New comment by TwoBit in "Stockfish 14"

TwoBit — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:54:12 +0000

Did Alpha Zero play games against Stockfish on regular PC hardware or big specialized hardware.

New comment by TwoBit in "What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t"

TwoBit — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 01:01:47 +0000

That carfentanil looks like about a milligram, but impossible to say without knowing its density.

New comment by TwoBit in "Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible"

TwoBit — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:20:12 +0000

Reddit repost bots execute with full (though unintended) support of moderators and legitimate users.

New comment by TwoBit in "Goodbye C++, Hello C"

TwoBit — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 04:56:56 +0000

You forgot to add /s to the end of your comment.

New comment by TwoBit in "NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope"

TwoBit — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:54:48 +0000

"memory issue" seems overly broad or vague.

New comment by TwoBit in "Instructions show how cops use GrayKey to brute force iPhones"

TwoBit — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:25:59 +0000

Doesn't that apply only to older phones?

New comment by TwoBit in "Instructions show how cops use GrayKey to brute force iPhones"

TwoBit — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:21:48 +0000

I once had auto reset enabled on my phone after 10 attempts, and then somehow while it was in my gym bag it proceeded to accidentally get buttons pressed and reset itself. Better to set that number to 1000 instead of 10.

New comment by TwoBit in "Instructions show how cops use GrayKey to brute force iPhones"

TwoBit — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:15:18 +0000

Doesn't that require the device to have been unlocked in the first place?

New comment by TwoBit in "The Rise of the $10M Disc Golf Celebrity"

TwoBit — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:08:08 +0000

For advanced players do the 9+ discs perform better?

New comment by TwoBit in "Architecture of the Playstation"

TwoBit — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:59:21 +0000

The first gen of PS3 included a PS2 on board.

New comment by TwoBit in "My favourite C++ footgun"

TwoBit — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 01:16:47 +0000

OK, I must have mistaken what the original was, because I thought it was like this:

processWidget(new Widget, priority());

I think I saw the above code elsewhere.

New comment by TwoBit in "My favourite C++ footgun"

TwoBit — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:02:26 +0000

> Is now impossible

I don't see how that is so. C++ 17 allows new Widget to complete and then the priority() call to execute and throw before both are passed to shared_ptr(), thus creating a leak. Your cited example [1] doesn't leak because both arguments are shared_ptr. Seems to me that C++ 17 does indeed solve this latter case but not the former.

New comment by TwoBit in "Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess"

TwoBit — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 13:37:57 +0000

I'm not arguing this change as good or bad, but the pattern of one or two key people deciding something and others getting on board to implement it is common.

New comment by TwoBit in "Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess"

TwoBit — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 13:32:33 +0000

> Am I the only person who likes this change?

yes

New comment by TwoBit in "CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)"

TwoBit — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 04:49:40 +0000

I'm not convinced.

New comment by TwoBit in "80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again"

TwoBit — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:26:36 +0000

maybe, but most ransomware attacks aren't via zero-days but via simpler means. Also ransomware infects a whole network and so part of the cause is systems that allow that.

New comment by TwoBit in "80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again"

TwoBit — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:21:19 +0000

Lack of MFA, lack of hardware whitelisting, servers exposed directly to the Internet, lack of user privilege restrictions, allowing passwords that are known-compromised, ...

New comment by TwoBit in "AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share"

TwoBit — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:56:32 +0000

Where I last worked they said it would be hard to switch to AMD quickly because Intel CPUs had a feature set they were dependent on and would take some time/effort to switch.

New comment by TwoBit in "The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)"

TwoBit — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:01:58 +0000

I don't know why you are being downvoted. The best solution here is for the author to admit using log was a bad idea and rewrite an entirely different version.

New comment by TwoBit in "The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)"

TwoBit — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:00:13 +0000

There are tons of branches in those log and pow calls. Programmers are lost in branch free religion.