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Compiling Four Billion If Statements

Compiling Four Billion If Statements

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Compiling Four Billion If Statements

https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/compiling-four-billion-if-statements/

With modern tools, you have to try very hard to do something stupid, because the tools (rightly) recognize you’re doing something stupid. [Andreas Karlsson] can speak to that first hand as he…

Compiling Four Billion If Statements
Everything has admin access, a storytime post

Everything has admin access, a storytime post

I have no idea how to title this post. Oh well.

A few years back I worked somewhere that had a large breach. Many practices changed in the wake of it. Developers actually had admin access prior to the change which was very nice. In an effort to restrict access but also let folks do their jobs they deployed some tool that would start all programs that "needed" admin access as an admin. This included cmd for the devs. So every time I opened cmd I had to be careful not to break something since there was no way to launch it without admin access after that change.

`float` as table *id*

`float` as table *id*

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https://twitter.com/lynxluna/status/1748636246455595478

Who needs a commit message, anyway?

Who needs a commit message, anyway?

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Commits · Fabricio-191/valve-server-query

https://github.com/Fabricio-191/valve-server-query/commits/main/

An implementation of valve protocols (server, master servers and RCON) - Commits · Fabricio-191/valve-server-query

Commits · Fabricio-191/valve-server-query
PSD is not my favourite file format.

PSD is not my favourite file format.

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https://github.com/gco/xee/blob/master/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#L108