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A favorite of mine is Ghidra. Before they realeased+open souced it a few years back, the only option for real software reverse engineering (as in, for large and non-trivial programs, where you need more than just fancy disassembly) was IDA Pro, which is absurdly expensive if you’re not sponsored or willing to pirate. Now, some of us kinda take for granted the fact that there’s an open source world-class RE tool. And honestly, I even prefer it to IDA Pro - that’s how good it is.

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Isn’t that just the current state of affairs?

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Giving away conquered territory in hopes of peace is called appeasement. Historically, it doesn’t go well.

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The alternative is making Russia getting/keeping the territory a worse option than leaving Ukraine the hell alone. I agree that the unfortunate reality is that Putin will never - can never - give up the war willingly without concessions, but the flip side to that is they’ll be back for more sooner or later. We have to make the war such a bad option for Russia that Putin is deposed, whether by his oligarchs or by the Russian people. It’s a difficult fight, but it’s one we’ve fought before on 3 fronts in WWII. The difference, this time, being nukes exist and that understandably makes a lot of people nervous - but again, expansionists never stop. The confrontation has to come at some point unless we want all-out war in Europe.

I’m far removed from the situation, so my opinion isn’t worth much on this part, but I think realistically maybe there could be some concessions around Crimea for a peace deal - sort of a status quo ante or similar - but Russia would have to make some concessions in turn for Ukraine to agree (NATO peacekeeping forces in Ukraine? Still a no-go for Putin though…). Ceding Ukranian territorial losses from the current war, though, will only put off the eventual confrontation, and hurt the West in the meantime.

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“yeah man it’s right above [Xe] 4f14 5d10 6s1, you can’t miss it”

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The choice of C++ + Swift feels strange and off-putting to me. Swift, at least, is pretty safe as languages go, but does leave me scratching my head a bit. C++, though, frankly should have no place in a new browser project. For a piece of software whose whole purpose is to essentially download and run untrusted code, C++ is unacceptable.

It’s realistically not gonna happen, but what I’d really like to see is Servo developed into a full browser.

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To be pedantic, AFAIK there’s no evidence Pythagoras himself had anything to do with the censure of the discovery of irrational numbers. The common story has to do with his later followers, and could well be more fiction than fact in any case.

Talking about creepy numbers, the ones that always fucked with me are uncomputable numbers. That shit’s wack, yo

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Yeah, I know the history. And if they fully switch to Swift and manage decent performance, that would be acceptable, just strange. And it would also be fine to use whatever language if it were only a hobby project. I just reject the notion that C++ is an acceptable choice for new projects in security-critical positions.

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