You don't need a suit binary for this, they have arbitrary write of memory. The suid binary is just a convenient and portable way to demonstrate it. Real exploits will use many different mechanisms.
As someone who doesn't pay much attention to the world of mechanical keyboards, very happy that I can use "thock" as a filter.
EDIT: A quick Google shows it's a pretty popular term, so I guess that's how I even know about it, the only other mechanical keyboard term in my vocabulary being "Cherry MX Blue clicky switches" for the ones on my AliExpress mechanical keyboard that prevent me from using the keyboard around other people. Unfortunately it also makes it difficult to hear the keyboard sounds without clicking on the letters instead :(
Like when the Apollo guidance computer was made, the bottleneck was making integrated chips so they only made one, the NOR gate, and a whackton of routing to build out an entire CPU. Horribly complex routing, very simplified integrated circuit construction
Eg ln is a rather complicated construct, it's not even a function. That's because for complex numbers, e^x is not bijective, and thus its inverse ain't a function.
So using that complicated construct to define something simpler like addition invites extra complexity.
I actually don’t understand the meaning of that sentence in Dickens fully either.
> As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
Why does “as if the waters had but newly retired” mean there’s a lot of water (and thus mud)? “As much mud as” clued me in, but I don’t get this part.
And apparently it’s also referencing not just some flood but the flood of Noah’s Ark from the Bible, which is why you might happen to see a dinosaur because it was such a long time ago. I guess I don’t come across many opportunities to think of / that remind me of Noah’s Ark because I didn’t think of that either.
>Why does “as if the waters had but newly retired” mean there’s a lot of water (and thus mud)? “As much mud as” clued me in, but I don’t get this part.
"Imagine everything here was flooded and then the water leaves. The land would be left super muddy right? That's how much mud there is now".
I'm surprised it's a difficult phrase, I'm not even a native speaker.
The part with the stegosaurus is harder in that it relies on a biblical reference, but there is no way for it to be interpreted by a decent reader as a literal animal, it should at most make you wonder why he's suddenly bringing up that idea ("it would not be wonderful...).
I guess I could see that, but if all the water left, it could be dry like a desert too.. (although even though that was my initial interpretation, I did understand that's not what he meant)
And yes even without the reference it's not that there's a literal animal there.
> if all the water left, it could be dry like a desert too
This is just a contextual interpretation thing. It's clear that's not what he means because he says it's muddy, so it must be the other thing. Also, it becoming a desert is more extreme, so in that case the writer would probably offer up a more detailed explanation.
It's clear that the article is mostly talking about the reader's ability to interpret figuratively, regardless of the specific reference. However, I'm not even sure it's a biblical reference, because I think dinosaurs are generally incompatible with the story of Noah's Arc. I'm guessing it's probably more along the lines of some theory of continental movement that was prevalent at the time. Maybe it's just a weird mismash of dinosaurs and Noah's Arc, though?
"If you travelled back in time, the coastline itself would be unrecognisable to modern eyes. In the Jurassic Period, most of what later became Britain was under the sea, apart from Scotland, East Anglia and a series of small islands in the southwest."
> Why does “as if the waters had but newly retired” mean there’s a lot of water (and thus mud)?
It doesn't. It means there's a lot of mud. It might help if you had the rest of the paragraph in front of you. It sets the scene for us with a bunch of sentence fragments -- bullet points, we would say. Here's the beginning of each of them:
Michaelmas term lately over...
Implacable November weather.
As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired...
Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle...
Dogs, undistinguishable in mire.
Horses, scarcely better
... and so on.
And yes, modern audiences aren't attuned to biblical references.
The beta site was a horrible redesign. It hid information that was previously visible, the layout was confusing, comments were harder to read, and it just made no sense.
A 2GB RAM (and no EMMC) Raspberry Pi 5 in Canada is $90. Around $150 is where you can get used N100 Mini PCs with a proper SSD, and at least 8GB of RAM. It’s crazy.
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