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dkuder··on ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing
There are 634 CVE Records that match your search.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=imagemagick

There have been a number of zero days.

My entire interaction with Imagemagick has been removing it. Often with great difficulty because there is some odd dependency.

dkuder··on Great Vowel Shift
Glotalization of T https://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/deddingt/t-glottalizatio...

My anecdata says we covered this dialect in intro linguistics back in the 80s. I have been hearing it from New Jersey natives for a long time.

dkuder··on Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Six, very meta version

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Six%20Degrees%...

dkuder··on Fashion Freedom Initiative
I guessed from the title that this was looking to secure a right to dress as one wished in the EU. In particular to wear a head covering or full body covering that might be associated with a particular religion. Like it would be cool to wear a miter even if you aren't a Roman Catholic bishop.
dkuder··on A bus that runs on formic acid
Mixing "hydrozine" with hydrazine gives a hydrazone.

"bug juice" seems like a better name.

dkuder··on An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard
There is a lot of fiber running in railroad right of way.

Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications, or SPRINT. The telecommunications name survives. The railroad is now part of Union Pacific.

I suspect that the folks putting fiber in railroad right of way know how to avoid crushing failure.

dkuder··on Scheduling Algorithms in Big Data: A Survey [pdf]
It's dated. Uses references to Hadoop 1.2 documentation. Hadoop is at 2.7 currently with 2.8 and 3.0 coming soon.

In particular it refers to slots. YARN no longer use slots.

No mention of Tez, Storm or Spark?

dkuder··on “Super Engine” may fundamentally change the way internal combustion engines work
F1 "power units" are at 47% thermal efficiency but there a complicated hybrid system.

https://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/latest/inter...

dkuder··on I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil
Dr. Lowe moved.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...

dkuder··on The Twelve Networking Truths
There are errata: https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=1925
dkuder··on Larry Wall on why he wrote Perl
Like http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/Senate/Minnesota/A...

Lots of chuckles there. But you don't have to buy them, they are free.