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841.
by Guvante 11y ago
The underlying file system determines compatibility so there is no OS level switch to check.
842.
by Guvante 11y ago
> I would say that 1.0/-0.0 is mathematically defined in the pure sense `1.0 / -0.0` isn't mathematically defined though, it is certainly undefined. IEEE-754 takes that and performs "limit of `1/x` as `x` approac
843.
by Guvante 11y ago
Most of the complaints about people playing the lottery being irrational are about people spending huge amounts of money, not about playing the lottery at all. For instance the recent story of someone dumping their rent check into Powerball
844.
by Guvante 11y ago
> iOS uses capsiculum to isolate applications while Android uses SELinux. They aren't executing each others' code. XSS isn't about executing other people's code, it is about performing commands that you shouldn't
845.
by Guvante 11y ago
> I visit far more websites in a day than I use strange new apps. From the article you have to "install" the web application for any of these features to be available. > Apps also don't suffer from XSS. From websites su
846.
by Guvante 11y ago
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html seems to imply that that wouldn't work, but I don't understand why. Can someone with more experience with the GPLs enlighten me? It doesn't work to co
847.
by Guvante 11y ago
> How can internet access be a right? How can free speech be a right? Rights are arbitrarily assigned. Internet access is not a right in the US today but many point out that it could be given the importance of it.
848.
by Guvante 11y ago
> Large contracts might be on the line should Apple not play ball. That almost certainly isn't the case. It is doubtful whether any other government organization cares about how they handle this case. Heck the FBI likely doesn'
849.
by Guvante 11y ago
Internet access has become a humanitarian right. Saying it is less important than a different tax subsidy would be interesting given most tax subsidies impact things of far less importance.
850.
by Guvante 11y ago
Off hand you either need multiple time servers or you might as well have a central lock (since you are bottlenecked in either case) which just punts the issue, now the various time servers need to be in sync or the issue comes up.
851.
by Guvante 11y ago
Clock drift is a real thing in distributed systems. If I have a 5 second lock that expires at 12:01:00 and my clock is off by 1 second I could write at 12:01:01 potentially after someone else has a lock, or worse, after someone else has wri
852.
by Guvante 11y ago
You are splitting the problem at the wrong place. Microservices is a well known thing and is what is providing the fire under unikernel research, you cannot simply ignore the aspect of "do the hard thing in a different environment&quot
853.
by Guvante 11y ago
Are we talking about microservices that talk over TCP of some sort? If that is the case it is a moot point as the other end need not even compile against a unikernel at all, it can sit on a traditional OS.
854.
by Guvante 11y ago
> But some events, even with stateless services, need in-production, live, interactive debugging in order to be understood. The question then becomes if it is reproducible since "debuggable when not running normally" seems to b
855.
by Guvante 11y ago
Depends, I skipped the contents completely when that happened, only went to the comments to see if I was the only one.
856.
by Guvante 11y ago
Didn't get to the end of the article, it instantly popped up on me, was surprised it managed to gain any traction here. (Rotated monitor is probably why)
857.
by Guvante 11y ago
Determining which lights are occluded is non-trivial and can't be done on at a low level (too many checks) thus you need to precompute it on some level, but if different parts of the scene have different sets of lights visible you need
858.
by Guvante 11y ago
Sounds like Apple is the cause here, since export restrictions don't apply to things that are never exported. If you aren't embedding the algorithm then your code is not exporting the algorithm.
859.
by Guvante 11y ago
Were you using the built in web capabilities or embedding a library to handle the encryption? In theory Apple's methods for accessing HTTPS should be safe while embedding OpenSSL would not be (unless you linked to a shared object they
860.
by Guvante 11y ago
To be fair, colons and brackets are really nice from a language designer standpoint, as they are completely unambiguous. I think Haskell took an interesting method to the distinction, just use both. (Spaces are translated to the other form
861.
by Guvante 11y ago
Java puts strict naming standards on your files to pull that off, although to be fair they are standards you should normally be following anyway. IMO the fast performing code is best in the IDE's compiler, since that is even faster tha
862.
by Guvante 11y ago
I think that needless compiler errors is an interesting point that isn't discussed often, so that at least is an interesting point. We have those productivity enhancers because the language makes it easy to make a mistake there. Ideall
863.
by Guvante 11y ago
It is hard to have a discussion about GC's in the super abstract because object pools are better than GC's and even malloc. Without additional details about what the implementation will look like it is impossible to know the best
864.
by Guvante 11y ago
Deterministic garbage collection is a completely different beast than what most people call GC. It is not a nearly magical fairy that lets you have infinite memory. Also IIRC aviation has incredibly strict rules on freeing during flight, so
865.
by Guvante 11y ago
Pretty much no one moves around during deep enough sleep, it is just when your sleep cycle lightens up that you move around in your sleep. The same tech still works, it just might not be able to detect all the stages of your sleep as effect
866.
by Guvante 11y ago
To be fair soft-realtime systems don't interact well with GC's since random multi-millisecond pauses break everything. There is at least work towards making controlled GC pauses a possibility.
867.
by Guvante 11y ago
A $1k ARM platform beating a $300 x86 platform isn't interesting though. If things are close in price the difference isn't material but 3x the cost means comparing performance is almost meaningless, except to say "at least it
868.
by Guvante 11y ago
What language would that work in? C# only does compile time dispatch of overloaded methods and Common LISP doesn't have overloaded methods at all. I honestly can't think of a language that even support overloading of methods based
869.
by Guvante 11y ago
While they can call for the default to happen there were plenty of signs the last time it nearly happened that the executive branch was simply going to ignore it in some convoluted way.
870.
by Guvante 11y ago
The discussion thread is about battery life under heavy usage which never meets the advertised battery life since no one would buy a laptop that only advertised its minimum battery life. "Will last at least 3 hours after full charging&

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