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by JdeBP 3y ago
I've seen several make the same observation, after testing, over the past six or so months.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
The part of the WWW that I write and control has zero JavaScript. You tar everyone with a single brush highly erroneously.
963.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Eric Partridge ("You Have a Point There") disagrees. Single or double, quotation marks are inaccurate if the words are not strictly quoting. Before the age of widespread international computer-mediated communication, authorities
964.
by JdeBP 3y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20430219 et al. from the last time that this was on Hacker News.
965.
by JdeBP 3y ago
But satisfies, as v7 does not satisfy , the actually stated constraint of "IDs that don't reveal when they were generated" whilst still using timestamps, no permanent IDs from hardware, and no centralized ticket-issuing mech
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by JdeBP 3y ago
It's amusing that something "futuristic" and "sci-fi like" has connections to the year 2001 and is now in a museum of the past.
967.
by JdeBP 3y ago
On the contrary, that you do believe this means that you don't have long enough experience in golang. The points where suddenly a seemingly innocent version upgrade becomes a massive real-world problem usually happen years or decade
968.
by JdeBP 3y ago
... except that Visual Studio Installer, the pkg tool on FreeBSD, and others do do various forms of self-update. Visual Studio Installer does exactly what you describe, updating itself before updating any version of Visual Studio. Fre
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All IP addresses are equal? “Dot-zero” addresses are less equal (2013)(labs.ripe.net)
112 points by JdeBP 3y ago|136 comments
970.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Daniel J. Bernstein addressed this the 1990s: * Construct a tuple of the current TAI64NA time, the process ID, some other IDs, and a sequence number. * Encrypt this 384-bit tuple with a 1024-bit secret using SURF. * The 256-bit result is th
971.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Alternatively: UUID v7 and v8 seem like the better solution. They're the subject of a more formal standardization process; they're compatible with existing UUIDs because they correctly set the version number and variant fields; v
972.
by JdeBP 3y ago
I suspect that one of these days someone will just bite the bullet and write an abstract syntax tree editor, and eliminate at a stroke all of the "first, we turn the text into an abstract syntax tree" steps that occur in everythin
973.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Enough iterations in this direction, and people will come full circle to how message IDs operated on Usenet. <datetime.processID.sequencenumber@domain> for example.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
On the contrary, it supports exactly the point made in the preceding paragraph, which even pointed out that the IEC standard came later. The phrase "Should have gone to Specsavers!" comes to mind. All three of your examples clear
975.
by JdeBP 3y ago
This is a problem common to all TUI programs that rely on the POSIX terminal paradigm.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
> nevertheless the blog appears to be by someone who doesn’t have much of a clue Another hint: Chris Siebenmann's posts to comp.unix.wizards can still be found.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
You appear not to know what is meant by sharing across architectures here. Chris Siebenmann dates from the times when system administrators would do things like have most of the operating system executables and read-only data files remote-m
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by JdeBP 3y ago
> Even though the blog appears to be by someone who doesn’t have much of a clue, Hint: Chris Siebenmann has administered closed source Unices.
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Debian 12 (Jesse Smith, DistroWatch)(distrowatch.com)
2 points by JdeBP 3y ago|0 comments
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by JdeBP 3y ago
This is true for the Bourne Again, Watanabe, and Korn shells too. The default mode is not the POSIX-conformant mode, but is the shell's native mode. This does not, however, make these shells "not POSIX compatible" any mor
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by JdeBP 3y ago
The Z, Korn, Debian Almquist, Watanabe, and Bourne Again shells are all capable of running POSIX-conformant scripts. So if one has a POSIX-conformant shell script, one can use the Z shell to run it, yes. The major factors when it comes to
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by JdeBP 3y ago
I had a friend who was easily teased by this, but he was quite right, and you are wrong. Kettle leads in the U.K. have never been C13, and "kettle lead" for a C13 power lead is a misnomer just as much in the U.K. as it is elsewhe
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Per discussion on this very page, in the headlined article, and in the mailing list discussion it references, PostgreSQL is not in that category. It has lots of static storage duration variables, which do not necessarily have external
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Althought it is worth remembering that hex editors with colour and lines are now a thing that is at least 35 years old, as Central Point's PC Tools for DOS had one.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
You should have been pointed to https://github.com/prso/hexcurse who forked it on the grounds that the original has broken screenshots and doesn't compile.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
It's complicated, not only by the fact of BASIC being available in ROM originally, but by the fact that there were OEM versions of MS-DOS that didn't come with BASIC. The DOS that came with one's PC was rarely vanilla MS-DOS
987.
by JdeBP 3y ago
There are, at both ends. Both the "script kiddies" who cannot deviate from scripts because they lack almost any knowledge at all; and the knowledgeable ones who know that there are subtle differences between sudo and doas which r
988.
by JdeBP 3y ago
As mentioned elsewhere, this is because it relies upon a kernel mechanism that Linux simply does not have, and fixing this involves fixing Linux. To which I add that it is important not to conflate Jesse Smith's doas, the portable doas
989.
by JdeBP 3y ago
It probably was done for security, the r- utilities being the security pitfalls that they are. It's not defending against attacks. It is, in fact, defending against exactly you, a person who comes along and wants to use the r- ut
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by JdeBP 3y ago
A tale about systems analysis from the days when systems analysis was a distinct discipline.

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