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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
Yeah, I suppose that's fair. Still, the musl malloc implementation is just the most infamous example of its subpar performance. Obviously glibc comes with an enormous amount of functionality and performance optimizations. Somewhat unre
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
Writing another init system isn't exactly something most people would want to spend years of their life on. At best, it'd take a few years to reach some limited parity with where systemd is today. Furthermore, most of the systemd
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
it's funny that many people mention boot time as a metric when for most servers, VMs and laptops the devices are either always on or sleeping. startup times do nothing in those cases. People bring it up because it's usually the
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
Not that I'm aware of. However, I would expect large regressions (20%+) in general, e.g. the malloc implementation in musl is famously primitive.
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
People seem to not appreciate that Lennart Poettering managed to get systemd from concept to shipping in RHEL 7 in under four years. At that point I'm not even sure anyone at Red Hat had even asked for it, they had already transition
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
Securing Linux, or practically any Unix system for that matter, is like nailing jello to the wall.
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
...Theo is on the record eviscerating the notion that virtualization be used as a security measure. Something about complexity being counterproductive to a secure system. Hypervisors predate Unix, in fact they practically predate general
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
SELinux still offers a lot of additional protection in the case of RCE. There are literal examples of it working in the wild, e.g. For several versions of the OS, this worked quite well, but once dual-sim devices2 started coming out, this
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
Yes, SELinux is enormously complex and typically obtuse. However, it's difficult to imagine a much more "elegant" solution for the role SELinux serves. Linux, and Unices in general, are simply not designed for security. Indee
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
The intermittency is a huge problem. Grid scale batteries and/or pumped hydro are laughably inadequate for bridging the gap. Wind and solar energy is only cheap when they aren’t responsible for maintaining baseload capacity on the grid
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
In terms of GPD the US was the world's largest economy well before World War I . Europe choosing to self-immolate twice before mid-century only served to widen the gap.
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
While OSHA can be a bit onerous it really does help to have an organization with teeth pushing safety culture. Instead of the conflict between the workers and their bosses 'stupid rules' it's the 'stupid rules' of
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
It really bothers me that we're deprecating OpenGL and replacing it with something that's ridiculously hard to do anything simple OpenGL is only deprecated on MacOS, AFAIK, it will exist for many years to come. I'm sure Vu
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
It’s hard to fault the static analysis tooling here. Not freeing memory is, almost always, unintended behavior. Besides, if a business is going to blindly apply static analysis to their projects and then demand that every warning be “fixed”
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
Now we have 300+ people voting on features that are never tested on a real compiler, before being set in stone. Would you prefer that only 30 people should be allowed to hold up the acceptance of half-baked proposals? How could lower part
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
* C++ adheres to Itanium C++ ABI [1] which in turn adheres to SystemV ABI [2].* Uh.. MSVC does not adhere to the Itanium C++ ABI. ISO C++ does not specify any name mangling scheme, in fact I doubt the standard even mentions name mangling.
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
Syntax is mostly a function of familiarity. People coming to C++ from Rust or other languages often say the same thing.
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
The ISO committee is becoming increasingly less relevant. It's ineffectiveness has pushed numerous groups to create a successor to C++. Maybe it is becoming less relevant, but language proposals and attendance has grown tremendously
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
I'm one of them, so please just believe me instead of trying to correct me ;)… No you aren’t. Or rather, there’s absolutely no reason for me to believe you are. It's an ongoing problem the project talks about that there aren&#x
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
It has the opposite problem; it's drawing from a small pool of skilled contributors,.. The project has 2000+ direct contributors and even more indirect contributors on its mailing lists. ...because so much other incorrect advice thi
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
Writing good assembly is a niche skill, especially SIMD assembly. Projects like ffmpeg are able to do it because they're pulling from a massive pool of contributors. In general writing raw assembly should be avoided unless you'r
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
Yes and no. The initialism stood for Berkeley Packet Filter when the concept was first introduced in the early 90s. However in ~2013 BPF began to be extended redesigned, hence “extended BPF” (eBPF). Since then eBPF has drastically grown in
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
A mere 25k lines of self contained C++,… Oh come on now, about 7.5k of those lines are comments and/or blank lines. Furthermore, a good chunk of the code is devoted to type checking, thorough error handling, compiler compatibility an
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by SubjectToChange 2y ago
The MOC is just a code generation tool, it's about as objectionable as bison. A far greater sin, especially in the eyes of Stroustrup, is disabling exceptions
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by SubjectToChange 3y ago
Productivity/efficiency driven deflation is almost always a good thing. The problem is when deflation is being driven by the scarcity of money or some other unsustainable mechanism
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by SubjectToChange 3y ago
Lets assume the FED makes 0% inflation a policy objective. As the US and the rest of the developed world continues to age, more and more retirees are supported by fewer and fewer working people. In other words a massive portion of the popul
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by SubjectToChange 3y ago
This is false. You have to pay cap gains on anything against the dollar when buying with alt currencies. I'm aware. What I was saying is that the US Government doesn't care about whether or not you're using USD for your tra
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by SubjectToChange 3y ago
Deflation causes the production of goods and services to become more expensive in addition to slowing down the velocity of money. Hence, businesses actually go bankrupt (as in liquidated, restructuring becomes far more risky), productive ca
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by SubjectToChange 3y ago
Private money has a long history within the United States, cryptocurrency is just the latest instance of it. The US Government doesn't really care how anyone conducts their transactions as long as they pay their taxes in USD.
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by SubjectToChange 3y ago
Inflation does not spare Government budgets. Just look at how inflation cuts into the DoD budget. ...inflation is a way to raise revenue without calling it a tax. Wow, European governments must've made a killing off of energy inflati

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