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541.
by _wmd 11y ago
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros... . and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Development_Corp._v._Bor... . In summary, this probably isn't infringing unle
542.
by _wmd 11y ago
It's been some time since Bitcoin has given me reason to break out popcorn, the next few days should be quite fun to watch. :) I have no particular opinion on which way this should swing, however it's clear that XT represents far
543.
by _wmd 11y ago
Thanks for the link, and bummer, too late to edit my comment.. now I'll be wrong on the Internet for perpetuity :)
544.
by _wmd 11y ago
You haven't the slightest understanding of software security, PDF.js was written to replace a component authored in a memory-unsafe language for which exploits were being found at a rate measured in tens per year. Since introduction PD
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by _wmd 11y ago
For comparison, NIST NVD lists 445 CVEs for Acrobat, or at least 17 per year since introduction. However CVEs haven't been maintained since the early 90s, so that number should be much higher. I think pdf.js does just fine.
546.
by _wmd 11y ago
Copy and paste the first paragraph into Google. Looks like someone didn't understand the nuances of the MIT license, no biggy and easy to fix.
547.
by _wmd 11y ago
In other words, a lot of people haven't the slightest clue how Git works. Luckily Github record push history separately
548.
by _wmd 11y ago
Didn't work for me, not because I don't have a Github key, but because I use separate keys for everything, and don't have a default key (requires plenty of ~/.ssh/config muckery). I had been doing this because I&#x2
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by _wmd 11y ago
This is a precursor to the original variant of Google's Native Client, which also relied on 286-era segmentation registers that went away with amd64
550.
by _wmd 11y ago
The process accepting the connections (the kernel) runs entirely asynchronously to the application, and there is no way to signal it to stop accepting new connections except by calling close(), which has the dual effect of triggering the co
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by _wmd 11y ago
The canonical documentation is in the kernel source tree: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/filter.t... You can use tcpdump as a makeshift compiler using it's '-d', '-dd&
552.
by _wmd 11y ago
Spender is the originator/maintainer of the venerable grsecurity patch set, he knows a thing or twelve about this subject.
553.
by _wmd 11y ago
This is a boring meme that needs to die in a fire. SourceForge have taken a few missteps in recent months (and received plenty of flak for it), but it's been a reliable environment for open source development going on nearly 16 years.
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Google accidentally reveals data on 'right to be forgotten' requests(theguardian.com)
3 points by _wmd 11y ago|0 comments
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by _wmd 11y ago
Can we please get a quote on this one. If reinterpreting memory via a union is valid in C99, including data vs function pointers, then so would reinterpreting that memory via a cast, which would seem to violate one of the most elementary as
556.
by _wmd 11y ago
Seems you could just side-step SF directly in this case and contact one of their mirrors: http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Join%20as%20a%2... http://sourceforge.net/p/forge&#x
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by _wmd 11y ago
Not suggesting it's a good idea, but the PHP standard library gives you enough tools (shmop) to allow a straight port of something like https://github.com/schmichael/mmstats
558.
by _wmd 11y ago
Edge vs level triggered refers to how a change in an fd's state is reflected in userspace: level triggering will cause repeated wakeups while the condition remains true, whereas edge triggering will cause exactly one, until the monitor
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by _wmd 11y ago
This has been a problem with disk encryption since the dawn of time: there is no (at least AFAIK) scheme that allows efficiently hosting the MAC for an encrypted block in a way that meets various efficiency and robustness requirements. Emul
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by _wmd 11y ago
Multiprocess isn't some magical panacea, its use is essentially to contain buggy code which shouldn't exist in the first place (this is true for its use as introducing extra security context for page content as well as its improve
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by _wmd 11y ago
There's no inherent reason why multiprocess would have a significant impact on energy, it just adds a relatively small amount of extra context switching and marshalling to what is already a huge pile of the same (your desktop OS). When
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by _wmd 11y ago
> hard to write, hard to debug (no stack traces), have weird historical artifacts Only slightly being sarcy, but this perfectly describes my experience of Salt, Ansible and Chef, but instead of a handful of 'ps' commands to fig
563.
by _wmd 12y ago
Please for God's sake digitize the whole lot.. there is an entire history of a barely documented civilization on these disks, and it reminds me of something else: BBS operators of the 80s and 90s, where are the copies of those hard dri
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by _wmd 12y ago
TC throwing around buzzwords they don't understand.. "hypervisor" has a specific meaning entirely unrelated to containers.
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by _wmd 12y ago
Outside a few niches (zeroconf, IPv6 SLAAC, financial data distribution) in closed environments, I don't believe we ever reached the point of figuring out how to handle Internet-sized multicast deployment. Not sure what the state of th
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by _wmd 12y ago
Very cool, seems I missed it the last time it was on HN. From a quick glance over the docs, it seems by default the only parsing interfaces available are "fully realized", i.e. complete conversion to data structures in the target
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Introduction to NVMe Technology(osr.com)
9 points by _wmd 12y ago|0 comments
568.
by _wmd 12y ago
This grossly undersells and undersimplifies the value of NVMe, its wire protocol is fundamentally simplified and it features an unlimited number of queues of unlimited depth with individual interrupt (read: CPU core) routing per queue. SATA
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by _wmd 12y ago
This is out of date information, they introduced auto renew for OVH and Kimsufi sometime toward the end of last year. Both my machines use it.
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by _wmd 12y ago
Does this have any bearing on WebGL?

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