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by _wmd 7y ago
The interpretation around what "linking" means in the context of the GPL is a full-time job. At the least, the literal interpretation I was raised with has never been the official position of the FSF. For example, just because you
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by _wmd 7y ago
Let's not forget multiple mobile networks across Europe went down on the same day last year because Ericsson(?) let a cert expire on some internal management system that had not been updated. SSL cert renewal is one of the great unsolv
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by _wmd 7y ago
I hate to do this, but: > paragraph, n.: a distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering In the original comment you will find two of these, the former
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by _wmd 7y ago
This simply won't die, will it? I mean, while we're at it, let's advocate abandonment of all higher level languages because essentially they all boil down to machine code, and nobody could recommend working directly with mach
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by _wmd 7y ago
Let's try and simplify things here: the post we're both currently commenting on relates to doing file IO via nmap . Of course 'avoiding all use of virtual memory' is ridiculous, but nobody except you is suggesting that,
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by _wmd 7y ago
It is not constructive to form a sweeping generalization from a statement and then claim the sweeping generalization is ludicrous, implying the original statement is ludicrous. :) My first comment was in reply to one claiming anonymous memo
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by _wmd 7y ago
If a process was swapped out and a fault fails to bring a page back due to an IO error, you can at least catch (I think) SIGBUS. But this just reinforces the point: nobody really understands virtual memory, even people like us that think th
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by _wmd 7y ago
Anonymous mappings are backed by swap and may be overcommitted, it's still possible to catch signals in a wide variety of circumstances There is probably enough evidence in this thread to use it as a reference for why typical apps shou
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by _wmd 7y ago
So a fork of Qemu that makes no promises to keep AMD support, and uses words like "leverages". Its not clear why this needs to exist, as opposed to working with upstream to produce a single tree that can be built with a slimline p
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by _wmd 7y ago
Linux hit a related situation: a harmless null pointer dereference was treated by GCC as a signal that a subsequent isnull test could not be true, causing the test to be optimized away. https://lwn.net/Articles/575563&#
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by _wmd 7y ago
Zstandard uses ANS in some (all?) of its modes, that's very much brand new -- 2014
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by _wmd 7y ago
Zstandard is awesome, there is nothing else close to it that I've seen. There are plenty of codecs that give you either obscene ratios or low CPU usage, but none that support both in combination. Zstandard on its highest setting easily
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by _wmd 7y ago
This is literally how code signing worked for Windows. Unsurprisingly signed malware has been far from uncommon
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by _wmd 8y ago
Why create a computer when an abacus counts just as effectively :) Time, precious time! We're all born with a limited number of breaths, let's not waste them sighing while waiting for a simple task to complete. In this way faster
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by _wmd 8y ago
Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b5X69vREAg
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by _wmd 8y ago
> This makes images a few percent larger Teehee. The method is not new at all, for example compressors like xzip do this out of the box, and almost the exact thing they're doing is basically how ZIP files work The trouble with disca
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by _wmd 8y ago
An alternative explanation might be that it's a buffer for overprovisioned GPUs for an undersold Cloud service
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by _wmd 8y ago
"no country redirect", sets a cookie to prevent you getting the google domain for your locale
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by _wmd 8y ago
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... . (6 commits per day for the past year)
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by _wmd 8y ago
This seems highly unlikely to be authoritative -- AIUI serial number unpredictability is critical to SSL certificate security, as without it, it becomes possible to induce a CA into producing a signature that matches a certificate for anoth
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by _wmd 8y ago
BPF is 12 years older than Facebook :) People don't buy individual pieces of technology, they want packaged solutions that come with support. Tech almost matters less than good support
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by _wmd 8y ago
For which they charge a per-CPU fortune https://www.hex-rays.com/cgi-bin/quote.cgi
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by _wmd 8y ago
This link is third party junk, don't touch it. A "fork" existing before the original software release, yeah right
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by _wmd 8y ago
If only it were just about cost, comprehensiveness might be a better way to look at it. I really don't want my laptop's keyboard and trackpad to require clocks to drive my clicks and keystrokes at 40Gbps, that's just going to
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by _wmd 8y ago
Transmit and receive previously shared pins, USB 3 split transmit and receive into separate pairs, which are still serial edit: yikes, looks like USB C doubled the number of those separate pairs, for a total of 6 data pins (2x RX, 2x TX, 2x
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by _wmd 8y ago
This looks very nice! But posting it a day ahead of NSA's Ghidra unveiling? It's going to be buried in the noise :(
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by _wmd 8y ago
> Why would it be the company's duty of care and not the parent's? It is the company's duty of care for the same reason that - it is the city's duty of care if the child goes outside and falls down an unmaintained man
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by _wmd 8y ago
> Why would it be the company's duty of care and not the parent It is the company's duty of care for the same reason that - it is the city's duty of care if the child goes outside and falls down an unmaintained manhole - i
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by _wmd 8y ago
> You categorically said that if a service can't do it, then the service needs to change Would you categorically state that if the service can't do it, the service should continue in its present form? Walls are some of the olde
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by _wmd 8y ago
> Firstly, kids on YouTube were NOT impacted by this Unfortunately this is inaccurate. There are billions of daily adolescent YouTube users, some of whom entering puberty that were exposed and continue to be exposed to the recommendation

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