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by _wmd 13y ago
And this is why bind mounts are evil -- standard tooling completely hasn't caught up with them.
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by _wmd 13y ago
Nitpickingly, sure, but mere hours since the release was cut, they're for all intents and purposes identical.
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by _wmd 13y ago
For the love of goodness, please link to the release notes! Cannot fathom why people do this (and its not just OP - it happens all the time). http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/10-STABLE/relnotes/article.h...
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by _wmd 13y ago
As others have pointed out, the baseband is not your friend. Was thinking about this recently, and saw no reason why existing POCSAG (pager) networks couldn't be reused to provide a completely passive receiver. Imagine a phone where th
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by _wmd 13y ago
This sounds suspiciously like modern context being retrofitted to an ancient story.. there were (and still are) much bigger problems in GSM than just the cipher in use, say for example, that phones do not authenticate the network, and the n
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by _wmd 13y ago
The processes still have unfettered access to an interface that exposes a few million lines of C code running in ring0
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by _wmd 13y ago
The second half of what I said explained how the code becomes less readable. If someone wants to hack on that code, they better understand the algorithm it implements, which means at a minimum they've probably absorbed the same 2000 pa
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by _wmd 13y ago
Encountered this topic recently in the office.. I'm from the side of the fence that doesn't overly care about code tidyness, so long as it performs its overall function. 10 years ago this kind of thing might have bothered me a lot
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by _wmd 13y ago
I've worked on 2 large telecoms projects where automated full-system testing occurred using ARM emulators. Also, the stock Android emulator is Qemu (or at least was, last time I checked), and many people do automated testing using th
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by _wmd 13y ago
Within GSM any interconnected network can query at least the country of any other network's customers' handsets. It's needed for routing roaming calls, but the data is generally quite easy accessible. There are many commercia
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by _wmd 13y ago
Sadly it's unlikely that this is how it would work. Most probably when you agree to license the Google Apps package it's an all-or-nothing affair, so if you want Play on your handset, I'm guessing you must take Chrome too.
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by _wmd 13y ago
Perhaps there should be better advertising regulation for tech like Blu-ray that require features like online revocation checks, but Intel certainly isn't the aggressor here, and kicking at its shins for implementing a feature that you
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by _wmd 13y ago
The moral of the story here for developers is, if you present the user with some scary string they don't understand, they'll overreact and do rash things like disabling chunks of your working, tested software, and probably accuse
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by _wmd 13y ago
Worth pointing out that on PyPy you effectively get this for free.. http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/efficiently-implement...
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by _wmd 13y ago
I've been thinking about something similar for most of the year, but not using custom hardware. With a zero-copy database like LMDB combined with userspace networking (e.g. netmap or PACKET_MMAP), it should already be possible to satur
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by _wmd 13y ago
I'm not a Bitcoin enthusiast, so coming at this from a pessimistic angle, it's increasingly starting to look like Bitcoin is here to stay. That still doesn't make it a good investment for 99.99% of people (nor does any poorly
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by _wmd 13y ago
Sorry yep, didn't see your reply earlier. That's not to say threads aren't expensive, they still require several heavyweight struct allocations on the kernel side, e.g. struct task_struct, which I counted to 1k before getting
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by _wmd 13y ago
Under pressure, it will eventually page the memory back out, but generally you never want to get your machine into a state where paging happens. Aside from that, there is no mechanism that allows the kernel to know the memory is no longer u
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by _wmd 13y ago
Just highlighting a small, but common miscomprehension (that on one project, caused a PM to mail everyone at 2am about a HUGE nonexistent memory leak).. Thread stacks are virtual memory like everywhere else, so in reality an "8mb"
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by _wmd 13y ago
Hindsight is a wonderful thing :) It's worth reminding yourself why you ignored it then, and (perhaps like some), continue ignoring it today.. I may be a reluctant Bitcoin user sometime in the future, but attempting to profit from its
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by _wmd 13y ago
Marvellous, so 6 years later they're finally getting around to taking mobile security seriously. Too bad for the ~900 million buggy old webkits already in distribution. Of course, this is entirely the fault of the carriers!
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by _wmd 13y ago
Wish more companies cut to the chase and simply advertised themselves as e.g. "exactly like Google Helpouts, except Not Google" The "not Google" tag in itself is enough to drive me to click, where previously I didn'
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by _wmd 13y ago
Just another reason not to run your development environment on the bleeding edge
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by _wmd 13y ago
Because for people like me, unconscious zombie-like bears who will dig through concrete walls with bare hands in order to quiesce the source of the disturbance of my crucial slumber, while maintaining no memory of the demolished wall should
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by _wmd 13y ago
Kinda tired debating the surface pro on HN, but you hit the nail on the head. This is a desktop computer that sacrifices very little, yet is the size of an iPad with comparable usability. Anyone who voluntarily indoctrinated themselves on t
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by _wmd 13y ago
This can be detected fairly easily, and guarantees no appeal when you get caught
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by _wmd 13y ago
Seems like an odd invention given the industry is moving to storage technologies with sub-microsecond latencies, which is at least an order of magnitude better than 10ge is usually capable of. Still at least 'object store' style o
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by _wmd 13y ago
Perhaps you could better contribute by pointing to specific examples where us unwashed, uninformed, unworthy hordes have demonstrated our ignorance of your obvious expertise. (And no, "I don't follow that stock" is a cop out
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by _wmd 13y ago
Various parts of libuv (e.g. the recv path) have pluggable allocators. I'm more interested in why you'd be wanting to create and destroy event loops at a high rate? That seems to imply you're perhaps creating and destroying t
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by _wmd 13y ago
Automatic updates?

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