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by _wmd 8y ago
But there is another option, it was mentioned in the original complaint :) > So it means for every product, have a build for every distro / version combination you want to support. Of course it's a total pain in the ass, but it
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by _wmd 8y ago
If you distribute and link libcurl v69 dynamically, the dynamic linker symbol table for your process will contain references to v69 symbols. If you then load an e.g. GL driver that in turn links libcurl v42, the GL driver will end up with s
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by _wmd 8y ago
It's definitely technically possible to find a hacky combination that works today, but only by shouldering the cost of understanding all the possible deps and symbols and the structure of their underlying objects used by all possible e
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by _wmd 8y ago
It's a wonderful idea - on paper, but all that's needed is for one of the many mandatory deps for running a GL program to link against the system libcurl or any other replaced dep and you're back in Crashville again, populati
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by _wmd 8y ago
Your suggestion to ship glibc caused coffee to end up over my keyboard :) This is the road to hell, but you'd only know that if you had the slightest clue of the ABI interactions involved in swapping out a core library like that - sta
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by _wmd 8y ago
Blog spam, the NYT article appears to be the primary and only source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/world/asia/he-jiankui-chi...
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by _wmd 8y ago
Excel succeeds at its job so thoroughly that I think people fail to realize (or cope with the realization) that spreadsheets are probably the most successful democratized programming environment we have. It may not have been intentional, bu
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by _wmd 8y ago
Would you consider Microsoft Excel a visual language?
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by _wmd 8y ago
There is of course value in comparing Messages-the-HTML-app to Slack-the-HTML-app. If they can do it in a fraction of the memory with comparable functionality, I wonder why Slack can't
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by _wmd 8y ago
I had never seen this before! Thanks
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by _wmd 8y ago
> The only way to read an SQLite file is using SQLite This part unfortunately isn't a position, it's absolute. It's hard to imagine a situation where as a developer we would not have access to a C runtime or for any reason
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by _wmd 8y ago
As much as I love SQLite, and while it is open source, it is a single implementation that AFAIK has no published open specification. The only way to read an SQLite file is using SQLite, and in that respect, it is for many users just as clos
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by _wmd 8y ago
Physical pages can be mapped more than once, it is the mapping that describes protection bits. Implementing an in-place FUSE filesystem for example would have no bearing on whether other mappings of the same file lacked execute bits, and in
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Mitogen comes to Opsmop(sweetness.hmmz.org)
2 points by _wmd 8y ago|0 comments
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by _wmd 8y ago
> no need to purchase reserved instances GCE offered committed use discounts for quite some time (note: completely different from sustained use discount that is automatic), by ignoring this discount tier, the results from this post look
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by _wmd 8y ago
For someone with only passing attention for this stuff, your comment explains it perfectly -- thanks! Now I'm wondering how browsers presumably already cope with this for JS, or how CloudFlare workers cope with it, or .. etc.
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by _wmd 8y ago
The big news this year was that the majority of hardware isolation designs in existence were fundamentally unsound, this is a software sandbox. Are you referring to the recent discovery of a new hardware bug class here?
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UK has provided ‘guarantees’ Assange won’t be extradited(rt.com)
2 points by _wmd 8y ago|1 comments
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by _wmd 8y ago
As I understand things, the Mozilla codebase is a much older, vastly more complex and significantly less embedding-friendly environment than WebKit and derivatives. At least from here, it is easy to see why the choice may have in part been
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by _wmd 8y ago
Lazy binding isn't without downsides, it requires internal synchronization of its own, which means it's possible to write multithreaded programs that will suffer latencies due to lock contention during symbol resolution. Depending
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by _wmd 8y ago
Chrome only exists because Google were afraid of lacking control over the stack they use to deliver their content. Firefox was already 'good enough' long before it ever appeared, and Google could easily have dedicated engineering
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by _wmd 8y ago
Identify high yield market, commoditize, everyone benefits, except the old school and their previously captive audience and mandatory long-term commitments. Sound familiar? I wonder if the same principle could work for telescopes, or are ra
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by _wmd 8y ago
60 signatures, 88,000 employees :(
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by _wmd 8y ago
This is entitlement speaking, and it's clearly a solution that doesn't scale. Downstream must be responsible for only depending on software from reputable sources, there simply is no alternative. I hate to have to do this, but t
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by _wmd 8y ago
I use this at least once a month! Thanks sooooooo much!!!
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by _wmd 8y ago
AWS began releasing a new AMD generation a few weeks ago.. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-lower-cost-amd-powered-...
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by _wmd 8y ago
When guerilla marketing backfires
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by _wmd 8y ago
It is a natural effect of building massive yet flat homogeneous systems, failures tend to be greatly amplified. Most of what you can read of Google's approach will teach you their ideal computing environment is a single planetary resou
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by _wmd 8y ago
> Simultaneously, they don’t use a virtual machine or a container, which means you are actually running closer to the metal than any other form of cloud computing I’m aware of I recognize this is just a little marketing (which is fine),
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by _wmd 8y ago
If you don't like software with these new style licenses, then don't use software with these new style licenses. Explain what it is that apparently so deeply violates your right to exist, but puritanical screaming and finger-point

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