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by _wmd 8y ago
I guess you're the right person to ask - why hasn't this just been ripped out of the likes of OpenBSD? edit: seems it already has! https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=149870941319610
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by _wmd 8y ago
Another variant of using TIOCSTI with poor permissions. FWIW this exact same bug impacted Docker and LXC at various points. In the case of lxc-attach, when stdio is connected to a TTY, it creates a new pty within the container and multiplex
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by _wmd 8y ago
Lambda's design is a little perplexing in this regard.. latencies to invoke a function, even for a warm function are pretty ridiculous, and any on-host copies will be totally invisible given the networking environment. Despite that, e.
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by _wmd 8y ago
v1 and v2 UUIDs are derived from a MAC address by specification, the uniqueness of the v1 scheme in particular depends on it. Whether that's a good idea or not is another topic entirely, but if you want to conform to spec, an implement
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by _wmd 8y ago
There are tons of applications where rolling upgrade doesn't necessarily work out.. anything that is even remotely latency sensitive or state-heavy, for example a game server or an order matching engine
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by _wmd 8y ago
At first sight the thing is terrifying, but it seems a rather quite reasonable alternative play on the touchbar that does not mess with the ability to sell the device. Two massive benefits: the tactile response of the keyboard is totally pr
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by _wmd 8y ago
I'm not a graphics programmer, but everything I've read about OpenGL tells me moving to Metal isn't some embrace/extend maneuver but more likely due to the fact OpenGL is steaming ancient garbage. Kind of like the types
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by _wmd 8y ago
pre-Atlassian BitBucket was a lovely app, then they landed that Web 9.0 JS abomination redesign. Because waiting 30 seconds for uncached Javascript assets to load while on the clock is totally acceptable, when all you really need is 500 byt
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by _wmd 8y ago
That's the wrong way to read it - their likelihood is bad compared to an agency with secrets that gives it a better chance, and even then, that agency only receives a fair likelihood. At least this part is close to reality - per anothe
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by _wmd 8y ago
It's important to remember the desired goal - secure cryptography, and in that case even if the NSA is a known-bad actor, they might still be the best option to achieve an optimal outcome. There is a name for the kind of table below bu
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by _wmd 8y ago
Because if it is possible to ascertain they are acting in good faith, there is no better collection of minds, money and official secrets suited to the task of designing a robust cipher. The problem is that it's somewhere between diffic
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by _wmd 8y ago
This test was performed with a single client based in LA, and concluded the fastest font - Open Sans - downloaded in 476ms. The test fails to measure how much of this is setup time vs transfer time, or account for behaviour of TCP during th
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by _wmd 8y ago
> Except that a shared CDN which everyone uses results in better performance. This is thrown around a lot, but very rarely with hard numbers to support it. A cold DNS cache costs at least one roundtrip, a cold SSL session cache costs se
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by _wmd 8y ago
JFC. The reason the bugs you refer to are so important is because they /spanned/ hardware protection domains.
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by _wmd 8y ago
Hardware protection rings are a holdover from a time when we didn't have program formats that could be statically transformed and verified to do exactly what the operator desires. They have a nonzero performance overhead even when impl
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by _wmd 8y ago
Looks like someone didn't read the article :) If you normalize to UTC for some future date with a timezone in Lower Left Elbonia Standard Time (GMT+7:42), and the Elbonian Revolutionary Army successfully form an overnight junta, retro
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by _wmd 8y ago
I trawled for free whois privacy a few years back and found < https://internetbs.net/> . For a registrar I can't complain, it's cheap and the offer hasn't disappeared. Now all my domains live there.
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by _wmd 8y ago
+10000000 on the help system alone. Those people deserve a prize for making so many first time programming experiences so accessible. I read the QB help back to front as a kid
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by _wmd 8y ago
The Subversion HTTP protocol is WebDaV, so it is most certainly a living standard. Microsoft Office (used to?) support WebDAV URLs in its open dialog, I imagine that's still the case. I'm pretty sure it sees wide use in Microsoft
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by _wmd 8y ago
When I referred to smart ass HN comments in my later reply, this is definitely one of the better examples :) Awesome stats and fabulous insight, thanks for sharing! (And thanks for scraping Slashdot for inexplicable reasons)
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by _wmd 8y ago
HN tends more towards software and startups, everyone is an armchair CTO, Slashdot tends more towards tech, space and science. They both cover each other's topics, but there is a definite tendency on both sides. You're unlikely to
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by _wmd 8y ago
I'm not sure I ever observed Slashdot at any particular peak, but I've been reading it weekly (if not daily) for something like the past 15 years, and it still serves a role that HN, due to its bubble-like nature, can never fill.
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by _wmd 8y ago
While Pandas csv parser is quite slow anyway, the reason Pandas is particularly slow in this case is because it insists on applying type detection to every field of every row read. I have no clue how to disable it, but it's default beh
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by _wmd 8y ago
I hate Feedly's UI. Sorry
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by _wmd 8y ago
(deleted useful feedback but ultimately neggy comment -- sorry, these guys are launching an app, I don't want to shit on that in a top comment where it's the reader's first experience).
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by _wmd 8y ago
Deploying Git over SSH entails locking the precise command line executable by the public key you use to authenticate. Locking SSH SendEnv down is mandatory too, otherwise thousands of people would have shell access to GitHub.com! This isn&#
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by _wmd 8y ago
We're talking about a max 72KiB/sec connection (AptX HD) at one meter range between 2 peers, parent comment refers to flash mob gaming on a bus. A modern London bus seats 62 over a 11.23x2.52x4.39m area surrounded by numerous meta
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by _wmd 8y ago
16 years after that grand dream of ubiquitous personal mesh networking, and still today given a top of the line pair of headphones and a top of the line computer, the two will still reliably fail to communicate for some subset of users. Nic
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by _wmd 8y ago
As someone living off a steady stream of increasingly ancient Macbooks (the last 5 have been second hand 2011 MBPs), I simply don't give two hoots about recent Mac hardware any more - touchbars, keyboards with the tactile response of a
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by _wmd 8y ago
Could not agree more. I still wonder what their motivation is to stay together and make each decision that puts them in ever more dangerous situations, that part was poorly developed. I've been skipping every Holden/Nagata scene f

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