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by a-dub 4y ago
tangential question: if i wanted to poke around with the risc-v isa (like add an instruction) and then wanted to add support to an emulator, compiler and operating system for that instruction, is there an emulator, compiler and operating sy
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by a-dub 4y ago
if you willfully and ostentatiously engage in behavior that endangers the commercial success of your employer either through poor judgement, sheer incompetence or active malice, you have clearly stepped into "good reason to be fired&qu
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by a-dub 4y ago
> Everyone is an arse at one time or another. sure, but publishing with hopes of going viral is a different animal altogether. it was extremely poor judgement on the part of the employee that once again endangered everyone else's ha
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by a-dub 4y ago
> What kind of BS world do we live in where bosses give a shit what you think of the grocery store or corner store down the block? they don't care about that. they do care if you go on social media and make an ass of yourself by moc
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by a-dub 4y ago
would be interesting to see how the actual call stack is implemented. they must either have a fixed width object as you mention or some kind of linear chaining like you're describing. found this on wikipedia: https://resourc
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by a-dub 4y ago
is there an example of machine code that doesn't make use of a linear contiguous call stack? what would the alternative be? compute the size of all the stack frames a-priori in the compiler and then spray them all over main memory and
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by a-dub 4y ago
> Why do we even have linear physical and virtual addresses in the first place, when pretty much everything today is object-oriented? are there alternatives to linearly growing call stacks?
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by a-dub 4y ago
you may enjoy this text: http://www.inference.org.uk/itila/book.html
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by a-dub 4y ago
on the flip side, do newer embedded hardware designs have better sources of entropy and monotony yet? (does that still matter?)
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by a-dub 4y ago
> Many developers see security people as annoying creatures, always pointing out mistakes and criticizing incorrect decisions. A cryptographer is considered more malignant: they know math and can tell you actual probabilities of some of
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by a-dub 4y ago
i've made use of various windows based microsoft ides, intellij, eclipse, wind river tornado, the qt creator, various activestate ides, various notebook ides and others i probably cannot even remember. i've encountered these ides
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by a-dub 4y ago
the problem i have with ides is that you never know when some boss or it department will stand in the way of your favorite being available. from open source work at home to the most paranoid of high security environments, vim tends to be t
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by a-dub 4y ago
> The vast majority of apps on Linux would simply never work on Mobile because no one would bother creating a mobile app for Linux, because of the chicken and egg problem created by the non existent market share for Linux phones. they wo
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by a-dub 4y ago
> but also more integrated into Windows that's right. iirc the windows 95 ppp drivers were a separate package and msn included them along with a custom dialer that integrated directly into the shell as a tray application?
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by a-dub 4y ago
i feel like i want something with full egress logging and a community driven filterset. bonus points for making it easy to install a cert on the machines in my network and capture/inspection of ssl streams. alternatively, some cloud eg
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by a-dub 4y ago
hm, guess they updated it. it used to keep a score for each peer in terms of misbehavior and then banlist the source ip address if a peer misbehaved too much. overall the whole system operates under the assumption that peers are untrusted a
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by a-dub 4y ago
right, but those "nodes" are basically proxy nodes which fan out to thousands of individual miners which are actually burning the hashes. since downtime is extremely costly, i expect that those operators to have multiple geographi
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by a-dub 4y ago
i want a cable modem + oss router/outbound firewall/egress logger all in one device. does such a thing exist?
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by a-dub 4y ago
> Know when to hold them, and know when to fold them. i understand and appreciate the desire to walk away. it's the classic, quiet, dignified and usually effective response to insanity. (and american politics, for the last 6 years a
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by a-dub 4y ago
ahh yes, there's some confusion here. it's not 51 percent of the entire network, it's 51 percent of the hashpower. it's true that much of the hashpower is concentrated in the hands of a few pool operators, but if i reca
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by a-dub 4y ago
there wasn't a document when i worked on it, and it almost certainly has evolved in the many years since i looked at it, but here's a starting point: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/search?q=misbehavin
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by a-dub 4y ago
i used to work on this stuff (and thought about it quite a bit) so i thought i'd address some of these points purely for the fun of it. > The challenge with using a blockchain is that one has to either (a) accept its immutability an
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by a-dub 4y ago
> Stay here, make this moderately good place even better. or better yet, come to the us and bring your good influence to help get this troubled place back on track. the political situation in the united states is indeed complex and troub
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by a-dub 4y ago
you can build a separate mobile optimized ui, and a separate desktop optimized ui, that both share a design language and conceptual approach, without using the exact same ui for both use cases. it seems that ui designers have been trying to
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by a-dub 4y ago
maybe better to just raise the issue generally for yourself about how well the meeting/communication style is working and get everyone's feedback on collaboration tools and process so that no one is put on the spot. not only does
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by a-dub 4y ago
https://github.com/singhsidhukuldeep/Google-Colab-Shell pops a terminal inline in the colab notbook on the backing vm. super useful if you get tired of having to shell execute all the time via the cell interface.
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by a-dub 4y ago
also maybe counting any sort of retry or fallback as a trackable and alertable failure. auto/silent fallbacks seem like clever ways of avoiding beeps and remaining resilient against failures in supporting systems, but in practice it th
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by a-dub 4y ago
it may also be a relic of my old age, but the idea that a browser cookie could be all you need for production root has terrified me in sso environments of past. maybe i have an antiquated view of browser security but it seemed... unnerving.
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by a-dub 4y ago
"Only mock what you own, because mocking others is rude." i once referred to a codebase as foreign, meaning (to my knowledge) not originally developed by my team or division, when justifying not writing new unit test coverage for
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by a-dub 4y ago
so it turns out that optimization is also tco (tail call optimization). that said, i was previously unfamiliar with continuous passing style, thanks!

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