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by akavel 9y ago
Does it work sensibly if I'd like to do a 3-part split too?
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Ask HN: How do you backup your photos?
2 points by akavel 9y ago|3 comments
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by akavel 9y ago
Is there some valuable disscussion of the article on rust subreddit? If yes, could somebody please link it here?
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by akavel 9y ago
And/or, maybe even better, with the GenodeOS team?
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by akavel 9y ago
Notably, NetBSD has recently undergone a successful effort to implement such a decoupling of subsystems, while still remaining a monolithic kernel . Lo and behold, it immediately boosted the ecosystem of hobbyist FOSS OSes, by letting them
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by akavel 9y ago
Do I understand correctly that it would be purely VoIP over GSM/2G/.../LTE? Where the particular VoIP implementation of choice is this "Matrix" protocol/ecosystem? Which potentially at some point (with enough f
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by akavel 9y ago
Hm; to me this sounds rather in line with the following quote from page 4 of the OP document: "Against drilling with arms, as testified to before a Congressional committee, the Union will also fight—even for the enactment of laws, if
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by akavel 9y ago
Thanks!
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by akavel 9y ago
Is NoScript expected to be ported over to the WebExtension API? I know there were numerous bugzilla tickets tracking its feasibility, but not sure what's the final verdict and expectation?
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by akavel 9y ago
As to the language, that's my hope too, specifically I'm crossing fingers super hard for http://luna-lang.org
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by akavel 9y ago
For me personally, currently my absolute top reason I'm dying of excitement is http://www.luna-lang.org/ Only I'm not sure if they're gonna manage to get a release out of the door; I have an impression that t
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by akavel 9y ago
Yeah, that's the key new info for me too, something I missed during the previous discussion - I think it wasn't mentioned at all then. The key quotes from the OP article: "Runway 28L was closed to accommodate construction; i
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by akavel 9y ago
Personally, I always had (and still have) a much more positive view of the XKCD. I believe it actually shows an interesting way how people try to make the world better, and share their knowledge, in face of noticed errors. I believe this me
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by akavel 9y ago
Apart from "that, my friends, is science!" , the follow-up he got is another nice example of https://www.xkcd.com/386/ — a.k.a. "Someone's wrong on the Internet"
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by akavel 9y ago
Will it work after the legacy addons support is removed? If yes, how can you tell? I couldn't find any related keywords I know on the addon's page.
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by akavel 9y ago
Thanks Nenad! :) The links indeed look interesting, at least at a first glance, though it seems not quite clear to me which keywords are R2 vs. R3 (proposals?) vs. Red, especially in the link marked as [1]. Still, at least that's somet
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by akavel 9y ago
I also tried to learn the "PARSE dialect" (the DSL coding mechanism of REBOL/Red), as this is what's often claimed to be the crucial differentiating factor (the "main idea") of REBOL/Red - but I failed, be
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by akavel 9y ago
Would be cool if you could consider doing a writeup about it, and linking it on the mentioned wiki page.
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by akavel 9y ago
I believe part of the reason was also some experience with C++, in which you sometimes have to "unconst" some fields of your const classes (the mutable keyword). This is a really ugly and nonintuitive design, so I assume they&#
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by akavel 9y ago
Does anybody know if this is finally a real full-blown REPL? Does it allow starting new goroutines and communicating with them over channels? Does it support FFI, i.e. package syscall + unsafe? on Windows and Linux? Or is it again a "r
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by akavel 9y ago
C is kinda small enough, that I imagine one can maybe have some chance at trying to hold the whole of it, including all nuances/warts, in one's head. Like, maybe even actually write a compiler for it. (See e.g. Dennis Ritchie, Fab
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by akavel 9y ago
Regarding my initial outburst, I'd like to clarify that it was specifically against a comment claiming that rewriting C code in ("modern" or not, whatever) C++ is the safest choice if someone is worried about security of a C
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by akavel 9y ago
Ah, but I never called to delete any C/C++-based code! That's a strawman from you here. Also, especially I didn't say it's impossible to write anything substantial and/or useful in C++, oh, most certainly it is!
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by akavel 9y ago
Ok, please let me ask you a question: have you read all the fragments of The ISO C++ Standard regarding undefined behavior? I have not, but I've read enough fragments/quotes to raise hair on my back and show me how many assumption
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by akavel 9y ago
For serious exception safety, you have to be able to prove that all invariants all the code of your class relies on are kept between every 2 subsequent lines of your code in that class. Because exception can occur everywhere. And actually
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by akavel 9y ago
[ edit: ah, potentially my best argument regarding UB, that I thought of in another reply in this thread: so, please tell me now, have you read all the fragments of The ISO C++ Standard regarding UB? Because if not, you by definition don&#
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by akavel 9y ago
I'm afraid I was not being sarcastic. Sorry. This is a totally honest and dead serious opinion from a long time C & C++ user. ("stars aligning" here means "you must also have luck". As I said: see SQLite.)
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by akavel 9y ago
Oh no, no, no! Some people may reasonably, with some extreme care and diligence, maybe try to claim they can write safe and UB-free C code. If stars align properly. (See maybe SQLite. Seen as one of the pinnacles of crazy pedantism in C.
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by akavel 9y ago
AFAIK, Go devs actually do a similar thing (i.e. test the compiler on a body of selected notable third party packages/apps) [citation needed]. An official central index similar to Rust's https://crates.io for Go is
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by akavel 9y ago
I imagine one has to be extra careful to avoid spilling passwords and other secrets then. Probably best when it can be avoided by some technical means like ssh keys for git, etc.

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