asveikau

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by asveikau 7y ago
Bill Gates was quite rich and ordinary people used to talk about him a lot. He was never seen as cool in that time. He's had a bit of a reputation increase since then, part of it is probably his philanthropy, but also nerdy people are
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by asveikau 7y ago
The first release of bash was in 1989. Shell scripting was already a thing at that time. Csh and ksh were also around for roughly a decade at that time. I think you are confusing bash with sh with this kind of statement.
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by asveikau 7y ago
Smart people who work in C++ already know this and aren't going to get on your case about it. It's a very diverse language in terms of common practices. There are many different accepted styles and many "time capsules"
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by asveikau 7y ago
> In the end I got dinged for not using the Java Arrays library for copying an array (used a manual for loop)... This doesn't sound like a smart interviewer. They are testing your knowledge of the library ahead of understanding wha
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by asveikau 7y ago
Right now, or last I checked, GCC supports more architectures. So while I realize that the Intel/ARM monoculture (or duoculture?) plus occasional emergence of things like risc-v will continue to absorb the world's new devices, th
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by asveikau 7y ago
I actually agree with your conclusions, however , if they had dropped privileges before running javascript it would be worlds and worlds better. Whoever bootstrapped the C parts should have known this.
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by asveikau 7y ago
This. Everyday people in the leadup to y2k assumed it meant that every computer would somehow explode. Almost nobody stopped to actually reason through the real life consequence of a program getting the date and time wrong.
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by asveikau 7y ago
It's weird for open source because the ousted party can usually take the tree and fork. A prominent example of this is OpenBSD, which started with Theo being ousted from NetBSD. In many ways that fork is now more influential than the
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by asveikau 7y ago
Yet I feel like "power grab" is a loaded description that implies such a "grab" is unjustified and that the grabber is primarily interested in power for power's sake, not for otherwise justifiable, altruistic, or be
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by asveikau 7y ago
There is a "C language mode" inside cl.exe (by file extension or by /TC flag) and there's plenty of C that doesn't compile as C++. eg.: char *p = malloc(n); No explicit casts from void*! Anyway, around the t
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by asveikau 7y ago
I don't watch mozilla closely other than I run firefox in a couple of places [including typing this message], and it does seem to me that they often promo existing features as "new" assuming that people are unfamiliar with th
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by asveikau 7y ago
Why do you consider it a power grab sooner than, say, people acting in good faith who really believe in their stated values?
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by asveikau 7y ago
Mixed declaration and code is very old in C++, and Microsoft has always supported it there. It wasn't until vs2015 that they let you do it in a .c file.
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by asveikau 7y ago
The issue I might still have today in 2020 is disk space, and extra time downloading updates to those packages at the next update. Even today I'd be reluctant to want to pull in large libraries that amount to an entire UI or desktop f
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by asveikau 7y ago
When I read old text I frequently note that this sort of typo seems more common in the 70s. There was likely nothing checking the spelling. And certainly no editors putting squigglies. No place to Google your spelling doubts. And annoying t
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by asveikau 7y ago
Microsoft has started to implement more of C99 over the years. I think it was 2015 where they implemented mixed declaration and code. I noticed they put stdint and stdbool finally in 2010 or so. Still pretty incomplete last I checked but po
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by asveikau 7y ago
I think it's an excellent point that a woman with equivalent chops as Linus is less likely to be recognized for it. So I am glad you replied. Thank you.
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by asveikau 7y ago
People have valid criticisms of Linus's delivery, but the content is often good. I tend to remember some of the technical arguments in those rants years after the fact, and cite them. Keep in mind he did create the Linux kernel and git
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by asveikau 7y ago
It's not hard. The very start of the article says she trusts proper kernel threads more. But a bunch of these languages were designed and written in a time before threads were much of a thing. So they fake threads in user mode rather t
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by asveikau 7y ago
Someone should hand you a Nokia N900. A smartphone from 11 years ago, with specs that kind of sucked even for the time, but it ran X, and pretty well. It's not some weakness that forces them not to use X, it is NIH. Same reason Google
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by asveikau 7y ago
So there is a different piece that can be inspected for it's own vulnerabilities, that probably does not get as much scrutiny because the hardware isn't as popular. That's not a criticism per se, I am sure it's hard to
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by asveikau 7y ago
The thing about law enforcement use is that for however bad civilian use is, the consequences of false positives are severe. Missed out on a job opportunity or social interaction unfairly? That sucks. But here we are talking potential for w
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by asveikau 7y ago
I wonder if some particular M_TRIM_THRESHOLD value does better than the default. The author spent some time measuring before and after forcing a trim by attaching a debugger, but it may be more generally useful to tweak the default.
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by asveikau 7y ago
Hmm, I missed the C++ism for this term. Googling around: > Although it was initially developed for the Itanium architecture, it is not platform-specific and can be layered portably on top of an arbitrary C ABI. My mistake, my comment is
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by asveikau 7y ago
3,000 / 80,000 = 0.0375 34,000 / 36,000,000 = ~0.00094 36,000,000 * 0.0375 = 1,350,000 That's the concern. China also had some pretty extreme measures to get their low number of cases, measures I don't think will play ou
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by asveikau 7y ago
At a time when I had more spare time vs. today I was also hacking on my own kernel, so I definitely understand the drive to do that. (And congratulate you for pulling it off.) But OpenBSD is a great kernel and user mode, all around. For con
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by asveikau 7y ago
This "integration" between vim and tmux seems like a misfeature. It is poorly thought out and I'm not surprised it could exhibit such a bug. I don't want tmux sending input to vi based on an unrelated action. Just as
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by asveikau 7y ago
I am not sure if all implementers made the same choices, but for example I believe Microsoft concluded that table-based EH is always better and made not only their IA64 ABI but also their amd64 ABI use it. They keep 32-bit x86 at an older
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by asveikau 7y ago
> That said, jcs@ from the OpenBSD project has been working on a port of the entire Serenity desktop environment to OpenBSD: https://twitter.com/jcs/status/1224205573656322048 Wow. That looks pretty awesome. Yo
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by asveikau 7y ago
Furthermore I kind of wonder if anybody bringing up this point has ever in their life seen or heard of a malicious X11 client ... I know this is not how security works (a theoretical hole is often as bad as a practical one) but it's a

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