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by bcrl 1y ago
Most humans would assume that giving an app permission to use the accelerometer is not the same as giving the app permission to use the microphone. It's yet another form of permission confusion that allows for unintended privacy viola
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by bcrl 1y ago
I'd be happier if the suggested word didn't move between the time I saw it appear and the time my finger touched the screen.
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by bcrl 1y ago
Language standards have plenty of power over compiler vendors, however, very few people that are not involved in writing compilers tend to participate in the standards process. Standards bodies bend to the will of those participating.
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by bcrl 1y ago
It is important to understand why undefined behaviour has proliferated over the past ~25 years. Compiler developers are (like the rest of us) under pressure to improve metrics like the performance of compiled code. Often enough that'
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by bcrl 1y ago
It really depends on the culture of the organization, personal and team goals. Very few places have everything in place to support engineers by making work low friction, productive and with the right support from the rest of the team combi
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by bcrl 1y ago
Buggy? Aside from the abuse of the upper 8 bits of 32 bit pointers that prevented its use on newer CPUs, I don't recall hitting a lot of bugs in AmigaBASIC. Perhaps my memory is just old and faded.
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by bcrl 1y ago
Data centers don't age as well as fibre optic cables.
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by bcrl 1y ago
That's like the introductory prices of the incumbent giant telecom here in Canada: he's $60/month for gigabit internet + phone + TV for 1 year + a $250 prepaid Visa gift card! Oh, you didn't want the bill for $300 on mo
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by bcrl 1y ago
Gmail rejects mailing list messages that every other email provider accepts. It is impossible to get a human at Google to look at these issues. That's kinda the worst of all worlds. At least other email providing companies have supp
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by bcrl 1y ago
Or they could just pay the authors of the books directly for a license... Isn't that kinda like how a lot of software companies are compensated?
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by bcrl 1y ago
It's probably a design choice that is driven by power consumption. 512 bit writes are probably used rarely enough that the performance benefits do not outweigh the additional power consumption that would be borne by all memory writes.
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by bcrl 1y ago
--json-output=/dev/fd/3
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by bcrl 1y ago
That doesn't work reliably either. No existing code scrubs STDDATA_FD from their environment variables, and there's no way to know if anyone uses STDDATA_FD in the wild. Why not just use a command line parameter like everyone el
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by bcrl 1y ago
Mikrotik has not (yet?) gone down the path of shipping sector radios supporting massive MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output -- an 8x8 array can deliver 8 times as much data as 1 stream within the same channel size) as vendors like Cambium
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by bcrl 1y ago
I'm not so sure it was due to attitudes changing. At least here in Ontario funding for many long term facilities was scrapped in the 1990s as governments slashed budgets for non-essential services to cut costs while higher levels of g
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by bcrl 1y ago
It's an excellent way of upholding Wirth's Law: software will continue to get slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
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by bcrl 1y ago
As a kernel developer, I have always had to worry about what happens in the 0.000001% of cases. You're either correct all of the time or you likely have an exploitable security hole in your code that will turn into a CVE at some point
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by bcrl 1y ago
And the gun isn't a gun, it's just a bunch of rope that you somehow got tangled into an explosive with a detonator you can't quite seem to locate.
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by bcrl 1y ago
I wasn't confusing anything. To interoperate with industry standard fibre optic cables it should have a multiple of 12 or 24 cores, not the complete oddball number of 19. Yes it's cool that it's that small, but that is not
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by bcrl 1y ago
Interesting work, but 19 cores is very much not standard. Multiples of 12 cores are the gold standard in the telecommunications industry. Ribbon fibre is typically 12, sometimes 24 fibres per ribbon, and high count cables these days are 8
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by bcrl 1y ago
Great: your client device supports IPv6 while your consumer networking gear does not. How's that going to work exactly?
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by bcrl 1y ago
CPE support is the issue and has always been the issue! People assume that IPv6 is done, but it really isn't in the consumer networking gear product space.
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by bcrl 1y ago
2 of my customers explicitly asked for IPv6 prefixes. Another ISP had a couple of users actively using IPv6 15 years ago, but it bitrotted and nobody cared enough to ask for it to be fixed. Another user recently asked to be provided with
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by bcrl 1y ago
I know that the GP wasn't asking about static IP addresses, however I was merely providing some statistics about what customer asks regarding IP addresses are actually seen on the provider side of things. It's not widely used in m
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by bcrl 1y ago
Bell techs have done that and caused outages for customers a number of times. One outage ended up costing close to CAD$7900 to repair that they settled for due to it occurring on a weekend in a rural area during a snowstorm that required t
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by bcrl 1y ago
Germany also does a lot more construction on main roads at night compared to what we see in North America.
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by bcrl 1y ago
Comcast was forced to go to IPv6 because they ran out of IPv4 addresses in the private address space to use for management of their network (think of how each and every cable modem needs a an address for management in addition to all the ro
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by bcrl 1y ago
Static IPv4 addresses are closer to around 5% of customers. Nobody asks for IPv4, but some customers bring their existing or own wireless routers along and occasionally choose devices that are not IPv6 capable. Maybe in another 10 years t
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by bcrl 1y ago
I'm not doing CGNAT. We were able to get enough IPv4 addresses directly from ARIN a few years ago after being on the waiting list for a couple of years. It's a pity that widespread fraud depleted that pool faster than it should
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by bcrl 1y ago
Fibre is orders of magnitude better than DSL or cable as entire classes of problems are eliminated. Water shorting out copper pairs? Not a problem unless the water gets inside a splice and freezes causing significant bends that lower sign

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