ben0x539

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541.
by ben0x539 8y ago
Oh, cool, what kind of games are you getting playable performance (60+ fps?) with? I was under the impression that nouveau was basically unsuitable for modern/AAA videogames, maybe I need to reevaluate!
542.
by ben0x539 8y ago
but not that it's because it's free software, rather that it's because they read the docs.
543.
by ben0x539 8y ago
hey mods do you think you could edit the title of this submission to give some idea what it's about or who wrote it?
544.
by ben0x539 8y ago
So add step 2.5: Netflix sends a confirmation mail and the victim confirms for the same reason as in step 4.
545.
by ben0x539 8y ago
> So many open source hackers do not know the basic tecniques for backwards compatibility (e.g. don't reaname a function, just intoduce a new one, leaving the old available). I'd dispute this, or at least I think this doesn&#x2
546.
by ben0x539 8y ago
You're certainly correct, but I don't understand why you're phrasing this as an objection rather than as a rationale for how the language is specified. Personally, I enjoy that the C standard makes a bunch of guarantees that
547.
by ben0x539 8y ago
Not the truely Scottish ISPs. :>
548.
by ben0x539 8y ago
Is your complaint that the /64 allocation from ISPs is too big or too small? And are you primarily thinking of residential/"end-user" ISPs?
549.
by ben0x539 8y ago
I don't think the success of IPv6 as a whole hinges on these residential ISPs. I think there is enough momentum for IPv6 already (mobile users especially) that we get a healthy coexistence of IPv4 and IPv6, where new stuff gets designe
550.
by ben0x539 8y ago
My system seems to terminate the program I'm typing into when I press Control-\. Also, with the default German kez^Hymap, I can't seem to type Control-^.
551.
by ben0x539 8y ago
obviously no one can comment here without drawing undue attention to their cover. awkward.
552.
by ben0x539 8y ago
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10004678
553.
by ben0x539 8y ago
Sure, we can limit the language growth, as soon as we get all the critical features in!
554.
by ben0x539 8y ago
afaict, the 1password cli app is just a client for their API and has no offline mode, so if I can't reach 1password's servers, I can't access any of my secrets. I believe the browser addons do not share this shortcoming, thou
555.
by ben0x539 8y ago
Video games will probably get there easily.
556.
by ben0x539 8y ago
I think the JS world might be particularly excited about async/await because other people just escape to threads when they don't want to block the whole thing on IO. Both in JS or Rust, you don't gain anything just by declari
557.
by ben0x539 8y ago
This is restaurants hiring someone to check on their own staff, isn't it?
558.
by ben0x539 8y ago
It's not really obvious to me that the original issue, mentioning os.Exec calls and Ubuntu versions, has the same cause as the crashes from the commenter mentioning patched Gentoo toolchains.
559.
by ben0x539 8y ago
Do we really rather want to end up in a world where the government is in the business of undermining computer security at large to get its spyware everywhere it wants it? I mean, but do we want this to be a thing the legal system does openl
560.
by ben0x539 8y ago
Yeah, so I think that imposing similar requirements for compelled decryption is not the way forward. There is limited use in instituting high standards if you fundamentally can't trust the people interpreting those standards.
561.
by ben0x539 8y ago
I really sympathize with the desire to have my computing device extremely protected against scrutiny because I like to think of it as an extension of my own memory and cognitive ability etc and don't want to worry about maintaining an
562.
by ben0x539 8y ago
Yeah, there's a certain level of hermeneutics involved in arguing about undefined behavior, it's a great source of unending entertainment because no one can prove you wrong _definitely_. I've long had daydreams of a C or C++
563.
by ben0x539 8y ago
Yeah, it generalizes to an argument for using types to encode assumptions about data, so you have static certainty/remove dynamic uncertainty. I'm strongly in favor of all arguments that let me remove sources of uncertainty from m
564.
by ben0x539 8y ago
I mean, we're probably not talking about a dozen milliseconds out of 20 seconds total, we're talking about extra milliseconds for every request or roundtrip or w/e constituting those 20 seconds. It's an extra cost that s
565.
by ben0x539 8y ago
That code looks somewhat wonky and seems either legal to me, or illegal for non-aliasing reasons. In principle, taking a pointer to a blob of bytes and casting it to a pointer to your struct should be sound if you can assume that the blob o
566.
by ben0x539 8y ago
I don't think I disagree , but could you articulate how strict aliasing makes this code wrong? Maybe I'm not looking at the right code, but it's not immediately obvious from the post to me.
567.
by ben0x539 8y ago
Do you just take issue with the specific claim that no language should have pointer arithmetic, or do you disagree with the more general thrust of the post? Sure, it's ranty and, like, maybe closer to op-ed than computer science public
568.
by ben0x539 8y ago
A lot of mobile phones access the internet via IPv6 by default, and IPv4-only sites that want to reach them require non-trivial compatibility infrastructure like carrier-grade NAT or more complicated shenanigans. It seems like some sites ar
569.
by ben0x539 8y ago
I suspect in advance of the 1990s it was a problem to people who specifically cared about such things, and would read or write papers on the topic. In the 1990s it started to become a problem for a lot of people who really only cared about
570.
by ben0x539 8y ago
The argument against byte swapping suggests that you shouldn't take a value of a numeric type and apply some (maybe no-op) permutation to it to produce another value of the numeric type. Instead, you should only ever think about byte o

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