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961.
by blub 6y ago
One doesn't need standardized tools to get things done. One doesn't even need correctness, performance, privacy, etc as can be seen from a multitude of very successful projects. But it's there for those that really need it an
962.
by blub 6y ago
Correct, I was not precise. Actually LLVM is not a problem for me personally, as the platforms I'm using right now are mainstream. I was merely trying to explain why some wouldn't be content just with LLVM.
963.
by blub 6y ago
Technically the possibility is there. What I'm interested in is how this will be regarded by Rust programmers as time passes and how it will continue to be supported. It would be interesting for example to see if e.g. the 2015 edition
964.
by blub 6y ago
Rust is a pragmatic project. They chose a compiler which is performant and widely available and bet everything on it to keep things straightforward. It looks like it's served them well. This compiler is on the other hand naturally not
965.
by blub 6y ago
Having an international standard behind a language gives it a certain weight that can't even be compared to the ad-hoc structures that are seen in other projects. It enables experts in different areas from different countries to come a
966.
by blub 6y ago
I continue to look out after friends and of course family and strongly believe in equal basic rights for all human beings but BLM (and other causes) are not my fight. Starting several years ago I couldn't deny any more that several gro
967.
by blub 6y ago
The fact that my comment doesn't mention the word "Coinbase" should be a pretty strong hint that I'm referring to a general situation. What happens at one company is utterly irrelevant, but what happens in many places an
968.
by blub 6y ago
When accusations of racism are being thrown around carelessly and people are having their reputations destroyed and lives turned upside down because of a single thing they (allegedly) said, the potential future targets of these accusations
969.
by blub 6y ago
For 99,99% of Linux programming io_uring and eBPF do not have a point and developers couldn't care less about them.
970.
by blub 6y ago
If the premise is nonsense how can the article be well-written? Most applications will not change the way they work with the kernel, because they don't work with it, they hide it as well as possible under libraries and frameworks. Even
971.
by blub 6y ago
eBPF has been available for a while now, one year ago there were even two books published about it, one by an author of the "bcc" mentioned in this ad disguised as a technical article. It didn't revolutionize programming in L
972.
by blub 6y ago
It would be interesting to know what the trade-off for those tweaks was. Typically it's increased memory usage. Another relevant aspect is what happens when one hits GC pauses again. Will there be any tweaks left? Will they conflict wi
973.
by blub 6y ago
Yes they are obviously upgrading their software because they need to make money and adding features and fixing bugs is a great way to do that. The only solution to not having a broken music workstation is to never connect that machine to th
974.
by blub 6y ago
Extremely high performance properly written Java code has been mentioned so many times in Java performance discussions that it has acquired an almost legendary status, right there with the sufficiently smart compiler.
975.
by blub 6y ago
Could the people that vote with their wallet please also stop caring about Apple so much, to the extent that they have to rescue those that are still Apple customers and nitpick anything Apple-related to bits? Take a clean break, it'
976.
by blub 6y ago
But they're not wrong at all and their time and money was well invested. The ecosystem does just work and the user experience is great compared to the alternatives. It's also possible to use only specific products and switch off v
977.
by blub 6y ago
The laws are already there. If you care about this and have some free time you may try to make a complain to the Irish data protection commission. I'm not sure if it's infringing though. If Apple says that they do not collect pers
978.
by blub 6y ago
I assume you upgraded OS, in which case it's annoying but not unusual that plugins stop working. A machine that's used for making professional music should not be upgraded or connected to the internet. If it's for a hobby...
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by blub 6y ago
It feels like it was yesterday when HN was praising Tim Bray for quitting Amazon AWS [1] over the firing of whistleblowers. And on the other hand we have what appear to be several prominent Rust community members falling over each other to
980.
by blub 6y ago
What was the point of saying all of the above? In the real world there's many bad managers and new managers are assigned to existing projects all the time. Any tool which provides more misleading metrics is bad news. Proving that the i
981.
by blub 6y ago
No it's not at all as monopolistic as MS was. MS was the alpha and omega of software at one point, you couldn't get around them if you wanted to sell to consumers or to businesses. This is not true of Apple, one can build a busi
982.
by blub 6y ago
That was win win win: * seem ethical by not "accepting" gift * give the worthless gift away and make the recipient be in your debt
983.
by blub 6y ago
The things that were trying to replace it (i.e. web standards) were even more power hungry to run or didn't work.
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by blub 6y ago
You love Flash from the bottom of your heart, but you're happy it's dead? Could it be that you're hiding your true feelings to be more in line with the expectations of the community? The modern web development establishment h
985.
by blub 6y ago
The "firewalls" in the title of this thread refers to outbound application firewalls. There are products that behave like this on Windows, but they're typically part of a security suite which one may or may not want. Others a
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by blub 6y ago
The subject of this thread are application firewalls, like Little Snitch or https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch . To be fair I haven't looked at the state of Linux app firewalls in years, maybe there's so
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by blub 6y ago
This is irrelevant news for malware developers. How many people do you think are running Little Snitch? I'd be surprised if it's more than several tens of thousands out of tens (hundreds?) of millions of machines. Such an applicat
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by blub 6y ago
The top rated comment from wizee seems correct. There are several technologies involved: * system-wide VPNs - apparently work as before * software firewalls - some Apple apps not blocked * per-app VPNs - These are designed to tunnel traffic
989.
by blub 6y ago
Filtering any outbound traffic on those is either outright not supported or not worth attempting.
990.
by blub 6y ago
I was referring to software firewalls. Obviously it's bad if a VPN is leaking traffic, but that's not confirmed yet... or at least I couldn't find any proof of that in the linked tweets.

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