bwindels

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by bwindels 8y ago
The linux aio syscalls (io_submit, ...) work well on some filesystems (xfs, ext4, ...) but block on others (btrfs). It limits your file system choices but allows for a single threaded, concurrent web-server. This is what I ended up using fo
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by bwindels 8y ago
This is what I'm trying to do with wwwee [1], a low-resource web server written in Rust. The request / response buffer is a growing anonymous mmap mapping, but all parsing (http headers, ...) and decoding (base64, JSON) is done bo
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by bwindels 8y ago
Not sure what PHP escape method is used in the example on the server, but shouldn't \" escape to \\\" instead of \\"?
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by bwindels 8y ago
Whether it happens or not, if the disruptor doesn't have a business model not based on targeted advertisement, I don't see how it will be different once it becomes large enough. My hope would be a decentralized service, where ever
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by bwindels 8y ago
Thought so too, but MS has apparently said it is a fork: https://www.neowin.net/news/whats-powering-spartan-internet-... : > The Spartan rendering engine (edgehtml.dll) is a new component and separate from Trident (m
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by bwindels 8y ago
Not available, in Berlin.
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by bwindels 8y ago
Right, wrt sendfile, I remember coming to that conclusion as well. I really wanted a thread-less design, mostly for simplicity's sake and to support single core SOCs well. Is that what you do in Lwan for large files? Use a dedicated th
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by bwindels 8y ago
BearSSL is a great library, I also implemented TLS support with it recently in my low-resource rust webserver project wwwee [1]. It's one of the nicest designed C libraries I've ever seen. I hope more projects start using it so it
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by bwindels 8y ago
This is true for libraries that have a lot of variable sized types. There are however a lot of interesting problems where you don't need many of these apart from, say, one big buffer you work with. A good example of this is a parser, o
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How Martin Selmayr became EU’s top (un)civil servant(politico.eu)
2 points by bwindels 9y ago|0 comments
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by bwindels 9y ago
How does driving a car in a big German city (which is what I am talking about at least) make lives possible where they weren't before, or save them? I think nobody here is advocating to ban ambulances or fire trucks. Me too, I can&#x27
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by bwindels 9y ago
It would come at a big cost, but lets optimise cities more for the people who actually have to live in them. The balance is too far from centre as it is.
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by bwindels 9y ago
I somewhat understand your anger, but it seems misdirected. I hope VW gets sued out of existence for their reckless behaviour.
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by bwindels 9y ago
The thing is, I don't see how you can put a price on these externalities. 13.000 people die early in Germany alone because of this. What would you have them do with this money? Planting trees wont do them much good. Liberty is not an a
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by bwindels 9y ago
Ambitions don't have to be about material wants. I'd say the best, longest lasting ones, aren't even. And there is meaningful work to be found related to anti-materialism. I can think of writing/setting up software to le
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by bwindels 9y ago
The example could be better chosen. Why execute an action that is already async like fetching a url on a different thread?
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by bwindels 9y ago
> We create drop-dead gorgeous machines - designed and customised to run Linux - and only Linux. Only linux? Seems like a weird limitation... or am I understanding this wrong?
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by bwindels 9y ago
I've been running the beta, and it feels so much faster than 56. I also quite like the UI changes they made, quite minimal with everything I need still available. I think this is a great moment for people that stopped using Firefox b
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by bwindels 9y ago
Which would be fine if there were EU regulations about taxation. Now it's just multinationals playing out different EU members against each other to get the best deal, look at Ireland and Luxembourg. I can imagine a EU fiscal policy wo
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by bwindels 9y ago
I think grub would usually be called after the boot firmware (like UEFI, or coreboot, or a traditional BIOS) has already initialized the hardware. Some of these systems can also directly load your operating system, and I would guess the one
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by bwindels 9y ago
Yes, you'd pay the same as if you were in France as I understand it. However, calling a german number will still be more expensive I think, just as it would be when calling from home.
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by bwindels 9y ago
This list assumes, of course, that we don't want to change our lifestyle. I don't see innovation and optimization alone keeping us below 2C.
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by bwindels 9y ago
I can't find a reference to it, but a quote comes to mind when I see the list: "Worrying about A.I. taking over in a time of climate change is like standing on the tracks with an oncoming train, and worrying about lightning hittin
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by bwindels 10y ago
Also my main take-away. You could think people are misinformed, and scientists speaking up louder could help, but I think ignorance might be an excuse people use to explain their inaction, otherwise you have to recognize that although clima
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by bwindels 10y ago
Once I click the try out button, I get a certificate not trusted error message from my browser.
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by bwindels 10y ago
I feel it's unfortunate articles like these don't put more emphasis on climate change, and instead still keep up the narrative that we will innovate ourselves out of the problem. There is not reason to believe we will, and I expec
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by bwindels 10y ago
> Repairability 1 out of 10 This is my main reason to stop buying Apple hardware, not so much the lack of an Esc key. The Mid 2012 model still scored 7 / 10.
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by bwindels 10y ago
IIRC the main reason indexeddb does not use promises is because promises are required to reject/resolve asynchronously [1]. Indexeddb requires that you manipulate the object stores in a synchronous way from it's event handlers, so
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by bwindels 10y ago
Nice project, I like my flat-file password manager though, KeePass. Also OSS, and agnostic to how to store/share the database (both an advantage and disadvantage).
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by bwindels 10y ago
There is also this, which is also still pre-release, but looks like it might be a but more affordable. http://www.lowrisc.org

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